to be fair how many team needs did the jets have? it would have been pretty hard to draft somebody that DIDN'T fulfill a need when you start to think about it. anyway this whole argument about what the Best player available entails is moot, we don't know what considerations JI puts into his version, we can only infer what that is from the trends presented in his drafts as time goes on.
I can do the math. Going into the 3rd round, I hoped the jets would take massive OG Gabe Jackson. At the 80th pick (3rd round), the jets took McDougle. McDougle was rated by NFL.com as the 256th best player in the draft while Jackson was rated as the 30th best. A great chance to steal a stud OG and Rex reaches for McDougle. This is another example of why the jets haven't been in the playoffs in three years--They fall in love with some guy because of a good pro day or workout and ignore 2-4 years of production in college. And, of course, although it is TOTALLY irrelevant to Rex Ryan, who has NO say in the draft, McDougle plays defense (surprise) and Jackson plays offense ( a new concept to Rex). Sorry, if most experts think a guy is the 256th best player in the draft, I'm not taking him at 80. Like I said in earlier post, the jets drafted well in rounds 1. 2, and 5-7. But they reached BIG TIME for McDougle and passed on a real good prospect in Jackson who Oakland took with the very next pick after McDougle. Go ahead and keep defending the McDougle pick--I doubt he'll even by on the jets in 2016.
My favorite post the other night after the McDougle pick, that noobie with the pope avatar criticized Idzik because he couldn't find McDougle in any of his draft magazines so he MUST have been a reach. I chortled out loud. _
Your single largest mistake (among many mistakes) is thinking NFL.com is the equivalent of "most experts." Would you like to make a wager on whether McDougle is a Jet in 2016?
This post is funny. But not in that ha-ha sort of way. In that sad funny sort of way. Kind of like when the GF wants to watch a Nicholas Sparks movie. _
This just in: The NYJ are one of only 32 teams that reached for a player above their "most experts'" grade at some point this draft.
LOL at "most experts". How many of them are professional NFL talent scouts? If not, why don't they currently have a job? I'm not sure if you noticed but with the draft outside of the 1st & 2nd round, most experts are wrong, most of the time. For some reason I just feel that the NFL scouting departments on each team know far more than the espn / nfln "experts". Maybe I'm just biased towards people who do it professionally for a living rather than people that are payed to talk and entertain folks. The truth of the matter is that we do not know for sure that if we passed on McDougle, that he wouldn't be picked up immediately after our pick.
If so, that GM is just claiming to pick BPA because he thinks people like to hear it. If needs are heavily factored into the decision, BPA is not what is being selected.
I define BPA like this: 3 years from now no one will remember what our 'need' was on that day, but they sure as hell will remember the name Sheldon 'the son' Richardson, drafted by the Jets in the 1st round. Hopefully Pryor will fit this BPA mold too.
