02-03-2024, 04:11 PM
(02-03-2024, 02:27 PM)sandwedge Wrote: I am not totally in agreement with you or others here. For many years we picked pretty much in the top half of the 1st round. We drafted players that were consensus "top of the round players" by scouts and draft pundits. Some of those picks didn't pan out. My point is this, other teams would have picked these players if we hadn't.
Let's not forget that in today's NFL, there is more going into the draft, more info, the way they scout.
I am not buying into the notion that we need 20 more scouts to garner the same information from watching video of players that all 32 teams have.
Yeah, because having too few scouts is way better than having too many.
How about Jackson Carman? Many teams were well aware of the rape allegations and requested info from the the police, many took him off their boards completely. We did not request anything. He was not a 1st rounder that dropped because of this, in fact we over-drafted him. How does that happen?
How many teams would have taken John Ross at #9?
We took Çhris Evans in the 6th and he had not been productive since 2017. He had numerous issues at Michigan.
This makes zero sense to me. Im not saying we need 30 people like other teams, but we only have 5. Wee look like a poverty franchise and we look dumb defending it. But thats just my opinion.
