The Biggest Bust (Harry vs Polk)

[Hyped]

Man, those two had two major career trajectory altering plays:

The Polk toe tap TD that wasn’t.

The Harry TD vs. the Chiefs that should have been a TD.

I feel that if either one of those plays resulted in a TD…things would have been different.

 

[203Pat]

What a ****ty list. What stands out to me is how little draft capital they have spent on this position. The last pick of the first round and four second round draft picks in 20 years? That must be the least draft capital any team has spent on this position in the same time period. A byproduct of having the best QB in the history of football but still shocking to see it listed like this.

While we haven't traditionally invested high draft capital in receivers we did chase our tail a few times with the position in regards to resources spent.

Look at what we invested in 2019 trying to find a #1 receiver: 1st round pick on Harry, $9 million on one game for Antonio Brown, and a 2nd round pick on Mohamed Sanu. Hell, Bill even tried to take a swing on Demaryius Thomas for a minute.

Similar issues in 2006. Bill foolishly refused to pay Deion Branch they traded him after week one. Granted, Bill did get a first round pick for a guy he took in the second round originally but there was a gap in the roster that arguably cost us a Super Bowl. Bill used a second round pick on Chad Jackson. Paid $2 million for Reche Caldwell, another $2 million for Jabar Gaffney, and traded a 5th round pick for Doug Gabriel who played here for 3 months. At least after the 2006 season he realized it was time to reload and brought in Moss, Welker, and Stallworth.

 

[upstater1]

No they didn't. The rankings were consistently Hollywood Brown, Metcalf, AJ Brown, Samuel, Harry. While they were all projected to be 1st round picks, it was a shock Harry leapfrogged the others to be the 2nd WR taken. He was the classic "draft riser" after he matched Metcalf's bench presses and ran a 4.5 40 time. The workout with McDaniels and BB's connection with Herm Edwards sealed the deal. The Pats scouts wanted AJ Brown and were irate when BB went rogue to take Harry.

He was.

I just provided the proof that showed this is entirely wrong

 

[TheRainMaker]

I just provided the proof that showed this is entirely wrong

A picture of a graph didn't prove anything.