(05-02-2024, 10:11 AM)Jags32250 Wrote:

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

So you’re a needs drafter, got it.

No. This draft was a perfect scenario where needs met value. 

Instead of taking a DT who will be 5th (maybe lower) on your depth chart who is limited to just being a NT, you take Bortolini and McCormick to help the OL for the present and future. They both have G/C flexibility.

I'm pulling for all these dudes but I would have done something different in almost every round except the 1st. That means nothing obviously but it's fun to talk about.

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