(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.

On the contrary. The value of IOL was skewed this draft because the class was unusually deep. We made no moves fit picks where value met need. So either we sat on our hands and relied on value to fall to our picks, or just took BPA on our board when our turn came up, or we gave zero farts about value or need and just targeted the guys we picked.

Are you trying to say that the guys we took where we took em represented such value that we woulda been foolish not to take them where we did, while continuing to leave the line practically unchanged in three days of picks? Were the IOL guys on the board when we picked that mediocre that choosing yet another reserve DB or a kick returner was that much more valuable to the improvement of our roster? It wasn't even just about IOL, either. Guys were sliding all over this draft, and may not be immediate need, but represented development potential. Depth today, but possibly starter in a year or two. Someone to save you from having to rely on overpriced FA when the current guys get pricey or old, or both. Were we truly taking best guys available?

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