Gettleman calls out Panthers draft strategy

[stratocatter]

I stopped taking Gettleman seriously after he made a huge hole where there wasn't one, and kept digging by going against what he claimed he stood for by ignoring BPA trying to fill that hole.

[CPantherKing]

So, Gettleman is rationalizing why he does not need to address the OT position for 5 seasons in the draft. No surprise there.

He fails to mention how many mistakes he made with his BPA strategy.

If he were to draft an OT with every first or second round pick for 5 seasons over his BPA strategy, would the Panthers have 2 capable OTs right now?

1st round OTs:

2013 Justin Pugh, 2014 Jack Mewhort, 2015 Donovan Smith, 2016 Jason Spriggs, 2017 Ryan Ramczyk

Instead the Panthers landed...

2013 Star Lotulelei, 2014 Kelvin Benjamin, 2015 Shaq Thompson, 2016 Vernon Bustler, 2017 Christian McCaffrey

2nd round OTs:

2013 Terron Armstead, 2014 Justin Britt, 2015 Rob Havenstein, 2016 Shon Coleman, 2017 Cam Robinson

Instead the Panthers landed...

2013 KK Short, 2014 Kony Ealy, 2015 Devin Funchess (traded 3 picks for him), 2016 James Badberry, 2017 Curtis Samuel

The loss of Star would be worth reaching for your OTs until you have at least 1 franchise LT. I will take a franchise LT over a quality space eater any day. At least you know a franchise will lock in their franchise LT while letting their space eater walk when the rookie contract is up.

The Panthers would have a stout OL for the future that could open holes and protect Cam after 5 years. Instead, the Panthers have a bunch of 1st and 2nd round picks they are going to let walk after their rookie contracts.

Need > BPA when you have no leader for an entire position to step up and lead the team to make a play and win a game.

Now, I had 2013 Xavier Rhodes, 2014 Kelvin Benjamin, 2015 Shaq Thompson, 2016 Hunter Henry, and 2017 Christian McCaffrey in the first round.

My second round picks were 2013 KK Short, 2014 Jarvis Landry, 2015 Devin Funchess (@ 57 - not worth 3 picks @ 41), 2016 Yannick Ngakoue, 2017 Eddie Jackson

So, I would not have picked OTs high, but overloading on OTs would have been better than what Gettleman did with the drafts for the Panthers future. I believe a team can find a franchise LT in free agency if they are willing to pay, or by trading down for 8+ picks and using the bulk of the later picks on some risky OTs/OLs who were top picks and dropped for various reasons/risks. (Those OTs I wanted with later picks would be La'el Collins, David Bakhtiari, Seantrel Henderson, and Joe Haeg).