Somebody please try to convince me that the FO has a plan.

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Originally Posted by 53Fan

I think the plan is to get younger and stay competitive at the same time, with the means that are available at the present time. That appears to be what they're doing. Maybe that is oversimplifying it, but that appears to be their plan.

Right, but then you have to adjust your draft strategy to support that, which means "Mel Kiper likes his upside" or "we just took BPA" is no longer a reasonable defense for the Devin Thomas pick.

A more reasonable defense would be "we need our third receiver this year to come from the draft. we scoured through the prospects for the most productive college receivers, and we decided that Jordy Nelson/Limas Sweed/DeSean Jackson gives us the best chance to fill that need cheaply, and we like what he adds to our special teams as well".

And I understand that Sweed (who I admit, topped my WR draft board last year, with Donnie Avery at No. 2) struggled every bit as much as Thomas last year. But you ask me who will have the better career of the two, I guarentee that it will be Sweed.