Quote:
Originally Posted by Daseal
First let me say, by we I don't mean Redskins Fans/The Redskins in particular. I mean football fans in general.
With that out of the way, on this boards I've seen people unwilling to part with a first round pick for proven high quality players. While it's necessary to use the draft to build your team, many players (especially at positions such as WR, DE, etc) have a huge bust rate. Going after a player that has played in the NFL and played well you know you're getting a commodity.
Hypothetically, I'd rather spend a first and a 3rd to get a proven player such as Chad Johnson, Roy Williams, Jared Allen, etc. Rather than take my chances with drafting a player and ending up with say Rod Gardner, Mike Williams, etc.
The draft is far from an exact science, and in the first round you're giving up big contracts. Every player you choose could turn out to be a stud, but statistics says most picks will be average at best. You hope to get a solid starter.
Yes, you have to build depth, etc on your team through the draft. It's necessary because even 3rd round picks are fairly affordable. You get good players, but rarely studs late in the draft.
I guess what I'm saying is I feel we overvalue draft picks sometimes. I'm not saying give away all our picks, or that they aren't important. But I will trade a 1st and a 3rd for any player thats already at the top 15 in his position currently in the NFL.
|
Quote:
|
Hypothetically, I'd rather spend a first and a 3rd to get a proven player such as Chad Johnson, Roy Williams, Jared Allen, etc. Rather than take my chances with drafting a player and ending up with say Rod Gardner, Mike Williams, etc.
|
You did forget some players there as well, Brandon Lloyd, Mark Brunell, and apparently Randall El, because we now need Chad Johnson, the wonderful thing about this approach is you get to over pay for players and max out your salary cap, then you can continue to fill the same need year in and year out. You either have an eye for talent, or you don't, and the ones that don't will need to go after established talent, and even then they can't really determine if that player will fit into what they do, or if that players best years are behind him. Take a look at Moss in Oakland, or even welker in Miami. Moss a star was doing nothing in Oakland, and Welker? Talk about your all time home runs and it was the Patriots who predominately draft tremendously who were able to see his ability and absolutely steal him from the fins. By the way what did the Pats give up for Moss? Raiders and Fins have both been pathetic in the personnel dept. it doesn't matter whether it's a draft choice or an established player they will screw it up and so far we haven't been all that far behind them.
Bottom line, the draft is for real organizations who really understand football, they can predict how a college talent will translate into a pro talent, they wont be right all of the time but over the long haul they will have a ton of success, sorry but to many organizations [inc.ours] are really just playing fantasy football with their personnel dept. and don't understand the true value of the draft, free agent's and big trades are for teams who have built a team through the draft and need 1 or 2 players to seal the deal.