03-30-2016, 12:43 AM
(03-29-2016, 08:21 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: Disagree.
IF we were drafting for need, more of our rookies would start.
We had a huge need at WR this year (everybody knew we were losing at least 1), but we didn't address it.
Fisher was the BPA, otherwise we would't have taken him.
Not necessarily. We look to the future. Our drafts aren't necessarily for this year unless we have a gaping hole. We build the team so that a rookie isn't expected to be an impact player.
Was drafting Carson Palmer not a need? He didn't even start.
We had plans to keep either Sanu or MLJ. MLJ flashed big time in 2013 and did well last year. Sanu flashed big in 2014. We planned on keeping one of them. When MLJ separated himself in 2015 we set our sites on him. I'm not doing the research but we were prepared to have one of the highest paid WR tandems in the league if not the highest paid tandem. MLJ leaving for Detroit threw a huge wrench into our plans. Look at what Marvin Lewis had to say when asked about MLJ leaving. He aint happy about that. We waited to sign our other guys and matched the best offer MLJ got once he left we left we moved on our other guys. We didn't address WR earlier because our master plan wasn't needing to find a new #2 in this draft.
Fisher seemed like a little bit of a panic. Mixed with a little bit of need. They had their sites set on Jordan Phillips. The team that just paid Suh a boatload of money surely wouldn't take a DT. Well they did. Philips would have sat a year like the rest of our rookies until Thompson and Sims moved on and moved into a bigger role. He got snatched and we had 5 minutes to come up with something else. With no plans to extend Andre and an aging Whit the premier position to take was a tackle. And the guy we just took in the first round wouldn't even be ready to play in the first half of the year. Cover yer ass and take another. So we did.
If Darqueze had stayed healthy and we knew we had a solid CB I doubt we would have given Pickman as much money as we did. We drafted Derron Smith last year. Because we planned on moving on at safety. We drafted Hardison because we planned on moving on from Gilberry. We took two TEs because we had nothing behind Eifert.
And like I said with the Andre Smith story. We were set to take Menelik if Andre didn't sign. That is drafting for need. We viewed T as a bigger need without Andre. With Andre RB was a bigger need. Signing Andre didn't magically make Gio a better prospect than Menelik. It changed our needs and our draft pick.
I'm just hoping we don't reach too bad on a WR this year. Because we will be drafting for need.
