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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jaybadger82" data-source="post: 527593" data-attributes="member: 6211">Teams overcome injuries by getting lucky.  They overcome aging by finding good replacement talent in the draft.  And they overcome free agency by avoiding bad contracts and, again, finding good replacement talent in the draft.Although first round picks are less likely to bust, the idea that teams need to select at the top of the draft in order to find good talent is mistaken.I'm happy to agree to disagree.  You can easily cherry pick examples of top draft picks that have boosted teams, just like I can cherry pick examples of later selections that have done the same.  Of course, ARod fell to us with the 24th pick in 2005; Seattle snagged Russell Wilson with a third rounder in 2012; and Brady, who you mention above, was a sixth rounder in 2000.  So, yeah, IMO it's a mistake to think draft position figures prominently in a team's fortunes and it's definitely not the reason we're struggling this season.BTW, Matthews is a poor example: the Packers traded up for Matthews in 2009, acquiring the 26th overall selection in order to draft him.  The 26th overall pick belongs to a team that was eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs the year before.  In other words, 26th is right around where the Packers might have normally picked after making the playoffs.I'll stop harping on this.</blockquote>

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