(05-24-2021, 07:27 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: I truly don't understand this? Not that it got leaked, but they fact that this coaching and scouting staff had Jaylen Waddle with the same score as Trevor Lawrence? Are you kidding me? Waddle was not even close to being the top WR in this draft class, much less the #2 overall player. Even people who don't follow football knew that Ja'Marr Chase was the best WR in this draft by quite a bit. There would then probably be a 50/50 split between people who would prefer DeVonta Smith or Jaylen Waddle, so how did we have Waddle ranked so high? Thank God we had the #1 overall pick or else we might've screwed this entire draft up. To all the people committed to selecting the BAP, imagine if we had the #2 overall pick and we took Waddle? How would that have gone down? We would've had an elite WR unit and no QB to throw to them.

Ever notice how I kept talking about player paradigms, like in the Collin Johnson discussion and whether Collin Johnson is Meyer's kind of receiver?

This is exactly what I was talking about.

Football players are not necessarily cookie cutter products.  Teams have a certain idea of what types of attributes work best at players at certain positions within their systems.  Clearly, Ja'Marr Chase is an outstanding WR prospect.  But Ja'Marr Chase has different physical attributes than Waddle.  Waddle's combination of physical attributes make him more of a fit for UMs system than Chase.

But this also illustrates why pure BAP is not a flawless approach.

Taking your representations of the rankings as an accurate representation of the comparative abilities of the players, if the Jaguars brass got the initial player evaluations wrong, they would rank them incorrectly, thus it wouldn't matter whether they took BAP on their board or not.

I sure hope time proves that Baalke and UM got the picks right.

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