Gettleman calls out Panthers draft strategy

[heel31ok]

3 hours ago, panthersphan said:

“With the second pick, we’re going to take the best player,” Gettleman told the team’s official website. “They screamed at me in Carolina, ‘You’ve got to draft a tackle, you’ve got to draft a tackle.’ If the value’s not there when you pick, you’re going to make a mistake. You’ll make a mistake. We’re going to set ourselves up so that we can take the best player available. And if the best player available is a quarterback, then that’s what we’re going to do.”

 

So Cargo Shorts blames everyone else at the organization for picking Vernon Butler?.....Kony Ealy? Shaq? triple dipping CBs in 2016? Does make you wonder that JR was pulling the strings I guess, but I'm ready to watch him pull some Gettlemagic with that #2 pick, BPA? If he doesn't take Fitzpatrick, Orlando Brown or Barkley over a QB here, I'll bump this thread and hand out pie to all! 

And we still dont have a tackle...go ahead gman work your draft magic...

[heel31ok]

3 hours ago, PandaPancake said:

You fugheads are like the guy that breaks up with a girl but no one else can date her.

Lol...he can date the giants all he wants...im looking forward to it...and the excuses

[heel31ok]

3 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

To a degree, but more just saying you have to stick to your board and not reach for need no matter what people are saying.

I don't really think it's "calling out" anybody; just illustrating BPA philosophy.

 

Lol...3 corners bpa...talks a big game now

[GoobyPls]

 

 

2 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

It's also the one that the vast majority of NFL teams swear by.

 

Not to the degree Gettleman takes it, and most team put need over bpa the majority of the time 

[ok2h8pep]

I guess you need some time of strategy going into the draft and BPA is as good as anything else.  However, the experts (read: the men who get paid millions to make these selections) have proven that even with all of their tools it still involves a lot of luck.

Sometimes I think that the only reason first rounders work out, on average, better than 4th rounders is that a first rounder gets a lot more chances and snaps to be proven a bust than a 4th rounder.

[Squirrel]

Yeah talking about media and fans.  He is actually taking the Panthers philosophy on drafting and implementing it to the Giants. 

[Jangler]

BPA is the ultimate bluff in a season of bluffs.

[stirs]

Guess that the Giants are just not gonna be a "family" like we are here in Jerry Land

[jumpman910]

Poor thread title and poor interpretation of what he' ttrying to say. Fail all the way around on this one lol

[therealmjl]

Smh

[top dawg]

BPA only works if you adequately fill needs in free agency, and if you're actually picking the BPA.  

I actually don't think that that's what was done over the last several drafts.  

I think that because drafting Is such a crap shoot that you have to have margins of error as it pertains to want versus needs.  If players are close,  you go with the need.  If there's some generational or decidedly outstanding type of player at a position that falls,  then you draft him, period.  I've said all of this before (in another thread within the last month). 

Of course you have to take the overall make-up of your team into account,  so you can't keep on picking the same position over and over in the first and second rounds (unless you simply flopped the past years) because that continually neglects other areas of need,  unless you've adequately addressed the need in free agency.  If you do,  your weaknesses will become well-known and exploited year after year after year.  That's  what you don't  want. You want to stay as balanced as possible,  and upgrade whenever you get a chance. 

Again, that wasn't necessarily happening.  

One of the most important things IMO is that you have to have some flexibility and some adaptability on the fly---what I'll call situational drafting. It's not overrated.  You have to have a feel for what's going on. It applies to team building in general.  Situational team building!  That's where it's at! 

[heel31ok]

4 hours ago, Mr. Scot said:

Yep.

To illustrate reaching for need...

Let's say you go into a draft needing a tackle, and you're absolutely bound and determined to get one in the first round. It's a weak draft for tackles, but damn it we need one and we're gonna get one.

So your spot comes up. You look at your board and the best tackle currently available is a guy named Byron Bell.

As you're pondering this, someone mentions that there's a linebacker named Luke Kuechly available, and he's pretty good.

You acknowledge that Kuechly is good and all, but you don't need a linebacker because you already have Jon Beason.

So forget that. We're filling that need right now and taking Byron Bell. Best wishes to Luke Kuechly wherever he lands.

...

Think you might regret that decision a few years later?

That's what happens when you put need above best available.

lol... that's what happens when you look back...hindsight and all that rot.But I am glad G Man picked Luke instead of Bell...

[heel31ok]

we still need a Tackle...BPA that ! 

[ladypanther]

6 hours ago, TheSpecialJuan said:

I think he was referring to us fans and possibly the local media. 

He should have clarified that. There are fans and media in NY too.