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Originally Posted by staylor26
One thing I find interesting is how literally all of the Chiefs Twitter/media guys love this pick. Whether it's Swanson, Lane, Harms, etc. they all pounded the table for Simmons.
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Also remember the complaint we've had about Draft Grades for years, though.
They love the picks when they're right.
Draft Grades are nothing more than "How close to MY board were you..."
Gets back to McDuffie getting a C grade because draft twitter thought we'd take Johnson and decided Spags doesn't like smaller corners. It's an exercise in confirmation bias.
And about half of Chiefs Twitter had the nature of his injury wrong. I mean I haven't expected Locked On to get anything right for years - they didn't. Nate Taylor had it COMPLETELY wrong until bout 2-3 weeks ago. But by then, their minds had been made up.
And then it became their exercise in confirmation bias.
So yeah - if they're going to blow by the only concern that those of us opposed to the pick had because they didn't understand WHY we were opposed to the pick...um...okay.
But I think ultimately Reid might have made the point that A) explains why so many draft folks were on this and B) why I'm no less nervous.
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“It was (an area) that we thought we’d spend a first-round pick on and that it’d be worth it to also look at it in free agency,” Reid said when asked about the Chiefs’ post-Super Bowl assessment of the position.
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They went into the draft with a focus on a single position group in the first round. And nobody expected Campbell, Banks or Membou to fall. Nor were were guys like Ersery first round possibilities (and by all accounts, Jackson is a guard).
So that really did leave them with Conerly and Simmons. So yeah, I suspect they did a shitload of homework on BOTH those guys.
But I do think this is where they've gotten themselves in the most trouble. They did it with Speaks. They did it with Moore. They did it with FAU. Granted, I don't think that's what happened with MEH and that still didn't work out. But the majority of their worst picks have been picks made based on a pre-determined decision to attack a specific position at a specific spot.
When you do that, you're just so very prone to seeing what you wanna see. And I just don't know how folks can be so eager to just dismiss that.