What will be interesting to examine moving forward is whether the lower penalties associated with poor talentevaluation impact the quality of such talentevaluation.
Early in their search, the Jets appeared to target candidates who specialized in talentevaluation but lately had focused on executives proficient in negotiating the NFL's salary cap.
Additional data from the 2008 and 2009 drafts show that NFL teams collectively have been remarkably good in their talentevaluation of quarterbacks taken in the first round.
Talentevaluation is tough enough as it is, and given the millions of dollars invested in young athletes in these sports in particular, General Managers want to have a greater sample size of film to review as well as more mature athletes before making these investments.