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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 497728" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I understand this is “venting” or “ranting” but it contains some strange “logic” or assumptions. “Thompson just couldn’t help himself” implies that Thompson has a compulsion to trade down for trading down’s sake. But just last year he traded up three times. He went into that draft with 12 picks and got 8 players – and he had four comp picks he couldn’t trade. So Thompson obviously could have "helped himself". </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The next assumption is picks in rounds 4-7 will battle for the last spots on the roster. Daniels, McMillian, House, Lang and Sitton. That’s a partial list of Thompson’s 4th rounders. We don’t need 10 more players? Remember how many UDFAs they signed after last year’s draft? Getting extra picks is a recognition that even with all the man hours and money spent on the draft it’s a crap shoot. And the more picks you have the better your chances of hitting on a player. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Should Thompson have taken Lacy at #55 instead of #61? Of course not, right? And if Thompson and staff determined the talent tier extended from pick #88 through #109, trading down and picking up 3 more chances on hitting on a keeper makes all kinds of sense. I am confident that if there were a player at #88 or #93 that they viewed as head and shoulders better than any other, they would have pulled the trigger on him. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Ironically (regarding BorderRivals’ post) there’s an April 20th packernews.com story titled, “For Thompson, drafting quality begins with quantity” <a href="http://www.packersnews.com/article/20130420/PKR01/304200400/For-Thompson-drafting-quality-begins-quantity" target="_blank">http://www.packersnews.com/article/20130420/PKR01/304200400/For-Thompson-drafting-quality-begins-quantity</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">It notes since Thompson arrived the Packers have averaged two more picks per draft than the next closest division rival, the Bears. Thompson learned a baseball analogy applicable to the draft from Wolf: “… if you have more <em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">swings</span></em> you have a better chance at getting a hit.”</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 497728, member: 4300"] [FONT=Georgia] [/FONT][FONT=Arial]I understand this is “venting” or “ranting” but it contains some strange “logic” or assumptions. “Thompson just couldn’t help himself” implies that Thompson has a compulsion to trade down for trading down’s sake. But just last year he traded up three times. He went into that draft with 12 picks and got 8 players – and he had four comp picks he couldn’t trade. So Thompson obviously could have "helped himself". [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]The next assumption is picks in rounds 4-7 will battle for the last spots on the roster. Daniels, McMillian, House, Lang and Sitton. That’s a partial list of Thompson’s 4th rounders. We don’t need 10 more players? Remember how many UDFAs they signed after last year’s draft? Getting extra picks is a recognition that even with all the man hours and money spent on the draft it’s a crap shoot. And the more picks you have the better your chances of hitting on a player. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Should Thompson have taken Lacy at #55 instead of #61? Of course not, right? And if Thompson and staff determined the talent tier extended from pick #88 through #109, trading down and picking up 3 more chances on hitting on a keeper makes all kinds of sense. I am confident that if there were a player at #88 or #93 that they viewed as head and shoulders better than any other, they would have pulled the trigger on him. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Ironically (regarding BorderRivals’ post) there’s an April 20th packernews.com story titled, “For Thompson, drafting quality begins with quantity” [url]http://www.packersnews.com/article/20130420/PKR01/304200400/For-Thompson-drafting-quality-begins-quantity[/url][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]It notes since Thompson arrived the Packers have averaged two more picks per draft than the next closest division rival, the Bears. Thompson learned a baseball analogy applicable to the draft from Wolf: “… if you have more [I][FONT=Arial]swings[/FONT][/I] you have a better chance at getting a hit.”[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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