Quote:As someone have said, labeling 6th and 7th rounders as "misses" is kind of nit-picking. You can go through a lot of rosters and I'm sure you'll find TONS of misses in the late rounds.If I do have a criticism of DC, its that a few of his misses within the same position. What I mean by this is that, you can understand Dave passing on Ansah for Luke, because they play different positions. 

 

But since we had a need for a tackle, and we *did* draft a tackle, you would think we scouted ALL of the tackles and graded them against each other. In that regard, we missed on Luke vs Lane Johnson (PEDs and all).

 

Then, you go to Blake Bortles, and this is the big one here. We had the 3rd pick in the draft, and you can criticize him for not taking Mack (pass rusher), but if you have the first dibs at QB, and you take Blake over Carr, then you clearly "missed". What makes this worse is that we had Carr for Senior Bowl. If I remember correctly, very few people, even within the building, knew Blake was our guy. I know for sure DC was one of them. I don't recall who the other ones were. Last season, this looked to be in favor of Blake (slightly). This year? No question.

 

Last year was the "year of the running backs". Gurley, Gordon, Yeldon, Abdullah, Coleman, Duke/David Johnson, Matt Jones, Langford, Ajayi. This was one of the deepest running back class in years. Many had some serious discussions who the 3rd guy is behind Gurley and Gordon. Dave and his staff nabbed Yeldon as that guy so much so that we used a 2nd round pick. Meanwhile, David Johnson (a guy who performed real well in Senior Bowl...again) went in the 3rd round. Again, this is a big miss similar to Bortles/Carr. Similar positions, similar exposure (via Senior Bowl). How did we miss? 

 

These are the kinds of picks that makes me question Dave.

 

This is a very well-reasoned position, and I appreciate that.  I honestly believe that Dave leaned on Gus for the type of players he wanted--and if Gus coached them in the Senior Bowl, I have a huge feeling he really leaned on his analysis (which really is another knock on Dave).

 

Gus designed a scheme, and Dave found the players for it--Cyprien, Yeldon, even Bortles are probably a result of this.

 

The other factor that isn't being taken into account is player development.  It's clear at this point that our scheme puts players in position to fail quite regularly, both offensively and defensively.  Our coaches aren't helping our talent in any regard.

 

I feel like there are some very good players (Bortles and Yeldon, for example) who are not being coached well.  Hell, Bortles himself said no coach had even mentioned his throwing motion to him this year.

 

I'm willing to give Dave another coach, because frankly, over all, he's drafted pretty well IMO.

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