Who Would You Have Picked Instead?

[mraynrand]

I would have traded the pick for 16 seventh round selections

[smuggler]

Burns went up to 250 for the combine, but said in a radio interview that he was back in the 230s before the draft. He may have trouble keeping the weight on.

[mraynrand]

Burns went up to 250 for the combine, but said in a radio interview that he was back in the 230s before the draft. He may have trouble keeping the weight on.

[red]

I would have traded the pick for 16 seventh round selections

ted?

[run pMc]

I would have traded the pick for 16 seventh round selections

LOL I wonder if this could even be possible -- to trade down until you had a bajillion picks. The #12 pick is worth about 1200 points according to the draft chart I'm looking at. Considering R7 picks are worth between 1 and 5 points each, I'd say if it were possible to get equal value it would probably be all of Round 6 and 7. That would truly be a Ted move -- to draft the entire senior class from SMU football team.

[Radagast]

Unless one post the politically correct/approved sports line, one is subject to being ridiculed for having an independent opinion. That said, Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah , go pack go.

[mraynrand]

That would truly be a Ted move -- to draft the entire senior class from SMU football team.

Awesome.

[Fritz]

almost anyone

he was on my DO NOT DRAFT LIST

then on top of it, he has a bum shoulder, that you know will cost him most of next year somehow

hope i'm wrong, but the guy screams bust

Obviously I agree with Red. Gary is thinking of himself as a brand; as such, he's going to be thinking of his career - not just his football career, but his business career - above all else. And as a person, I'm fine with that. More power to the guy for understanding he's a cog in a corporate machine.

As a Packer fan, though, I think the guy's gonna hold himself out of games if he thinks he's injured. He's going to be worrying more about his brand than about winning football games. Hopefully those two things coincide. The guy is not Frank Clark; he's going to be more Justin Harrell in terms of career success in football.

The guy who is more like Frank Clark is Montez Sweat. He's 6'-6" and weighs 280. Oh, and he had 10.5 sacks his junior year and 12 his senior year. The guy probably does have questionable character, but I think that nasty streak might contribute on the football field.

I would have liked Sweat, and I would have liked Dillard. Either one.

[pbmax]

Unless one post the politically correct/approved sports line, one is subject to being ridiculed for having an independent opinion. That said, Rah Rah Sis Boom Bah , go pack go.

Thanks for contributing to the thread.

[theeaterofshades]

I would have taken David Sills WR WVU in round 7, and used one of the 6th rounders on ILB

[bobblehead]

I'm not afraid to go on record. I would have first liked to trade down. If no trade were available I would have taken in order:

Montez Sweat, Andre Dillard, Brian Burns. Given where these guys went, I might have been able to trade down 2x and then not lost anything to move up for savage.

I still say Sweats heart won't be an issue. He will be a great pro. Dillard would have solved our RT for a decade. Burns would be the edge bending 3rd down specialist we don't have.

[wist43]

"Before" the pick occurred, I'd bet nearly all would have preferred Burns and Dillard.

I'm not sure anybody preferred Gary

Gooter talks a good game; I give him that He sold the pick hard in the presser and he did a great job with it

But I have no new info now and I'm not flipping into the Kool Aide bowl because the Packers took him

I hope he's a 10 time Pro Bowler and I'm wrong and he finally lives up to his ability.........unlike his production in college.

Burns or Dillard were my 2 guys, but had I done proper homework on Gary, he would have been on that short list too.

And I agree with Harvey in that I think Gary is a better fit in Pettine's system than Burns.

Savage would not have been there at 30 had Gute not traded up.

The other guy I was hoping for went in the 3rd round - Diontae Johnson, WR, Toledo. With Gute trading the 4th rounders, I'm okay with Sternberger.

[mraynrand]

I'm not afraid to go on record. I would have first liked to trade down. If no trade were available I would have taken in order:

Montez Sweat, Andre Dillard, Brian Burns. Given where these guys went, I might have been able to trade down 2x and then not lost anything to move up for savage.

That would have been a Sweatheart deal

[texaspackerbacker]

Sweat seems like he could be a good 4-3 DE - the same as Datone Jones seemed. That was my first impression of Gary too, but on further checking, he is seemingly faster and more athletic, more like a 3-4 edge rusher.

From what I read about Dillard, there were about four or more O Linemen I preferred over him.

[bobblehead]

Sweat seems like he could be a good 4-3 DE - the same as Datone Jones seemed. That was my first impression of Gary too, but on further checking, he is seemingly faster and more athletic, more like a 3-4 edge rusher.

From what I read about Dillard, there were about four or more O Linemen I preferred over him.

I'm sure there were.