The football version of a chemical spill into the water supply that may take years to clean up.
I really take it upon myself…quarterback/receivers, its my job to get them the football.
I fully understand how these things are handled.
Maye is a 22 year old with a dozen career starts who’s establishing himself as a leader.
He’s earned it.
Skeptical though we all might be - and I certainly am - there is a logic to his approach.
First, that new GM Eliot Wolf is going to do things his way.
But Wolf made him the 10th WR off the board with the 5th pick of the round.
So what I’m taking away from this is exactly what I said when they took Drake Maye.
These picks so are are not about instantly turning this franchise - this offense in particular - around immediately.
Yes, Polk posted 1,159 yards and 9 TDs in Washington last year.
And has had an average of 16.8 YPC in each of the last two seasons.
But like Maye, he’s not a finished product.
He’s not a plug-and-play rookie like so many guys still on the board are.
This is another case of Wolf’s staff looking ahead.
Just not this year.
It’s a bold strategy [and] we’ve gotten our first mini-gamble of the Wolf-Mayo Era.
But one that definitely feels like it’s looking down the road, not an any instant gratification.
Here’s hoping Polk works out.
Soon enough that the people who drafted him are still around to accept the credit.
A mini-gamble that hasn’t paid off.
Not by a damned sight.
And not instant gratification by any stretch of the imagination.
But to repeat the key takeaway of the whole blog, Polk wasn’t expected to be.
By extension, neither was Baker.
I’m not seeing the upside in either one of them at the moment, but Maye does.
As does Mike Vrabel, Josh McDaniels, and WR coach Todd Downing.
