Good one. I also like that he said finding players that fit what the coaches want to do - physically and mentally.
Feels like Keim was just drafting players. No way was he drafting players that fit into VJ's D/scheme.
This makes a ton of sense.
Keim would always say (roughly), 'you never know what your needs will be in November', so his strategy was BPA.
But it has to fit some plan. Taking Peyton Manning as BPA and planning to use him like Justin Fields would be insane. Yet it seems, to a lesser degree of idiocy, what Keim was doing.
You see McBride taken in the 2nd rd, when Kliff doesn't use TE's very much.
You see LB after LB taken in the 1st round.
Taking Kirk and playing him way too much outside.
You see guys being played out of position, only to maybe finally go back to where they should have been in year 1, excelling, and then leaving.
We've seen how little stock he put at premium positions high in the draft.
We seemed to always try to take guys and convert them into something else, and often paid a premium draft slot to do so.
It may seem like a low bar and SOP with other teams, but aligning scouts, coaches, and techniques, with how coaches want to run the team will be a welcome change from the chaos of the Keim regime.
Ossenfort, if he is what he says he is,(and we're interpreting it correctly)will be the opposite of that. Thank God.
