I say this half sarcastically, but I wonder what the difference is between spending >$1million per year on scouting vs. spending $100 on McKeen's, the Black Book, and CSS rankings, and drafting BPA based on those. I'm not suggesting it as a long term solution, but in a year where no revenues are coming in it seems like you could stand pat as a "boring" draft team for a year by just doing that.
(Theory being, you may not have as many late round steals (or maybe you would, who knows), but you also wouldn't galaxy brain yourself into picking Zboril, Debrusk, and Senyshyn instead of Barzal, Connor, and Chabot.)