(04-10-2018, 07:33 PM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(04-10-2018, 07:11 PM)pirkster Wrote: Thanks for confirming that you're not following.  There's no "discussion" with you on this topic.

You don't leave value on the table.  Period.

Otherwise, you're talking Madden drafting.  It's just not realistic.

Clubs grade them for a reason.  You select where the pick meets the value.  You always lose something when you don't.  If you think he could be your franchise guy but he's got enough flaws or uncertainties to give him a non-first round grade, you do NOT draft him in the first round.  You draft him where he grades.

It's why Brady is taken in the sixth.  It's where you graded him.  Anyone would have been a fool to draft him in the first.

Once emotion, like "fear" of losing a player - ANY player, enters the equation, you are certain to make a horribly bad decision.  Never fall in love with a player.

Fear of losing a player you love is how you end up with Tyson Alualu

It's also how you end up with a Troy Aikman, Peyton manning, Bruce Smith, or any other player you have rated highest on the board and still don't trade down.

Evaluating the player incorrectly is how you end up with Tyson Alualu being a top ten pick.

Even if you had no fear of losing the player, and traded down to the bottom of the first round and still drafted him to the Jaguars, he'd still have the same lack of impact for us as he would have had as a top ten pick.

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