{"id":14727,"date":"2012-04-21T11:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T16:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=14727"},"modified":"2012-04-21T11:29:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T16:29:51","slug":"the-nfl-draft-top-picks-no-guarantee-to-turn-losers-into-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/21\/the-nfl-draft-top-picks-no-guarantee-to-turn-losers-into-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"The NFL draft: top picks no guarantee to turn losers into winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1500espn.com\/sportswire\/Pelissero_Few_top3_draft_picks_become_part_of_complete_turnarounds042112\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Pelissero<\/a> has an interesting column up on the actual impact high draft picks can have on the teams who select them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe NFL is designed to promote competitive parity, from the salary cap to revenue sharing to a draft order inverted by record and strength of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>However, it remains a league of haves and have-nots in many ways. Look no further than the inability of roughly half the league to capitalize on the sorts of opportunities the Minnesota Vikings have with the No. 3 overall pick in this year&#8217;s NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Since the NFL playoffs expanded in 1990, 17 teams have made multiple top-three draft picks, accounting for 56 of those 66 picks (84.8%) overall. Only three of those teams &mdash; St. Louis, Indianapolis and Washington &mdash; have won a championship.<\/p>\n<p>The other 15 teams have combined for 32 Super Bowl appearances, including 19 of 22 titles (86.4%).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, no amount of talent can fix a bad team if the team is bad for organizational reasons. Management\/leadership matter more than raw talent, at least in NFL terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Pelissero has an interesting column up on the actual impact high draft picks can have on the teams who select them: The NFL is designed to promote competitive parity, from the salary cap to revenue sharing to a draft order inverted by record and strength of schedule. However, it remains a league of haves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[572,261,179,461],"class_list":["post-14727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-nfl","tag-playoffs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Px","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14728,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14727\/revisions\/14728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}