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Gettleman's impressive draft history


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Since Gettleman has taken over as our GM, our drafts have been pretty damn good.  

In his 3 years, we have drafted 16 players. Including:

Kawaan Short (Starting probowl DT)

Star Lotulelei (Starting DT)

Trai Turner (Starting probowl RG)

Kony Ealy (Starting DE)

Shaq Thompson (Starting OLB)

Bene Benwikere (Starting CB)

Kelvin Benjamin (Starting WR)

Devin Funchess (Starting WR)

Daryl Williams (Future starting RT)

Tre Boston (Starting Safety)

A.J. Klein (Key rotational LB)

Cameron Artis-Payne (Key RB depth)

David Mayo (Key Special teamer)

Only Misses:

Tyler Gaffney (Injured in training camp and stolen by the Patriots)

Edmund Kugbila (Injured OL)

Kenjon Barner (Traded to Eagles)


That is fuggin impressive.  Find another team in the league that can say they drafted productive players over 80% of the time!!  It could even be argued that his misses were often injury related. 

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I still caution people about the law of averages...

 

Also, you likely are getting to far ahead on some of those hits.  Was Keary Colbert a hit or miss? Need more time to see what some of those dudes listed really are 

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i posted it last night in another thread so i'm going off memory

but between 2009-2012 hurney drafted 32 players.  out of those 32 we got hardy, norman, cam, and kuechly whom i'd consider elite or on the cusp plus lafell and munnerlyn who were serviceable and still in the league.

the rest was pretty much inconsequential

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1 minute ago, CRA said:

I still caution people about the law of averages...

 

Also, you likely are getting to far ahead on some of those hits.  Was Keary Colbert a hit or miss? Need more time to see what some of those dudes listed really are 

Are we looking at a regression to the mean, or a pattern of sustained quality drafts? With drafts having an element of skill vs luck, I would think the latter. 

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1 minute ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

i posted it last night in another thread so i'm going off memory

but between 2009-2012 hurney drafted 32 players.  out of those 32 we got hardy, norman, cam, and kuechly whom i'd consider elite or on the cusp plus lafell and munnerlyn who were serviceable and still in the league.

the rest was pretty much inconsequential

i screencapped the '09-'12 drafts here-

 

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In fairness, you can't really cherry pick a guy's draft history like that.  

But even in that window you mentioned...Cam and Luke were grand slam home runs and are the foundation of the team Gettlemen now has 

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15 minutes ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

i posted it last night in another thread so i'm going off memory

but between 2009-2012 hurney drafted 32 players.  out of those 32 we got hardy, norman, cam, and kuechly whom i'd consider elite or on the cusp plus lafell and munnerlyn who were serviceable and still in the league.

the rest was pretty much inconsequential

i screencapped the '09-'12 drafts here-

 

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I almost feel like he could've pulled names out of a hat and done much better.

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9 minutes ago, CRA said:

In fairness, you can't really cherry pick a guy's draft history like that.  

But even in that window you mentioned...Cam and Luke were grand slam home runs and are the foundation of the team Gettlemen now has 

yeah they're excellent pieces

2012 and 2014 proved that a team with both of them on it is perfectly capable of having a losing season so i don't buy this notion that seems to be bandied about (not necessarily by you) that gettleman is just coasting on this much ballyhooed "hurney core"

the bottom half of the roster is just as important as the top and hurney really sucked at filling it out during his final years here.

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40 minutes ago, CRA said:

In fairness, you can't really cherry pick a guy's draft history like that.  

But even in that window you mentioned...Cam and Luke were grand slam home runs and are the foundation of the team Gettlemen now has 

 

Cam and Luke are grand slams but they were #1 and #8 overall. Honestly I give Rivera more credit than Hurney for those picks anyways.

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10 minutes ago, jfo89 said:

 

Cam and Luke are grand slams but they were #1 and #8 overall. Honestly I give Rivera more credit than Hurney for those picks anyways.

People act like first round picks are gimmies...they aren't. 

Hurney hit those every year.  I mean we basically discredit everything about the dude at this point.  He constantly hit.  I don't think you can take that away from him. 

Teans can go a decade and never get a Cam or Luke.  We got 2 during a cherry picked bad window of drafting 

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Thats because we had 2 top 10 picks in that cherry picked window. You know how much research teams put into their top picks. Visiting family, prior coaches and team mates and having multiple visits with the player. Top draft picks, especially that high, should be gimmes.

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