Alexander;3246316 said:
But come April we will probably be told only three or four of our draftees can even make the team anyways and people will buy it.
And that should be the case this year again. Maybe not " 3 or 4 ", but certainly, as of now, there aren't many holes on this team. The bottom of the roster was turned with last year's draft. Players like Brandon Williams, Mike Hamlin, Stephen Hodge should be healthy entering camp this year, and they're going to be competing for spots with existing veterans, so you must make room for them.
Will there be turnovers ? Sure. Not everybody on the roster will be coming back, but then again, the best free agency period ( ie: when teams start cutting players ) hasn't even started yet, so we don't know who's going to be out there. Nobody in here predicted that Brookings and Sensabaugh were going to be the contributors they became, and they were 2nd tier FAs..
As for quality versus quantity, I am always in favor of the numbers. The more picks the better. It reduces the margin for error. That is exactly how we built our last dynasty. And draft for "quality" makes busts that much more damaging, which is why we went into the depths we did. That said six picks, all of them late in the round, is something I would like to see changed.
a) Then you should have no complaints about last year's draft approach.
b) That's a myth. Yes, Jimmah Jenius used the fish net strategy when it came to the draft, and it worked, but the situations were VERY different. He had next to nothing on the roster when they took over and there was PLENTY of room for players who, otherwise, wouldn't have made it. But there were trades and FA signing ( Tony Casillas, James Washington, Charles Haley, Jay Novacek, Thomas Everrett, John Gesek ) that played just as an important role in that dynasty as the drafted players.
It could be argue that the fish net strategy not only backfired BIG time, but it became detrimental, in the years when our roster was full of good players. Jimmah Jenius traded down in the 1993 draft to get two 2nd round picks ( Kevin Williams and Darrin Smith ). Nice, supporting cast players, but he passed on a player named Michael Strahan, who would have taken over Charles Haley eventually. Dallas spent the next 10+ years, spending valuable resources, on attempting to replace Haley since then and not until they got Ware did they did so.
1995 was another perfect example of that. They passed on this LB named Derrick Brooks to trade down, get picks, and select the likes of Sherman Williams and Kendall Watkins.
The point is that, when it comes to the draft, there is NO " sure system ". There are many variables that need to be taken into account before devising any type of strategy or " draft plan ". I didn't support the trade downs from last year. I thought it was a weaker draft and since we already had a ton of picks to begin with, we should have traded a few for this year's draft, which was projected to be stronger.
Perhaps when this draft comes along, the best strategy might be to trade down and use the fish net approach, but until the whole picture comes into focus, nobody can say for certain which is the best way to go.
