(10-10-2023, 07:49 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(10-10-2023, 04:57 AM)WYjagsfan Wrote: Basically a bad team taking a RB in the top 10 is a bad move.

Obviously with hindsight we should have taken McCaffery over Fournette but the Panthers only finished above 500 once in all the time he was there I believe however good he is.

He can obviously make a real difference on an elite team as he's proving now with the Niners

This is the point I've made for months with which some folks here keep arguing. The article I posted yesterday goes back 10 years to look at how consistently true that fact is, even discussing that the year CMac was the best RB in the League the team only finished 5-11. In short, RBs don't make bad teams good, but they can make good teams great, hence bad teams shouldn't take them early in the draft.

The moment we drafted Trevor Lawrence we went from being a "bad team" to being a good team.

It's a QB driven league, and we got the QB.  So, based on the fact that our next pick was at 25, and there really wasn't any top shelf linemen (offense or defense), why not take the best back still on the board? (Side note, I hate that I just used a Vic mantra.  But the ETN pick is the perfect example of it.  We had so many needs.  But there was a really great RB right there that out classed any other option for at least 10 spots...  You take the RB.  And guess what, it paid off).

I get it why people would have rather us taken a Lineman, but when you study that specific draft class, there wasn't a lineman available that would have given us a better chance to win games when compared to Elite-EN's ability to control games.  Dudes's a baller, man.  He was the right pick in 2021.  

In 2022, or 2020, or 2023, it would be a total bust.  But whoever was running the draft in 2021 figured it out just right.  That was a great draft class for the Jags.

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