Alontae Taylor and the importance of scouting

Reggie09MVP said

I think I’m pretty objective here. I don’t care either way. He just said all this after the facts. He wrote different prior to this. Then said only coz he didn’t know any players of Taylor’s perceived profile.
He could easily have wrote, Saints could use this type of player etc.
Didn’t think I would cause this much of a stir. Feelings hurt

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I have concerns that you seem to be refusing to acknowledge the OP was making. Prior to the selection he'd laid out a profile, or a combination of characteristics that he felt the Saints would look for in a DB with the athleticism of a CB who could play S. Being a coach, and not a scout, he didn't spend time looking at hours and hours of game footage to identify a target player, and instead used a player he was already familiar with (Kyler Gordon) as an example. In his post-pick post he says that the Saints staff had, doing all of the research that he hadn't done, identified Taylor who much more accurately matched the profile he thought they'd look for.

Not really seeing the "self serving" aspect of the post...nor, frankly, why it seems to bother you so much.