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Originally Posted by RealSNR
I'm still bitter about Josh Jackson, since from Veach's own draft press conference, his 2nd round draft strategy amounted to basically "Breeland Speaks or bust!" If that was his mentality, then he could have used that strategy to move up for Jackson before the Packers took him the pick prior.
That's what I would have done, but for me it's not even about the Chiefs not valuing the player I wanted the way I did. It's more about the guy they DID value that highly such that they traded up to get him.
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Yea and I liked Jackson and Davis/Oliver too, but the truth is neither one of those guys were making a difference THIS year. Also, like I said, Ward was playing as good as any of those guys would have been.
Here we are a year later still needing a corner, but if we get one and Ward continues to ascend we will be in really good shape. I don’t think Veach handled the position badly as people make it sound. If we hit on one, then you got 3 good young corners on rookie contracts.
At the time, and in hindsight, I would’ve preffered Jessie Bates or Justin Reid, who were great as rookies.
But with the switch to a 4-3 I like the Speaks pick a lot more than I did when we made it. We now have a postion that is perfect for him as opposed to one that doesn’t make any ****ing sense. I firmly believe this was the intention when we made the pick and I’m cautiously optimistic that it looks a lot better in 2019.