(04-22-2024, 11:15 AM)cland Wrote:

(04-22-2024, 10:11 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: It's not a reach when you take the top player on your board.  That's just your board sucks.  But we have no clue they were the top player left on their board.  I think they were, then the pick makes sense.  Their board was just bad is all.

I think your statement describes the exact same thing, "reaching" is that your draft board doesn't match up with all of the other teams.  'Reaching' is defined from a perspective that is outside the team.  If you draft a player in the 1st round, where every other team wouldn't draft him until the 3rd that is the definition of reaching.  The quality of the player is irrelevant (ie. Taking Tom Brady in the 3rd round would have been a reach.) And the term 'reaching' is for the most part subjective (though sometimes it's obvious) because no one has every teams draft board at the time of the draft.

I don't care about other teams boards.  I'm talking about our board.  You go by your board and stay true to your own board  It's not a reach if you take your top guy regardless of other boards.  What if he ends up the best player and Baalke was right and the other 31 teams were wrong?  You call that a reach?  Naw, his board was just accurate.

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