Quote:Nothing amazing about not wanting to bring in a high priced CB right after acquiring two of the best young CBs in the league.

 

What would be amazing would  to continue to dump your resources on a position that may already be your greatest strength considering all of the weaknesses you have at other positions. This would be the perfect example of how not to improve you team.

I agree we should not trade for Sherman.

 

But adding a player at a position of strength isn't necessarily a bad strategy.

 

GBN report has a good article on the various approaches to building a team and the last entry details drafting to strength.

 

  http://gbnreport.com/features/draft-day-theories/

 

In relevant part...

 

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<b>Building from strength:</b> We almost always talk about using the draft to fix weaknesses; this may not always be necessarily the most efficient way to build a team however. In a nutshell, the problem with this approach is that if a team brings a strong player into a weak unit, opponents can quickly neutralize the impact of that player by double-teaming or playing away from them. If on the other hand a team drafts to its strength, it is possible to create a super unit that make all other units on the team better simply because opponents have to invest so much in stopping the good unit that the weaker ones are allowed considerable liberties.

There are a few examples that readily leap to mind for me:

 

1.  The Early 1980s Giants drafting OLB Carl Banks to a LB corps that already featured Lawrence Taylor, Harry Carson, Gary Reasons and Byron Hunt.

 

2.  The 1985 49er adding Jerry Rice to a receiving corps that featured Dwight Clark and Freddie Solomon, who just won the Super Bowl the year before.

 

3.  The 1994 Cowboys adding Larry Allen to an OL that already won back to back Super Bowls and powered that Dallas running game.

 

4.  The 1998 Vikings adding WR Randy Moss to a WR corps that featured Cris Carter and Jake Reed.

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