Rating The Packers' Draft Choices 2011

[Gunakor]

We also have Jones coming back and Dom Caper drawing up crazy blitz packages, we'll be fine on defense.

I hope you're right Brandon. But I have my doubts that Capers' crazy blitz packages will be consistently effective without a second bonefied pass rusher. That's not quite what Brad Jones strikes me as. 4 sacks in 8 games with Cullen Jenkins or BJ Raji engaging 2 blockers in front of him every snap - that's what we got from him a couple years ago. About the same pace as the trio we put out there last year with Jenkins or Pickett engaging 2 blockers in front of them. The constant among all the variables? Cullen Jenkins.

Assuming Cullen Jenkins is gone - the biggest factor in my reasoning for a new pass rusher in this draft - I don't even see 6 out of Jones. Hopefully he'll prove me wrong, or Jenkins will be back and it won't matter as much. Otherwise I'd expect the pressure Matthews generates to diminish from last season right along with the pressure generated on the other side. That affects everything the defense tries to do. That worries me. I'd be delighted to be proven wrong, but I think my concerns are legitimate.

[Gunakor]

When I was a kid, I wonder if my imaginary friend had an imaginary sack?

How wild was your imagination when you were a kid?

[Tarlam!]

I love fried chicken, but I pass on the twinkies. No wonder I didn't get to play football.

[wootah]

On the footballsfuture forum one of the regulars (who is a pro scout for the Steelers btw) gave his take on the 2011 draft class of the Pack: link . Better than any of the reporters out there IMO.

[sharpe1027]

Walden's 3 sacks came in one game - that doesn't tell me anything other than that Walden had a great game that day.

Clay Mathews III got almost half of his sacks in the first two games. Sacks seem to often come in bunches, such as a game or two where teams do not have the proper personnel and/or game plan. That being said, Walden has been around for awhile and that supports your position that the one game good should be looked at with some skepticism.

[ThunderDan]

I think the fatass that eats fried chicken and twinkies all off season is pretty psyched they have a million dollar position just for him in the NFL.

Sorry I can't pass on this one.

I have a good friend who played ball at MINN and bonced around the practice squads of the NFL for a while.

When a 6'2" 305 lb man can dunk a basketball he ain't just eating chicken and twinkies and making a million dollars.

[Pack-man]

I give this draft a solid B. The only pick I question is the 2nd TE.

[retailguy]

Sorry I can't pass on this one.

I have a good friend who played ball at MINN and bonced around the practice squads of the NFL for a while.

When a 6'2" 305 lb man can dunk a basketball he ain't just eating chicken and twinkies and making a million dollars.

Yep. The boy is eatin some HO HO's too...

[MJZiggy]

When I was a kid, I wonder if my imaginary friend had an imaginary sack?

Who are you kidding? When you were a kid, your imaginary friend was a girl who blossomed early...

[Bretsky]

my imaginary friends when I was a kid were two girls

Now my imaginary frends are three.......all playboy triplet twins !

[Guiness]

On the footballsfuture forum one of the regulars (who is a pro scout for the Steelers btw) gave his take on the 2011 draft class of the Pack: link . Better than any of the reporters out there IMO.

Interesting read, thanks for the link.

He had House off his board, but doesn't say why, other than the guy is full of himself? Anyone heard more about problems with him?

He felt the same way about Green as I did. The holes I saw him running through won't exist in the NFL, so he's an unknown.

Had good things to say about Williams and Schlauderaff.

[Iron Mike]

I think the big difference is that Cobb is very likely to reach the numbers you state than Houston is. Also, Jay Glazer said that every GM he talked to said Cobb was the greatest kid in the draft--while Houston failed two drug tests (including one at the combine when he knew it was coming). I was actually on the Houston bandwagon (in a lukewarm fashion), but later in the draft. I wanted Cobb more than Houston.

Sean Jones was talking the kid up on WDUZ yesterday.

[Tarlam!]

Sean Jones was talking the kid up on WDUZ yesterday.

Link?

[Cheesehead Craig]

Link?

Pattie?

[Tarlam!]

Pattie?

Huh?