(04-29-2024, 04:42 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-29-2024, 04:23 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: The "hating everything Baalke does" virus has spread from the fanbase to the local talking heads. 
It's annoying at times.  
I can find errors - and I'd have chosen a few different guys - but I think this offseason has gone quite well overall. 
The roster is improved. 

As I've said here many times - I don't mind complaining - I just prefer complaining that makes sense. 

I realize the nickel back pick was a bit of a reach - but I bet he ends up making our secondary better.

Like many others here- I'd have gone after an interior OL player at 116 instead of the nose tackle.

I'm cool with everything else. Maason Smith's upside and ability to attain it should be well known to our staff with all of the various LSU connections. Hopefully their insight proves valid and it gets validated quickly. I'm good with that gamble.

Jones at 96 was far from a reach, you could argue that was our best pick.  He's a dawg and one of the best man and nickle corners.  Nickel corners are like a starter in  today's game and if one is good enough you take him.  Washington took a nickel corner at 50, though the best off coverage and zone nickel in the draft, he's a beast as well.

99% of the football world thinks it was a reach. 
I'll trust that over a guy that lives in a whackadoodle fantasy world regarding how GMs make their picks. 

That said - I don't mind a bit if my team reaches a bit when they come away with an impactful player at a position of need. And I think they may have done that with this pick.

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