Quote:You are a work of art.

 

You are the needs guy, right? Didn't we have a discussion about this?

 

You believe we should draft for needs and that BAP is out?

 

Funny.

 

I seem to recall somebody knocked drafting the best player available regardless of position.

 

When you take the best player available regardless of position, you make the pick and throw him into the mix within his unit. You keep drafting BAP and soon your individual units become strong.

 

So what if I draft five wide receivers? I've got 'em means you need 'em.

If you are going to criticize me, be accurate.

 

I have always attacked the proposition that BAP was a superior approach to drafting, and that it was dependent upon accurate scouting/ranking of players.  Whether you draft or need, if your board is not accurate, your approach to picking players off that board is immaterial. 

 

I have argued against the tacit assertion that needs based drafting does not factor in value into their determinations, and that need based teams do not draft by randomly pulling names out of a hat.

 

I have argued against the Ketchman premise that BAP precludes superior talent from going to the competition.

 

I have always maintained BAP is more an academic message board exercise than it is actual application for myriad reasons.  Teams factor in need/common sense into the equation. 

 

As it applies here, Buffalo didn't need any WRs, and it is questionable if Watkins was the BAP on the board at that time.  Furthermore, they traded FUTURE draft picks, including a number one pick next year to get a WR in a WR deep draft.  They didn't "rank em and pick em."  Trading up is pretty much the antithesis of BAP.  Yes, they appear well stocked to overloaded at WR, thus far to the detriment of your beloved OL, specifically RT. 

 

Under your RT or bust rationale/ they should have traded up for Matthews-the guy YOU were championing!

 

All of this aside, how in the world does my take on this matter serve as a repudiation of my previous takes?!?

 

This Stevie Johnson speculation envisions a possible release of Stevie Johnson.

 

Under this scenario, the Bills don't benefit from Johnson's continued presence on the roster, and the Jaguars could temporarily address a need with a good guy without expending a draft pick, freeing up a draft pick to be utilized elsewhere...most notably OL...either this year or next year.

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