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Here's something I posted earlier in a Geno thread, it's the percentage of top 5 picks over the last 20 years at different positions that went on to have a winning career during the time they were with the team that drafted them: LB 67% CB 50% QB 42% RB 36 % OT 21% DE 20% DT 11% WR 10% S 0% |
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Are you seriously arguing that drafting linebackers is the most certain way of achieving future success in the NFL?
Linebackers? |
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Wait wait wait...
So we can use that information you've cited as clear evidence that defensive tackles are amongst the least important position to draft in the Top 5, but we can't equally argue the other way, that linebackers are among the most important positions to draft in the Top 5? |
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That barely improves the team, either now or in the future.
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If there is a LB worthy of such a high pick (Von, Willie McGinest) it is a very good way of improving your team. I'd never take a DT or OL. |
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Completely agree at 1.1
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Who wouldn't want an elite QB at 1.1? There is not argument there, right?
What is arguable is taking a QB at 1.1 who isn't elite. Please tell us how THAT improves a team? I can rattle off dozens of QBs who were supposed to be elite, were drafted at the top of the draft, and never did shit in the NFL. So here were are...is Geno Smith an elite QB prospect? Perhaps. However, there are a lot of "experts" out there who have serious doubts. This NFL draft reminds me of the NBA draft from 1989...Pervis Ellison was the first pick. The whole top end of that draft ranged from slightly above average to suck. I would kill to have had the first pick last year, or the first pick next year. Bad luck. There is no player any of us could name for 1.1 who can't be ripped to shreds immediately. |
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