Your not wrong. Your spot on. This front office broke EVERY rule of smart drafting. Passing on one of the best lb prospects in a decade for a MAJOR one dimentional, PART TIME player AND turning down a #1, 3 and 7th round pics to boot!! You want to talk about BAD drafting.
TANKERSLEY? You don't lock into a player EXLUSIVELY over a sweet sounding interview. Had they picked him and said "we are confident he can shut down Brady's wr's and most likely to heavily contribute or start right away", that would be different. But, "he blew us away in the interview and has A CHANCE to really contribute or even start in a couple years" is not. Again, poor reasoning, poor drafting. The office acts like we are truly a playoff team and we are NOT.
I am not down on tank as much as some, but we don't have the team in place where the office can knowingly draft players early they and the media draft nick's all say won't be a first year contributor or starter.. We do not have the corners this office thinks we have, not one of them can contest a ball on a consistent basis and if it's not a quick, decisive sack or tipped ball, it's 98% a completion for our opponent. Tank has a reputation as a good contest corner (aka, someone who doesn't need a qb sack, big pass rush or bad throw to be successful like the truly good cb's) and he could surprise everyone but again, the office wasn't making those assumption's, just that great interview. Bad drafting strategy and philosophy again.
All the way through there were better players, better talent and they past it all up. The thing that is probably going to bite us is center. Mike Pouncy is a liability health wise and FEENY should have been taken. It's not if, it's when and how soon pouncy goes down and I TRULY believe this is his last year. Another huge gamble by this staff that will probably, once again be the Achilles heel of this offense.
Center is massively important not only from a playing stand point but from making the CORRECT line calls!! Pouncy is great at all of that but, what happens when he is out? As we have seen, there is a Huge difference and drop in talent at center on the bench. FEENY would have been a pro bowl center for years. Big, big mistake.
Your right. This draft was an all around head scratcher and yet AGAIN we will have to suffer through all the pie in the sky homers posts for months as this being the mother of all dolphins drafts. As I have told them all, come see me in December. And I too hope I am dead wrong, NOTHING would make me happier than to post on the board in December how wrong I was in my take on this draft but my happiness, unfortunately, is will be on the shelf for a considerable time.
