10-12-2021, 03:11 AM
(10-12-2021, 12:19 AM)Whatever Wrote: If you're picking Top 5, it's because your team sucks and needs immediate help. If the choice is between an immediate impact player and a developmental talent with plus traits, you take the immediate impact player. Sewell wasn't even polished or battle tested against much NFL caliber talent.
Sewell isn't bad because of learning curve. He's bad because he's allowed 4 sacks and 21 Total Pressures in only 5 games. He's a bad NFL OT. He may one day become good or even great. But he is currently bad. If we had taken him and he was getting Burrow killed like he is Goff, I guarantee a bunch of people would be saying he's a bad pick and blaming Tobin, Zac, and the scouting department department for not seeing through the predraft hype and taking Slater instead.
No doubt. We already have a bunch of people wishing we had taken Herbert over Burrow. And Burrow is actually good. If we had taken Sewell, and he struggled here like he is in Detroit, people would be killing the team. Especially if Chase was balling out somewhere else, and our offense was struggling even more than it is now.
It’s obviously super early, but Chase could very well end up being the best player from this entire draft class, not just out of the WR’s. So far his biggest competition looks like Slater and Parsons.
Criticize the team for not doing more for the IOL in FA, sure, and maybe even for the Carman pick (again - still way early), but literally everyone should be happy about Chase. That pick looks like an absolute home run so far.
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