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He’s not entirely wrong. Why change what made us the best team in football? However, they should have had contingency plans and they should have had looks that they had been practicing all season and not shown in games yet. Good coaches can make adjustments when things aren’t working.

If the Texans weren’t selling at his previous value, why in the world would they sell at his current value? Edit to add: Watson has also now lost all of his leverage and has to focus on rehabbing his image.

Most of the best have been said. Here’s a few more for consideration: “Donkey Kong Suh” ”Hindsight is 50/50” ”Let the cat out of the hat” ”Not going to put them on a pinnacle” ”Hog mollies” ”You don’t trade a quarter for 2 dimes”

Lol, how? He 100% just made excuses and tried to pull the whole “I could say it but I’m not saying it but this is what I could say if I were to make an excuse...but I’m not saying it...but maybe if you wanna say it...” bs. I’ve been extremely unimpressed with his professionalism. He doesn’t hold himself accountable and thinly veils it publicly.

“Feedback from the Iowa staff was not positive” This is the most concerning part. It’s one thing to be immature off the field but still be coachable and a good teammate. It’s another thing when you are not well liked by the coaching staff.

I see a lot of weird conclusions in here. The fact that Tackles with longer arms don’t always succeed means absolutely nothing. The fact that Joe Thomas had below average 33in arms doesn’t mean a lot. Unfortunately, Christiansen has more than just slightly below average arms, he is in the bottom of the bottom. That does not bode well. I obviously hope he succeeds, but I don’t have high hopes at LT. Guard may be better for him.

I agree, draft grades don’t mean poo, so what’s the point of citing them. You know, it’s ok to acknowledge when they fuged something up, which they obviously did. They looked at it as a “calculated risk” and the risk did not pay off, so they had to trade down again. I understand their thinking, you look and go, “ok, we’re trading back 13 spots and we have x number of guys we like, what are the odds that 6 offensive linemen and 4 defensive backs are taken.” Pretty low right? Rookie mistake from a first year GM. Let’s call a spade a spade. I’m sure they like who they got, but they were also banking on somebody being there at 52 who wasn’t. They also could have traded back with Chicago in the first, picked up an extra first round pick and AT LEAST a 4th and 5th and gotten Caleb Farley (or maybe even Jaycee Horn still). They traded the wrong pick.

I fugging told y’all. Outsmarted themselves with that first trade down in the second. That’s why this draft is a low grade for me.

I don’t really buy that there wasn’t a player taken between our original 2nd round pick and the 52 pick that we were hoping to get at 52. I think the second trade back in the 2nd round was a reaction to the guys they wanted at that pick no longer being there. Based on that I would have to give a pretty low grade on how the draft was run. I think the best trade back spot was the first round where we could have, for example, traded back with the Bears and picked up an extra first round pick next year and gotten Caleb Farley.

I really hope so. I was on board with picking up Darnold but would really love for that second we gave up to not turn out to be at the top of the round.

At a certain point, quantity just works against you. There are only so many roster spots and only so many starters. A lot of these picks won’t be starters because of the numbers game, so is it really better to draft the depth instead of drafting the best talent and filling out depth with vets and UDFAs? Idk. I’m not inclined to care too much about 4th-7th round trade backs, I just hated the fug out of the second round trade back. The one round it seems like it would have made the most sense is the first, and we didn’t. Jaycee Horne better be THAT much better than Surtain and Farley.

Lol

If you have to ask who the dope is, it’s you. Teams know who to call.

First year GM tried to get cute and out thought himself.

Ahahaha, so looks like we weren’t happy with what was there at 52. Shocker!

It almost feels destined that Koramoah will be taken just before our pick.

Didn’t we leave his pro day early?

There’s also more picks in rd 3 bc of comp picks. But don’t let that get in the way of the narrative.

Our practice squad is gonna be stacked!

4 OTs and 2 Safeties in the 8 picks since our trade. At this rate we can get 4th round o line talent at our pick. Great looking trade so far.

Not arguing against trading back in general, arguing against the spot they chose to trade back and what they got in return vs. who was on the board. Seeing 2 o linemen and a safety go right at and after our original pick pretty much makes the point.

Fug the trade value chart, we went from a spot where we could get borderline first rd talent to late second and also gave up a 4th just to get 83 back? Idgaf about the 6th round pick.

That seems like pretty shitty value, tbh.

Dude wtf is this team doing? Terrible spot to trade back. We better have gotten a haul of picks.

BPA is almost always going to be defense because other franchises appropriately weight offense over defense. That is how the rules are set up now. The reason we can’t find any consistency as a franchise is because we have been heavily weighted toward defense from the coaching staff down since our inception, outside of a small period with Seifert (not saying I like Seifert). Look at the consistent teams across the league, it is about the QB and offense. Great defenses get you a year or 2 of competitiveness. You see a SF, a Denver, etc. in the super bowl here and there, but are they ever back the next year?