THE draft thread (2013 version)

[wist43]

newhouse shouldn't be a tackle

and no, he never has drafted a center, thats my point. hell, he might not have ever drafted a guard either

he has drafted about 20 so-so LT's and tried to turn them into centers and guards and RT's

I made this point before the draft.

The Packers evaluate all offensive lineman in the same way. They value a certain type of player, and just about every offensive line draft pick is a cookie cutter of their standard. If he's not, he doesn't survive to the 53 man roster.

"Versitile", "mobile", "underpowered", "needs to get stronger", "good in the open field", "has trouble with speed", "has trouble with power"... all we need now is MM's speech about "pad level".

TT's drafts are beginning to take on a comedic quality - next year, we can add at least 7 or 8 of these 10 picks to the scrap heep - and the other 2 or 3 can be added the next year.

Wow

[Bretsky]

David Bass...would be nice

DA RATS have been calling for this guy for a while
Oakland just took him
Let's watch his career and if we were all right we need to collectively scout for TT )

[red]

boy, today was pretty shitty in my eyes

franklin is the only pick i liked, but after the lacy pick it just made no sense

i don't know what we actually gained today, i'm guessing a lot of them won't even be on the roster and off the team around this time next year

basically it was a bottom of the roster turnover

maybe we gained some more valuable special team aces

[pittstang5]

What a circus! Just got back from spending some time with the family, all hell has broken loose. Two tackles? Let me guess, both guard prospects. Two scrub wrs. Two fn RBs that will do nothing behind this crap line.

No safety, no center, no decent ILB. No A.J. Klein! wtf. I only like the 1st round pick.

[red]

i give our first round a B

second day i give a B- . i like lacy but hate we traded out of the third for jack shit

and i'll give the third day a solid D

[red]

What a circus! Just got back from spending some time with the family, all hell has broken loose. Two tackles? Let me guess, both guard prospects. Two scrub wrs. Two fn RBs that will do nothing behind this crap line.

No safety, no center, no decent ILB. No A.J. Klein! wtf. I only like the 1st round pick.

yes

2 guard prospects, though 2 or 3 people in the world think one of them can be a right tackle. the cb we took some say would be better playing safety, so we might have a saftey, just a project one. 2 wr's who probably won't make the roster and at best will be practice squaders for a couple years

[Bretsky]

Has he ever drafted a Center? I am just telling you where it looks like they will line up at minicamp.

No one though Newhouse would be a tackle either.

I still don't

We had a lot...lot of guys I wanted to see in GB fall off the board between the 3rd and when TT ended up picking after trading that pick away

[woodbuck27]

Ted Thompson "Our quarterback is a pretty good player, he doesn't need very much help"

LMAO

Yea! He's Iron Man.

He throws >>> catches his own pass.

[Bretsky]

boy, today was pretty shitty in my eyes

franklin is the only pick i liked, but after the lacy pick it just made no sense

i don't know what we actually gained today, i'm guessing a lot of them won't even be on the roster and off the team around this time next year

basically it was a bottom of the roster turnover

maybe we gained some more valuable special team aces

I am warming to this draft but looking at the round 3 to round 4 trade
There were a LOT......LOT of guys that went off the board who IMO would have offered immediate help...IMO starters
however
be doing that deal we gained depth....but not sure about any immediate help

We got a lot deeper today; we have two RB's better than anybody we had on the roster at the end of last year at the position. I would have been fine with drafting only Franklyn to be honest. He's a really nice player. Getting him makes me feel better about Lacy because if he turns out to be a Sherry at least we have a nice plan in the wings

[Old School]

Thanks guys. Rats is the best Packer Draft Tracker going. There was no shortage of great insight and good links to info. There are sites that charge for a lesser product. You're a great bunch to hang with.

I'm withholding judgment for now. I try to be positive until proven otherwise. It's always exciting to see how it all shakes out.

Wist, come on in off the ledge and have some dinner.

[Bretsky]

What a circus! Just got back from spending some time with the family, all hell has broken loose. Two tackles? Let me guess, both guard prospects. Two scrub wrs. Two fn RBs that will do nothing behind this crap line.

No safety, no center, no decent ILB. No A.J. Klein! wtf. I only like the 1st round pick.

Pitt......value wise.......I love the 1st round pick, Frankly, the 4th round RB from UCLA, the first WR we took, and I kind of like the OLB too.

We took the old TT mentality.......quantity quantity quantity......if you have ten darts cheap darts hopefully you get four bullseyes.....that was the strategy....as opposed to maybe last year....last year....instead of using ten plastic darts.....we traded a few of them away for higher quality darts.....so we only got seven throws with better darts.

The right way ? Who knows..........

[RashanGary]

Goin to my mas to make burgers. . . . Fuck, guys, relax. . . . D Jones and E Lacy are gonna play right away. That tackle, the first one, I really think we have ourselves a player there. He's tough as nails, consistent, strong. . . . . He's a run blocker.

[Brandon494]

Both running backs are going to play right away along with our 1st round DE and we have some guys with nice potential in the lower rounds. BTW haven't we learned how dumb it is to grade a draft right away? No one truly knows how these guys will turn out.

[Bretsky]

Was today verificatoin that our expectatoins for Sherry are next to nothing ?

[Brandon494]

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcnorth/post/_/id/55883/nfc-north-draft-analysis-5

ESPN has us with the best move out of the division

The Green Bay Packers have gone 43 games without a 100-yard rusher, the longest active streak in the NFL by more than twice. Their running backs have combined for 12 rushing touchdowns over the past three seasons, the fewest in the NFL, and their average of 3.8 yards per rush over that span is tied for last in the league.