You’re mad. Or at least someone you know is.

Beyond that, you’re confused. Dumbfounded, even.

On Thursday night, you wanted the next Aaron Donald. Instead, you got … the next Dallas Clark?

On Friday night, you wanted a playmaker. Maybe some speed. Maybe someone the analysts loved. Instead, you got … Jahlani Tavai?

By now, you’ve had time to process the first couple of days of the NFL draft. And you’ve already given up.

Don’t.

Not yet.

Here’s why:

Bob Quinn’s worst draft was his first. His worst pick — Teez Tabor — was during his second draft. In his third draft he found four contributors, all of whom are varying degrees of promising — Frank Ragnow, Kerryon Johnson, Tracy Walker and Da’Shawn Hand.

In other words, Quinn has gotten better each draft. And even in his first draft, he selected a couple of solid players—– Taylor Decker and Graham Glasgow — and may still have a third in A’Shawn Robinson, who played well the second half of last season.

So: Quinn is learning. Which brings us to this week, and to the players he’s taken.

They are, in order: tight end, T.J. Hockenson; linebacker, Jahlani Tavai; safety Will Harris; defensive end, Austin Bryant; cornerback, Amani Oruwariye; receiver, Travis Fulgham; running back, Ty Johnson; tight end, Isaac Nuata; defensive tackle, P.J. Johnson.

None of them will sell season tickets. But collectively, they might help build the kind of culture Quinn and Matt Patricia keep talking about.

Or not.

Who knows?

What we do know is Quinn and his staff don’t give a damn what you or anyone else think. They don’t care where players are rated, or graded, or how much love they get on the NFL Network.

They don’t care if other teams thought Tavai was a Day 3 pick. They don’t care that teams don’t draft tight ends with their top-10 picks.

They see a need. Want a particular kind of player to fill that need. Slot him on the draft board. And go get him. To heck with everyone else.

"If I worried about what other people think, I'd be up all night," Quinn said Saturday evening, after wrapping up the draft.

Quinn is liberated. Which means he's more comfortable. In fact, he said as much this weekend.

"(These) are the kind of players I know how to scout," he said.

It's how he learned football. Studying under Bill Belichick. Identifying specific traits to suit a complex system.

No wonder he went all in this week. He should have. It's the only way he's going to win.

Hey, it’s not an accident that Quinn grabbed players in the second and third rounds that served as team captains on their college teams. Or that Quinn pointed that out when he addressed the media after the picks.

He wants leaders. He wants leaders who are versatile and can improvise, who can read an offense — or a defense — before the snap and understand where they need to be.

If you watch the Patriots — and you really don’t have a choice if you like the NFL playoffs; forgive me for bringing up New England again — you don’t always see the fastest, most gifted athletes on the field.

Yeah, Belichick has coached his share of all-pro talent over the years. But he wins because he builds smart, tough, teams that get better as the season goes on. (He wins because of Tom Brady, too, of course, but Brady doesn’t explain the defensive success.)

Quinn and Patricia want a similar team here. They understand they aren’t building New England Midwest. But, as blueprints go, assembling a group of long, rangy, savvy players isn’t a bad one.

And if you look at Quinn’s draft picks this year, that’s what you see. Or at least the possibilities.

This is surely what Quinn saw when he took Hockenson, a player who does everything well at a critical position. (Quick, think of a Super Bowl-winning team — or even a Super Bowl-contending team — that didn’t have a high-level tight end.)

This is also what Quinn was thinking when he took Tavai. He didn’t care that the Hawaii linebacker wasn’t on anyone’s “best-available list.”

When asked Friday night how he balanced his own scouting versus the popular narrative on a player, he said:

“You weigh all that. But I think you also have to weigh who else is on the board at that position. (Linebacker) was a position we wanted to address. So, like I said, not giving you every detail of what our draft board looks like, but linebackers that play in this defense that are very, very good natural fits — there’s only a couple every year. You wait a year, you don’t get one, you might not get him next year, you might not get him the year after. This guy was a guy we had targeted as early as October.”

Quinn went on to say that he and Patricia like thick linebackers (Tavai is 6 feet 4, 250 pounds). The size is critical to their defense. Because they ask their linebackers to hold off massive offensive lineman at times, among other reasons.

Getting that body type was more important than any other concern. Thus, Tavai became the Lions’ second-round pick.

Maybe he doesn’t pan out. Maybe his relative lack of speed keeps him from becoming a productive player. Like Tabor.

Or maybe Quinn is getting more comfortable in going after exactly what he wants on this roster. Because if you study his last three drafts, he’s gotten better in each one.

Contact Shawn Windsor: 313-222-6487 or swindsor@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter @shawnwindsor.