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Originally Posted by HotCarl
We got a great, legitimate high first round prospect who isn't suited to the scheme we changed to. We got a safety that everyone in the world loved at the time, and picking a safety that high was not a safety pick.
Jackson is Jackson. You can say a million bad things about that pick, but not that it was a safety play. That was the biggest reach in modern draft history. The opposite of safe.
The safety pick would have been at those positions of safety in the top of the draft - a Monroe or Raji or Orakpo or someone like that... oh wait, those would have been excellent selections.
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Jackson absolutely was a safe pick. That was the only thing that could be justified about it by Pioli.
We were transitioning to a 3-4, and there was this player that fit ideally with that scheme in size/ability. The team knew (read: thought) they'd get a good player out of him regardless of where he was drafted. It was either that, take another LT in Eugene Monroe, or GET RISKEEEE by taking the fatass who might not work hard in BJ Raji or *gasp* MARK SANCHEZ WHO WAS RISK TIMES INFINITY OHHHH NOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEESSSSZZZZ!
We went with safe. We took Jackson. It was declared stupid at the time by nearly everybody, but that doesn't mean people didn't think of it as a safe pick.