That's another good point, what's the relative success factor of high picks, hitting picks, UFA attraction, etc.
I would argue, just anecdotally, that drafting your core is essential to cup contention. And that the only way to do that is with lots of first, second, third round picks over multiple years and with a certain percentage of those being high first round picks.
If that's necessary to be successful, what does that mean for teh strategy? How do you accumulate multiple high round picks over multiple years and how to do pick high in the first round...
You trade off short term success for long term success. You get worse before you get better.
High time the fanbase and management wake up to this.
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