Baldy thinks Cesar Ruiz’s best position is Center
I don’t disagree with you, there are failed position changes and successful position changes.
All I disagree on is selective outrage and pretending like those moves are dumb or stupid when it’s done for highly logical reasoning.
If a player is at Edge and is:
15th percentile in weight
40th percentile in 40 time
50th percentile in Vert
78th percentile in agility
40th percentile in arm length
But you move him to LB and he’s now
78th percentile in weight
65th percentile in 40 time
70th percentile in vert
90th percentile in agility
70th percentile in arm length.
You now have a better prospect and that prospect has a better chance at making it in the league. The decision is neither dumb or stupid.
Now if you want to say moving Peat to RT or drafting him to play RT when he came out of college as a LT was the wrong decision, well that’s arguable.
However, making it seem like all the saints position switches have failed and not acknowledging the ones that didn’t because they don’t support your original argument is ridiculous. Furthermore resulting to describing them as dumb or stupid because you fail to accept the reasoning behind it is worthy of me counter arguing you into oblivion
I didn’t say that all switches were stupid or failures, I acknowledged Evans and Nicks panning out.
I’m also not saying that these moves are stupid because they don’t always pan out (Plenty of players are drafted to their natural position and never pan out in the NFL). The moves are stupid because they don’t pan out AND because of the value of the assets we burned to acquire the picks.
What round was Ruiz drafted in?
What round was Kikaha drafted in?
What round was Jenkins drafted in?
What round was Baun drafted in?
What round was Peat drafted in?
Keep in mind, we traded draft capital to make some of those risky moves, which make the moves even dumber.
That’s like throwing your mortgage into penny stocks. Maybe it works out, but most likely we know how this story will end.
Now compare that to what round Evans, Nicks, Ellis were or others were drafted in. You can draft a project player and take those risks all day when you are only spending a mid or late round pick. You aren’t counting on those guys being an impact player out the gate (as you would an early round draft pick). It’s why nobody is penning Bub Means as a 1st string receiver.
It’s why we get upset when Marcus Davenport and Payton Turner don’t pan out, and are over the moon when guys like Colston, Evans, or Nicks do.