I think we all became spoiled and stupid. Our roster has 1 real hole(WR) and we think the GM stinks because we don't just have every position loaded up. Been fighting with friends about this. We are so hyper focused on one team that we don't realize that's how it goes for everyone. No team is without holes and every GM blows premium picks and FA signings.
Roseman is considered the gold standard and the deal he gave to Bryce Huff a year ago was all-time bad. In the last 6 years to try and fix their WR problem, he took JJ Arcega Whiteside in rd 2 which was awful, a year later he then takes Jalen Raegor in Rd 1 which is catastrophically bad considering who went with the following pick. Those moves go so bad that he then has to use a 3rd to trade up the next year to get Devonta Smith at 10 and the only reason that was possible is because they were garbage in 2020 and went 4-11-1 so he was starting out at pick 12. Another year later another 1st and 3rd spent for AJ Brown. So the guy who is considered the best GM in football blew through 3 1sts, a 2nd and 2 3rds to try and fix that hole plus hand out giant extensions. I don't think any of us would sign up for that set of circumstances though we would for the end result last year.
So far Beane did a great job brining in Beasley and then Diggs and got rid of them at what appears to have been the right time. Just hasn't been able to backfill. Shakir is an absolute gem in the 5th. Kincaid is a potential difference maker if he could ever play for 2 months straight. Keon appears to be a turd and so are Worthy, Mitchell and Polk who were 3 guys in that range that everyone wanted one of. I don't recall a lot of love for Pearsall or Ladd who are the only 2 that have had much success from that 2024 20th-40th draft crop of WRs.
FA wise it's mostly been strike outs of late. Samuel went from being a pretty solid gadget guy in Carolina and Washington to essentially worthless for us. Palmer seemed like the highest ceiling guy of the mid-tier FA WRs this past summer and he ended up worthless. The cheap attempts on reclimation projects of other teams garbage hasn't worked out with guys like Moore. No one seems to remember that there was no one available that was anywhere remotely close to being a difference maker in the WR group. The top was Godwin, Adams, Cooper and Diggs. 0 of those guys made any kind of sense besides maybe Adams but a 32 year old at $20+ mill a year is a little nuts for my liking but he sure would have been nice to have on Saturday. That being the top group is gross and the next tier is even worse. 5 through 10 in the NFL.com WR FA rankings were Hollywood Brown, Slayton, Mike Williams, Elijah Moore and Keenan Allen.
So given that, how in the world was the WR spot supposed to be adequately filled? We had pick 30. The only guy that went in the 20s was Matthew Golden who did nothing. The rd 2 guys were Jayden Higgins at 34, Luther Burden at 39, Tre Harris at 55 and Jack Bech at 58. Would any of us trade Hairston for Higgins? I might but then we have a horrific need at CB again. None of the others in that range would have made a difference this year or likely in the future unless Burden matures and becomes something but he was a WR4 this year.
Given those were the FA and Draft options for the 2025 offseason, I just don't really see what the bright blinking option was to fix WR last offseason. I thought it was a borderline miracle what he actually made happen with getting all the young guys in on defense which looks like it could be a jackpot outside of Landon Jackson.
