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Mel Kiper....LOL....I wouldn't put too much into what that guy has to say.
Look, we didn't replace Walker with the pick. Maybe we take someone down the road like a Driver who pans out, who knows. There were 11 WR's rated ahead of Jennings and we selected the second shortest one from a realtively unknown school in IA. The selection of a Tackle for the Walker spot, what a friggin JOKE. I guess TT didn't like his picks from last year....
"Once the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic.”
– Benjamin Franklin
I can't run no more
With that lawless crowd
While the killers in high places
Say their prayers out loud
But they've summoned, they've summoned up
A thundercloud
They're going to hear from me - Leonard Cohen
This was the draft that weaned me on trying to do it myself.
This was the first year that NFL network put the combine on, for some reason, I watched a lot of it. Chad Jackson was a freakin' star in all the catching and underwear drills. He was obviously one of the top WR's goin'. Then TT traded the pick that would have netted Jackson and drafted Greg Jennings.
I was bummed.
Until I saw that Tank thought it was stupid. Tank is/was a fanboy, an asshole, & a liar. So, I felt a lot better in TT's choice. Now, I've happily given up. I wanted Logan Mankins and Chad Jackson, Thompson picked ARod and Greg Jennings. Let's let him do the heavy lifting.
I read PR, a few sites and wait for the draft.
When we draft 'em, I start really paying attention.
I still look forward to the draft, but my scouting activities are now greatly diminished.
He was so embarrassed by his misguided ranting about the pick that he has left the posting world. Now he just skulks around online.
As for me, I have taken KY's approach. I bitched and moaned about that goddamn unknown safety fucker, that Nick Collins asshole that everyone said TT could've gotten in the third or fourth round, and I bitched about this unknown fucker, this Greg Jennings, and I was mortified when TT traded TWO THIRDS AND his second to move up for some USC linebacker who only started one year or something.
I was a little uneasy about Ron Wolf giving up a valuable first round pick for a guy who was a second round pick the year before and hadn't played all year.
Plus, I liked Robert Ferguson and Odell Thurman. And I thought Brian Brohm was a good pick.
In my defense, though, my heart sank when Ron Wolf drafted John Michels and again when he drafted Jamaal Reynolds.
"The Devine era is actually worse than you remember if you go back and look at it."
He was so embarrassed by his misguided ranting about the pick that he has left the posting world. Now he just skulks around online.
As for me, I have taken KY's approach. I bitched and moaned about that goddamn unknown safety fucker, that Nick Collins asshole that everyone said TT could've gotten in the third or fourth round, and I bitched about this unknown fucker, this Greg Jennings, and I was mortified when TT traded TWO THIRDS AND his second to move up for some USC linebacker who only started one year or something.
I was a little uneasy about Ron Wolf giving up a valuable first round pick for a guy who was a second round pick the year before and hadn't played all year.
Plus, I liked Robert Ferguson and Odell Thurman. And I thought Brian Brohm was a good pick.
In my defense, though, my heart sank when Ron Wolf drafted John Michels and again when he drafted Jamaal Reynolds.
With all the pre-draft info that's out now, it just gives me more space to be wrong.
All you draftniks out there, keep that shit coming.
PR is 95% of my "scouting" information.
I love these old threads sometimes.
I always scan 'em real quick to see if I posted something real stupid.
In my defense, though, my heart sank when Ron Wolf drafted John Michels and again when he drafted Jamaal Reynolds.
Yeah, totally with you there, Fritz. With those two, I wanted some kind of proof that these guys deserved to be drafted in the first round. You wonder what the scouts and Wolf were seeing. Neither looked like they had any business being drafted first round. I think we've had better street free agents.
"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." -Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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