OK ... that was a mouthful. I get the criticism of Ozzie in his drafting of late, but I think some of this is a bit too far. Since you made so many points, I'll try to address individually ...
I assume the "only good picks since 2011" list doesn't include 2016 ... I'd only add Wagner to that list, but that is indeed a much smaller list than you'd like to see
We never know exactly what transpires between teams in talks when the clock is ticking, but the story on the attempted Ramsey trade was that we tried to trade the 3rd round pick to the Cowboys, but they declined out of fear that we were lying about Ramsey and would have taken Elliot and they didn't want to risk losing him.
On Kafusi - I just don't understand the venom when someone gets injured with something like a broken leg... do we really need to brand them as an instant bust. If a player wasn't an injury concern during college and this sort of thing ends up happening, how can you blame the front office for that?
The 2016 draft has been an abomination? Correa is massively disappointing and I've already covered Kafusi ... but Stanley? I mean the guy wasn't hurt once in college ... so we're supposed to see this injury coming in our crystal ball? When he did play, he played well and improved from week to week. He's finishing the season in a fashion that is showing he could be a dominant player. And Young? A 4th round CB who starts and plays well? Most 1st rounders don't see as much success in their rookie season. I think Dixon looks promising as well as Alex Lewis. And the rest ... jeez, give it a chance, you can't evaluate everyone else a bust that quickly.
The question of Osemele is a tough one. We missed him badly. But to have signed him ... you can take every player we got in the off-season and say they aren't on the team. I think you need to find a couple other players that were on the team that would have had to been cut to make the payment. To think that wouldn't have hurt us in other places is naive.
Many out here are not terribly pleased with Ozzie's picks over recent years but I think that 2016 has a chance to be a very good one and we need to string together a few more years of them.
Bang on about Oz and his garbage picks of late.... why is Elam still here? BP... before the excuse was the phantom knee bruise. Now that's he's healthy he can't catch a ball
