10-16-2017, 12:57 PM
Well the OP was most definitely a troll, but we do have an issue with our 1st rounders lately.
Ross
Ogbuehi
WJax
Dennard
DreKirk
Andre Smith
This is shaping up to be the 4th straight year we got absolutely nothing from our top pick. I've strongly disagreed with anyone saying WR wasn't a need (it should be abundantly clear right now), but that just makes it even more disappointing that Ross hasn't been ready to go.
Some of the guys on this list wound up being productive players, so I'm not giving up on Ross (that'd be silly at this point)...but we're not so good a team that we can afford to have our top picks develop for 2-3 years and lose most of those affordable rookie contracts in the process. They need to produce right away. If the coaches can't get them to produce, then that's a coaching problem. If they're not healthy at draft time, maybe we should avoid them.
Ross
Ogbuehi
WJax
Dennard
DreKirk
Andre Smith
This is shaping up to be the 4th straight year we got absolutely nothing from our top pick. I've strongly disagreed with anyone saying WR wasn't a need (it should be abundantly clear right now), but that just makes it even more disappointing that Ross hasn't been ready to go.
Some of the guys on this list wound up being productive players, so I'm not giving up on Ross (that'd be silly at this point)...but we're not so good a team that we can afford to have our top picks develop for 2-3 years and lose most of those affordable rookie contracts in the process. They need to produce right away. If the coaches can't get them to produce, then that's a coaching problem. If they're not healthy at draft time, maybe we should avoid them.
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