Ryan Poles Doesn’t Understand The Value Of Second Round Picks And Should Be Fired For It
I might sound like a broken record by now but I truly don’t think people understand what’s happening with the Chicago Bears. Ryan Poles is an idiot and deserves to be fired. Especially after that Montez Sweat trade. He should have never even been allowed to make that trade after the Chase Claypool deal.
The fact of the matter is, things are so poorly run in Chicago right now that fans should be throwing riots outside of the stadium. Except for the fans that their fans are uneducated and don’t know any better. Today, I hope to convey the principles behind the art of team building. People need to understand the true value of second round picks in the NFL and if Poles doesn’t value them he can’t keep his job. It’s really that simple.
You can make a very valid argument that second round picks are the single most valuable commodity in the NFL. I understand that you as the casual fan have been listening to Todd McShay, Daniel Jeremiah, etc. but neither of them understand how the draft actually works.
Every draft is different but the same rules apply to all of them. There are about 7-20 immediate starters in any Draft. After pick 12 you will have the ability to get the same player at pick 45. It just is what it is. Jahmyr Gibbs was taken at 12 but the same player in DeVon Achane was available in the third round. Marquise Brown went 25th overall to Baltimore but Deebo Samuel was there at the top of the second round. It’s been how the draft has worked forever. It’s why if you watch my Draft Simulators, I always stress the importance of trading down.
Giving away second round picks when you’re is a rebuilding team is the admittance of not understanding the art of team building. What second round picks provide is the ability to provide your depth chart impact starters at an economically controlled rate for four seasons. The teams that value player development hit on those picks and become Super Bowl contenders if they have the right quarterback in place.
The Bears are still at ground zero because Poles doesn’t understand what to do with these second round picks. Chicago’s second round pick was gift wrapped to Pittsburgh and eventually became Joey Porter Jr. You don’t think Porter could help Chicago right now? Instead, Poles picked a worse player Tyrique Stevenson later in the draft and the hole in the back end still exists.
That’s without mentioning the obvious fact that Chicago is still at step one needing a quarterback. As a 2-6 team, Poles did nothing except eliminate a pathway towards acquiring a quarterback and may have added a win or two to his team to reduce the quality of the quarterback he can pick on draft day.
There is no way to justify giving away a high second round pick for a player while managing a team. That pick is going to be no worse than 42 and as a team starting over, you simply cannot give those picks away. It’s a wasted asset when Chicago has a piss poor offensive line, the worst defensive line in the league, and no QB.
Just go back to the 2019 NFL Draft. There is a real chance I would have ended up with Deebo Samuel, DK Metcalf, and AJ Brown all in the same draft class if I was running a team. It’s how I had them ranked and all of whom were available in the second round. Smart people that understand how the draft works define their rookie classes with how they do in those rounds. Second round picks are the pathways to starters. They just have more question marks, which is why they didn’t go in round one. The smart teams know which players to identify in that round. If Poles doesn’t want to participate in that, he can’t remain employed.
You didn’t just give up a second round pick. You gave up four cheap years of labor for a pick that could have been leveraged into three more players in a trade down. You gave up cost-controlled labor to lose all leverage in a contract for a veteran player that will age out of his prime by the time you’re hypothetically ready to compete. You gave up one of the singular best assets that’s provided in the rule book so that you can overpay a player that was likely going to be available in March. It doesn’t get dumber and you can’t justify it.
This trade followed the same idiotic guidelines as when the Titans gave up a second round pick for Julio Jones. I was, of course, proven right on that one too.
Give Mark Davis credit. At least he didn’t allow Dave Ziegler to make a stupid trade before he got fired. It’s blasphemous that Kevin Warren allowed Poles to make this deal. This franchise continues to fail over and over again. If you don’t take the keys away from this idiot Ryan Poles things will only continue to get worse. He’s shown his hand. The guy doesn’t have a clue what he’s doing and it’s so obvious.
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