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Originally Posted by GoChargers
He was the first overall pick. If you're taking a left tackle first overall, he'd better be the new Orlando Pace and dominate immediately from day one to even come close to justifying it.
Even then, there'd better not be any playmakers worthy of even a top 10 pick. Wasn't the case this past draft, as Tavon Austin and Dee Milliner went in the top 10.
Even with all that, the left tackle position is still increasingly irrelevant by the year as teams continue to move their best pass rushers to the right side of the field and statistics show that quarterback performance doesn't significantly differ whether pressure is coming from the left or the right. The last five Super Bowl winners did it with mediocre left tackles and half-decent O-lines at best.
So really, there's no justifying the Fisher pick in the modern NFL, and it especially looks bad because he's so raw and playing horribly in both training camp and preseason.
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I am not a fan of drafting right tackles this high.
But again... This idea that fisher is a better draft pick if he succeeds right away is total crap. If he does really well after struggling nobody will care about a year or so of struggles, just as most people have become supportive of Brandon Albert.