Time for TT to hit a blue chipper

[Partial]

TT has done very well at hitting on solid players. I don't think he has landed a franchise quality one yet, though.

Is it time for TT to trade up into the top 10 and take another shot at a potential stud or should he stand pat with 3 top 60 picks and hope to get three solid players?

Last year I wanted to give up whatever it took to get Adrian Peterson, this year I think their is going to be phenomenal value in another running back at around the 12-17 spot. I would be willing to trade one of those seconds, our third and a first to move up into this area to select Jon Stewart. Also, I'd be willing to see the sell farm and give up all three of our top 60 picks plus our third to get Glenn Dorsey. I'd play him at defensive end on base downs and inside on third down. He is phenomenal in getting after the passer and causing mayhem up front.

[RashanGary]

I think every team should just do what you said and win a championship. Then we can say all of the NFL GM's know as much as Partial and give everyone a championship ring.

Either that or we can recognize that Thompson has a steady climb up and the trend looks to be continuing into this season where improvement would likely mean a SB appearance or win if a few things bounce our way.

[Deputy Nutz]

Didn't you already start a thread about this topic?

[arcilite]

"hey guys i want to mortgage our future to draft a 'blue-chipper;"


and then when said blue-chipper sucks i will make a post saying "i told you guys he would suck!!@!1one1!"



go root for the redskins or something

[RashanGary]

Nice post arcilite

[RashanGary]

I'll betchya neither Dorsey or Stuart are blue chippers.

[Lurker64]

Not a lot of eventual blue-chippers are the blue-chip players that come out of college, and vice versa a lot of the blue-chip players who come out of college don't transform into blue-chip players in the NFL (anybody seen Reggie Bush recently?)

No matter who you draft, some guys will turn out to be better than you expect and some guys will turn out to be worse.

Mortgaging your future for a player you "know" is going to be great can work, but more often than not it doesn't because nobody really knows the future. Tony Mandarich was the greatest "can't miss" prospect in history, we traded up a whole bunch of spots to get Jamal Reynolds, the Saints mortgaged the entire franchise to get Ricky Williams, the story goes on and on.

I would much rather Thompson keep drafting solid players who can develop into blue-chippers as they mature in the league (Jennings has this potential) than waste a lot of resources on "can't miss" picks.

[Patler]

I rather like the idea of having 3 of the top 61 picks in a draft that is deep at the positions of greatest need for the Packers.

[ND72]

I'm not the biggest fan of Dorsey, so I'll stay away from that area...but there are 2 guys I would trade up to get in this draft...Jake Long & Rashard Mendenhall. I think Mendenhall is the real deal, even more real than McFadden.

[RashanGary]

I'm not the biggest fan of Dorsey, so I'll stay away from that area...but there are 2 guys I would trade up to get in this draft...Jake Long & Rashard Mendenhall. I think Mendenhall is the real deal, even more real than McFadden.

A lot of people are in that boat. I'm one of them. Harry Sydney is another. McFadden is Reggie Bush with 10 lbs. Mendenhall is almost as fast, but if you watch the tape, he's packed a lot tighter and he delivers a punch.

[digitaldean]

I'm not the biggest fan of Dorsey, so I'll stay away from that area...but there are 2 guys I would trade up to get in this draft...Jake Long & Rashard Mendenhall. I think Mendenhall is the real deal, even more real than McFadden.

I wholeheartedly agree. Jake Long will be gone in the first 3 picks. But Mendenhall is a beast.

[Deputy Nutz]

I'm not the biggest fan of Dorsey, so I'll stay away from that area...but there are 2 guys I would trade up to get in this draft...Jake Long & Rashard Mendenhall. I think Mendenhall is the real deal, even more real than McFadden.

I wholeheartedly agree. Jake Long will be gone in the first 3 picks. But Mendenhall is a beast.

I think Jake Long is going to be "OK" I don't think he will be Robert Gallery, but I don't think he is going to be Joe Thomas either. He is most likely going to be a solid left tackle, but probably will perform better at right tackle.

Mendenhall, I just don't trust the fact that he is coming from the Illini. He has had one decent year there and I don't like backs coming out of the spread offense. I would still rather have the Razorback that ran a sub 4.4 forty.

[MadtownPacker]

So can we use this thread to virtual-backhand Partial??

I dont like the idea of trading up because you pin all your hopes on one player. There is strength in numbers and 3 first day picks have way better odds then 1.

[The Leaper]

Greg Jennings was a 2nd round pick. Is he not a blue-chipper? Why the need to forfeit picks to move up? Why the suggestion that only top 10 picks are potential blue-chippers?

I'll keep the three picks in the first 2 rounds, thank you very much.

[Ballboy]

I say we stand pat where we are and maybe only use our later picks combined with a current pick to move up a couple spots to get a targeted player.

The way I see it, 3 picks in the first 61 should allow us to fill the CB, OL and TE/DE with high quality players the should contribute this year. Sure, it would be nice if we pick up a DE or CB in FA, but as we all know that most likely won't happen!!