Quote:It all comes back to two items:

 

1.  You must evaluate correctly

2.  You must get the proper value

 

Call it needs drafting, call it BAP drafting, if you are evaluating right and getting the right value (not reaching) it really doesn't matter what you want to call it. Misses happen, but you should be successful over the long haul if you get those two things right.

 

So nobody would criticize the Bryan Anger pick if he was selected in the fifth round instead of the third? The only problem with that is we could have missed him that way. You have to correctly evaluate not only the players, but also the risk/reward value of trading up, because for all we know Anger could have been a good value in round 4 if we had not given that pick to the Buccaneers to leapfrog the Rams (who then traded down after we jumped over them).

 

So not only do you have to evaluate the players correctly, you have to accurately judge when it is necessary to trade up to avoid reaching for a player later and decide if the risk of losing a pick you need is worth moving up. Failing to do that created a problem in 2010, when nobody wanted to give us a second round pick that Gene Smith, who did try to trade down from #10 to get one, would have used to pick Sean Lee. He did not have to reach for Tyson Alualu, but having a second round pick would have helped us big time and Sean Lee is a much better linebacker than Derek Cox is a cornerback.

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