Quote from: Vette on February 26, 2017, 10:36:03 AM
In that group, what would be bad luck, Bob?
Ed: I'm referring to the fact that the draft is a crap-shoot to start with, so long runs of bad results in the later rounds are not a great surprise to me.
MOST draft picks after round three are already more likely than not to fail, so there are bound to be runs of what I term "bad luck" (meaning that the long-shots just never seem to come in).
I wonder how the data you cited compares to the first six years under George Young or Ernie Accorsi - or - how it compares to the same sixyear period for the Patriots (for example), but I'm too lazy to do the work, so I'm just going to go and look it up, hopefully for my own edification. For the record, I believe I will find that they fared no better.
Bob
PS. A comparison to the Seahawks' past six drafts might be even more interesting.
PPS. I was too lazy to look up anything except the Seahawks, and I discovered an almost unheard-of run of great drafts, BUT all or virtually all of the successful picks were above round 4. In fact, IMO, they picked more crap in rounds 4-7 during the past six years than the Giants. Of course, my knowledge of their roster is a lot less "in-depth" than my knowledge of the Giants' roster.