Just think how good this defence could have been if....

Willie just needs to go back to his nickel duties.

Ike? Really?

doesn’t have to be the top pick overall,,,,,in this case it was,,,,,,,but your key word is solid,,,,,solid’s is sometimes enough,,,,usually not if you can get great,,,,,,and i was convinced that mario was THE perfect man for OUR defense. lots of reasons but.

 BUT,,,,the point is the draft approach,,,,,,the league’s structure assures solid picks, and the gms. line up for what usually turns out to be a mundane bell curve lottery result.

  as often as not,,,,,, i maintain ,,,,it would be better to trade up at dramatic draft choice cost, for a can’t miss , future h.o.f. player, rather than use the next 6 picks to produce maybe 1 contributor,,,,, and 4 career back-ups, usually overpaid and uncuttable cause the gm doesn’t want to show wasted picks.

i pray that ziggy wood is the next joe green,,,,,there’ a chance even in the bell curve but…….

i know there are exceptions to the rule , and everyone loves them,, but generally the bell shaped draft produces bell shaped results,,,,,,,and i think that could be broken.

on the other end,,,,,what if , like we do this yr. need special teams players,,,,,

maybe we should have traded all our higher picks for multiple last rds picks and have scouted colleges for specifically spec team standouts that we could easily get with 6th and 7th rd picks,,,,do you think we could find a couple good specteamers out of a bunch of 20 or so picked for showing talent at specteams??

law of averages says we’d do better than we do with , a bunch that hasn’t played much special teams in college and doesn’t want to play them now.

 and as far as solid depth,,,,,every year the last cut waiver wires are full of players that , are" wonder cuts" “’ reluctant cuts”, “salary cap” or cuts that the team hopes clear waivers so they can be resigned to practise squads ,,,,and they can all be signed at minimum up to the trade deadline.