(12-23-2021, 12:50 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(12-23-2021, 11:49 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: The Etienne pick was 100% a needs-based pick from Meyer. No doubt at all. 

He had zero clue what kind of back he had in Robinson and no intention of leaning on him.
Additionally, he was certain his offensive strategy would not work without someone in that hybrid Scatback/WR/Gadget role - so he drafted one straightaway.

I have high hopes the next regime can utilize Etienne to his potential and he could be a great player, but it was a needs-based pick all the way, and a pretty [BLEEP] stupid one at that when you consider what we could have gotten instead.

So who do you think was his BPA on his board that he passed up for "need"?  I think Etieene was the top guy on their board.  They wanted Toney bit he was gone. Those are the top of guys Meyer likes the most.  Athletic, game breaking speed guys.  Balke mentioned multiple times that they were going to take the top guy on their board regardless of position, their drafted looked exactly like what he said he was going to do

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The playmakers and guys with game breaking speed are going to be the top players on Myers board

I don't doubt they had him at the top of their board. That just means they didn't rank players based just on ability, they clearly ranked their board based on their perceived needs.

No personnel guy EVER comes out and says, "yeah, this other guy is more talented, but we thought what or team really needs is someone playing position X, even though they're notably a worse player."

Usually you can only definitively say someone was drafting based on need after evaluating a lot of their moves, but Urban literally came out and said he was picking guys based on a position he thought he needed. Call it the "Percy Harvin position," if you like.

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