(12-04-2019, 12:07 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(12-04-2019, 11:38 AM)Upper Wrote: A lot needs to improve/develop/change for more than half of those quality starters to be truly quality. I don't consider any of Harrison, Westbrook, Taylor, Cam, Jack, Fournette, Conley, or Robinson good enough to start on a super bowl aspiring team right now.

I would move Chark down to quality starter and Minshew to a new "potential core piece" category that includes guys like Harrison, Jack, and Taylor.

I think that's a bit overboard. I think of a quality starter as a guy that can fulfill a role in a good scheme and only get regularly beat in that role by elite level players.

No one has elite level players at every position, you need players that aren't just blocking dummies and a scheme that keeps them from regularly getting pwned by elite players. The Jaguars a couple of years ago had elite level defensive players and quality starters all over the field. This year a lot of those guys are gone or have declined, it happens. That's why drafting talent over need is so important. The draft isn't about this year, it's about what happens to your team 2-10 years from now.

As Vic often said, the draft is about taking care of the future, and if you take care of the future then the future will take care of the present.

This is like one of those clichés that sounds great but doesn't add up for practical application. 

There will be multiple picks for every team in the 2020 draft that will undoubtedly be about RIGHT NOW. 
They will be about need.  Every single team will sacrifice value for need to some degree at multiple picks. 
That's how the draft works, and that's what the Jags will do regardless of who is determining the pick. 

There also isn't a GM on the planet choosing a draft pick over another option based on his prognostication of ten years down the road. 

This is like the squirrel storing away nuts for the winter but dying from emaciation in the process.

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