"With free agency and the salary cap, taking the best player available, you don't have that luxury anymore," Redskins vice president of football operations Vinny Cerrato said. "You have to fill needs."
Last week I heard 2 interviews from highly respected "Team Builders". Both men said, "We do not draft for NEED, because if you draft for NEED then you can end up with a player at a position you NEED but the player is not good and never pans out"....Instead these 2 men said they draft the best available talent at their draft spot. That way the player will contribute immediately, if they don't start right away they still provide peace of mind on the depth chart if an injury occurred to the current starter.
In otherwords, it is better to load the team with atheletes that CAN play pro football than to fill positions with mediocre players that were drafted because at the moment that specific position was needed.
Those 2 men? Bill Belichick and Ozzie Newsome
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I agree completely with this philosphy. I've also never been sold on Cerrato - Ever since his spend-now-worry-later days with the 49'ers. Our hope is that Gibbs is now the chief orchestrator.
He has fielded a losing team for years.
If this was any other team in the league the GM (VP of player personel in this case) would be fired after so many bad seasons.
Vinny Cerrato has helped create such a monster that qualified General Managers would not even want to come here to fix it.
In the first few rounds, you draft best player available, after that, I'd draft for need. What happens if the best player available each time you draft is a WR, RB, TE, OL and your defense sucks?
