Basically everyone's treating this like it's a done deal we got some 1st or 2nd round stud in Biadasz in the late 4th when the reality is we got a player with legit concerns. He's been injury prone, and does that worsen in the pros? That's why the whole league including Dallas passed on him for four rounds, not because everyone else (including us) was stupid or something.
Same thing with Anae. Why did he develop an attitude and show up to some workouts at nearly 300 pounds? Why did he bomb is 40 time? Will it be a Terrell Suggs situation where his 40 time dropped him lower in the draft and turned out to be a non-issue, or will his attitude and lack of quickness be a legit problem in the pros? Dallas is taking a chance here.
There were concerns that Barber wasn't an every down back, and those concerns turned out legit. Jerry dumped a Brinks truck on Barber's front lawn just as he completely ran out of juice. Most of the league didn't know whether Canty actually started the barfight that ended with a bottle getting smashed across his eye and seriously injuring him. Turns out Canty didn't start the fight and was in the wrong place at the wrong time and his eye healed fine. There was a risk that either or both of those things wouldn't be true.
I don't see anyone treating those players like that.
Biadasz we feel good about - but he's part of a committee that will determine the starter at center along with Looney and McGovern, and maybe even Cam Irving. I feel good that we can find a starter out of that group. If Looney has to hold the fort down for a year, fine, we think Biadasz may be able to develop into that role, albeit not quite as fast as instant-starter Frederick.
It's not a worst case scenario that McGovern takes that job and Connor Williams starts at left guard again, either. We've seen what that looks like and it's not terrible, and Williams should be continuing to improve.
Same with Anae. If he's a hit at all, he's at least a situational pass rusher and contributor, not that we are counting on him to step in and have 10 sacks. In tandem with Aldon Smith, Tyrone Crawford, and maybe Randy Gregory, they should be able to bring him along slow and hopefully in a year he's a starter. He's an "I feel good about this guy developing into a starter," pick, not an "I need this guy to start at a high level immediately," pick like Lamb or even Diggs.
My take on Anae and Biadasz would put them on par with Gallimore for the most part, probably a small notch behind since Gallimore was also more like an early-mid 2nd who we stole in the 3rd. But both were Day 2 talents that were available when we picked on Day 3. None of them are immediate starters and none have to be, but hopefully all are future quality starters, and there is reason to believe they all will be. If not, then it's a very reasonable projection that they are at least all high quality depth.
But the bottom line is, we DID get steals in Anae and Biadasz. Were they better players than Gallimore or Diggs? Maybe not, so it's not like teams were "stupid," for passing on them in the second or early third, but by the late fourth and late fifth (when we had not picked since the third), yes, I would maintain that each of those players should have gone about a round or so earlier and still have been good values. The league did let these players fall a good round to two rounds from where they were worthy of being selected.
We did score some bonus here at the expense of the league. No need to downplay it. We have been on the receiving end plenty of times of having stupidly missed out on good players. It happens. This year it happened in our favor twice.
These kinds of drafts are once every decade or two drafts, we've seen. Enjoy it, don't shit on it.