Chris Gamble

[wist43]

I think picking Ahmad Carrol was a good pick. He had the talent, he just didn't have the right attitude to turn that into skill. Attitude is something that is hard to gauge in interviews I would think. I don't fault Sherman for that pick, maybe he shouldn't have taken him that high, who knows. Scouting players is the scout team's job (duh), so they must have seen something in him to make the recommendation to Sherman.

Ahmad Carroll had great physical tools... but, was raw as a player. It was clearly going to take him time to develop. No way do you take a guy like that in the 1st round.

Most predraft sites and publications had him in the 3rd round - which is where I saw him going.

I'll still give it a try to find the article that talked about Dorsey's sell job on Sherman to pick Carroll... as I said, pretty sure it was a McGinn article.

Went back and looked at the JS site for April and May of 2004... interesting to go back and look at what everyone had to say back then. I hated that draft then, and hate it now... BJ Sander was the last straw for me - I started calling for Sherman's head after that moronic pick.