(11-07-2022, 02:20 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(11-07-2022, 01:53 PM)Mikey Wrote: mind your head, lest the shifting goalposts bump yer noggin

What goal posts have been shifted?  It's clear that you missed something as usual.  You're getting old, eyes getting bad

heh, cute. If you've already forgotten all the shifts, I'll help you work through your Alzheimer's.

Post 587 - note that pick was bad because good years spent on 6-win team
Post 588 - copy 587 and suddenly you throw 6-7 year timeframe outta nowhere. (first shift)
Post 597 - double down on the 6-7 year invention
Post 606 - called out on 6-7 year post
Post 607 - copy 606 and redirect conversation to WR because they also have short shelf lives and were part of the criticism of taking RB at 25 (another shift!)
Post 610 - now DJ Moore is suddenly on the same level as franchise RB like Elliot, Barkley, Chubb? (again!)

It's already been said in the thread. We can't say that anyone else at 25 would have been better, worse, or in between. There's so many butterfly effect circumstances that would change the makeup of the current roster, impact the stats that players are getting (or aren't) while playing on other teams, etc. But for some reason there's this insistence to continue grasping at arguments that aren't really making the point that mattered. 

You even said it yourself, you wanted other guys at that spot, so I don't full understand why you've dug in so opposingly toward the conversation.

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(11-07-2022, 02:30 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(11-07-2022, 02:19 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Zeke Elliot was the 4th overall pick in 2016 and Leonard Fournette also went just ahead of CMC with us in that same draft. All three of those guys virtually have or continue to contribute at a relatively high level. 

Etienne was worth the pick. I don't have a problem with it at all. I wish he was actually used more in the passing game. If he put up Alvin Kamara type numbers nobody would care we didn't land a top flight WR at the end of the 1st RD on the opening night.

Zeke is a good example, high pick with little return. Lenny didn't play out his rookie deal, is it really considered high level what he's done?

Yeah, I was thinking if ETN were the next CEH, Baalke would be getting burned in effigy.

We got lucky, plain and simple. Missing with the pick would have been disastrous. Thank goodness it looks like we didn't.

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