Better days ahead. (Off season part 1 thread)

[mooby]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Don't need a TE. We have Reed and we have Paul coming back. No reason to draft a TE. Our biggest issues are on the defense by far.

Amazing that we're on year 2 of the McC regime and people still don't realize he doesn't draft for need. Let me put it like this: If you need a safety but you scouted all of the safeties and decided they were either overvalued (i.e. teams will be reaching for them) or none of them were that good why would you take one? Sure, maybe your plan of action is to grab a guy in FA or trade for one but those both fall through, so then maybe you grab one in the later rounds as some backup insurance, but that would be a last case, desperate scenario in case all your better options fall through.

Now on the flip side, this tight end class might be one of the best in history, but you already have a baller at TE and you have more needs so you don't want to waste a pick. If you haven't realized by now that McC would rather grab a TE that he likes vs. a safety he's not sold on, then you apparently haven't done your research on McC. From day one he's said he drafts BPA. Occasionally we'll get lucky and the BPA will fill a need, but if it doesn't I have no reason to be concerned. Not a single member of any draft class is guaranteed to give you equal returns based on draft position. So if it's a crapshoot you might as well pick the guy you think has the best chance to succeed long term. I trust McC's player evaluations, so I have complete faith in him. If he decides to go punter with the first rounder, I have complete confidence that he's done his homework and has decided that's the best player to draft.