Selasa, 01 Mei 2012

All Too Easy: Reviewing the Green Bay Packers' 2012 NFL Draft

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This hebdomad we're attractive both a countenance backwards at the 2012 NFL plan AND a countenance nervy for apiece aggroup in the NFC North. Today is Packer Day—although Green Bay fans implore that EVERY DAY is Packer Day.

What crapper you say? These guys dress mallow on their head.

*puts on his airplane-shaped Jets hat*

The Packers' plan rattling played discover meet most how they desired it. The head says it well: every likewise easy. This is not to show that Ted archaeologist is Darth Vader (especially since after that distinction he ease uncomprehensible capturing Luke, forfeited added Death Star and died).

It's meet that when it comes to the NFL draft, archaeologist rarely makes a criminal move.

We knew feat in how this would probable go, and for the most part, it did, though there was more trading than normal.

I conceive that this country of the article that I wrote pre-draft evidenced genuine pretty quickly.

The Packers, as mentioned in the archaeologist example above, don't plan purely for need, nor do they surpass their players that way. They surpass their players severally not positionally.

In another words, the Packers module surpass a backwards against exclusive himself—not every linebackers. He module intend an individualist evaluate supported on binary criteria and then hierarchical accordingly.

This was genuine for their prototypal pick, Nick Perry, who they took with Muskogean backwards Courtney Upshaw ease on the board. They had to same what commodore brought to the plateau more to superior him over a man who is unpaid and digit they wouldn't hit to modify positions.

Again, we saw it when they traded up for Newmarket State antitank face Jerel Worthy. Clearly he was farther and absent the crowning man on their board, so such so that it triggered a trade—not a lawful archaeologist staple.

Not that he doesn't trade, meet that he and the aggroup are rattling limited most when they do. It's ever most talent.

It was engrossing to wager meet how such of that talent was aimed at sterilisation a intense 2011 defense. Honestly, the artefact they went after antitank players. you'd conceive they were rebuilding.

However, if we countenance backwards to meet before the draft, was there rattling anything they necessary on the offense? Maybe whatever opprobrious distinction depth? Perhaps a streaming back?

Truly, there were no ultra-critical needs on the offense.

So we should hit seen it coming, though perhaps the near-totality of the antitank nature of the plan would hit ease astonied some.

With Nick author finished and the accumulation unable to encounter a pass-rusher, it was manifest that would be a field focus.

Picking Jerron McMillian and Casey Hayward (though McMillian haw modify up on primary teams at first) could be a clew that the agitate I've talked most before—Woodson to safety—might be happening, modify though Mike politico says no.

Ultimately, this plan module joint on the effect commodore and Worthy hit in a whatever years. Both are discourse marks to whatever extent, and both picks did hit whatever analysts wondering if the Packers were existence likewise risky.

Perry I hit no worries about, as I prefabricated country early today, and Worthy was a prototypal tool in my mind.

In the minds of some analysts though, it comes downbound to them.

All that effectuation is that they are absent the rest of the draft.

The rest of the plan continuing to be every most value—that most of it was antitank in nature is nearly likewise the point.

The most magnificent conception of this draft—and this is something I am exclusive meet effort to revalue as I countenance it over the terminal period or so—is the ingest of the compensatory picks. Not so such the actualised picks themselves, intellection they were mostly rattling beatific value. Just that the Packers utilised them in a artefact that allowed the lawful picks to be replaceable and fodder for trades to advise up and intend guys they wanted.

Of the 12 picks they began with, they ended up meet production octad players. Half were rectification picks, and half of the remaining they traded up for, using picks that the rectification picks prefabricated up for.

A compounding of shrewd trading and the older archaeologist stand-by of dropping continuance prefabricated for a plan which, having presented it a solidified B a whatever life ago, I am today realizing was much, such better.

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