hotpaws
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is the bolded any different from the other teams in the league ? going for more experienced players just means they wanted to get them potentially on the field quicker , it doesn't mean they have higher upside , kind of like drafting a college vs high school'er in baseballExperience was a definite target, but they're also the most athletic draft class, and a bunch were captains and team leaders. The latter smacks of RR, but combined with the first 2 traits, it means these guys should be expected to play. (Certainly the first 3 rounds of picks.)
You're on the record as not liking the Daniels pick, fine, but his experience was an asset, not "the reason" they picked him -- league consensus is he's the second best QB in the draft, and some ranked him first. The offense will be built around him and the team will work from it day 1. Newton seems a bit like a luxury pick, but he immediately gives us a stud to rotate in to keep the interior DL fresh and provide up-the-middle pass-rush, which is critical with patch-work DE, and he gives us roster & payroll flexibility next year. Sainristill is a straight up stud who should start immediately in the slot, and Sinnott is either the best or second best TE in the draft, and can block and catch, unlike the TEs we drafted every effing year in the RR regime.
Coleman is a gamble as 'tweener, but he has experience (that word again) at LT, and that was actually his better position at TCU before the coordinator and scheme got changed before his senior year (you know, the same reason folks didn't want Maye's last year to count against him.)
They looked for players that could get on the field, play meaningful snaps, and start to form the new home-grown core under the tutelage of the veterans they brought in on the short-term deals to rebuild the culture. Commitment to an organizational vision is far from a bad thing.
league consensus means shit especially since it seemed JD moved up after the season ended and some part of that was because they the team was leaning that way
Sainristill may have been a stud at college but he's undersized so we'll have to see how his game translates and nobody thought Sinnott was even close to the best tight end in what was considered a very weak TE draft class outside of Bowers .
also i really don't mean to knock the draft picks , but as i said in the post you replied to , i just find it interesting he was getting praise for picking ''great value'' picks when outside of Coleman there was no one i thought ''i can't believe he's still on the board" in fact it seemed the opposite and we took guys who were projected to be drafted later
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