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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
I'll put it this way:
Rather than making it a semantic argument over "bust" or not a bust, if you had to choose between Will Shields, one of the best to ever play his position, and Drew Brees, who is a premier player, but nowhere near one of the best of all time, who are you taking?
The fact of the matter is that there is absolutely no way that an interior lineman could ever play well enough to justify a top five pick. It's the same reason why you'd never give 20 million a year to a left-handed specialist in baseball. They don't have enough of an effect on the game in order to justify that draft status/monetary expenditure.
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That's actually a pretty close choice in my book. I'd lean towards Brees, but it's about a coin flip in my book. If Brees had ever won anything, I might feel more strongly about it.
I agree that it's been an argument over semantics, but words are important. A bona fide bust is not a guy who becomes a valuable contributor to a team's success for a decade or more regardless of position.
If Shields would have been taken with a top 5 pick, the pick would not have been a bust.