Reminds me of of the comparison shopping theory I often use in sports betting: I'm supposed to give 7 points to an opponent that can actually play, when last week I had the same team minus 7 points against a stiff? No thank you. There have to be superior investments.
Michael Egnew at pick 78, two years after Jimmy Graham went 95th. It felt like a forced pick. And we'll see more of the same across the league as teams become desperate to nab cheap jump-and-catch yards across the middle of the field, following the lead of New England and others.
Nobody actually wants to work for anything these days, the Lombardi seam here and seam there approach. The young lazy coaches who view Mike Leach as role model happily receive one gift after another, courtesy of rules changes that further limit defenses and enhance their laziness.
I didn't have much of an opinion on Egnew, other than the automatic buyer beware of anyone thriving amidst Big 12 passing. Big 12 teams field the allowable number of defenders, mostly as an annoyance.
My problem with the Egnew pick, stated on draft day, was that TY Hilton was still there. We've got to stop pretending that Bess is an acceptable slot guy, or that return game specialists can be acquired on the cheap. I also opined before the draft that Olivier Vernon was decent 4th round value but some of the ratings like Mayock's were getting carried away when they had Vernon considerably higher. Once we reached somewhat for Vernon, and apparently Egnew, it threw the late picks out of whack.
No one has mentioned that Egnew facially resembles my next door neighbor, albeit two decades younger. He can't catch either, but has stolen a few things and owes me 20 bucks. It's always 20 or 40.
BTW, several times during this post I had to retreat and change Agnew to Egnew. Spiro was quite the character during my youth, the Paul Ryan of his day.