I don't understand why we are so high on BBs Draft ability. It amuses me that he jumps in and out and up and down. He must be bored on Draft day. Our Drafts are mediocre at best if you throw out one year. We hit on one or two players in the past and it was great last year but the average sucks. They did a ranking and we are like 14th. This up and down stuff has not worked out as well as some say.
The Packers Draft well and they do not stock pile. Here is BB's problem and I would say it right to his face, He Drafts out of fear we will make a mistake. It is a lot easier to take a pick into the next year. Problem is we don't cash that out as well and swap yet again. You have to put your big boy pants on one day and actually pick Bill. This "value" crap is B.S. Our sixth and seventh pick were a waste. He could NOT actually have picked them. Some ST assistant must have. There was more VALUE on the board Bill! Don't sell me value there. Ridley could have been had later. What was the value there? I almost wish there was no 2012 Draft so he would have had to make picks to help his Team now, not maybe in 2012 or 2013.
A guy that took the gamble on 4th and two against the Colts with a stock pile worth of picks still won't take a shot with some talent that he himself said might have been the deepest and best on the front seven he has seen in years. Then he defecates the sleeping area when he is up to the plate when there are still decent front seven guys on the board that represent a great value. Great coach. maybe the best ever. Mediocre Draft evaluator.
The Draft itself was actually very bad this year. Our Draft was not bad. Just not enough value for what ammunition we had in our areas of need. I could care less about 2012. Ask TB if he cares about the Draft choices we have in the coming years. He wants to know about now at 34 years old.
The Koolaid is very bitter Cousins.
I like the fact the the Falcons took their best shot. I hope it works. Bill might see the light.
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The average takes into account 2006 to 2008, which were our worst drafts ever. I'm not saying they don't count. But if you look at the entire body of work, including 2000 to 2005, you get a very different picture.
You can look at Brady's last 3 play off games and conclude he is an awful pressure QB who won't ever win a Super Bowl. You'd be wrong, but that's the conclusion you could draw from limited data.
I think the up-and-down thing has worked great. I don't understand the criticism, and can only conclude you're not looking at what happened but rushing to judgment. But consider:
In 2006, we didn't actually move much at all, sitting and picking in the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th rounds. In the 2nd, we made a big move up to get Chad Jackson which obviously didn't pan out, but it's the type of move a lot of people on here want us to constantly do. But not an up-and-down kind of draft.
In 2007, we traded away our second and third. We hit on our 1st rounder (which came via trade oddly enough), then had a late 4th, late 5th, 4 6ths and 2 7ths that we missed on. We moved a bit on two of those picks, but most were comp picks or else we didn't move at all. Obviously not a great draft, but not as if we had a ton to work with either.
In 2008, this was probably the worst draft we did because of the misses in the 2nd and 3rd. But again, we did not move up and down much. The big move was dropping down and selecting Mayo, and the extra pick went towards Crable. Bust, but that was a pick we didn't have and only generated during the draft by moving. We stayed put in the 2nd and drafted a bust. We stayed put in the 3rd and 4th as well.
So the up-and-down nature of business had absolutely nothing to do with the 2006 to 2008 drafts. To blame that style on the poor drafting during those years is absolutely incorrect.
