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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dantés" data-source="post: 870177" data-attributes="member: 12283">The lesson learned from Gute's miss so far should be to not draft guys high who you need to pull way out of their schematic comfort zone.Iowa plays as little man defense as just about anyone in college football. They drafted a corner from that defense that had a lot of the physical tools you'd look for in a man corner and gave him to Pettine, who obviously uses zone like every DC in the league uses zone, but who is fundamentally a man coverage defense guy. The lesson learned from TT's misses down the stretch for him is that you need someone in the organization with the power and willingness to pull the plug on a guy like TT quicker than that when his health is failing. If we are just going to forever use that NFCCG as the north star for our personnel decisions, then we had better just cut everyone and sign all new players. Because that game really exposed us more on the edges than it did up the middle, where all those big investments on the defense reside, like the Smiths. And none of this is to say don't get a LB (though I don't expect a good option to be around at #30) or don't get an iDL (though I don't like this class at the position and they might still be better off signing a run specialist veteran), but it is to say that cornerback is a big need and one they should address early if the value presents itself.</blockquote>

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