official 2014 nfl draft thread

[Patler]

Me too. Especially at safety and ilb. We have a good team. On defense we need a guy who can fly around and clean up.

We have a whole team of good players, guys who are kind of natural football guys. We need one more star and I think we're over the top.

I try to be practical in my feelings about where the team really is, or where it could be; but I am haunted by feelings of how 2011, 2012 and 2013 could have been if Collins had just gotten his head a little lower, or if Stewart had jumped an inch higher. Losing him in the back of the defense was worse than playing without Matthews has been, because losing him affected the defense from sideline to sideline and from the line of scrimmage to the goal line. They had a special player roaming in that territory, and the drop-off from him to those who replaced him has been huge.

..and he likely would still be at the top of his game in 2014-2015.