Off The Grid
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My Take...
1 ~ Fact: A Reach is, by definition, an instance of a team drafting a Prospect far before they should have.
2 ~ Fact: Because "far before they should have" is clearly a subjective term, the issue of whether or not Wilson was a Reach will forever and ever and ever be...a matter of Opinion.
And opinions are like A Holes: Everybody's got one...and most are full of schitte.
For Instance:
3 ~ Opinion: Calling Wilson a Reach at #48 is perfectly reasonable and perfectly supportable.
The Argument that just because The Greatest GM in the Game ~ who also happens to be The Greatest Coach in the Game ~ made that move precludes it from being a Reach is incredibly vapid: Coach Bill the Mad (Genius) has made plenty of mistakes: Only a Fool mistakes Ingenuity for Perfection.
4 ~ Opinion: Suggesting that Wilson was not a Reach at #48 is equally reasonable and supportable.
Just because a braying Jack@$$ like Mel Kiper, a dozen Draft Magazines, or a thousand other parrots who don't know what their talking about call it a Reach doesn't make it one.
And if 1000 geniuses call it a Reach, that doesn't conclusively make it one, either.
I personally, think it was a Reach, and an hideous one.
But Mad Bill made the Call, and he has long since earned The Benefit of the Doubt.
And that, Ladies and Laddies, makes me an huge Tavon Wilson fan.
1 ~ Fact: A Reach is, by definition, an instance of a team drafting a Prospect far before they should have.
2 ~ Fact: Because "far before they should have" is clearly a subjective term, the issue of whether or not Wilson was a Reach will forever and ever and ever be...a matter of Opinion.
And opinions are like A Holes: Everybody's got one...and most are full of schitte.
For Instance:
3 ~ Opinion: Calling Wilson a Reach at #48 is perfectly reasonable and perfectly supportable.
The Argument that just because The Greatest GM in the Game ~ who also happens to be The Greatest Coach in the Game ~ made that move precludes it from being a Reach is incredibly vapid: Coach Bill the Mad (Genius) has made plenty of mistakes: Only a Fool mistakes Ingenuity for Perfection.
4 ~ Opinion: Suggesting that Wilson was not a Reach at #48 is equally reasonable and supportable.
Just because a braying Jack@$$ like Mel Kiper, a dozen Draft Magazines, or a thousand other parrots who don't know what their talking about call it a Reach doesn't make it one.
And if 1000 geniuses call it a Reach, that doesn't conclusively make it one, either.
I personally, think it was a Reach, and an hideous one.
But Mad Bill made the Call, and he has long since earned The Benefit of the Doubt.
And that, Ladies and Laddies, makes me an huge Tavon Wilson fan.