i love it more when people don't pay attention to what i say and go off on some trail of stupidity on their own pretending that was my point cause they totally blew by my own REAL point.
let me requote so you don't do this again.
"how many 1st round WR's live up to that pick? not many. "
now, what i am saying here is that WRs picked in the 1st round had a low success rate given the 1st round pick. the 1st round is defined by every team having an opportunity to pick barring a trade OR cheating. so, the 1st 32 players normally constitutes a ROUND and being the 1st 32 players, we refer to that as teh FIRST ROUND.
now, how many FIRST ROUND WRs lived up to that pick? not many.
i don't give a damn about picks 33 and beyond cause in normal circumstances this is NOT considered the 1st round. this is the 2nd round and beyond. with me so far? i'm not comparing WR value to WR value, but WR value to 1ST ROUND PICKS of this decade.
and in case that was confusing to you, here's another quote that follows the same trail of logic.
7 of 28 WRs drafted in this decade in my mind could be arguably still a 1st round pick or still hold a 1st round value. that's 25% of the picks in the end for WRs in this decade wound up being worth that pick.
now, all i'm saying is what WRs drafted in the FIRST ROUND would still get that grade today? in my mind, 7. now if you wanna bust up that # and make it higher or lower based on your own criteria, that would actually fit the topic i'm talking about.
i said ONLY 1ST ROUND WRs were counted cause that was what was spent on them at the time. I DID NOT SAY other WRs TODAY wouldn't be worth it AT THE TIME. they would. but that's not the point and i never said it was.
the point was what value we get out of the 1st round picks of this decade.
nothing else.
the point is, can a later round WR be worth a 1st round grade later? damn skippy. happens all the time. 21 1st round WRs in 2000-2008 in my mind wouldn't get a 1st round pick again.
would coulston? likely. i think if we knew then what we know now about him he'd be a 1st round pick. the only difference here is you KNOW what you can expect from him for the most part.
you know nothing of ANY 1st round WR pick in NFL terms beyond speculation, of which i was trying to illustrate but you seem to have missed. so my next point is i really don't care WHAT the WR class is like this time, i'd spend a 1st rounder on some security and knowledge of what they can do vs. taking a WR at our 30+ pick cause they were available.
i'm sorry i made that a difficult point, i really am. i thought i was clear in trying to compare what's been a 1st round grade in this decade to performance on the field to show how our late 1st round could be better spent on a trade for a WR than throwing the dice into a void that in this decade has bee wrong 75% of the time.
any more clear? what coulston would cost $ wise isn't my point. my point is and ONLY IS finding WR value with our 1st round pick.
