Your attempt to differentiate your opinion on BAP from others didn't do anything for me. What you described is exactly what BAP is. It's not overdone. You either understand what giving away value does to your franchise or you don't. Where GMs deviate from this is in situations where they are heavily under the expectation to win now or possibly not have a job next year. In such cases, those GMs might be more apt to take a player that can help them this year but may not be the best player available long term. If you have two players rated roughly the same, a logical GM is going to take the one where he currently has lower quality depth at the position.


Not really a fan of the "take this position in this round" game. I will say this about your rationale regarding the need to draft a QB this year because we'll be drafting later next year. We don't know that to be true so we shouldn't plan based on something we don't know and a QB drafted at the 3rd spot in a given year isn't automatically better than a QB drafted at the 15 spot in another year. A QB class's quality from year to year can range significantly. Some classes yield several franchise type guys or quality starters, others yield none. There's no need to force it for the sake of forcing it. Take the value that's on the board or trade back if you can. For the record, in my unprofessional opinion my top 3 guys would be Clowney, Mack and Watkins or a trade back scenario.

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