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If we are being chased by a bear, I don't have to run faster than the bear, I just have to run faster than you. That's the nature of the Colt's front office performance compared with all other NFL front offices. You can't optimize any system by optimizing the performance of any one component. You have to optimize the system as a whole given the constraints posed by any particular components (so-called Theory of Constraints).

Save it for never.  Its not about history.  Its about some saying presently that a 5 game rookie had a near all pro career derailed by a knee injury.  Nobody knows what any rookie's career would have been after 5 games (see AR today).  To say that a player's ceiling, measured by how he plays today, has been determined by injuries suffered years ago and not by what is his natural suite of football skills are seems biased.  Since its Hooker, I wonder why. 

I am all about making the team better even if it means taking a player at a position that seems to be in good shape. If Ballard and crew deem that with Bowers and he is there to take, make the pick.    I see it this way though - between what I think is a decent TE room, along with Pittman, and Downs, I think the middle of the field is covered. What they need more of is an outside the numbers WR.   That would be my preference, even if Bowers is available.    But I know far less than Ballard and his staff.