Quote Originally Posted by HarveyWallbangers
Quote Originally Posted by Guiness
Quote Originally Posted by HarveyWallbangers

Pete Prisco, another senior writer, has the Saints swiping Hawk at No. 2. North Carolina State defensive end Mario Williams then slides to the Pack at No. 5. "This is the next Julius Peppers," writes Prisco. This is a whole lot better than being the next Doctor Pepper...
HW I like how you avoided Prisco's other prognostication:

Who they should take: Ernie Sims
I didn't see that. I grabbed the content straight from the JSO article (that I referenced), and that wasn't in there.

Personally, I don't think Prisco knows what he's talking about (he's not one of the national "experts" that I respect a lot), but the argument that I'm trying to counter is this idea that the selection of Hawk would not get mass approval. I'd venture to guess that many more people than not would think Hawk was a good pick for the Packers. I don't think that's even relavent, but apparently others do.
Harvey,

Don't know if you saw it, but ESPN did a little nationwide online poll that was essentially a nationwide mock draft. It's at:

http://sports.espn.go.com/chat/sport...ory?id=2406023

They assigned each team a time of day when they went on the clock, and went through the first round in about a week or so. Anyway, the interesting part I saw was that when Green Bay was up, Hawk beat Williams 42% to 25%, winning 48 out of the 50 states and the international voters. (If you click on "Wisconsin" it brings up an interactive map) The only two states Williams won? Wisconsin and North Carolina.