(05-02-2024, 08:48 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(05-01-2024, 01:09 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: It sounds like you are upset about how they chose to prioritize their needs from round to round rather than whether or not they addressed needs. 

I see every pick they made as a clear need except for maybe the 7th rounder developmental long shot tweener.

I think the new rules dictated they go after another return guy. The question is if they player is valuable enough to pick the need when they picked it instead of waiting later or for UDFA? 

The DT/NT in the fourth instead of IOL is the only one sticking in my craw for now. But it was a need.

It's more that this darft was perfectly suited to fill a glaring need and we did dookie to take advantage.

It's that our primary goal should be to keep our QB upright and we are putting faith in old and/or oft-injured guys to do the heavy lifting with little support or future planning.

It's that we already have a crowded CB room full of young talent and we spent two picks to add more to the room.

It's that we don't seem to be preparing for the future. We cannot continue to rely on FA to produce starting caliber players. Eventually they get old, expensive, or both. When that happens, you need to have depth ready to go. Next year, we'll need OL line help still, but if the darft pool is not nearly as stacked, we'll end up having to reach to get guys of similar ability as were there this year.

Maybe it would have sucked less if we put any resources toward improving the IOL. It may be unfounded, but one of my peeves is that we made no movement on any of day 2 or 3. Maybe we had a plan and the guys we targeted just so happened to fit where we picked, but it seemed to me that the approach was bordering on apathy. It's one of those, "It's ok, but it could have been so much better" types of feelings. I'm hopeful that the guys we picked hit. I'm even more hopeful that not addressing IOL doesn't come back to bite them in the rump. I'm hopeful that my assessment is wrong, for the sake of the team, but I still can't help but be anxious.