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Old 06-22-2012, 08:29 PM   #146
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Originally Posted by flamesaresmokin View Post
And this somehow validates taking an enormous risk on a first round pick? We're hardly in a position to be passing up high probability players in the first round at this point.

If he is actually so good that he'll be "the player of the draft" in a few years why did so many teams pass him up as well and why was he so far off the board?
D.Sutter drafted "high probability players", how did that work out?

I say we need high risk/high reward picks, and think having a guy like Weisbrod steering the ship when it comes to the draft we could see huge benefits of this strategy in 2-3-4 years.
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