How... How are you so confidently wrong in all your posts?
QB is very simple, you keep drafting until you hit. Darnold was not the guy, you get as much value back and you try again. ZW is not the guy either, it fuckin sucks, you roll the dice again. It is unequivocally the most difficult position to nail down and this franchise has been incredibly bad at it. That goes back the last 20 years, across multiple regimes.
You absolutely credit the GM for making the pick, even if they were "BPA" and that somehow discounts the move in your 'tarded derriere mind.
You are wrong in every point you've made besides giving him "1000%" credit on picking Breece.
The process is what you grade / evaluate IMO.
Becton - 2 consensus top OT prospects left on the board, Becton and Wirfs. Wirfs is universally seen as a RT only (with his athleticism from the combine I have no idea why, but he was) and Becton is seen as a LT who has such incredibly unique size/athleticism gifts that he has every chance to be a HOF player. Douglas took the consensus LT with elite upside potential, who oh by the way in year one was considered a top 10 LT in football.
Darnold trade - Sam proved he wasn’t “the guy” we hoped. We traded him to a desperate panthers team getting us premium assets that we then cashed in for what appears to be an elite player in Hall and also a great rotational piece in Clemons
Zach pick - he was the most often rated #2 QB prospect by teams. I don’t know that it was unanimous, but we absolutely do know that Philly and SF wanted Wilson and if we had been willing to deal him away, would have gotten exceptional offers from both and probably several other teams.
You can’t sit here and say “Sauce and Wilson were no brainers” because they weren’t. Think about all the debates leading up to the draft, hell even OTC at 4, more than half the fan base was furious we passed on Thibideaux, not to mention the endless debates of “we don’t value CBs in this defense, and we already signed Reed.” At 10 there was no consensus WR either, how many WRs went right after Wilson? 5 in like the next 7 picks? If we had swapped with the Saints, would they have taken Olave at 10 like they did at 11? I suspect they would have.
They are only “obvious DUH” picks in hindsight because of how unbelievably impressive they have been. Just as much as what will happen heaven forbid if Breece misses time next year, the people who will say “they were wrong to pick an RB that high” that excrement is all hindsight talking.
Evaluate the process at the time. Based on what we know to be true, all those things made sound logical sense. Even if they didn’t all work out for the best for us in the end.
