01-11-2018, 11:23 PM
(01-11-2018, 11:29 AM)ochocincos Wrote: Why would it be bad that acquired FAs could alter draft decisions? That's part of the reason FA is before the draft.
The point of FA and the draft is to improve your roster. If you are able to upgrade one position in FA, it doesn't make a lot of sense to keep adding to that position in that year's draft too...with the caveat that a particular draft pick would be far and away above draft picks at areas of need and would turn an area into an elite one.
Because you never know how the draft will fall. For instance let's say that they signed a really good DE last offseason for a lot of money. Would they have still taken Willis and Lawson at that point? It's a good problem to have a bunch of depth on a roster, but there are only so many snaps to go around for each position. At some point you may miss out on the best value possible(hitting on a player in the draft/UDFA) because you've already tied a bunch of money into a position.
