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I don't think you're on an island. The WR room with Diggs added looks a lot better. One can only surmise how toxic things must have become that Beane felt compelled to move him and take a huge cap hit.

The OP, and many of the folks who are contributing to this thread, begin by conceding that it was a solid draft. That's stipulated at the beginning. Did you read it, because your response is addressed to those who assert something else? And I don't see an abundance of negative emojis . . .

Most folks take explosive to mean fast and gets separation. I guess you have a different definition.

I wish some putative journalist would ask Beane about that point blank, but I'm sure he'd just say the board worked out a certain way, and they had to adapt.

It was absolutely a solid draft. There's no question, we have put young leadership in place, and strengthened weak spots on the roster. We have not sufficiently improved the WR room, which I think should have been a priority. It's not clear to me it ever will truly be such with this regime. They need some elite playmakers. I don't think Coleman is that. He's a better Gabe Davis, which isn't terrible, but not enough.

Yeah, it's not encouraging. I don't know who can be added. I'm sure they'll bring in a veteran. Someone will shake loose after the draft.

Well, he was lying when he said he wanted to add explosive wide receivers to the room that could create separation. Maybe he's lying now. I agree about the "really disappointing."

I've been told it's impossible, I guess because of the cap, but I am still going to hold out hope there is a way to bring in Aiyuk. He's exactly what we need.

With Josh Allen at QB. It's criminal if that's the plan.

A thread was started about forty minutes ago. It doesn't say South Florida.

That's either true, or Beane has unrealistic expectations for his WR room as currently constructed, or this is a punt year in the middle of Josh Allen's prime.

I agree with this. I hope he has a post 6/1 trade for an impact WR lined up. I don't have confidence that is the case. This is a model that makes the playoffs and fails against teams with elite playmakers. Small caveat: I think Davis is a bit better than you are crediting.

That would fall under "incorrect evaluation of where his WR room is" in my view. I think they had an unrealistic expectation of Davis after the notorious 13 second game. I hope they aren't making the same mistake and thinking Shakir is the new Diggs. He does appear to be ascending, but that's a lot to ask. Taken separately, I haven't hated any of the picks apart from Coleman, and my concern about Coleman is partly because I fear he has to be a big slot to succeed. Maybe that's wrong. I sure hope he will be a solid boundary receiver X. If he's D Hopkins, it's a spectacular hit, but a lot of receivers with his profile bust or end up having to play in the slot, because they can't separate. I thought that Beane said they wanted explosive receivers who separate, and so I find it amusing that when folks are exasperated at the pick, they are treated as if all they did was look at the forty time. The outrage is based on expectations Beane set up, not only in his comments, but by not investing in WR in prior drafts, then letting Davis walk (no loss, I think), and on top of that, trading Diggs and taking on a massive cap hit. Anyway, good luck to him. Beane was either lying, delusional, or has an ace in the hole we don't know about. A trade or post 6/1 FA signing could explain it, and I hope it does.

He either has a trade set up post 6/1 or he has an incorrect evaluation of where his WR room currently is.

I wish he would do that.

Probably no one wanted those picks. Once you got to the fifth, some teams looked at who was left and were then willing to deal.

He's one of the players we met with. This is the most McBeane draft ever.

The time to draft the second WR was earlier in the draft. We need to bring in a veteran. If you don't think they need to add another weapon to the WR room, you're reading the talent differently than I.

I don't think they fall from post-season consideration. I expect them to win the division. I was hoping for more splash impact players. They are following their formula. High character, sensible picks. It was a good year for WR. I wanted a different approach. Still going to hope, but the fellas speculating this is the first part of a two-year reset make sense to me.

I guess Beane's understanding of what it means to make the WR room more explosive doesn't square with common views. I never said I thought a trade for Aiyuk was likely. We need that kind of receiver, though.

If they get Aiyuk, it's forgivable, even rational, I suppose. Otherwise, not a great look.

Short arms, Center only, but he will be great.

Love the pick. Go Dawgs.

Apparently not. Clever, in any event.

Please by Aiyuk to us. I don't know how we pay for it, but the WR room would suddenly make sense.