Quote:The revisionist history on here can be amazing at times. Although in their defense, maybe there were only 5-10 people strongly(and often) voicing their support for Geno last year and most of them probably arent partaking in this thread.


One of the annoying things about message boards when talking about the draft is everyone's opinion gets clouded based on NFL performance. Its easy to say Geno wasnt a top prospect now that we've seen what he did last season. But at this point in the draft process last year, the Geno love was to the point where you didnt even want to read message board anymore. Its similar to how every draft miss becomes a huge reach. You'll see people post about how we reached for Blaine Gabbert. We didnt reach for Blaine Gabbert... in fact it was the complete opposite. Everyone seemed surprised he dropped to the point where we could take him. But revisionist history is rampant.

Difference between what the media says where someone is going to go and what the GM's and scouts think. We did reach for Blaine, we know that now. We reached by a mile and gave a 2nd round pick. Of course we have hindsight now. Point though is you nor I have any idea how 31 teams viewed Gabbert, only how the media viewed him.

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