BF004 wrote: ↑09 Aug 2021 13:32
Can still search the old forum. An army of posts by mike involving the word 'Ford' as it pertains to the 2019 draft. I don't believe you once used the word 'Simmons' before the 2019 draft on that forum. Two times, but both times it looks quoted. Forum getting goofy how, so hard to say for sure.
I probably didn't mention Gary either, thing is I probably had interest in at least a doz. or more players, we all throw a bunch of names around, doesn't matter anyway, on the day of the draft ( when I new we had little chance for Even Bush let alone the very highly rated Allen) Gary was the last player on my mind.
I really liked Allen, but once we bought the Smiths, the edge rushing position had been fixed, time to move to maybe a ILB, or a TE, or obviously a DT, I think I did mention Simmons, Dexter too, point is Gary was known as a under producer at Mi. fact his play partner OLB had more production, so Gary was a surprise pick in more ways then one, we had already fixed the position, and other edge rushers rated higher that where still available, Burns had about 8 sacks and missed 4 or 5 games, Sweat I think had 4 sacks.
nice to have a insurance policy at edge rusher, I get that, depth is great at that position, however having someone as disruptive as Clark inside improves pass rush capability to, and Simmons is that guy, Gary offered us nothing against SF in that playoff game, I'am pretty sure Simmons would have, same with slot receiver in last years loss.