Quote:Smith claimed to be a BAP drafter, but his picks indicate he was actually a needs guy, and a needs guy that didn't understand the value of selections going by the way he traded away picks and badly reached on guys.

 

You don't pick a punter in the third round "because I wanted a starter" unless you're drafting to fill positional needs.

 

His mistake was who he picked to fill needs. If he knew a lot more about evaluating players, he would have picked JPP instead of waited until the third round to pick a DE, then stayed put at #16 the next year to pick J.J. Watt for the other side. He would have picked Russell Wilson in the second round instead of Andre Branch. Bryan Anger, of course, would not be a third round pick. If all of that happened, Smith still would have been truly a needs, not BAP, drafter.

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