Would You? Simmons to Cowboys

[kskboys]

There are ways to improve your team without intentionally taking worse players. If the best player is at at position of strength for your team then you can make a trade, or sign a free agent. Did the Chiefs say there were better players available than Chris Jones? It would be based on their evaluation, not national scouting. I don't recall who the Chiefs passed on but Chris Jones turned out pretty good so curious who they could have taken instead.

The Ceedee Lamb trade is one that people point to as a mistake. People are advocating taking a safety instead when the first safety didn't come off the board till the 2nd round. That would have been a big mistake. And if the receiver group truly was so over loaded you can trade Gallup right now or trade Cooper in the offseason, getting additional draft capital, while not having to pay $20 million to a wide receiver. You can use that cash and draft capital for the defense. I'm not making it simple, but the overwhelming majority of the time it is simple--take the best player.

I'm actually not doing that. Because we are more than one year away. So, taking Lamb is fine, but you are putting yourself further away if you don't address your weaknesses.

You keep missing the fact that there is often no clear BPA. BPA is really a myth, doesn't really exist.

Reaching for need also leads to failure. Drafting is just not so simple as to take BPA. People just love to spew BPA, but it doesn't work.

There were many players rated ahead of Chris Jones where he was drafted. Deion Jones, Sterling Shephard, Mackenzie Alexander, Michael Thomas, Jarran Reed. If KC takes BPA, they don't win the super bowl.

 

[kskboys]

There are ways to improve your team without intentionally taking worse players. If the best player is at at position of strength for your team then you can make a trade, or sign a free agent. Did the Chiefs say there were better players available than Chris Jones? It would be based on their evaluation, not national scouting. I don't recall who the Chiefs passed on but Chris Jones turned out pretty good so curious who they could have taken instead.

The Ceedee Lamb trade is one that people point to as a mistake. People are advocating taking a safety instead when the first safety didn't come off the board till the 2nd round. That would have been a big mistake. And if the receiver group truly was so over loaded you can trade Gallup right now or trade Cooper in the offseason, getting additional draft capital, while not having to pay $20 million to a wide receiver. You can use that cash and draft capital for the defense. I'm not making it simple, but the overwhelming majority of the time it is simple--take the best player.

Oh, and it's not "worse players". No one knows what any prospect is going to do for sure, these are all projects to a point. Just because a prospect is rated slightly lower does not mean he'll be worse. Simplifying and taking BPA is what we do in the draft, and it's why we always end up mediocre.

 

[jaythecowboy]

Oh, and it's not "worse players". No one knows what any prospect is going to do for sure, these are all projects to a point. Just because a prospect is rated slightly lower does not mean he'll be worse. Simplifying and taking BPA is what we do in the draft, and it's why we always end up mediocre.

The Cowboys have never had a BPA strategy in recent memory till maybe this most recent draft. Taco and Trysten Hill were both need picks and pretty much everyone is upset about those picks.

 

[jaythecowboy]

I'm actually not doing that. Because we are more than one year away. So, taking Lamb is fine, but you are putting yourself further away if you don't address your weaknesses.

You keep missing the fact that there is often no clear BPA. BPA is really a myth, doesn't really exist.

Reaching for need also leads to failure. Drafting is just not so simple as to take BPA. People just love to spew BPA, but it doesn't work.

There were many players rated ahead of Chris Jones where he was drafted. Deion Jones, Sterling Shephard, Mackenzie Alexander, Michael Thomas, Jarran Reed. If KC takes BPA, they don't win the super bowl.

BPA does exist. It isn't always clear cut but it exists. To say BPA doesn't exist is to say all the prospects are the same which is completely false. The players at the top of draft boards are there for a reason. Sometimes there are multiple players with a similar grade and then you can go for need but when there is a clear cut BPA you take him. I don't see how you can say there is no such thing as BPA but be ok with the Cowboys drafting a wide receiver in the first round. That was 100% a best player available pick ; there is no way that can be considered a need pick.

 

[Proof]

And instead of asking, you threw back a childish insult about reading, and used bad grammar and punctuation to do so. It was really bad.

Instead of asking what, you dunce? Lol. Let’s just agree to move on. You’re clearly slow

 

[xwalker]

I'm actually not doing that. Because we are more than one year away. So, taking Lamb is fine, but you are putting yourself further away if you don't address your weaknesses.

You keep missing the fact that there is often no clear BPA. BPA is really a myth, doesn't really exist.

Reaching for need also leads to failure. Drafting is just not so simple as to take BPA. People just love to spew BPA, but it doesn't work.

There were many players rated ahead of Chris Jones where he was drafted. Deion Jones, Sterling Shephard, Mackenzie Alexander, Michael Thomas, Jarran Reed. If KC takes BPA, they don't win the super bowl.

Drafting Lamb allows them to move on from Cooper after 2021 which gives them 20M to spend on another position.

Drafting for the need of the upcoming season has proven to be a bad strategy for NFL teams.

Taco and Hill were need picks not BPA.

Draft the best players and if they match or exceed their draft position then the team wins.

The probability of the pick being successful is much higher if teams draft the best player on their board regardless of position.