"I am sure you were a great lady. RIP." < this got me good.
I've been watching our dumpster fire drafts and wondering if those amazing early PCJS drafts were primarily down to Scott McLaughlin's eye for talent? Seems like our good drafts coincided with his time in our front office/scouting dept.
Point taken on how terrible a lot of our drafts were, but not accounting for players we have signed in exchange for draft picks seems a little misleading. Jamal is the most obvious one of course, but there are presumably others? I hope?
Kind of reminds me of an old Peter, Paul and Mary song; “Where have all the flowers gone…”. Teams spend all year deciding who they’re going to draft, who is going to make them a better team, take them to the Super Bowl. Did the Seahawks paint themselves into a corner with poor draft evaluation causing them to have to trade their star quarterback so they could try build another contender
Seattle's recent draft classes have been below average but not by as much as most casual football fans seem to think. Drafting young guys is an enigma for every team. If you hit on one out of three, that's par. If you land one real impact player in a class, you're golden. We only had three picks last year and none were particularly high, so it wouldn't be surprising if we yield nothing from it. I think we did unusually well in 2020. You didn't mention Damien Lewis. He was a pleasant surprise from day one.
So many of our unsuccessful or yet-to-be-determined draft picks have had careers delayed and/or derailed by early career injuries. There's a luck component to drafting and also to avoiding injuries, and they could certainly be related. Could Penny have been one of the best RBs in the league for 3 years straight? Could Blair have erased the thought of ever trading for Adams? Could Tre Brown and Eskridge been undisputed starters this year. Could McDowell have been anything? Is our bad luck greater than other teams' bad luck? Is there a NFL conditioning lesson to be learned from all this, or just dumb luck?
"I am sure you were a great lady. RIP." < this got me good.
I've been watching our dumpster fire drafts and wondering if those amazing early PCJS drafts were primarily down to Scott McLaughlin's eye for talent? Seems like our good drafts coincided with his time in our front office/scouting dept.
“the concept of a “franchise” is much more like an organism than it is like a book!”
True in the college ranks also; you probably could name Quarterback U, Linebacker U, etc.
Point taken on how terrible a lot of our drafts were, but not accounting for players we have signed in exchange for draft picks seems a little misleading. Jamal is the most obvious one of course, but there are presumably others? I hope?
Awesome read.
There definitely needs to be more accountability by PCJS - they whiffed a lot and somehow covered it up.
This season will be interesting
For a period, the draft class doesnt seems that good, I'm wondering how it compare to other good teams like the rams or packers?
Kind of reminds me of an old Peter, Paul and Mary song; “Where have all the flowers gone…”. Teams spend all year deciding who they’re going to draft, who is going to make them a better team, take them to the Super Bowl. Did the Seahawks paint themselves into a corner with poor draft evaluation causing them to have to trade their star quarterback so they could try build another contender
Seattle's recent draft classes have been below average but not by as much as most casual football fans seem to think. Drafting young guys is an enigma for every team. If you hit on one out of three, that's par. If you land one real impact player in a class, you're golden. We only had three picks last year and none were particularly high, so it wouldn't be surprising if we yield nothing from it. I think we did unusually well in 2020. You didn't mention Damien Lewis. He was a pleasant surprise from day one.
So many of our unsuccessful or yet-to-be-determined draft picks have had careers delayed and/or derailed by early career injuries. There's a luck component to drafting and also to avoiding injuries, and they could certainly be related. Could Penny have been one of the best RBs in the league for 3 years straight? Could Blair have erased the thought of ever trading for Adams? Could Tre Brown and Eskridge been undisputed starters this year. Could McDowell have been anything? Is our bad luck greater than other teams' bad luck? Is there a NFL conditioning lesson to be learned from all this, or just dumb luck?