(04-01-2024, 10:14 AM)Cleatwood Wrote: The issue isn’t taking Muma. The issue is taking him at pick 70 after already paying a lot of money to Foye and then trading up for Lloyd.

Muma has yet to return anything of value for that high investment. Maybe someone gets hurt (yay! That’s what we have to hope for!) and Muma steps up. But if everyone is healthy, your top 70 pick never sees the field for 3 years.

Absolutely.  This is my position exactly.  I remember saying it two years ago and a user on here mocked me for it.  I have my own "news flash":  Some users on this board take a lot of bad positions.  Details at 11pm.

I don't understand why so many on here don't seem to understand the concept of properly allocating your resources.  Teams aren't going to be 53 players strong.  Players are taken early in the draft because they are believed to be the most talented.  You want your talented players on the field.  Every snap that a player is sitting the bench is a snap where he is not helping the team win.  If Player A takes half the snaps of Player B, he has to make TWICE the impact on those plays to just break even.  Twice?  That's a big ask and borders on being unrealistic in most cases.

A good GM finds starters with the early picks.  Preferably on day 1 of their rookie season, but if not, at least as soon as possible and no later than year 2.  If you can't find a starter in the mid rounds and maybe you can't if you have a strong roster, then use the mid round picks on your top depth guys, role players, and possible future starters.  Since late round picks are anticipated to be the least talented, you look for them to fill in your "just in case" depth players.  If you can't be strong everywhere, you want to minimize the impact of your weaknesses by having the least talented players getting on the field the least.  

I feel like I'm just stating common sense, but Baalke doesn't seem to get it.  Muma, Strange and Bigsby were all early picks that had little chance of being good picks for the Jaguars given where they were drafted.

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