I agree. Even if we were stacked I'd still draft linemen. You can never have enough and you will eventually need one. I'm just saying they don't all have to be in the 1st round.
I mean if we are talking about a guard and a RB that are of the same caliber I'd get what you're saying. But at 26......you are more so reaching for a guard than a steal there.
None of them would've though lol. A rookie late 1st rounder was not going to be the difference in a SB unless it was a RB.
Depends on what's available at the #1 pick right? I mean if you have another Zack Martin or FredBeard clone there, I'd rather have that knowing he is going to be a player for my team for the next 15 seasons as opposed to a RB who is likely going to be retired by his 7th season.
Technically they weren’t wrong lol.
Well tell you what if someone falls on the level of Zack Martin then I for sure don't care bout RB lol. My insistence on RB is that I don't think the value will be good there. I think the guards available are mid to late 2nd round guys....
Yeah I mean it happened a year later but they for sure made the SB lol.
You can't say that with certainty that the only position that would have made the difference is a TB.
And did so with little real impact from the first round TB they took.
I can't. But history says that's more than likely the case. And I'm looking at who got drafted after the Chiefs picked...I'm not seeing that player though for the future Higgins and Pittman would've been much better for them. But then again look at what Toney is regulated to.
Will remains to be seen. I remember no one thought Fredbeard was anything special until he got on the field. I also recall many pundits saying he was a reach at 31 in the first round.
Its not "helping" but its not hurting the argument either. Chiefs goofed on spending a 1st rounder on CEH and the world kept moving. The NFL kept moving. Using ONE FIRST ROUNDER on a RB is not going to kill your franchise. Its also worth noting that Bijan and CEH aren't the same caliber. As a matter of fact....if CEH was in this draft....I'd probably take 4 guys over him before I look at him.
this. it's opportunity cost and value over replacement. it's much much cheaper from a dollar or resource perspective to get rb's elsewhere.
He was a reach there. Its impossible to say how long he would last. I heard people project him as a late 2nd or 3rd on him. They saw incentive in getting him in the 1st round for 5 years. Had they taken Leveon Bell instead of Fredericks would they have been worse off? Maybe or maybe not. They got Frederick's and a extra 3rd rounder. Very good draft. Not mad at that at all.
There's also the possibility of ending up with a Taco Charlton in the 1st round.....we're talking about the 26th pick in the draft.....
Not saying we won’t draft busts but from everything I heard the Jones’s were ignoring scouts and going with whatever Rod Marinelli told them.
Of course. There infinite examples of all possibilities. We're talking about overall trends and percentages though. Running backs are the easiest position to fill from all avenues, and have the worst first round return. Citing outliers or times a team made a bad pick on another position doesn't change the driving data.
Problem is the Cowboys can't make first round picks that don't "hurt". They are pretty clear they expect (and that's obvious given their inaction in adding quality FAs typically) that their first round picks have to be immediate impact guys. So I can't say, it's OK to take a TB in the first round because he won't "hurt" us.
