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Originally Posted by Bewbies
Poe and Tannehill are pretty much the same thing on the most important position on either side of the ball. I would have preferred the risk at QB, but I don't get paid $5,000,000/yr to make that call. |
The reason I am not gung ho at all about Tannehill has nothing to do with risk. It's that I think he's a safe pick. Safe in that he probably won't suck, but he just doesn't have a very high ceiling. If he's great, as milkman said his upside is Rich Gannon. And that's an "if." Poe is a bigger boom/bust guy than Tannehill. Because his ceiling could be something really special, but he also has the potential to fall really, really hard on his face. I like the Poe pick better than a Tannehill pick because if I can't get a sure thing at a position that critical, I'd rather swing for the fences and miss than swing for singles and connect.
The other important thing to consider is, the risk of failure is significantly smaller in Poe's case than Tannehill's. If Tannehill is an okay QB, that's a massive waste of a pick and three years. If Poe is an okay NT, that's not a terrible pick.
But in either case... the Chiefs needed to take a big stab at both Nose Tackle or QB. They chose one over the other. We can't criticize the risk taken on a nose tackle and use that as an argument to justify not taking a risk on a QB.