Poles using technology to assist with his draft
When asked how he evaluated talent in this year's draft class, Ryan Poles said it was pretty basic at times. He mentioned that he has to ask himself a simple question: If we draft this guy, are we taking a good football player?
However, while that can be true, Poles is also using a lot of data that support and confirms what he sees on tape and during workouts.
«We took polls,» Poles said. ««We would watch players stacked up in their position and we'd poll everybody off their cellphone. And that information would come down to a database and we'd display it on the screen, so we'd see how everyone had it ranked. Sometimes it was a runaway for the top guy, sometimes it was a really tight race that just led to more conversation and for us to watch more tape. So really good discussion to go deeper than just watching tape.
«Then we also did that going horizontal, so not only in positional stacks, but you did that across the board as well. That's where it gets tricky. Do you take this position and this position if all things are even?»
«If I polled everyone and you had to raise your hand, sometimes you look around (to see how others are voting,)» Poles said. «It just removes that, and everyone puts their thoughts and ideas down, and it takes that out of it. You see it. I put it on the screen and you could hear the oohs and ahhs. It was a really cool exercise.»
It will be interesting to see if this method influences greatly the Bears' big board come day 2 of the draft!
«Then we also did that going horizontal, so not only in positional stacks, but you did that across the board as well. That's where it gets tricky. Do you take this position and this position if all things are even?»
«If I polled everyone and you had to raise your hand, sometimes you look around (to see how others are voting,)» Poles said. «It just removes that, and everyone puts their thoughts and ideas down, and it takes that out of it. You see it. I put it on the screen and you could hear the oohs and ahhs. It was a really cool exercise.»
It will be interesting to see if this method influences greatly the Bears' big board come day 2 of the draft!
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28 AVRIL | 139 ANSWERS Poles using technology to assist with his draft Will Ryan Poles make at least one trade during this years' draft? | ||
| Yes | 93 | 66.9 % |
| No | 46 | 33.1 % |
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