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Get your Priorites straight.


jramsey4

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Over the past couple of years I have gotten a lot of flak over my suggestion that WR are usually not worth top 20 picks (or even a 1st at all). The first comment I always get is "You wouldn't draft -CJ or Fitz- in the 1st?" this kind of argument to me ignores some things.

1st almost never are those types of WR every outside the top 5. The problem there is if your in the top 5 of the draft you have so much more trouble then just at receiver. Think about the Lions (and boy did they have to try and fail a bunch to finally get him) and Cards when they drafted there stars.

2nd because your in the top portion of the draft there is almost always someone available that is a star at another position. Why have CJ when you could have Joe Thomas/Patrick Willis/Revis or even our own John Beason? Would you trade Beason for CJ? I wouldn't.

3rd if you do have this superstar at WR it really doesn't make a hill of beans difference if your QB sucks and can't get the ball to him or his Oline can't give him enough time for the WR to get open. WR are also useless when your D can't stop anyone.

4th unlike QB/OT/CB/S (before you say it I know that rare cases can be used) extremely productive WR's can be found in all rounds of the draft. We have one of the best cases on our own team. Am I saying its easy? No we also have one of the best cases of that but it can be accomplished.

Considering we have the QB and a pretty good Oline the 3rd doesn't completely apply to us now but our D is in shambles. I think through WK 4 it has been proven that a high powered O doesn't mean much your D can't even put up a good fight but somehow another WR would make all the difference. This is the logic the Falcons had when they mortgaged 2 drafts for one. Now it might work out in the future but right now it isn't helping much what was already a playoff team.

The point I want to make is not that if you want a WR in the 1st your stupid, not at all. In the right circumstances when the rest of the team is set you can start making these types of choices. And even in a case (however unlikely it is) that a WR will bring the most to your football team even though you have holes elsewhere. This could definitely be a possibility when Smith retires and if none of our WR can step up.

I believe a dominate CB/S/LB that would help shore up a struggling D will be there when we pick. I could see Xavier Rhodes being that guy or Zach Brown but I just don't see a WR being the BPA this year.

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