(04-26-2020, 09:41 AM)JackCity Wrote:

(04-26-2020, 09:15 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: No idea how it'll turn out, but the obvious need based selections make me cringe. Maybe it works out, but the chances of actually replacing Ramsey and Yann are very low, so selecting based on who you lost, then reaching for receiver at the end of a run that cleaned out a lot of talent from that group seems very stupid. My guess is in 3-4 years with a new GM finally here we'll be talking about how drafts in 2020 and 2021 with so much promise from so many high picks turned out so bad.

Needs based drafting is a fool's errand. The Jags are at best mediocre at every position, except Josh Allen and Chark. There's no reason to even take what you already have on your roster into account, the draft is about what your team will be in 2-3 years, not what it will be this year, and that's why the great teams like the Packers and Steelers only have short times of relatively poor play before returning to contender status and teams like the Jags have twenty years of almost uninterrupted futility.

What if I told you all of the first 3 picks were all on the top of their board as well as being needs? 

No offense but I don't think you know what you're are talking about here. Shenault certainly wasn't a reach

I wouldn't trust the Jaguars board, they rank guys taking "need" into account. Like I said, maybe it works out anyway, but I have a sinking feeling we'll continue to see what we've seen for years, guys taken a pick or two after our guys will be better players, and the Jaguars won't even have most of these guys on the team anymore in 4 years.

As for Shenault, maybe he succeeds or maybe he doesn't, it's the needs based drafting that bothers me more than who they took, who might work out anyway.

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