(06-04-2022, 02:11 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(06-04-2022, 01:31 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: Sometimes BPA meets need, so you you are going to draft need and a lot of teams have need at a lot of positions so needs will get filled.  That's said 99% of the time you take the player at the top of your board.  Some teams do draft need and those are the ones that pick at the top, glad it looks like we have finally broke that so hopefully we won't be picking neat the top again any time soon.   Did you see the teams board?  What players did the team have rated higher than Walker?  I think it was pretty clear that Walker was their highest rated player.  I think it's also been pretty clear that Baalke takes the top player on his board passing up players of need multiple times.  He has said it multiple times as well as Doug, stick to their board and take the top player.  Muma was another clear example.

So if it's foolish to draft based on need, and you have a GM that does that, doesn't it make matters worse for that GM to create needs where he actually had good players?!?

Think!

And to be clear, you are holding up Baalke as the paragon of sound drafting practices?  Am I reading this correctly?

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(06-04-2022, 01:42 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: Muma is probably the ONLY example of BAP selection in the Jags 2022 draft. 
And even that can be viewed as a need since our new DC wants to employ the $LB position and we didn't have a clear candidate on the roster.

The Jags traded up twice for, drum roll please...   NEED. 

You believe in fairy tales all you want, pal. 

Teams draft for need just as often as they select a straight up BAP pick.

Exactly!

On top of that BAP drafting is no guarantee of success, either if you evaluate the players incorrectly and rank them incorrectly.

It was a no win situation with Dave, he should of been fired when Tom came in.  We were going to make Jalen the highest paid corner and we offered Yawn way more than he was worth and money per year he will never get close to.  So they tried to retain both but both had their own issues so it was best to cut ties.  Happy.the culture is different now and we have good character guys that are good at football.

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Well the Jags , Vikings, Ravens, Raiders, and Colts disagree with yall. as well as every other team in the NFL lol. I would say the Colts agree but he is only making 13 mil per year, he would still be here if he was that cheap but he turned down the offer when we offered 6 mil more and more years than he has ever received. You would of made him the highest paid DE because it's not your money

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