05-18-2018, 10:33 AM
(05-18-2018, 09:50 AM)fredtoast Wrote: No he would not.
He had an amazing 20+ year run where he did not have a singlr high drafted players flop. And for almosta decade he got by with ZERO highly drafted O-linemen.
Ogbuehi and Fisher (and partly Bodine) cost him his job here. So maybe his evaluation skills were getting rusty. But he was a very good coach heer for a very long time. That is why he got another job immediately.
The Big question to me is: Was he often forced to pick though the leftovers by not being allowed to use HIGH draft picks to get O-lineman for many years as you say -or- did he encourage the Front Office to use HIGH draft picks on other positions ?
In other words, did he have a sort of EGO about being able to develop lower round draft picks that caused him to tell Mike that he could find the diamonds in the rough. Mike would be pleased by this because he could go for Corners, tight ends, receivers, defensive ends, running backs in rounds 1 and 2 more often.
Or did Mike just tell Paul that HIGH picks were not going to be used on O-lineman more often than not.
I tend to think that Paul would fall in love with the mid round developmental guys and maybe his EGO & past successes saw diamonds.
But maybe Mike forced him to pick from the scraps more often.
If it was Paul encouraging it, then that would be like a Chef passing up the Prime cuts of steak because he is convinced that he can out cook another Chef with hamburger.
