(10-30-2023, 12:28 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(10-30-2023, 12:14 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: All other things being equal, of course you would take a great LT or a great CB over a great RB.  But you have to evaluate the players' talent levels as well as the position they play.  If you have the opportunity to draft a great player at a devalued position or a mediocre player at a more valued position, you have to add it all up and see if it makes sense.  The whole idea that one would never take a RB in the first round, no matter what, is not smart at all.  Etienne was taken with the 25th pick in the draft.  That is not where you would normally get a star player.  Normally, at the end of the first round, you get solid players, but not star players.  But we arguably got a star player.  In this instance, talent level factored into the choice and when we added it all up, talent level plus positional value, we got a great player.  I really don't get this continuing argument about whether we should have drafted him or not.

LOL

I've stated multiple scenarios in which taking one early makes sense??? Holy hell. 

We were not in one of scenarios and we took one anyway and got lucky. A few years prior the same bad decision bit us squarely in the backside.

And a few years ago we drafted a guy in the first round who played the most valuable position of all of them- QB.  Blake Bortles!  Or Blaine Gabbert!  How'd that work out?  You don't pick players solely by position.  And you should never rule out a player because of his position.  You have to evaluate the individual player.  Not just the position he plays.

And as far as your rule- only good teams should draft RBs in the first round- we drafted one anyway and now we're a good team.  So what good was that rule?   We broke that rule and it worked out to our benefit.  So I'm glad we didn't follow such a stupid rule.  Aren't you?

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