stay at 12 and take BPA...stop trying to outsmart everybody...we do not have so much talent that the taking of Dion Jordan was going to be the cherry on top...we need day 1 contributors, ESPECIALLY trading up into the top-3...
i commend the move for the BALLS it takes, but our medical staff really sucks the big one...don't take someone that is already hurt and going under the knife...you never know how someone comes back from that...
NO, NO, NO, NO.
If Ireland is guilty of one thing (and let's face it, it's probably more than one), he drafted too conservatively for too long and put together a roster of median-quality players, who all worked hard and played hard but achieved median-quality results. We are sorely lacking in special talent on the roster. Of our three elite players, one is a center and the other is a punter.
Ireland HAD to make a move like this. And he has to make more of them in future drafts. Yes, drafting a player who needs a bit of shoulder surgery is a risk. But this idea that's going around that he has a bum shoulder and will be a draft bust because of it is wildly speculative, premature and probably nonsensical.
I didn't like our draft this year and I posted about how drafting and signing so many currently or formerly injured players was a risk (Jordan, Taylor, Thomas, Jenkins, Grimes, Louis, Keller....). The one player I had no hesitation in getting behind, risk or not, was Jordan.
The people who think we shouldn't make bold moves for special players or take risks on what we perceive to be elite talent are the people who wonder why we go 7-9 or 6-10. They're the people who say "why can't we hit on Russell Wilson or Doug Martin or Aldon Smith or Jimmy Graham?" I'll tell you whay. because Ireland and 30 other GMs saw some other player at that spot who they reckoned they could just plug in from day 1.
So maybe Jordan misses the Browns game. He is one of 30 or so "core" players to be used on the day - 3.33% of the contribution to the game. Lets make him 5% because he's a special talent. I think we can manage at 95%. There are 16 games in a season. That's now a 0.31% loss for the year. We expect Jordan to have a Fins career of at least 5 years. Thats 0.0625% of his career. So people are calling him a bust on the basis of him only being available for 99.9375% of his potential career. Wow, that is significant.
Bottom line. His shoulder still hurts after surgery. That's it.
