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This draft was before our most successful recent season in 2015?
Imagine if we actually hit on some picks? Could that have pushed that 2015 team over the hump to a playoff win?
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at the time I thought it was a really good idea. I thought Ced Ogbuehi was gonna be good and Fisher too.
I thought we crushed it rounds 1-7.
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(05-06-2021, 10:24 PM)Bengalstripes9 Wrote: This draft was before our most successful recent season in 2015?
Imagine if we actually hit on some picks? Could that have pushed that 2015 team over the hump to a playoff win?
I honestly think that playoff L crushed that team's spirit. It was just over after that, even if we kept the line strong.
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Man this year is the worst year I've graded since that one. I thought we had two decent picks (fisher and shaw). I wasn't right, but I wasn't exactly wrong, either.
We made some weird ass picks then.
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I remember being pretty pissed off about the Cedric Ogbuehi pick. I hate drafting guys that are already injured especially in rounds 1-3. I think it was generally considered to be a weak draft for OL so it was a bad strategy for us to try to draft them. Maybe if we didn't draft Ogbuehi we would have kept Whitworth, and our OL wouldn't have fallen apart.
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I remember in 2015 I thought "We've had pretty good drafts recently, so I'm just going to trust in the coaches picks. I didn't like the people they picked, but I liked we went OL". I also remember Cedric limping to the podium, which wasn't a good sign.
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I think the 1st/2nd round OL flops of this draft ruined this team more than any other single factor since 2016.