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Originally Posted by indycolts2
Soooo.....what you are saying is a lot of name players fell to us in the 2nd round and because none of us were even close nor were literally any of the pundits the players chosen must suck? And when you mention more talented skilled players than Braden Smith you mean name players who compile stats but being All-American at your position counts for nothing?
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No. What I am saying is, Braden Smith was the 7th best interior offensive lineman. Interior offensive linemen is the least important position and we spent 2 of our first 3 picks on them.
There are things you can do to compensate for "average" interior linemen.... like a quicker passing game we are about to implement.
Talented skilled players means these players play positions that can directly effect the outcome of games. Guards simply are not game changers. That is just a fact. Reaching for Nelson is one thing, but reaching twice for a guard with a 2nd high value draft pick? Thats just too much reaching.
We could have traded down with the Bengals and pucked up 2 extra 3rd round picks, nabbed MLB Edmunds, still OLB Darius Leonard AND DE/OLB Harold Landry with the 36th and 37th and Braden Smith would have still been there with our 49th.
Then with those 2 extra 3rd round picks, CB Isiah Oliver with that 56th and DE Sam Hubbard with the 59th picks fron the Bengals trade and then nabbed the services of QB Mason Rudolph with the 67th pick, in which Rudolph would be either A. Insurance for Luck or B. Amazing trade bait for next year's draft.
We had Mewhort for another year, and Slauson in case he got hurt. We didnt beed anothet guard with our 2nd rd pick after taking Nelson with the 6th. Sorry, but this is conventional wisdom. People are just letting it slide because the Ballard bandwagon.
Ballard overall is dling a B+ job, whih is still great and a major upgrade from Grigson.... but after a majorily quite free agency he needed to knock each of these picks out of the park and he only got base hits along with a few doubles.