Are we drafting to win now?

[Soonerpeace]

(04-30-2023, 12:50 PM)SuperBowlBound! Wrote: Remember at that point EVERY team had also passed on Myles Murphy. 
Michael Mayer was picked 7 picks later so it is not an outrageous of a pick.
I think Murphy may end up being better long term but his value to us in 2024 will not be as significant as Mayer or a top RB.
I don't know what the cost would have been to land a RB since the 2 were picked so early.

So yes, I would have picked Mayer and possibly moved up to land Robinson or Gibbs if we did not have to give up too much.
I was kind of hoping going into the draft that RB's would fall and we could have traded Jonah Willliams to move up.
Since you and I are not privvy to this information we can only rely on what other teams valued. 
The Lions and the Falcons really valued those 2 Running Backs enough to pick them in the top 12.

All we can do is look back at this draft in 3-4 years and see how these players careers progressed and were the better value.

It was just a suggestion.

Drafting to win a Super Bowl vs Sustaining (AFC top team). LA Rams went all in. They won a Super Bowl. But they barely won one. They are a mess and predicted to win 6.5 games and finish near the bottom of the NFC. I know somebody that knows as much about them as anybody not on the payroll. He’s says they are in trouble. Buffalo went all in with Von Miller he got hurt. When they didn’t make the AFC Championship the Monday after their GM Brandon Beane whined like a 2 year old when he woke up. His salary cap is a mess. I think they’ve missed their window.

The Bengals addressed what hurt them down the road last year? Is that not trying to win a SB? People too damn tied up with TE. Okay they struck out. Foster Moreau was coming he got cancer. Drafting one in the draft didn’t fall right. But back to our draft. Hendrickson our best pass rusher was hurt and that was an issue. So we drafted Murphy who was labeled by the the National Advisory Big Board Consensus ( 70 mock drafts of data) as the steal of the draft. For depth and Trey’s eventual replacement. Missing on him to draft up and lose several draft choices is beyond idiotic. Instead we got the steal of the draft at the #2 position on any team…. an edge rusher. Okay our best corner tore his ACL Awouzie and that certainly weakened us. In the second round we selected D J Turner. Todd McShay said he was our best pick. Had him graded near the first round.

In Free Agency we got Orlando Brown. But some said why no more OL help? Well they just have one starting spot open. Carman, Collins , and Jonah will battle it out. I really think Jonah must have come around on RT. Collins is working hard and Carman is a new man. They signed Cody Ford G/T for depth.

I don’t get the talk about we aren’t trying to win a Super Bowl. We are being calculated and smart