CrabukiB
Seriously. How many matches did we cheer for Xhaka playing rough and tumble (and sometimes dangerously) for us? They’re players are just men doing their jobs, just like ours. They aren’t scumbags, they are competitors just like Saka or Saliba or Raya. The refs made calls that were shitty for us, but that doesn’t make, for example, Miguel Almiron a jerk.
Full disclosure: Miggy won an MLS title for Atlanta and will always have a warm place in my heart for that. But my point stands.
No they would not, assuming you mean re-drafting an actual NFL team vs a fantasy team. NFL teams show you what’s important by voting with their dollars.
Utterly irrelevant. You didn’t know he would be trash on draft day. The job of a GM (in terms of drafting) is to maximize the draft capital you have, and then leverage it into quality players at high value positions via either trades or drafting players. There is no position of higher leverage than QB, Fields clearly had a 1st Rd grade, AND we needed a QB.
That said, I would’ve taken Sewell to anchor the line, as OT is also a high value position.
There is no universe, including one where Pitts has consistently played at Hall of Fame levels since draft day, where taking a TE at #4 is a logical choice for building a franchise. If you don’t understand why no other club has done that, then you do not understand positional valuation. Don’t feel bad, though, because clearly our GM doesn’t either. Two years later he made an even worse value decision to take an RB in the first.
He could have been playing like Travis Kelce this whole time and he’d still be an overdraft. Idiocy.