Om Field: Breaking Down the Lines (Pt. 1)

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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Matty:

If you are right - that you can indeed build a solid OL and DL with low round picks and undrafted free agents - then the results for the Skins from 2000 - 2008 indicate that the scouting department has been waaay off in terms of what "diamonds in the rough" they should take or that the coaching staff has not done very much with the "diamonds in the rough" they were handed.

I think it is the scouting department/draft board builders - - but It could be the coaches too...

Well, that's the kind of statement we're going to put to the test. I'm going through the OL an DL depth charts of the Redskins, NFCE and a representative sample of other NFL teams--good and bad--to see just how their lines are put together. No saying you aren't right--just that I have doubts.

[A10sROCK]

If our competition in the NFC East thought they could build their OL and DL solely with low numbers of low-ranked draft picks they would have done so.

We have traded draft picks for FA and then used our top draft picks for non-OL/DL choices.

The Redskins strategy has been to try to get a good OL / DL without using our best draft picks to get there. This correlates with our mediocre win/loss record over this last 8 years.