Saints GM Mickey Loomis values free agency over compensatory picks

AsylumGuido · 03-01-2017, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by dizzle88

We miss on average more than half of our draft class in the SP era.

That leads to having to find players in Free Agency, but the players you sign there are like used motors - all they ever do is depreciate in value, you eventually end up releasing them for free or holding onto them for too long and hurting the team.

The fact we've been historically poor in both drafting and free agency has led to three straight losing seasons, if we had 10 picks a year like the Patriots do then we'd be in a much better spot. We rarely have players to trade for high value because we rarely hit big on players in the draft, and when we do, we absolutely can't afford to get rid of them.

The Patriots sent their best LB to cleveland mid season and still won the super bowl.

I heard Bill Polian say that most teams historically only have around a third of drafted players ever crack a starting lineup. He said that fan's, and media's, expectations are unreasonably high when it comes to the draft.

03-01-2017, 12:20 PM	#7
AsylumGuido 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Bossier City, LA Posts: 26,622	Re: Saints GM Mickey Loomis values free agency over compensatory picks Originally Posted by dizzle88 We miss on average more than half of our draft class in the SP era. That leads to having to find players in Free Agency, but the players you sign there are like used motors - all they ever do is depreciate in value, you eventually end up releasing them for free or holding onto them for too long and hurting the team. The fact we've been historically poor in both drafting and free agency has led to three straight losing seasons, if we had 10 picks a year like the Patriots do then we'd be in a much better spot. We rarely have players to trade for high value because we rarely hit big on players in the draft, and when we do, we absolutely can't afford to get rid of them. The Patriots sent their best LB to cleveland mid season and still won the super bowl. I heard Bill Polian say that most teams historically only have around a third of drafted players ever crack a starting lineup. He said that fan's, and media's, expectations are unreasonably high when it comes to the draft.