Compensatory draft picks announced

[Red Dawn]

The strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...unces-32-compensatory-draft-picks-to-16-teams

 

[Cardiac]

This is one reason I don't want the Cards to go gonzo in FA. The strong getting stronger comes back to drafting well. They let players leave via FA because they have draft picks waiting in the wing to step up.

I would guess that the Cards are two more good drafts away from being in this position.

 

[SissyBoyFloyd]

The strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...unces-32-compensatory-draft-picks-to-16-teams

Hell, we are lucky they even let us in the league and haven't taken our team away decades ago. I would love to give all the coaches and office personnel a test and ask them to name all the teams in the NFL that they could. I would be willing to bet that we are left off of many of their lists.

Just be happy they let us play and don't their ball and go home every Sunday when we show up.

 

[Buckybird]

We didn't get anything...shocker.

 

[Cbus cardsfan]

3rd round comp picks are the only ones with any real value, and minimal at that. I would rather sign guys that have actually shown they belong on a NFL roster than worry about comp picks.

 

[RugbyMuffin]

If you draft correctly then when your drafted players whom are marginal are up for contracts, you can let them leave, because you drafted players after drafting the player that is leaving that can take his spot.

By doing so you are rewarded with more draft picks that can help replace more marginal players that the organization can now let walk when the contract is up, and guess what ?, get more draft picks again.

The league is setup to build through the draft, the system rewards you for it.

 

[JeffGollin]

Hell, we are lucky they even let us in the league and haven't taken our team away decades ago. I would love to give all the coaches and office personnel a test and ask them to name all the teams in the NFL that they could. I would be willing to bet that we are left off of many of their lists.

Just be happy they let us play and don't their ball and go home every Sunday when we show up.

You would have loved a discussion this AM on NFLN about how "hot" the NFC-West had become and would remain for the next decade.

Unfortunately, you would have come away from that discussion with the impression that it was a three-team division. (There was even a little tidbit of revisionist history from one dude claiming that "no NFC-West team had ever reached the Super Bowl in the past ten years - oh, really?)

One of the indirect affects of not nurturing good relationships with your better older players is that either (1) compared to other teams, there are fewer of those players who further their careers on TV (because we cut or traded them early) or (2) the few who made it on to the national tv stage no longer felt loyal to the Cardinals. Result -"The invisible football team."

I'm not saying we should ignore sound football sense and become AARP's favorite resting place for aging football players, but "it is what it is" and we need to do a better job - both in the here & now and after they've left the team - to build a stronger bond with our ex core players.

 

[Billy Flynt]

How does SF get three picks when the one player they signed was better than all three they lost combined...?

 

[RugbyMuffin]

How does SF get three picks when the one player they signed was better than all three they lost combined...?

I guess it was a hold.

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[Big Deal]

How does SF get three picks when the one player they signed was better than all three they lost combined...?

Yeah that is BS. Also Pitt gets a 6th for losing Gay for a year, lol. Stupid Whiz. If you look at our FA this year, it could set up for some comp picks in two years with all the 1 year deal, if we draft well and don't go nuts in FA next year we could potentially lose a few starters and get some picks. Of course, by then they will change the comp pick rules and we will be SOL.

 

[Cardiac]

3rd round comp picks are the only ones with any real value, and minimal at that. I would rather sign guys that have actually shown they belong on a NFL roster than worry about comp picks.

Rugby says it all for me.

If you draft correctly then when your drafted players whom are marginal are up for contracts, you can let them leave, because you drafted players after drafting the player that is leaving that can take his spot.

By doing so you are rewarded with more draft picks that can help replace more marginal players that the organization can now let walk when the contract is up, and guess what ?, get more draft picks again.

The league is setup to build through the draft, the system rewards you for it.

 

[kerouac9]

This is one reason I don't want the Cards to go gonzo in FA. The strong getting stronger comes back to drafting well. They let players leave via FA because they have draft picks waiting in the wing to step up.

I would guess that the Cards are two more good drafts away from being in this position.

Not if they decide to keep letting their developed players leave, and having to sign marginal free agents to replace them.

 

[Cardiac]

Not if they decide to keep letting their developed players leave, and having to sign marginal free agents to replace them.

I agree with what you stated. I'm drinking the Keim koolaide and believe now that he has final say we won't miss on as many draft picks or sign stupid FA deals.