How much have we improved player personnel?

[Skinzman]

Originally Posted by Skins3

Scherff is a very good player and I like the pick and him. No way was he pure bpa at #5. Also he was drafted to be the RT and was beat out by Moses. Our biggest need was o-line and we drafted 3 offensive lineman last year and 0 this year. Maybe the biggest strength on the team. We maybe selecting bpa. But a factor into that grade to make them bpa is team need.

Don't get me wrong. I love Scott Mc. I'll even buy into him saying he is drafting bpa. But team need effects each players grade. They said before the draft they were going to draft a qb to groom and they did so. How did they know a qb would ever be bpa when they drafted?

While I am a big proponent of BPA, I think saying that is a little misleading. Its not really BPA, as that is subjective to each GM/fan/talking head. Its really more of best player on that GMs respective board. I also agree that team need plays a role in grading, as should scheme fit play a role. In the first draft, McC said he wanted the team to get tougher. So his own preference would make someone like Scherff, who has a ton of toughness, have his grade elevated due to that. McC has said about the pick that Scherff wasnt necessarily the best player when he drafted him, but also said he was the highest rated on his board when he drafted him. I think toughness and need subconsciously gets Scherff a higher grade than Leonard Williams in McCs mind. I think if we were strong on the OL and weak on DL and had a tougher team already, Williams probably would have been graded higher.

IMO, Need will cause a player to get a slightly higher or lower grade in the scouting/judging phase of it all. We were desperate for OL last year, so im sure psychologically, that plays a role in a GMs final grading. An example could be something like a grade, out of a scale of 1-100, go from a 77 to an 80 due to need in the scouting phase (not saying its as simple as a 1-100 grade). But once a GM makes his final board, they need to stick to it.

As for the QB thing. Im sure once you start getting into the lower rounds, you will get a lot more players with equal grades. So its easier to get a specific position then since, if you have 20 or 30 guys with equal grades, you can choose need and still get an equally graded player based on your board.