run-david-run said:
Yeah, yeah, but I think that hardly qualifies as one of the biggest mistakes in franchise history (esspecially this franchise).
Also, it is CC we are talking about here, there is no saying what he would have done with those picks, but jugdeing by his history, I would say most would not be on the team right now...
I agree that Cass probably would not have made the right picks - but he might have got one right. Then we would have been ahead of where we are now.
I might be a little off on my percentages but Cass was the one who told us the statistics of how "80% of #1s make it as starters, 60% of #2s, 40% of #3s, and 20% of lower picks"
Cass did not come close to those odds - even figuring in his succes on #1s. But, his record is really worse, especially if you break it down even further because a top 10 pick in the first has to be around 90-95%.
But, while drafting Babin was a mistake, the bigger mistake was trading the picks when we were still building. That is one reason I am not flaming him about trading down instead of taking DJohnson. We need more players that we draft in the first 3 rounds. By the numbers, we should be getting starters and quality backups in those rounds, which we will have to have to succeed. So, trading down works, but not if you can't make a decent pick afterwards (the jury is still out on Travis, but I would have traded down again).