Quote:Yesterday I was listening to some sports talk, I don't remember specifically if it was via sportsradio or NFL network - but they were talking to one of the current NFL head coaches, and I think it was one that was a playoff team of recent - and he made a great comment pertaining to the draft and the players his team looks for in the draft - he said (likely paraphrasing somewhat) "We don't go into the draft on day 3 settling for "depth" players. In this league attrition is so commonplace that you are setting yourself up for failure if you go into day 3 with the mindset of just looking for depth guys only. No, what we do is look for players who we feel can still have starter upside - even in round 7, because as said, every backup is one snap away from becoming your new starter"

 

 

 

 

The above sounds elementary and obvious, but its a good point and not every team does go into the draft with that mindset.

 

Looking at us, We've pretty much found a starter with McCray from our 7th, Bowanko our 6th, Telvin Smith our 4th, etc etc....so it looks like we're at least on a similar page as the above philosophy.