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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
And to build on this a little bit.
When you say my 'bias' is showing, I presume you're speaking to my favorable opinion of Ford.
I have a bias, but it's not to Ford. I had no personal reason to like Ford when we took him (though I do like him now, having heard him for several years).
But when it comes to first and second day picks, I am an unabashed tools whore. I have conceded this point for MANY years. When you compare Speaks to K-Pass, I'm annoyed by those picks for very different reasons. My problem with the K-Pass pick wasn't who he is, but rather who is is NOT. I wanted Kamara. Kamara was a no-brainer of a pick there and by taking K-Pass I thought we ****ed up mightily.
But at least with K-Pass I saw a glimmer of hope that we might be able to coach him up to use significant physical gifts. There's no salary cap on coaching, man - go get yourself a badass staff and use 'em. Teach these guys with tools for days how to play football.
Speaks, OTOH, simply doesn't have those. My problem with Speaks wasn't that I wanted someone else, it's that I didn't want him. To use the ol' 'decision lens' terminology, he's simply never someone I would've taken in the first 2 days. He's a 4th round pick for me; a plodder with limited ceiling who even the best coaching in the world could get you to maybe a solid DE.
The only way he can be more than that is if he completely transforms his entire body. Well hell, now you have TWO areas of emphasis, you need physique and technique. That, my friends, is not a 2nd day draft choice.
So yeah, my 'bias' is showing. My bias on high-end picks is that I want guys with tools that can be developed.
Speaks doesn't have those.
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KPass literally has no tools. He's going into his 3rd season and still doesn't have any. And for all the complaining about Speaks' body type, how in the world is someone built like KPass going to be successful as a down lineman with no pass rush moves?
What you've just said about KPass just shows that your not all that set in your "analysis" because KPass is literally a waste of a draft pick. He's got NOTHING and he's produced nothing.
As for Speaks and his physique, I respect your opinions as you know, but your opinion of him is, quite frankly, a joke. He's not fat, he's not slow.
In fact, he's the ONLY one out of him, Houston, and Ford that even laid a hand on Tom Brady last year in 2 games. He beat Trent Brown badly, something neither Ford nor Houston could do in multiple tries.