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1.) Ok, so the homers consistently tell us that BB knows better than everyone else, so questioning him is stupid. So, why the hell did the team need to draft yet another cornerback? If this kid busts out tomorrow, his being picked will have accomplished at least one thing: It will give the more objective posters a "scoreboard" response when the homers crack out that line of stupidity.
2.) Mayock has concerns about this kid's fluidity in transition.
3.) All of those people who are now defending this pick need to either show where they talked about need at CB prior to the draft or to stop riding the asses of those who don't like the pick.
4.) This is all just looking in a vacuum, and it's another reason the 3 day draft format sucks. It's likely that the team will take DE/OLB picks in round 2, and that will make the round 1 pick look much better. That context is missing right now. Once again the Ommissioner screws the pooch.
5.) DE
OLB
ILB
OG
Get 'er done, Bill.
1) I won't speak for anyone else, but I absolutely feel BB will consistently make better football decisions than anyone on this board. Thats not because he runs the Pats, its because he has proven that he makes better football decisions than his peers, and its entirely ignorant to think an amateur on a message board could outperform a trained experiened professional who has aobut 3% of the facts to work with.
That doesn't mean every pick is going to work out, thats a crazy place to set the bar.
How many Pats fans posters do you think would have done a better job with this franchise if they made BBs decisions for him?
So when someone says Wilson was a better pick that McCourty I dismiss that because it is made with a small percentage of the facts and a clearly inferior skill in assessing those facts than BB has PROVEN to have.
The difference between the 27th and 35th pick in a draft is slim. Look at draft history. Very often you cannot anticipate which player will be better you simply have to make a choice. If Matt Millen were making our picks, I would say posters are more likely to be right, but we are talking about BB here, and his track record is excellent. Are you seriously saying that the bar should be set that he is infallible, or that if you can find any bad picks 'you win' because you would never make a bad or questionable pick?
2) There are positives and negatives in every player. Given our system the analysis I have read sounds like the strengths and weaknesses fit what we want very well.
3) I have bemoaned our coverage for a very long time, and have talked about a corner in the limited amount of draft posts I have made. You can look that up.
4) That's a sensible approach. The real success in drafting isnt picking in order of need, but properly assessing the difference in quality at each position at different stages in the draft. If all the OLBs are gone and there are a plethora of close to 1stround caliber corners left, that is a very different story than if there is a huge dropoff at corner and a wealth of similar players at OLB throughout the 1st and 2nd.
5) By the end of tomorrow we should have an awful lot of young talent on defense from the last few drafts, which seems like a building block for a good run of top tier defenses.