(10-12-2021, 10:01 PM)SeldomRite Wrote:

(10-12-2021, 09:45 PM)Bullseye Wrote: I agree that if you are judging by immediate impact, this was bad drafting, but I'm not sure this was needs based drafting.  Granted, we had needs all over the roster so in theory if every pick were a BAP pick it would fit a need.  But clearly there were some needs bigger than others, and the draft did not strictly reflect that.  The most obvious example was Etienne at 25 when we had Robinson already on the roster.  We followed that up with Tyson Campbell, when CB was not necessarily a HUGE need when we had Henderson and signed Griffin.  Of course, reasonable people can disagree about Herndon and Sidney Jones, but if your 3rd and 4th CBs are dictating your top of the second round pick, need couldn't have been too much of a factor unless the plan at draft day was to rid ourselves of Henderson.  T and TE were bigger needs than either CB or RB, but we picked a T after that and drafted no TE despite one being on the board in the middle of the 2nd round when we picked Little.  After free agency, I would not have characterized S as a particularly huge need, yet we picked Cisco at the top of the 3rd.

I am trying not to hit the panic button.  After all these are rookies.  But they were drafted early with an abundance of early draft capital, and only Lawrence has made any discernible impact on a winless team.  That terrifies me.

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What's even more chilling is pondering the question of what if the Jaguars and Meyer part ways between now and the end of the year.

If they go outside of the organization to replace him (which they should), how does that impact the development of these rookies? 

Does it set them back?

Are they jettisoned as non scheme fits?

The Etienne pick was the one that made it clear Meyer doesn't have a clue and is a need guy. He wasn't drafting the player, he was drafting the role.

(Emphasis added)

But every player drafted fills a role-or at least is supposed to, assuming he makes the team.  There are no position less players, despite the contrived trend among pundits is to try to make a player or two just that (see Isaiah Simmons).

But that doesn't necessarily make the player a need pick in the traditional sense.

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