Originally Posted by
chief31
Aside from the other names that were given, Mike Goff is a big addition. (So long as Waters doesn't get dealt.)
Now I have plenty of reservations about our O-line. We still have two holes in the five man front.
But Goff alone makes this years O-line an improvement, at least in the running game.
I agree, to an extent, that the defense didn't need the players to be replaced, as much as the coaches. But it is easy to understand how anyone would feel compelled to replace players.
Sometimes, people tend to get overly emotional about these things, and rant. I think you are a victim of your own emotions right now.
I can't help that I am wondering if Pioli hasn't gone out of his way to prove that he is some super-genius, by specifically reaching with every selection.
I think he specifically crushed the value our draft position, which was the one good thing that came from the Herm era.
I also don't agree with the positions that we drafted.
But that doesn't mean that we didn't get the best players.
I don't know anything about most of them. Aside from Jackson, I have never heard any of their names before.
I will say that I like that they are building in the trenches. But then, those are the same trenches that we have been stocking with talent for about a decade now.
We have used a first, second, or third round pick on the D-line ten times over the last nine drafts. At some point, the D-line has to start looking good.
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