Just for housekeeping, Jack Tatum was never inducted in the HOF, mostly in part to the fallout of the hit on Stingley,
He was a converted RB and really physically gifted player for the Buckeyes, a 1st round pick, the rest you mention;
Willie Brown was undrafted and established for the Broncos in the AFL before he ever reached Oakland,
The Raiders scouts were high on Ted at the draft, but they selected another lineman Art Thoms, before Don Shula converted him to LB and the Raiders traded for him much later,
Howie was a 2nd rounder, their first was Ted Watts, a safety they moved to corner out of Texas Tech, who ran a 4.3,
So yes, he BUILT great teams, but if they thought those three were going to be 3 bona fide HOF'ers from day one, why wouldn't you draft 2 of them yourself and run the risk of letting the third fall to the 2nd round?
He definitely showed a tendancy to fall in love with the physical abilities of a player when it came to drafting, the year they took Stabler, they drafted Eldridge Dickey in the 1st before him, and converted him to a WR immediately, there's not too many instances of a team taking a QB in the 1st, moving him before ever throwing a pass, and starting the guy you took later,
The only incidence where this could have happened was when the Jags took Jones, then either moved up or hope that Aaron Rodgers kept falling.
Just for housekeeping, Jack Tatum was never inducted in the HOF, mostly in part to the fallout of the hit on Stingley,
He was a converted RB and really physically gifted player for the Buckeyes, a 1st round pick, the rest you mention;
Willie Brown was undrafted and established for the Broncos in the AFL before he ever reached Oakland,
The Raiders scouts were high on Ted at the draft, but they selected another lineman Art Thoms, before Don Shula converted him to LB and the Raiders traded for him much later,
Howie was a 2nd rounder, their first was Ted Watts, a safety they moved to corner out of Texas Tech, who ran a 4.3,
So yes, he BUILT great teams, but if they thought those three were going to be 3 bona fide HOF'ers from day one, why wouldn't you draft 2 of them yourself and run the risk of letting the third fall to the 2nd round?
He definitely showed a tendancy to fall in love with the physical abilities of a player when it came to drafting, the year they took Stabler, they drafted Eldridge Dickey in the 1st before him, and converted him to a WR immediately, there's not too many instances of a team taking a QB in the 1st, moving him before ever throwing a pass, and starting the guy you took later,
The only incidence where this could have happened was when the Jags took Jones, then either moved up or hope that Aaron Rodgers kept falling.