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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
It's not a good look, regardless of how you rationalize it.
That's a pretty high value asset just set ablaze. Whether it's poor scouting or whether it's worse personal evaluation isn't terribly relevant. There were some good players on the board there (as well as where they originally picked before the trade down left them with Russell as their highest ranked guy). Even if Russell never amounts to anything, you can bet someone they could've taken there would've.
It's a **** up. And when you start to shrug stuff like that off, it gets really cumulative, really quickly.
This had better be a one-off. Dorsey can't go torching assets like this with any frequency. As the core of this team continues to age, they have to backfill with cost-effective players in the middle rounds if they hope to keep their newer, younger core around on their second contracts.
And hey, we don't have to be mad at Roger Goodell anymore, right? Turns out 3rd rounders don't mean enough to get pissed off about if all anyone wants to do is high five Dorsey for shitcanning a 3rd round pick before his first day on the active roster. HIGH FIVE, DORSE!
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Not that what you're saying isn't right, but we still came out with a really talented class with a lot of promise, so I don't really give a **** at this point. It's over and done with. Jones, White, Hill, Murray, Nicholas, and Ehinger is still a class to be excited about, and Russelll wasn't going to make or break it after what we've seen up to this point.
Afted trade downs, we ended up with all change and no dollars, and lost two quarters (one before, one now), but I think we got so much value with our dimes and nickels, that I really don't give a shit, and I'm not going to nitpick Dorsey at this point when he continues to find talent.
Oh yea, one of those quarters bought us a top 10 talent too. He was just risky because he came out a year early. Early indications are we struck gold. Keep bitching just to bitch though. Don't know what we can do about it now.