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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
This is ultimately where I have to get to - the team has blown a couple first round picks in the last 5 years and it's been fine.
But every time they do they get just a little closer to the pack. To where a few weeks of scattershot play cost them a bye or HFA and now they have to work just a little harder to get to where they want to be.
And as HoF throughput like Jones and Kelce age out while the home run 2022 draft class gets more expensive, they get closer and closer to being ordinary + Pat Mahomes.
Which is still a damn nice place to be. But it makes your margins week to week and season that much tighter.
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I totally agree with all of this. But I also think you can flip this view around and it argues for this exact pick.
Veach likely isn't going to recreate the 2022 draft outcome again. That was a master class. So rather than assuming that all the picks are going to be contributors and that the balance of the class will be its saving grace, you're going to need to find some blue chip talent along the way to make up for the inevitable misses. And when picking in the 30s, you're going to have to take some swings on guys that are high ceiling/low floor prospects.
And here we are with Simmons.