OT: Why Teams Consistently Miss In The Draft

[NJCardFan]

I was thinking today about teams who've been bad for a very long time and wonder, these are teams who are consistently in the top 10-15 in the draft every year and yet they don't get any better. For years it was the Lions and now it's the Browns and the Rams. Even the Cards were in that boat for the better part of 25 years. It makes you wonder if teams do it on purpose because with these teams, when they do get these high picks pick players no one would have dreamed going that high. I mean, in 1978 with players like Doug Williams and Ozzie Newsome on the board we take a kicker. In the first freaking round we take a kicker. Look at the Browns. 2 straight years with the #1 pick and they take Tim Couch(bust) and Courtney Brown(bust). So, what is it? Poor management? By design? Just plain incompetence all around?

 

[JeffGollin]

I was thinking today about teams who've been bad for a very long time and wonder, these are teams who are consistently in the top 10-15 in the draft every year and yet they don't get any better. For years it was the Lions and now it's the Browns and the Rams. Even the Cards were in that boat for the better part of 25 years. It makes you wonder if teams do it on purpose because with these teams, when they do get these high picks pick players no one would have dreamed going that high. I mean, in 1978 with players like Doug Williams and Ozzie Newsome on the board we take a kicker. In the first freaking round we take a kicker. Look at the Browns. 2 straight years with the #1 pick and they take Tim Couch(bust) and Courtney Brown(bust). So, what is it? Poor management? By design? Just plain incompetence all around?

It's not just bad drafting.

It could be lousy ownership, poor team culture, weak player-development, regime-inconsistency and other stuff"

 

[crisper57]

I think investing in a player is the same as investing in the stock market. There is a lot of risk. Momentum of an individual stock/player can override historical evidence to the contrary, causing a greedy run up in value. And if you look at a stock and study it long enough, you can convince yourself you know something that no one else knows. What is really happening is that you see value where none exists. Same with prospects. The problem is that the default human impulse is to try try and get rich with a single decision, rather than build up wealth over time. Teams and investors would be better served by protecting against downside risk, rather than trying to hit a home run.

 

[Mitch]

There is an absolute art to making the draft work. It has a lot to do with the scouts and GM being on the same page as the coaches, because the bottom line is every team drafts good talent, it is ALL about how the coaches develop and infuse it.

 

[NJCardFan]

There is an absolute art to making the draft work. It has a lot to do with the scouts and GM being on the same page as the coaches, because the bottom line is every team drafts good talent, it is ALL about how the coaches develop and infuse it.

True but even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while but some of these teams made an artform out of bad drafting.

 

[THESMEL]

If you just picked off of average of the mock drafts - teams would get better - patriots stay out of the draft and kick everyone's ass! But fa want to go there cheap- they are the walrus

 

[THESMEL]

I'm sick of drafting for need - bpa rules!