Fair enough…I didn’t watch the kid play nor did I know much about the exact injury, so maybe you’re right about him having little to no chance to recover. In hindsight that’s turned out to be the case. I would have to assume that the doctors would have given JD some info here even if only along the lines of something like “he has a 10% chance to recover” or something like that. I do agree about not wasting draft picks, but again, I’m ok with using a 5th round pick on a gamble…and I think that there are far more deeper issues to criticize JD for, like the state of the OL, the bad free agent signings he made, shit I am more pissed at wasting 2nd round picks on crappy receivers like Mims and Moore as one is I think out of the league and the other just signed with his 3rd team…those were premium picks used on positions of need that he just blew. (I guess we’ll see with Moore if he can finally produce in Buffalo with a real QB…clearly hard to judge a WR’s true worth when he played with dysfunctional teams like the Jets and Browns…) But anyway, not saying it was a great use of resources, but I’m ok with the gamble on the 5th round…I’m actually more upset at the waste of the 4th rounder on Morgan…more premium pick and that wasn’t an injury excuse…he just flat out sucked.
Heh. Let's not lose sight here that the most likely alternative QB pick (that many including myself were rooting for at the time, and with some calling for that pick as early as round 3 for those that want to go back and read the thread) was a trade up for Spencer Rattler. Who just like Jordan Travis, and outside the always isolated paper theory appeal of the "potential" hit, likely ends up being a complete wasted pick as well. I mean let's actually spent a second walking that alternative pick probability "hit", that didn't get hurt, through reality. Does drafting Rattler last offseason stop the team from going out to sign new starter Justin Fields this winter? No. If Justin Fields doesn't work out in 2025, and in the event we had Spencer Rattler waiting in the wings, is *ANYBODY* here going in to next offseason with POV that Rattler is "the future"? Hell no. Every single poster here that stated a need to draft spend that pick on QB will 100% immediately shift their attention to draft over him with better prospect possibilities in that next draft. Every. Single. Poster. Here. So from that pov what did we really "lose out" on there? The isolated out possibility that Fields gets goes down for an extended period of time, and a potential likelyhood that Ratter takes over and leads this 2025 year 1 rebuild offense to enough success that we wouldn't be immediately be looking to draft over him? My wife's former obsession with trying to "win" the McDonald's Monopoly game years ago, by making as many extra trips to McDonalds as possible while hoping to get that Boardwalk card (or was the winner Park Place? I forget lol), was rooted in the same type of dumb base logic as that is imo
