Mythos27

What an absolute freak of an athlete. If you have a track background you know just how insane those numbers are. Good Lord.

I'd climb'er...

I was very much team Alt but as the process went on, it became hard to ignore the voices of very respected coaches and evaluators who simply raved about Latham and his power.

Haven't heard that name in a while. I really liked him coming out of college.

Most definitely a valid concern. Any time you're asking a guy to switch positions, that's an added variable that affects the probability of the move panning out. Ideally, you want to limit those variables when drafting guys. Though he's played LT before, it was at a lower level and it's been a few years. Concern is always warranted. I'm just not going to treat this as a bad decision if it doesn't work out. I think their process and rationale for drafting him was solid, Now, whether they're right or not is the main question but I don't like to alter my evaluation of a current decision based on what happens years down the line.

Where I think it's different from the Skoronski pick is that these fucking idiots knew they were drafting a guard. They didn't care that most of the NFL world thought he'd play inside instead of at tackle because they were perfectly fine taking a guard at #11 and rolling with Andre Dillard at LT. Absolute idiots. With Latham it's different. Yes, some people think he's be better suited at RT but a lot of smart people think he can switch to LT no problems AND he doesn't have any of the physical limitations that make him a longshot to succeed at LT like Skoronski did. So in my mind, they're drafting a guy they really think can plat LT, to play LT. So while the rhetoric might be a little different, there is no functional difference between taking Latham and any other LT prospect. They clearly think Latham is more likely to be a quality LT than Fashanu. These are the kind of misses I'm OK with because they happen to everyone.

I take those gps numbers with a grain of salt but yes Burks is more explosive than people think.

To extent. IMO that would be a projection miss rather than a fundamentally stupid decision. They drafted Latham with the intent of acquiring their LT of the future. They obviously think he can play that spot. At this point, Latham failing is functionality no different than had we drafted Alt and he failed.

Drafting Latham was the correct move and even if he fails, everyone should support the decision-making.

Regarding Burks:

Didn't get this until I realized it was a concussion reference. Absolutely brutal but:

It's all starting to make sense cause my second favorite movie is Varsity Blues and my favorite character is Billy Bob!

I expected these changes to happen around this time last year. Not sure why they didn't happen.

I played long enough that I do worry about it. My memory isn't great. Then again, I think my memory has never been that good, can't remember though...

He did. But when talent is the limiting factor, there is always a breaking point. That Texans game was a complete debacle and no amount of coaching/scheming was going to make up for the talent disparity. You can paper over the cracks against decent-good teams in the regular season but when you come up against legit talent, you're gonna fold.