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I don't completely agree. Yes, coaches are often looking for a certain type of player, but a lot of coaches have done terrible jobs when allowed to pick their players. Marinelli, based on his time as a head coach in Detroit, should have never been allowed to influence a draft pick.
I haven't gone through Quinn's drafts to see how Atlanta did while he was head coach (or how much influence he had), but if you have a department that spends the whole year evaluating players. Trust them to do their job. If they say Surtain should be selected, then I'd lean toward taking Surtain unless the coaches ask if he can do something they need from the position and the answer is no.
I don't think so. Everybody, even personnel guys, need time to learn. If we wanted our Personnel guys to go out and draft players to fit Marinelli's scheme, I think they could do that. But I don't expect them to be experts on a scheme they've never run.
That doesn't make any sense at all. But it doesn't matter, since McClay has been associated with the Cowboys, the team has made what, like three first round DB picks? So, Jenkins, Clayborne and Jones? Which of those three picks has established our Personnel/Scouting guys as more knowledgeable or even good at identifying DB talent for us?
See where I'm going here?