[bigredman]

Originally Posted by general counsel

i simply for the life of me can not understand two things

My poor GC is frustrated. I see you are still banging the front office drum from the draft day chat room. Excuse me dear while I try to explain some things to my friend here..

1) How anyone can say that avery (or any other player for that matter) would be available in a later round. Have we seen the draft boards of the other teams. For the millionth time, the kiper rankings ARE NOT the draft boards used by the nfl teams.

We know that the Kiper rankings are not the draft boards used by the nfl teams. Each team has its own strategy and needs to fill. I think the clannies are just passionate fans that have their own views and desires on what they consider to be the appropriate pick at that time in the draft. I don't buy into this notion that those employed to make these decisions are any more accurate than anyone else who expresses their opinion on here, except that clannies had the good sense to become clannies. I don't see Linehan, Saunders, or Devaney on here, so we have that over them! They get paid to do what they do. We clannies conjure up these opinions for the love of it.

2) The expectations that people have for the lower round picks are ridiculous. The odds of getting impact players in the lower rounds are very very slim for every team. Every fan seems to have his own pet players and when management doesn't take them they criticize the team when they read about the shortcomings of the player taken, as if they are going to get a guy without flaws in rounds 6 and 7. The same guys that complain that the front office has no idea what they are doing want us to trade down for more picks for some reason.

You miss the point. It's not the expectations for those in the later rounds, it's getting MORE picks in the draft to analyze and criticize. If we trade down, we get more picks. We traded up, which meant we got less picks. That's not good. How can a team that needs so much take the position "we'll make due with less"? It drives clannies crazy I tell ya.

Wait three years and grade the draft. Until then, its an exercise in pure speculation since none of us have the faintest clue how these guys are actually going to perform, we are only guessing and there is no way to know what relative value we got because we will never know how the other teams valued these guys.

So you are saying the front office doesn't know what they got when they picked them since we have to wait three years to validate the picks. I knew it. You are a clannie deep at heart. We are just as good as those so called professional experts. No. That's not true. Not only are we better because we are clannies, but those of us that are premium members also get the babes..check it out! Oh yes..I gave our draft a B.