What if bpa at our 1st pick is brown?BPA, with all picks
I seldom disagree with you but I couldn't disagree more here, especially with cornerback. That is a bust position. First round players are incredibly overvalued. I mentioned that a month or two ago, after some related research by a very sharp analytics-based draft guy at Footballsfuture.com. He has exchanged private messages with me, many of them devoted to this topic. He couldn't believe the awful return on investment for first round cornerbacks in recent years, especially since it is seldom if ever mentioned. It's like fans and analysts don't want to believe that position has performed so brutally, in an increasingly passing league.
Since I made that post, you can add Conley and Hargreaves to the list.
Offensive tackle is less objectionable. They tend to pan out. Overall I prefer offensive line later. I don't want to spend first round picks on athletes of that caliber. No reason to overreact to Miami's inability to identify offensive linemen in recent years. The gaps team to team are not nearly as dramatic as conventional wisdom allows. Watch Miami/Colts last week as a novice and you'd never know one team's offensive line was highly touted and the other supposedly a disaster.
New England's offensive line approach has been proper.
It's a good point. I need to look into it, but my immediate reaction is that a lot of the busts were not athletes similar to Ramsey, Jones, Lattimore, Humphrey, Alexander, etc..
Outside of OL, though, and seeing the prospects available, I don't know which other position Miami would target. I could see WR, but I think the hit rate is comparable to or worse than CB.
I see a lot of athletes that are better than the tape in this cb class.
makes me leary. But then again I’ve seen some guys with really good college tape not pan out too.
What positions would make sense to you in the 1st round with our 3 picks?I seldom disagree with you but I couldn't disagree more here, especially with cornerback. That is a bust position. First round players are incredibly overvalued. I mentioned that a month or two ago, after some related research by a very sharp analytics-based draft guy at Footballsfuture.com. He has exchanged private messages with me, many of them devoted to this topic. He couldn't believe the awful return on investment for first round cornerbacks in recent years, especially since it is seldom if ever mentioned. It's like fans and analysts don't want to believe that position has performed so brutally, in an increasingly passing league.
Since I made that post, you can add Conley and Hargreaves to the list.
Offensive tackle is less objectionable. They tend to pan out. Overall I prefer offensive line later. I don't want to spend first round picks on athletes of that caliber. No reason to overreact to Miami's inability to identify offensive linemen in recent years. The gaps team to team are not nearly as dramatic as conventional wisdom allows. Watch Miami/Colts last week as a novice and you'd never know one team's offensive line was highly touted and the other supposedly a disaster.
New England's offensive line approach has been proper.
Humphrey has turned into a stud. He’s an enforcer at the position. That was one ugly diggs tape vs LSU.