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Originally Posted by kccrow
100% Agree. Stop swinging for the fences on projects and just get some sound players in here to stop the bleeding.
****ing case-in-point when I screamed for Logan Wilson and we got Willie Gay. Gay has been in the tub or on the sidelines while Wilson is looking like the next great... ****. Just take the good player.
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I agree with and appreciate the occasional HR swings. Gay in particular is one that I was (am) on board with because they needed athleticism in the LB corps in the absolute worst way. And when he was playing last year, he so clearly provided it.
But if he's injury prone, that's a real problem. I don't know if that's a 'miss' because I'm not sure what his injury history was in college and if some of this could've been predicted.
But there definitely needs to be a balance. And to some degree I think Bolton represents an attempt at finding that balance. Humphrey did as well. And Snead represents the upside of taking big swings over obviously safer picks like Amik Robertson or Bryce Hall.
There's room for both approaches. But the bottom line is that he just needs to do it
better. His good drafts need to have more than one defensive contributor to meaningfully change the look of this defense. His bad drafts can't be complete write-offs like 2018.
That stuff will absolutely add up on you in a hurry and we're seeing the results of it in real time.