Bullshit. I guess it is too much to wish for a happy medium where you can fix one problem area before tackling another. Hard to field a defense after losing three starters and the plan is Nolan Carroll and rookies. Even signing one guy would have helped to keep the draft somewhat clean.
You want to see panic? Wait until we ignore the rush to get bodies to counter what the rest of the division has loaded up to do.
If most of us were running things we'd probably draft 2 DL in the first 3 picks, at least the first 4, but you know damn good and well that's not how this team thinks.
Take a look at this:
Irving/Thornton/Collins/Lawrence/Tapper/Paea/Crawford/Mayowa
That's 8 DL, and probably every last one of them is guaranteed a roster spot, with Tapper being the only question mark due to health. We never really carry more than 8-9 DL on the active roster at a time, so this idea of revamping the DL has always been misguided (as far as what will happen in reality, not what should happen).
The plan has probably always been that we won't sink premium resources into more than one DE, because I'm sure the front office/coaches are looking at the DL and thinking, do we even have room?
And that doesn't even include Gregory!
So yea, right now if you offered me a DE in the 2nd I'd take it and let the chips fall where they may, because it's quite possible that we don't even go DL in the first 3-4 rounds.