again, no
| October 06, 2017 09:36AM |
If you do an objective take that accounts for the normal percentage of hits good drafting teams tend to get, the Rams did well.
The people who say otherwise, IMO, just end up fixated on a couple of the picks.
And they completely ignore contextual things like this: OL drafting in the 1st round is now far riskier than it was in the recent past, due to the prevalence of spread offenses.
It's the same with people who judge coaching without ever bothering to account for context.
Fact is, you cannot imagine this team without---naming only the players who have contributed effectively so far this year--Tru, Joyner, Donald, Brockers, Saffold, Brown, Hav, Higbee, Gurley, Goff, Austin, and Zuerlein. And that's not counting good players they let walk, like Jenkins and Gaines, and it's also not counting the UDFAs such as Hekker.
This team will never be in the situation Seattle was in in 2012, where only 2 of their starters---not counting the punter---were on the team before Carroll arrived in 2010.
Bad drafting was found in the 2006-2008 spread of years. Mediocre drafting was found in both the 2000-2005 and the 2009-2011 spreads.
Perspective. People just exaggerate on this, for reasons I can never quite get my head around.
We may have to just flat agree to disagree on this. I have been round and round on this issue and never changed my mind, based on a fair look at the facts.
So let's agree to disagree. This isn't going to go anywhere.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2017 09:38AM by zn.
The people who say otherwise, IMO, just end up fixated on a couple of the picks.
And they completely ignore contextual things like this: OL drafting in the 1st round is now far riskier than it was in the recent past, due to the prevalence of spread offenses.
It's the same with people who judge coaching without ever bothering to account for context.
Fact is, you cannot imagine this team without---naming only the players who have contributed effectively so far this year--Tru, Joyner, Donald, Brockers, Saffold, Brown, Hav, Higbee, Gurley, Goff, Austin, and Zuerlein. And that's not counting good players they let walk, like Jenkins and Gaines, and it's also not counting the UDFAs such as Hekker.
This team will never be in the situation Seattle was in in 2012, where only 2 of their starters---not counting the punter---were on the team before Carroll arrived in 2010.
Bad drafting was found in the 2006-2008 spread of years. Mediocre drafting was found in both the 2000-2005 and the 2009-2011 spreads.
Perspective. People just exaggerate on this, for reasons I can never quite get my head around.
We may have to just flat agree to disagree on this. I have been round and round on this issue and never changed my mind, based on a fair look at the facts.
So let's agree to disagree. This isn't going to go anywhere.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/06/2017 09:38AM by zn.
