Best Quote of the Draft
Paraphrasing Trent Dilfer: "As involved and as popular as the NFl Draft has become, it's easy to think that it's all about picking good players. You win the draft, you win the Super Bowl, pretty simple. But really the draft is just the first step. You can draft the best players year in and year out, but if you don't have the proper coaching to turn them into "Pros", you aren't going anywhere. More emphasis needs to be put on the coaching up and developing of these college athletes to help them truly become NFL players. Too many times, that process is not followed up on efficiently."
Basically, you can buy the very best groceries, but if you don't know how to prepare those ingredients, you are not a good chef and the results will probably not be great.
Two or three years from now, we will look back at this draft and say this guy produced or that guy's a bust. And more than likely a lot of the blame will be pointed at the people responsible for picking the players...good or bad.
But in actuality, it's what happens from this day forward, the coaching and developing part, that will decide if they truly become great NFL players. Every year, some really great college players fail to make the transition and some lesser college players go to the Pro Bowl. That is not the fault of those who draft the players, that responsibility belongs to those who coach and develop the players you draft.
Picking good players is one part of the equation. The next is coaching them up.