Steve Czaban issued a similar complaint on his blog.
Skins Draft: Pass Catching Overkill
Well, at least we know this much: Danny is still running the draft.
Three second round picks, and the Skins take two wideouts and a tight end.
Super.
Exactly the kind of “Fantasy Football Draft” that you would expect from an owner whose expertise wouldn’t even make him a decent fantasy owner.
For once, for a fleeting moment, I thought: “Man, we’re being really smart here.”
By letting Atlanta throw us two extra second round picks just to take our low first rounder, I was salivating at the chance for a sampler 3-pack of needs in the round.
Instead, we carpet bomb a position (pass catcher) with all three picks. Oiy.
NOTE: There is much argument about whether you should “draft for need” or simply “take the best player on the board.” I think you should do both. Here’s how. When you are picking in the top half of the first round, draft according to “best player” ratings. After that, you must take “need” into consideration. I’m not saying reach, just because you have a need. But this notion that you can accurately determine “best player on the board” once the end of the first round comes around, is specious at best. This is no science people. Everybody’s board looks different, so your “best player available” is nothing but one GUESS out of 32 teams. The top-16 however, has more consensus. Nobody had Glenn Dorsey or Darren McFadden lasting until late first round. Thus, it would be stupid to pass up on a consensus good pick, just because it doesn’t fit your need. Am I making any sense here?
So let’s look at this logically for a moment, not even taking into consideration whether Messers Thomas, Kelly, or Davis can actually play.
If you are the Commanders, are you hoping all of these guys turn out to be good players? Or are you simply assuming one or two will be misses, thus attempting to increase your chances that ONE will hit by throwing numbers at the problem?
This is a serious question. Because if ALL three guys are good, then you have a new problem. You can’t play ‘em all.
Oh, sure. Maybe Zorn has a killer 4-wideout, 2-tight end formation under his hat that is going to KNOCK people’s socks off!
The Skins need for a “big” wideout is not disputed, so I would be okay with one of those two WRs. But the TE pick is totally un-necessary. Not only is Chris Cooley a Pro Bowler, but any passes re-directed from him to Davis in this offense is a waste of time!
I want MORE touches for Cooley, not less!
Then to loop back and take glacially slow Kelly, from a run-oriented program not known to produce great wideouts, just makes you hang your head in dismay.
But hey, what the hell do I know? I am sure Vinny and Danny and Zorny have it ALL figured out. I am sure that their evaluation system for players is so spot on, that every other player who might help this team at a position which is NOT a fantasy football type position, really wasn’t that good in the second round this year.
I don’t even want to THINK about how OVER-invested this franchise has been since Snyder took over at wide receiver. We’ve drafted guys high (Rod Gardner, Taylor Jacobs). We’ve spent huge dollars for restricted free agents (Laveranues Coles). We absorbed huge cap hits and traded for other wideouts (Santana Moss). We have overpaid for kick return specialists who have never led their team in catches (Antwaan Randle-El). We have made drunkenly stupid trades for crap wideouts with attitude problems and paid them way too much money when we didn’t have to (Brandon Lloyd.)
Now, we’ve drafted two MORE of them, and thrown in a redundant TE to boot.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
And when you don’t know a damn thing about football, the solution to every problem is to get a better wide receiver.
