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[LordSensei1958]

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[Deus Irae]

Simmons had questions at both injury and attitude/effort. There are no reports of them trying to move up at this point so there is no failure.

That's not how it works. Failure doesn't always require an effort being given. Sometimes a failure is due to the lack of trying, in one form or another. This year, if they failed with their OL picks and the passed upon players work out, it will be the easy-to-spot failure to move up and get the right guy. Last year, it was the failure to stick and pick the WR.

They played the board the way it fell and it’s pretty clear from the rest of the draft that they wanted to add capitol, not trade it away. They added a c/g with flexibility and still have like 5 holdovers that will compete at LG.

It's amazing that 32 teams have brilliant drafts every single year, and that they always get the players they were targeting.

They have to feel they’ll get a reasonable starter out of that group

Why? I mean, I'm not saying that they won't (I actually like a couple of the OL prospects quite a bit) but, in terms of belief, we've got nothing to base such a positive thought on other than "well, we've got numbers, and Robinson wasn't complete dog shit last year", because drafting badly was the problem last year.

And, for the record, I'm fine with their draft, at least in terms of the way they moved about to address key spots, but I'm not going to buy into every hype story and excuse following it just because it's put out there. And, after Sanders fell to round 5 when most pundits had him as a first rounder, nobody should.

 

[Deus Irae]

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I really hope the kid works out. McDaniels having a FB is an absolute win.