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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
I will note that everyone hated our LB coach when we weren't investing shit at the position. The LB room sure got a lot better when we started layering quality prospects in there, didn't it?
Everyone hated the WR coach until we grabbed a couple good WR prospects in the early rounds and they developed nicely as rookies.
Yes, we've finally started to invest draft capital into the OL. But acting like the array of 2nd and 3rd day picks we've invested into prospects there over the last 15 years is some bounty is a bit silly.
We've used a late 2nd, 2 late 3rd and a 5th on the position in the last DECADE.
That's it. 4 picks that average out to roughly the 99th overall pick. The median is around pick 94.
So in a decade we've used 4 picks that are the rough equivalent of a late 3rd round pick each -- the hit rate on those is going to be damn low, especially at OT. you're looking at maybe a 25% success rate for picks in that area and 'success' for those picks means "occasional starter".
Morris actually qualifies as a successful 96th overall pick.
We're not getting less with more out of our OT investments in the draft. We're getting about what we should expect with less.
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By what metric? He's not even a replacement level swing tackle that's been benched multiple times due to shit performance, culminating in him not even being active for the postseason.