Panthers showing heavy interest in Rashaad Penny?

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3 hours ago, Seoul_Panther said:

The BPA argument seems like a bit of a cliche that a GM can use to defend any pick they make. To put it another way has a GM ever admitted selecting need over BPA? It comes down to individual assessment and ultimately any selection will be deemed BPA until it doesn't work out. Since assessment of picks is usually considered too soon if it happens within 3 years of a rookie season BPA seems like a good way of making yourself unaccountable for bad decisions.

 The BPA vs need debate has given Panthers players like Butler and Shaq in recent times. 

  

First off, I believe that your whole board has to have an element of need to it. I still believe that you can't take an obviously inferior player just because it's a position of need. That would possibly make for a crap team. With at least your first two picks---you know, the ones that historically have staying power---I think that you just have to get a hit. Now of course because of the hit-or-miss nature of the draft, I do think that you must have some kind of margin whereby if two players are close that you take the one that is the need. Moreover during the 4th and 5th rounds the margin might get a little looser. And by the 6th and 7th round, you can be risky and take a flyer on positions of need. The third round, I'm on the fence about. I guess you just have to play it by ear. Of course even in the first couple of rounds, if an obvious high value falls or is simply there for the taking, then sometimes you just have to bite the bullet (like in the case of Luke). I believe that in general, you just have to have an open mind and good feel for the draft, and be somewhat open-minded.

All that being said, I think that Gettleman was a little too stubborn and dogmatic in his approach. I think that he took things too far sometimes with notions of big men and versatility at the expense of clearly seeing where need and value basically collided. I hate to keep harping on this, but if I had drafted the last few years, we'd have had Landon Collins, Hunter Henry and Marshon Lattimore. They were all pretty much highly thought of players with great upside that would have fit some of our greatest needs to a tee, and were arguably the BPA when we were on the board.

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