Yet not one of them took us to a SB. And those were the BEST QBs we've ever had. What does that tell you? Most important position in all of organized sports. Get a great one and you'll contend every year. Get a game manager and maybe you'll make the playoffs and get knocked out in the first round. Good plan. _
JJ Watt is inarguably the best player non-QB in all of football. You know what JJ Watt and Geno have in common? They were both at home watching the playoffs. _
You got me on all of them. And you win the Stubborn Ox contest. Something I thought I'd always win. I have to tell my wife about this one. She won't believe it.
Emphasis is on the word could. And like I said, 'at this point in their careers'. But If Teddy turns out to be a slightly above average QB then he's more valuable to a team than an all pro SS.
You must have a loose definition of hits. Dee Milinier ? Miss up to this point in time and a risky pick at #9 due to injury history. Richardson. Hit so far. Smith? Miss so far. Winters? Miss so far. Aboushi, neutral. Campbell Miss. Bohanan? Difficult to call a FB who doesn't touch the ball much a hit, but I'll call him neutral since he primiarly blocks....despite only 20 games over 2 seasons. So that's 1 real hit, the rest? either misses or way below average thus far.
I'd like to see your list of hits and misses for all NFL teams including playoff teams. Again the grade for the past 2 seasons is a fat I for incomplete. Even a guy who everybody after one season thought was a home run in RG3 is still in that category. So far under Griifin: one coach fired and one coach almost fired.
Which is kind of the point. How many Superbowls have the Redskins been to in the last 2 decades? 0, their last superbowl was 1991. How many winning seasons have the Redskins had? 4 since 1993, most wins in a season in that span? 10. Pointing to another team and saying 'they're doing worse than us' is the mark of a losing viewpoint, the acceptance of mediocrity by saying well 'they're worse than we are'. Other teams miss picks, that's the truth. Every team does. The question is how consistently do you miss picks, how often do you misdiagnose which free agents to sign and which to keep. You can always find someone who did worse, and that's if what you're looking at then you have adopted the mindset of accepting mediocrity . It's about looking to be better and to do better. Not accepting failure or inferior results. good teams, and by good teams I mean consistently good teams, have accountability and don't look at who did worse than they did...they look at who did better and work to better those teams....
I could be wrong but I doubt the draft report cards 3 years after each draft is significantly better for most teams (over a period of time say 5 drafts). And that includes the Patriots who have whiffed on a number of occasions. There could be a few exceptions but which are there teams that stick out. Every team has its home runs even the Jets. Like Wilk. And their Gholstons.
I don't have the breakdown for all 32 teams for the 2014 season handy, but for the 2013 season the Jets had 26 Players who were drafted by them or signed as college free agents by them (initial signing). Only 3 teams had fewer, the Colts with 19, the Bucs with 24 and the Panthers with 25. 5 teams had 26 along with the Jets. The Bears, Browns, Cardinals, Lions, Raiders. How many of those teams are consistent winning teams? The Colts (thanks to Luck) and the Lions and Cardinals which while they have their roster mostly built of outside players they've done very well on the draft. That's not a true measure of successful drafts of course, but the better teams tend to be 30+ more home grown talent (the packers for example have a roster 42 home grown players on their roster in 2013. Now we could go through each teams draft and I'm pretty sure you'd find that many other teams hit more frequently and get impact players more frequently, especially off of middle round picks. Middle and late rounds are where you get your teams depth and find some starters, especially guards, WR's, RB's Safeties, DB's, ILB's.
You can't just go by one year. It has to be at least 3-5. But it's obvious some organizations are a lot better than others in terms of drafting and personnel. Still the Patriots haven't won a Super Bowl in ten years. Hopefully eleven.
I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this, but a few quick reviews...take the sources for what they're worth. The 8 best drafting teams? http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...ing-the-5-nfl-teams-that-are-best-at-drafting Best over the past 5 years (actually 2008-2013) http://q.usatoday.com/2014/05/07/nf...-49ers-tennessee-titans-new-england-patriots/ Jets ranked 13th from the bottom here, which puts the as more or less average...which is what the Jets have been overall...an average team....generally not real good, not real bad over that period of time. able to sneak in to the playoffs in some years with a 9 or 10 win season as the 6th seed wild card.
That's the point, it's not just a yearly thing..it's a year in and year out thing, especially over the past 5-8 years...a large part of that is the Jets spending and trading away so many draft picks and leaving their cubbards bare, part of it is just wiffing a lot of late.
But in reality the Jets have been a .500 team +/- 2 games in all but 6 seasons since 2000. and 5 of those seasons were more than 2 games under .500 while only 1 season was more than 2 games over .500. (edit) and only 3 seasons where they were 2 games or more over .500.
