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A few days ago in a thread about Ryan Tannehill, I joked that some people favor taking the BPA regardless of need... so long as that player was a guard, safety or center.
It's seems the draft is upon us again and as usual people are trying to fill holes with draft picks instead of maximizing the talent taken.
For those of you who are upset we didn't address the OL I want you to consider this. If we come out of this draft with talented players, even if they aren't on the OL, it will in fact help us address the OL in the future and build a better team then we would have otherwise. How is that?
Consider Morris Claiborne. If Mo turns out to be legit suddenly you don't have to sign Jenkins. If Kyle Wilbur turns out to be a player you could avoid extending Spencer. You can go on down the line and every draft pick that hits will save you cap room. That cap room doesn't go away. You can then utilize those resources to address a need like OL how you ought to address it. In free agency in future years. That way you have a much better chance of filling the hole and have maximized the amount of talent your cap room buys overall.
I know some of you are impatient and want to address OL now. But odds are any OL other then maybe DeCastro would not have been able to contribute this year. Even Gurode who turned out to be a good player took several years to develop. Like it or not we have made our bed on the o-line already. And maybe it will turn out we are totally insufficient in that area. But I'm very glad Jerry did not compound the mistake by reaching for guys who could have been had ten picks later.
I'm not saying that it's illegitimate to criticize Jerry if our OL stinks this year. All I ask is that we make legitimate criticisms rather than the "we didn't draft the particular position I wanted in the draft" criticism. Just my two cents.
It's seems the draft is upon us again and as usual people are trying to fill holes with draft picks instead of maximizing the talent taken.
For those of you who are upset we didn't address the OL I want you to consider this. If we come out of this draft with talented players, even if they aren't on the OL, it will in fact help us address the OL in the future and build a better team then we would have otherwise. How is that?
Consider Morris Claiborne. If Mo turns out to be legit suddenly you don't have to sign Jenkins. If Kyle Wilbur turns out to be a player you could avoid extending Spencer. You can go on down the line and every draft pick that hits will save you cap room. That cap room doesn't go away. You can then utilize those resources to address a need like OL how you ought to address it. In free agency in future years. That way you have a much better chance of filling the hole and have maximized the amount of talent your cap room buys overall.
I know some of you are impatient and want to address OL now. But odds are any OL other then maybe DeCastro would not have been able to contribute this year. Even Gurode who turned out to be a good player took several years to develop. Like it or not we have made our bed on the o-line already. And maybe it will turn out we are totally insufficient in that area. But I'm very glad Jerry did not compound the mistake by reaching for guys who could have been had ten picks later.
I'm not saying that it's illegitimate to criticize Jerry if our OL stinks this year. All I ask is that we make legitimate criticisms rather than the "we didn't draft the particular position I wanted in the draft" criticism. Just my two cents.
