Lapham interview with Jim Turner

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(07-02-2020, 01:50 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Some one please tell me that Bengal Dude did not hear this correctly.

Why the hell would we wait until pick number 180 to take a player with a 2nd round grade?

And why hadn't any other team jumped on thst value?

Bengal Dude did not hear it correctly, at least not exactly. 

Turner didn't say "they" had a 2nd round grade on Ajeniji, he said that he himself did. 

I believe that coaches grade players independently, without being biased by how the scouting dept already ranks them. Then they put their evaluations together, discuss the prospects, and come up with an overall team evaluation. Or something like that. 

So I don't think it's unusual for a coach to say 2nd round, the scouts to say 5th round, and by consensus process they end up with let's say 4th round. So "they" got a guy w/ a 4th round grade in the 6th, which is also no unusual. 

I'm not saying that the overall team evaluation was 4th round necessarily, but I'm sure it wasn't 2nd round, or we'd have taken him much, much higher.