10-24-2017, 04:37 PM
(10-23-2017, 11:38 PM)CanadianBengal Wrote: Nailed it!!! Go back over the last twenty years and our drafts have always included work out warriors. Stacey Andrews, Sean Brewer, Mattias Askew, Margus Hunt, Artrell Hawkins. They love athletes. But have too many that never pan out. Projects in rounds 5+ are fine but when your team building strategy is tied directly to your draft there is little room for error.
With a salary cap you can't resign everyone but it's critical to sign the right guys. If you aren't going to use FA then you have to hit on a few draft picks every year and some of them have to become +++ players.
In all fairness, most of those guys were later round picks. At that point you make a choice - go off of average game tape or go off of physical measurables and hope you can coach those guys up.
It's ok to take a workout warrior in the 4th round or later, but taking those guys in round 2 and 3 is pretty stupid.
