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cool_hand_luke
Has there ever been a time when the GM said "all the guys we wanted we gone so we settled on some blah player just to pick someone"?
Would be very cautious about taking anything GMs and Coaches say after the draft as valuable or truthful.
People say that GM's and Coaches lie all the time. We were warned repeatedly prior to the draft that stuff they're saying is not valuable or truthful. Can't be relied on, smoke screens, yada yada...
And yet, going largely based on their actions and what Snead and McVay said, I made an official prediction thread of 10 things about their strategy and what would happen in the draft and 8 of the 10 happened.
Basically, I took their words and actions at face value. Both of them are pretty straight shooters.
And in the case of Gaines, McVay said after the draft that his Senior Bowl performance impressed them and is what sealed the deal for their desire to target him.
A players impressive Senior Bowl performance being the thing that makes the Rams draft said player is completely unsurprising given that Snead has drafted like 20 players in the last 3 years on that basis. So the chances that they are lying about that are extremely low.