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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
Not having enough quality depth has burned this team in the past.
You can never have enough pass rushers.
These are truths that lead to drafting FAU.
The fact that he's behind Karlaftis, Omenihu, and Danna as well as sometimes Jones is not an indication that he sucks.
But if one of those guys had gone down? We'd be glad we had FAU. We may still, the season is not over.
Next year, we will almost certainly lose Danna and Jones.
And FAU will be in the rotation with Karlaftis and Omenihu. You're probably not going to have Jones, so you'll probably see all three in on passing downs in the 'Nascar package' that Spags used to beat the undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Don't worry about it.
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Oh sure, there's plenty of time for the story to be written here.
But man, if you're drafting for next season, aren't you better served taking someone like maybe YaYa Diaby in the 3rd? Is there any difference at all in the long-term ceilings for FAU and say Adetomiwa Adebawore who some liked in the 2nd and fell to the 4th? If 'hey, he's quality depth we'll be happy to have in 2024' is your goal with the pick, shouldn't you be waiting a couple rounds to attack that?
I mean bottom line is that if we'd have gone with Rice, Morris, FAU in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, everyone would be falling over themselves about the greatness of the draft. "Hey we got a long-term starter at WR and LT, not to mention a guy with first round talent that fell to the 3rd for some reason in FAU all the way down in the 3rd...." so it's hard to complain too much. I mean afterall, if we'd have gone LaPorta and Rice in 1 and 2 and then took Adebawore in the 3rd, we wouldn't have Wanya. Conner in the 4th looks like a ballplayer in his own right so maybe you could squint and say "We could've taken Morris in the 4th..." but then we lose Conner and at a point you can't just keep pushing all the guys we DID take down a round. It's not realistic to do so.
But It definitely would've been nice to see FAU force himself onto the scene. Not doing so has to be at least a little concerning.