BakoSaint

Sometimes I feel like our organization has this hubris about drafting and utilizing players creatively out of position so we can brag about the advantages of flexibility and our vision. If a coach has too much ego, making a player switch positions and roles to something that never suited them is a way for that coach to take credit, to suddenly become the one who reinvented that player not just drafted them. We drafted Peat when we already had an entrenched left tackle and made him play most of his career out of position. Same for Ruiz when we already had a Center. On defense we seem to be ruining a promising edge corner in Alontae Taylor by converting him to the slot. I think Baun was a case on defense of trying to reenvision a player and refusing to let them do what they do best. Ultimately the best coaches find players who skills fit their scheme or change their scheme to be utilize their players talents, mediocre coaches just draft the best players and hope it works out, and the worst coaches actively put players out of position because doing what makes sense and everyone else says would be proving another person right.