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The entire current GM/scouting folks have been here with Fitterer for a few years. We just chopped Fitterer and promoted the assistant GM. I’m hoping it’s different but after seeing some of the talent dropping (this is a good and deeper draft than usual), I’d rather have XL with no 5th year and Jones or Kamara for 4 years.

SMH, how has our board done with the current scouting crew in recent years? My premise is valid because we’ve seen good guys drop for any number of reasons and we typically don’t adjust our draft board for people who drop. I hope I’m wrong but I think we had a good chance at some talent that dropped and we’ll regret it. I liked getting the 2nd next year, but wish we stayed put and took Brooks at 52. I think the fact that no RBs went between 46 and round 4 shows that our worries were unfounded and then we’d have had a couple more picks to grab a couple of Kamara, Jones, Washington and/or McLahlin (butchered likely) plus Chau. Loved Sanders in the 4th but very meh on XL trade up and Trevin.

Dude, just read the draft threads in here. I mean can you legitimately say we’ve drafted well from 2018-2023? Have we made good trades. I mean it’s comical when people say you can’t do better than professionals but we’ve been terrible and the huddle has absolutely picked better players than our team has. Lol at you trying to make it look like our recent drafting has been competent at all.

No, at this point you should be taking the BPAs not projects. Miami took Kamara one pick after us. They have edge guys but you don’t worry about that. If you are taking need on day 3, you are wasting the pick. You take Tre Smith over a long snapper. Heck, I would have been happy taking the TE from Arizona or T from Texas because they are great value picks at this point. Maybe you don’t need them but injuries happen and maybe they become future starters for Moton or great for two TE sets. I know that I and many others in here would have drafted better than we have lately. Hubbard, who is now being replaced for the 3rd year in a row is our only day 3 pick since 2017 (Butker starting for KC) that has done anything. Let’s not act like this scouting department and GM have any history of finding diamonds in the rough by going need based.

SMH. Would have been a great pick for us. We take a guy who is probably there in the 6th or 7th.

Yep. WTF. Good prospects still left and we take a guy who’s probably not even going to make the team.

Set really low? Bar was on the ground lol. I like him as a weapon. Only worry I have is blocking. I hope we can get something out of his blocking so that our offense isn’t easy to read, like Tremble in on 90% run and Sanders in on 80% pass plays. We had stuff like that last year where from the OL positioning you could tell if we were running or not.

Lol at best TE since Olsen. That’s like being the tallest midget. Sanders better be the best because Thomas, Tremble and scrubs are easily the worst TE crews in NFL. My favorite pick so far because we got value and we got him before a TE run. Sanders could have 320 yards and 2 TDs and he’d be HOF level of the TEs since Olsen.

First pick that I think we got solid value for in a while. Hopefully, he takes over the starting spot right away and plays well.

Um, that’s not true. The goal is to beat blocks. Avoiding blocks can easily lead to being out of position and “blocked” without even being touched. Also, many times, taking on the block allows the rest of the team to make the play. We’ll see how he does.

Actually, the weaknesses in his draft profile (avoiding blocks and needing to play with more passion and energy) says not a dawg. If you think Kuechly was a dawg, Wilson is probably your guy.

So true except that the huddle has been way better at picking players the past several drafts. It’s well documented. We’ve hated what seems like most picks the past 3 years. When was the huddle wrong?

Wait, so this guy’s weaknesses are that he tries to avoid blocks, not take them on and beat them, and that he needs to play with more passion and energy? How does that say “dawg”? Pretty sure Luke was a big Wilson fan. I’d take his word on LBers over Morgan’s, every single day.

You must not be enjoying this.

Dude our drafts since 2018 have been complete poo. Hurney got a couple 1st rounders and after that it’s been poo. I wouldn’t be incorrect in saying we may have the worst drafts in the league in the past 3 drafts and it doesn’t seem like it’s getting better. Our scouting department is bottom of the barrel, period.

Gotta love when our top of the 3rd round pick is lauded on the draft as someone who will be an immediate help on special teams. SMH. Why has the past few years of drafts felt like we were trying to add depth to a SB winning team instead of hey let’s try to go BPA and get us some good starters.

The same scouts/GM crew were afraid of Tre Smith’s history and we took a long snapper and a big fat guard, neither of whom played at all. I’m very afraid that this draft is setting up like 2018-2023 drafts where most picks we’ll look back and realize how many pro bowl level guys we could have easily had.

Let’s be honest, at 39, we had our pick of CBs starting with the 3rd ranked DeJean. We also had the 2nd and 3rd ranked Cs available too. The 2nd best RB was available at 65. You don’t have to be a Debbie Downer to think that a RB who ended his season with an ACL tear might have not been the best choice. I was fine with the trade down to get the 2025 2nd but a RB in round 2 is not who I would have wanted.

Benson is the 2nd best RB and he’s probably going to be there at 65. It was a reach considering the best best pure Cs went one pick before and a few picks after. We are sinking all in on Young and that could seriously bite us in the ass for years as I think we are not getting the best value. Don’t be surprised if we grab a TE at 65.

Welp, we went RB at 46. I don’t like it at all. It’s like Miles Sanders all over again. Meanwhile both stud Cs are gone. C in the 2nd and RB later is much better than reaching early on RB.

I really hope we didn’t want a RB at 39. Sorry, but we passed on a lot of guys that I think we’ll regret skipping. If we had to trade back to 46 that means we were a little off on who we thought would still be there at 52.

I don’t like this thought process. That’s Fitterer in a nut shell where trading CMC and Moore is due to fuging up trades and feeling like he had to get picks back of course Fitterer basically doubled down on sucking by trading our stars to “make up for” and then doing nothing effectively just trading CMC and Moore for nothing. That said, I like the trade down getting a 2nd next year. I just hope we don’t think about making up for things. It should solely be about still getting the same value at 52 and then getting another pick as a bonus. It will again come down to us making a good pick.

Hopefully he does, just not super happy. With all those QBs and Pearsall/others, we had some cherry choices at 33/39. I think I would have preferred a CB considering guys who’d normally get a 1st round grade other years. As much as I wanted a WR, just not sold on XL so Id rather have taken surer options at CB, C and heck even LB. It feels like we reached again just for Young and without our 1st this year and 2nd next year after trading CMC, Moore and Burns and losing some D players to FA, we can’t afford to take players with any limitations.

This is what worries me. We fall in love with a guy. 6 QBs and Pearsall go in the first so there’s no run on WRs at the end of the 1st and we still get the guy we promised we would take. We haven’t done well with taking guys we like who do not stand out at the combine drills or the Senior Bowl. It doesn’t feel great to hear that evaluation now. I hadn’t seen that before. Oh well, still have a couple picks today but I feel like XL is a hope that he does well versus feeling like we got a stud who will excel no matter what.

2023 - This was a TE heavy draft and there were several productive WRs taken after Mingo. This was a GM error. 2021 - GM error again. Great IOL including Humphrey were sitting there. If we went Slater/Humphrey we could have had Garrett Wilson in 2022. 2017 - Not a horrible pick but injuries hurt. Even with missing 1.5 years of games, he’s still playing and has 4100 rushing/receiving yards and 29 TDs. We’ve done a lot worse. 2015. All I can say is better than TMJ and Jarrett. The rest after Smith don’t warrant discussion.