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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
I disagree about the draft. Well over half of our picks have gone to defense. Even more when you consider the draft assets used to trade up in the first round. And apart from CEH all our first rounders for years have gone to defense. To the point where we drafted a few guys like FAU for next year, while we had needs on offense right away.
People say we threw a lot of picks at the WR position. The problem is that compared to the rest of the league we benchmark way to the bottom. Sure we paid Mvs $10m but the majority of teams have WAY more than that invested in the position. Sure we took a few second rounders, yet 2/3 of teams have taken a first round wr in the past 5 years. So arguably taking a wr in our spot considering the run on WRs early is like us taking 4th round prospects. It’s not that we haven’t tried, but we tried to moneyball it. Can’t blame them because it worked last year but we deprioritized offense longer than we should have. This offseason our draft needs to be dominated by offense.
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The people that piss on Veach for drafting FAU make no damn sense to me. What was he supposed to do there?
He tried trading up, presumedly for a WR. That's been reported. Teams ultimately turned him down. How is that his fault??
FAU was the best possible pick they could make for the future in scenario knowing Chris Jones was probably gone. There was only 1 WR picked from pick 23 until pick 50. That's how thin WR was. And they got Rice who has performed as well as any WR pick relative to their draft position. Dude was an absolute steal for pick 55.
Last year was a really bad year to need a WR unfortunately. People keep claiming Hopkins but he was really the only guy I think would change things here.
Oh well. They got it wrong this year but Rice looks great for the future. Build the offense this Spring and go for it again next year.