2004: The draft we should be grading

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Handing out grades the day after the draft has always seemed a little silly ...

We hear this a lot around draft time – that it's silly to grade teams on their drafts when nobody has any idea of how these players will perform in the NFL.

But if you're grading drafts based on the information that's available, certainly you can gauge how well each team did collecting players according to their prospective status coming out of college. If this weren't true, then there would be no player rankings; which is something every front office, coaching staff and scouting department in the NFL has.

Grading drafts is fine. You've just got to define what your basing the grade on.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Beemnseven

We hear this a lot around draft time – that it's silly to grade teams on their drafts when nobody has any idea of how these players will perform in the NFL.

But if you're grading drafts based on the information that's available, certainly you can gauge how well each team did collecting players according to their prospective status coming out of college. If this weren't true, then there would be no player rankings; which is something every front office, coaching staff and scouting department in the NFL has.

Grading drafts is fine. You've just got to define what your basing the grade on.

True, I just think it's funny when blowhards in the media get all hyped up like their word on the draft is final and absolute, even before any of these guys put on a NFL uniform.

[steveo395]

Originally Posted by dmek25

molinaro gets an f in my book just for the seattle game.a guard by trade the skins opted to put raymer in at guard and the rest is history(bad history at that)

Molinaro is a tackle

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by steveo395

Molinaro is a tackle

Yeah, but he's right. Many tackles get playing time at guard. Coaches sometimes prefer it that way with younger, inexperienced tackles. There could be a future still for Molinaro, Gibbs said so anyway. But if Raymer was the best option after Ray Brown went down -- that doesn't speak well for Molinaro.