Organizational Tendencies Master Thread (1 Viewer)

[Bob Magaw]

DEN tends to not take RBs high (portis & tatum bell were 2nd rounders)

PHI seems to deemphasize LBs in terms of need for high draft pedigree to plug into their system (they may not grab one high this year if they like what they have, but i was speaking more to in past)...

SEA has good luck grabbing players with very good intangibles that may be better football players than physical specimens or athletes... see tatupu & tapp... ruskell came from TB, where they had similar good results with "undersized" players such as warren sapp, derrick brooks & warrick dunn...

OAK is very hard to predict, but seem to have a need for speed & will take chances on measurables (gholston?)...

DET likes skill position players a lot...

IND GM likes to use high picks on players from major, div 1 programs (there may be exceptions... also, this could probably be said about a few teams around the league)...

NO has stockpiled good RBs a few times in the past... adding deuce to williams & bush to deuce (maybe jonathan stewart or mendenhall to saints?)...

cover two teams (like IND & TB) seek out different kind of players in their front seven... DL can be smaller but need to be fast & LBs can also be undersized (bassically three WLBs) but need to be fast, CBs don't have to be as fast as they play zone coverage, but need to be tough & physical in run support...

HOU HC kubiak doesn't have extensive history to draw on in tendency analysis, but he seems to be identified by his recent DEN pedigree... if so, this may decrease chance he looks at stewart in 1st (if he is there)...

i'll add more as i think of them...

 

[Pip's Invitation]

PHI seems to deemphasize LBs in terms of need for high draft pedigree to plug into their system (they may not grab one high this year if they like what they have, but i was speaking more to in past)...

More specifically, the team favors OL and DL (as well as DB and QB) in the high rounds. Reid believes a team is built in the trenches. LB and WR are two positions the team prefers to fill in the lower rounds -- it thinks it can find non-elite talent and plug it in, though this has not usually worked well at WR. The team also tends not to take running backs before the third round. This worked spectacularly well with Westbrook.

 

[Bob Magaw]

NE is known to prefer veteran experienced LBs, as belichick thinks his system is too complex & demanding for young LBs to contribute much in first few years... for him, that draft pick is better spent on player at position with faster developmental cycle time, so he can get ROI faster...