(04-04-2021, 09:22 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-03-2021, 10:48 PM)Bullseye Wrote: I know exactly what it means when used on the board.

I also know when a team misses, it's always attributed to being a needs pick whether it's a need pick or not.

You can still take BAP and miss but that would fall on your player evaluations.   If you keep taking the top player on your board and still miss then you will be fired in short order anyway and we have the wrong guy.  When we drafted Joeckel, that's example of taking the top player on your board and still missing, we had Monroe at the time so we didn't need a LT.  I'm good with that, your percentage of missing is much lower your player evaluations are right.  You have to trust your player evaluations and rankings, if you dont trust that then what are you doing?

Right, if you don't trust your own evaluations then you might as well just get rid of the scout team and have a computer program always pick whatever player is currently left at the top of some TV draftnic's board.

We saw years of what needs based drafting does to a team back in the mid 2000s when the Jaguars went from a team with a shot at going to Superbowls and having strong games against Tom Brady to a team that had about ten years of .500 or lower records.

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