A prime example of this is one year the skins had the 26th ranked defense and in the next free agent period they went out and sign every big name defensive player they could get like Bruce Smith, Deion Sanders, Dana Stubblefield and the next season they ranked 24th. They couldn't play together because they each thought they were the main man and everyone else had to do whatever they didn't do.
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that's the point I have been driving. none of these dak detractors are able to provide actual names of FAs they would sign or that we couldn't sign even with Dak's 34M contract this year. the fact is, that if a player is worth it, his team keeps them. they are either old, often injured or head cases to reach FA and their teams dumping them.
Dak's contract is not the issue.
the issue is bad defensive drafts. why can't we draft well defensively...yet hit on offensive players.....get to the bottom of that and we fix the defensive issues. These are our last 5 years defensive drafted players in the first 4 rounds
2020 - Diggs, Gallimore, Reggie Robinson....book is out on both of them....I like digg's potential, but in a pure measuring of how he played this year, its not been very good.
2019 - Hill, Michael Jackson.....Hill sucked last year, was average this year, although he got the team excited because he "contributed"....not great, but contributed...geesh....a rotational player at best and not a very good one at that
2018 - LVE, Armstrong...LVE is the best of the lot, and I am not impressed. had injury history. was injured for 1.5 years and he has regressed....not dominant or impactful.
2017 - Taco, Awuzie, Lewis.....geesh..taco is gone. lewis soon to be gone and everyone is talking about drafting a CB next year....so it means replacing Awuzie
2016 - Smith, Collins, Tapper....Jaylon was a risky pick. and he has regressed. he is not dominant and continuoulsy ranks as pretty bad among starting LBs....I wish him gone....the other two are gone.
that's 14 defensive players and none of them are dominant or among the best or top 20 in the league.....that sucks... compare that to Offensive players drafted in the same period. Only one can be considered good and that's LVE
2020 - CD - Biadasz 'nuff said...throwing in Biadasz although he was a fift round pick, but he is graded as top 2,3 best run blockers already.....and is probably future dominant center for us
2019 - Cooper, McGovern, Pollard - McGovern was a reach. but pollard is contributing and has been impactful....I put cooper here, because we gave up a first for him.....
2018 - Connar Williams, Gallup....although williams was a reach and we really wanted Goedert, he is a starter and is grading out decently..Gallup is great
2017 - Switzer - gone
2016- Zeke, Prescott....'nuff said despite all the hate because of contracts...
