This draft felt to me, like when a team plays not to lose. Overly conservative in my opinion. Agree with everything the OP said.
Thomas was there for the taking in the 1st, and we made no attempt to make a small trade up to get him. Instead, we gift wrap KC the fastest WR in the draft, and proceed to draft one of the slowest. And it's not just that he ran a 4,61, at the combine, that was confirmation.
The one thing we couldn't do against KC was separate. We all knew it was time to get you get and faster at the position. Samuel was an ok first step, but Coleman was the total head scratcher.
Then day 3 rolls around, and you still have 4 or 5 decent prospects with speed, which included Troy Franklin, Tez Walker, and everyone's late round darling from UCF. What do we do, we refuse to take another shot, at the deepest position in the draft.
I hope I'm wrong, but this is the kind of draft that can erase a lot of the good will that was earned by drafting Allen.