Grade Rocky McIntosh

[D'BOYZ]

Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21

D'BOYZ:

I just don't think you can consider one (draft strategy) without the other (free agency strategy). First of all, a number of our offseason acquisitions were acquired by trading our future draft picks, so in those instances the two are directly related .

Name 1... one player you adquire in exchange of a draft pick and don't count 6th or 7th rounder we both know those are crap pics.

Second, the moves that the skins make in free agency allows them the luxury of not being dependant on the draft. For the Skins, spending 2 or 3 picks to move up and get the one player they want makes sense because they fill all of their other needs in free agency. The teams that do nothing in free agency are dependant on the draft to fill the holes in their roster. So while it may be a bad idea for Philly to trade away a bunch of picks to move up and get one or two guys, that doesn't mean it's a bad idea for the Skins to do it. The Eagles choose to use the draft to fill holes, the Skins choose free agency and trades. As such, stocking up on draft picks just isn't a necessity for the Skins. Conversely, the Eagles choose to do nothing during the off season leading up to the draft. They, therefore, don't have the luxury of spending multiple picks to make sure they get the one guy they want, because doing so leaves them with holes all over their roster.

I get your point on this 1 but there's a think about overpaying and this type of moves limmits you to not allways get that player that fits your sistem bacause you're out of leverage. Now we know for expirience that FA like drafts not allways result and your team is limmiting it's chance to get good replacement for those players.

Because of FA and not draft your team doesn't has dept in a lot of areas becasue FA cost more is ST goes down, or rogers or washignton yo udon't have a capable backup behind them that's what not having picks does to you

By not considering the Skins' other offseason moves, you are refusing to recognize that there are multiple ways to build a great team.....and that not every team needs to value their draft picks the same way. Future draft picks don't matter as much to the Skins because of their approach at free agency and trading. Therefore, criticizing them for simply trading away future draft picks isn't taking all factors into account. You may want to isolate the issue, but that's not a good way of going about criticizing a team

I reconice there are multiple ways thats why I seperate them because I agree that your team knows how to build via FA and that they cover the mayority of their need as we did.

But the type of aproach to the draft limits the amout of young blood that comes to the team and cheap you agree you can't have a team with 3million- 5 million players at each position, thta's what FA does and even thought your team is the best team to manege the cap and get under it it also forces them not to resign good players and cut others.