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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, sorry, but that's completely hamstered. Mariota had a solid enough rookie year that there's no way any organization could have justified going QB in back-to-back years. And Wentz and Goff were considered to be much worse prospects than Winston and Mariota by the "experts". I remember plenty of pre-draft analysis stating that they would be second or third round picks in other draft years.
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But we're not talking about what rationally makes sense, they literally can say they could have drafted any player in 2016 because they literally had the first pick. Stupid as it may have been at the time (albeit genius in hindsight), they could have had Goff or Wentz.