Marshall Harris
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And when I say your team, I mean Kansas City, where you were adjacent to the people who drafted Patrick Mahomes.
But who was the head coach at Kansas City, Marshall?
I would agree.
And the benefit of being a general manager walking into a new situation, or what you guys want to call is cap hell, but you're in a cap situation now that is completely a Ryan Poles production.
He's the one who extended Montez Sweat.
He's the one who signed Dio Odengbo.
He's the one who gave DJ Moore another contract.
I don't criticize all of those decisions to that extent, but the big money deals, which is what I'm trying to illustrate, including extending Jalen Johnson, who wasn't his player.
These are Ryan Pohl's front office decisions.
You know, when you consider all of that together and knowing how important this draft is, you don't have the same kind of capital and the room for error that you did previously to make these big swings and make big mistakes.
You don't have the room for error to trade a second round pick that was higher than the pick where he was drafted in Chase Claypool and be able to make that big of a mistake.
You don't have the capital to spend a lot of money on a guy who you hope can change into something you want, who already had one torn Achilles in Dio Odengbo, and expect him to turn out.
And whatever rubric you are measuring, or whatever process do you think you have, or you think that you have uncovered all these diamonds that are sometimes just themselves, it makes me wonder about all of it when I hear something like this.
Because who's telling you who to draft?
And I think, Ray, you brought it up.
We don't give the Tyler Dunn piece a lot of discussion when it comes to various factors in the piece.
But one of the parts of the story that was pretty critical was the discussion about Ryan Poles and reportedly, according to the Tyler Dunn piece, take with it what you will.
The part where the sources said, the media will kill me if I don't draft Caleb Williams.
Do I think he has a better group around him now?
Yes.