[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

They used a fair amount of low capital picks on defense, yes.

I also think Nnadi and Watts are likely to become average contributors so that's a worthwhile use.

But the worst thing you can do with someone like Speaks and K-Pass is to double down on failures. If those guys can't get on the field, who cares what their draft status is?

By the end of the season, regardless of where our recent draft capital was spent, the problems will STILL be on the defensive side of the ball and they're going to get worse as Houston will be a cap casualty by the end of 2019 and there just isn't the money available to re-sign Ford. Steven Nelson could be an actual loss from this dogshit defensive backfield and he's due to be a FA. If we're lucky Nnadi emergest to replace Bailey.

The bottom line is that the defense is bad this year and without a concerted effort in next year's draft AND more success at it, the defense will likely be WORSE in 2019. It sucks that 2017 and 2018 put a lot of resources towards it with little impact, but we can't just shrug and move along. The Chiefs have to start hitting on defensive picks so they have to keep shooting their shot.

Veach brought in Ragland ,Hitchins and Fuller. All three of those are good defensive players. He'll land us a solid corner before long and things will start to click. Berry will be in shortly too. By end of year I'd wager our D will be at 15 or a little better.

We just faced two really good passing teams and the unintended consequence of our offense putting up a shit load of points fast is that we made both teams one dimensional to their strength.

That won't be the case the next few games.