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Originally Posted by YDFL Commish
I wish, that at some point Ballard would throw RAS out the window and just draft really good football players. My point being...Ballard probably would've never drafted Terrell Suggs as the 10th overall pick, because Suggs ran a 4.84-40.
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He probably would not have along with a bunch of other GM's, Suggs fell to the Ravens. He might not have drafted Freeney, but who knows now. I think Polian is in his ear a lot about what metrics to look for. I think Paye was a guy Polian would have liked because of his 3-cone.
But my counterpoint to that is he does like the good senior bowl (and other events) performers. He is following the metrics and odds, what the analytics tell him are the guys that will do well. Suggs is really an outlier, for his position and to hit on those guys it takes a lot of luck. Also Suggs was a LB edge rusher not a DE. The defense let him do what he did best which was rush.