Football Outsiders Draft Rankings 2010-2019

[TaylorSwift]

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This man still has a job

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2016

the Nkemdiche / Brandon Williams draft

 

[football karma]

this perfectly highlights the fools gold of Steve Keim

a middle / small market team like the Cardinals NEEDS to draft well to be competitive

but Keim fails at the draft, which puts the team in a position to have to fill holes via free agency or trades

Free agents are expensive relative to drafted players. Traded players -- the good ones like Chan Jones and Hopkins -- are doubly expensive: they were available because the trading team couldnt afford them, so the Cards give them giant $ -- and -- the Cards give up a pick or two that would be an inexpensive contributor.

i earlier called Keim a replacement level GM (i.e. average). This has made me think i was too charitable

 

[Broseph]

I would give Seattle's GM a lifetime contract.

 

[football karma]

i would mine Baltimore's college scouting department

 

[TaylorSwift]

this perfectly highlights the fools gold of Steve Keim

a middle / small market team like the Cardinals NEEDS to draft well to be competitive

but Keim fails at the draft, which puts the team in a position to have to fill holes via free agency or trades

Free agents are expensive relative to drafted players. Traded players -- the good ones like Chan Jones and Hopkins -- are doubly expensive: they were available because the trading team couldnt afford them, so the Cards give them giant $ -- and -- the Cards give up a pick or two that would be an inexpensive contributor.

i earlier called Keim a replacement level GM (i.e. average). This has made me think i was too charitable

This is the fundamental problem with his inability to draft and why I think it will hamper the Cards from stringing together consistently good years.

 

[football karma]

This is the fundamental problem with his inability to draft and why I think it will hamper the Cards from stringing together consistently good years.

yes

because usually a team has a good run, resigns key players, gets up against the cap and has to make hard decisions

that happens for the Cardinals faster -- they have one or two good years and have to make hard decisions

 

[wit3card]

If we draft worse than Dallas ... everything is said and done...

 

[cardncubfan]

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This actually shows how close all teams are with drafting. They pretty much all suck. High to low over a 5 or 10 year period is less than 2%.

 

[TaylorSwift]

This actually shows how close all teams are with drafting. They pretty much all suck. High to low over a 5 or 10 year period is less than 2%.

But successful teams also show to have at least a year of a top 3 quality draft.

Sans Buffalo all the teams without a top 3 quality draft within the last 10 years are not in the playoffs this year.