Oh yeah? Which picks do you disagree with?
Go ahead. Put it on record and let time be the judge.
Don't bother reasoning. When you can't see reason because of a hyper biased perspective, the truth literally has to smack you in the face for you to see it. And even then, there's the tendency to try to explain it away for the sake of clinging to illusions.
For example: so as not to provide JS and PC credit for a brilliant draft in 2022, the narrative will be created that Jody FORCED Pete into giving up control of the draft. The same Jody, btw who was just months prior, the emperor with no clothes - see how that works?
Or that the 2022 draft was only good because we had so many picks... but Pete will at the same time get criticism forgetting fleeced in the deal with Denver.
And despite the fact that this team will literally now stand on the strength of 4 consecutive solid drafts ( in hindsight 2020 will turn out to be a cornerstone achievement for this era and 2021, remarkable in its own right for what they were able to get with so few picks...), we will likely go into next year with some here STILL claiming that we'll have to be lucky and Pete will have to again relinquish control to whoever else is responsible for making all of the smart moves for the 2023 draft to be a success.
Or ...
If we actually finish at say 8-9 or 9-8 or better, it won't be because Pete has been uncuffed from Russ and was free to do the only thing he ever did here - build a winner. It will be because no one could have seen the fortune that fell to us, and that we got lucky and somehow built a roster with immense talent and made it work despite wayard leadership and coaching.
Or ... if Shane makes players out of Lock or Geno, it will be because Pete inexplicably, after Russ left, stopped meddling. And if the defense roars again, it will only be because of Clint Hurtt and company succeeding despite the aging out of touch HC. - But when Norton was floundering, there was no quarter given to Pete, because regardless of who was running it, it was his defense . Yet... he was blamed for not firing Norton sooner.
The twists and turns that biased, illogical logic will make to maintain the narrative...
And of course, if Russ bombs in Denver, it will because Pete ruined what might have been a multi championship / MVP winning career. Turning a QB who COULD have had a long, illustrious run like Brady or Rodgers, playing xs and os at the highest level, carving up defenses with a methodical, chain moving rhythm that leaves secondaries shattered in his wake (even though he could never do that), into a pocket bailing, ball holding, 2 read player who's potential was only ever stunted by the shortcomings he never overcame.
Wait...
Now I'm confused.