First Half Grades

Well that wasn't quite my point. No one EVER knows about late round picks. That's why they are late round picks. If you knew, you would have taken them earlier.

But there seem to be 2 real schools of thought here. Some coaches/front offices seem to feel the best philosophy with second day picks is to take highly talented players with good measurables but some red flags (like injuries, character, experience, etc) and hope you hit a home run with some.

The other school of thought, embodied by Payton apparently, is that you take highly productive football players who may not have prototype measurables or fit the "perfect mold" and hope the production, instincts, and character carries over for you.

The first school produced Onome Ojo, Talmen Gardner, Chase Lyman, etc.

The second school has, in one year, produced Zach Strief, Marques Colston, Jahri Evans, etc.

My point was that Paytons philosophy provides a higher probability of "striking gold" then Hasletts.

I buy that!...whatever was the Payton "philosophy" it certainly worked here....but I was listening to Pat Kirwan on Sirius about the Jets missing out on Colston.....and he made the point that Colston was a HUGE SURPRISE to all of them!.....Kirwan has seen Colston play, and he never noticed much upside, and he said that many times!....of course now he is just as much baffled as everybody on missing out on Colston, after he catches the ball for the Saints......and needless to say, he's firmly on the Saints bandwagon!LOL!