Carriker very good fit

[BeastsoftheNFCeast]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

By the time that Okoye reaches his ultimate potential, do you really think that Griffin will still be on the roster?

no, but i also believe that our drafting should impact our immediate needs, if you are always looking to the future, you will never succeed in the present. If we start building for a future team, then we are just throwing this season away.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by BeastsoftheNFCeast

no, but i also believe that our drafting should impact our immediate needs, if you are always looking to the future, you will never succeed in the present. If we start building for a future team, then we are just throwing this season away.

How can you fill immediate needs with draft picks? A rookie is roughly 50% of the total player he will be in his prime. Even in his 2nd year, he's going to roughly be between 70 and 75% of the player he will ever be. This goes for pretty much all prospects.

It seems that a team would be much better off going to get a vet to fill immediate holes.

I mean, if you end up getting a historically great player, then playing him at 50% of what he will be wont hurt your team. But historically great players are impossible to predict, and don't occur very often.

If we had built in the past, we would be succeeding now. You can't pick a guy who is going to help the team now, you just can't. Almost certainly anyone we pick will be no better than the guy we already have at the position as a rookie. So we have to look at our future needs. We can't pass on a great player like Okoye because a guy who won't be here in two years doesn't compliment him well. See what I'm saying?