(04-29-2021, 05:02 AM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(04-28-2021, 11:08 PM)Eric1 Wrote: You're the only one having a hard time understanding bud. This team and every other team uses both BAP and need. It's never simply "just take the best player", because it's never that cut and dry. The people making the decisions/opinions in that scouting department and front office, who are way above our pay grade will always have differing opinions. Which is why you can't just look at it as "just take the best player".

Also, the same goes for Urban as it does Baalke. Except at least Baalke has been in the NFL. Urban hasn't done anything in the NFL. I want to see results, not listen to words, especially from somebody who is just now learning the ropes, as he all but said himself.

At the end of the day, we'll all be questioning picks over the next 3 days regardless. Some will say good things, some will say bad things, some will think there were better players on the board at said pick/s, AKA BAP etc etc. The point is nobody will know who the BAP was until 3 years from now anyways when we're all playing the hindsight is 20/20 game and saying we should have drafted x y and z instead.

Lol, you still don't understand and I'm not sure if you ever will.  BAP drafting is taking the top player on your board instead of reaching for need.  For 100th time there is rare instances you don't take the top guy on your board, you have to use common sense.  But its irrelevant who the best player is 3 years down the road.  It's just the draft tragedy you implement.  Some teams reach for need, the successful ones take the top guy on their board if their player evaluations are right and you trust your board.  If you don't trust your board then what are you doing?  You don't have to believe Meyer, Baalke, Arians, Newsome and multiple GMs when they say to take the BAP but it's how to be successful in this league.if your player evaluations are on

Here's the way I would do it, and I would bet this is the way most teams do it.  When you stack your board, you start with a pure ranking of the players, then you add in positional value, then you add in an extra value for need.  Because what you are trying to get is not only the best player, but also, the player who can help you the most over the next several years.  

So your board represents a blend of all three factors- pure BAP, plus positional value, plus need.  Then you can pick the player at the top of your board, no matter what.   You certainly don't want to draft a player who will never get on the field, no matter how good he is.  The true value of a player is in how much that player can help you win, not just how great a player he is.  

Of course, you have to factor in if you can trade down and still get the player you want, but if you cannot trade down, then take the player at the top of your board.  But that ranking has to factor in need and positional value as well as just pure BAP.

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