Wow I would've loved to have you as a sub in my classes if I was failing one. Straight A student I would be. Since when is the draft graded based on the genius moves made to trade down and not the players picked? We all love BB but you really swimming in cool aid. That draft was horrendous but BB the coach saves BB the GM.
That's written like you took it from Ron Borges typewriter.....and just as full of crap, Don. Do they all have to end up all starters and all pros?
Take a closer look at that draft
It netted us a 3 year starter and legitimate all pro RT. It also netted us a backup WR/PR/DB who has been an invaluable reserve. 2 DTs who have been good enough to be back ups when healthy, a starting long snapper for a year and a half, (and there were no complaints about Ingrahm his first year.) and a back up OT in Orenberger for a year or 2
Certainly not a draft that will go down in the ages. Not even close, especially when you compare it with the last 3
Tate was a gamble and we all knew it. He's having a nice career in a more simplified offense.
McKenzie and Butler made sense at the time, however they simply turned out to be bad pcks. Not stupid ones, just ones that didn't work out.
Bussey was good enough to play a few years in the league, but there really wasn't any room on the roster for another OLman that year
And Ingrahm would probably still be here if he hadn't contracted Chuck Knobloch disease..
BTW- everyone likes to throw out Mike Wallace into the 20-20 hindsight attack. I do too sometimes, but really, who knows how if Wallace would have fared any better that Tate in this route specific offense? Who knows if the best the best thing that happened to Mike Wallace's career was NOT get drafted into this offense
Its easy for someone to jump in the "way back machine" and tell us they'd rather have taken Sean Smith, Mike Wallace and Connor Barwin. Its easy and very disengenuous.. People who do this are the same people who go through life thinking they are smarter than everyone else, kick the homeless when they are down., live to say "I told you so".....and are never there when its time to admit their own mistakes. You know who they are. Yes we do.
BOTTOM LINE - The 2009 draft - Not as good as we hoped, not as bad as advertised....and certainly not as good as the last 3. BB would say it is what it is, and move on. We should too.