Pats select OLB Shawn Crable with 78th overall pick

[trustedwithangels]

everyone else noted that we drafted two linebackers with single digit jersey numbers right? extremely odd. maybe it means something haha.

 

[Seymour93]

everyone else noted that we drafted two linebackers with single digit jersey numbers right? extremely odd. maybe it means something haha.

In college football, LB's wearing low numbers is common. My favorite college LB, Derrick Johnson, who's now with KC, wore #11 for the Longhorns.

 

[jarnhestur]

First, I need to fully disclose my bias here. I'm a huge UoM fan.

I really like the Crabel pick. I think he's a talented kid who played for a poorly coached team. The defensive play calls for Michigan were staggeringly bad and adjustments were non-existent. Everything this kid did in college was due to athleticism and those players around him (Branch). He plays the 3-4 linebacker like it should be played. I'm not telling everyone he's going to the Pro-Bowl every year, but I think he has the possibility to be a solid contributor once he learns this defense.

 

[VJCPatriot]

I like this pick. Crable is quite athletic. I had been asking Michigan Dave about this guy, asking for a comparison to Harris but I don't think I got a response, I forget. Anyways the guy also has 4.6 speed and the prototypical size the Pats like. A developmental guy, but with some upside. Nothing to complain about with this pick here.

 

[SoonerPatriot]

In college football, LB's wearing low numbers is common. My favorite college LB, Derrick Johnson, who's now with KC, wore #11 for the Longhorns.

Johnson's a fruit loop and a closet case, from what I've heard.

 

[gomezcat]

Johnson's a fruit loop and a closet case, from what I've heard.

Nice objective analysis of a Longhorn, no doubt.

 

[Fencer]

The Sportsline writeup (which is what I use -- I forget which other sites use it) portray him as a guy with a lot of correctable-sounding flaws.

They also portray as the kind of guy who's high-character about contributing however they ask him to.

 

[Seymour93]

Johnson's a fruit loop and a closet case, from what I've heard.

You're just mad that you couldn't steal another fine Texas athlete.

Care to give details?

 

[unoriginal]

We draft one of the those young big-program linebackers everybody's been capaigning for years for... 27 posts.

Draft some QB... 121 posts.

 

[mdhprime]

We draft one of the those young big-program linebackers everybody's been capaigning for years for... 27 posts.

Draft some QB... 121 posts.

Here's 28!!! Seriously, I was psyched when they drafted him. More options at LB is a very, very good thing.

 

[Zeke_Mowatt]

We draft one of the those young big-program linebackers everybody's been capaigning for years for... 27 posts.

Draft some QB... 121 posts.

I suspect there is a lot less to "gripe" about with a tall, athletic OLB/Pass Rusher who only struggles in coverage and could stand to pack on 15lbs...not much controversy=not much conversation, I'd take that to mean most of us love the pick!

 

[JoeSixPat]

From Reiss' Pieces:

When the Patriots were on the clock with their first selection of the third round, 69th overall, they had settled on their draft choice. A team official phoned Michigan linebacker Shawn Crable and the connection was made. As Crable was about to be informed of the pick, the phone in the Patriots' draft room rang. It was the Chargers, wondering if the 69th pick might be for sale -- in exchange for a 2009 second-rounder and a 2008 fifth-rounder. The Patriots quickly processed the information and told Crable they were still interested in him and hoped he might be available with their next third-round pick (No. 78), but something had come up with a trade. They wished him well, wondering if they'd be speaking again. Nine picks later, the Patriots rang Crable's phone again -- this time to pick him officially.

Always nice when a plan comes together!

 

[unoriginal]

Sounds like the Pats will have to compensate Crable for quite a few Anytime minutes.

 

[fair catch fryar]

Crable rhymes with Vrabel. Coincidence....I think not.

If Bill Belichick thinks he'll be a good LB, then I think he'll be a good LB. Pass the kool-aid.

 

[Terry Glenn is a cowgirl]

Crable rhymes with Vrabel. Coincidence....I think not.

If Bill Belichick thinks he'll be a good LB, then I think he'll be a good LB. Pass the kool-aid.

Kinda cool...

 

[PATRIOTSFANINPA]

BUMP:

So many high hopes - so much dissapointment

 

[captain stone]

I didn't like the pick then, and I obviously don't like it now.

Cliff Avril should've been the choice then, and obviously should've been the choice now.

Chicken Legs = another bad pick in another bad draft by Bill.

 

[WaterfallJumper]

I didn't like the pick then, and I obviously don't like it now.

Cliff Avril should've been the choice then, and obviously should've been the choice now.

Chicken Legs = another bad pick in another bad draft by Bill.

I don't always find myself in agreement with you, but here I agree 100%. I wanted Avril as well, for a whole variety of reasons, and was upset when we took Wheatley and then Crable. I kept rooting for them, hoping they'd prove me wrong, but in the end it looks like we wasted both of our third rounders, as well as our picks in the second, fifth, and sixth rounds. Mildly depressing.

 

[patchick]

To keep myself honest, I just searched to find what I said about Crable back when he was drafted. Sure enough, I wasn't high on the pick at all.

I would feel all smug and knowing about that, except that in the same post where I expressed my doubts about Crable I talked about how much I liked the O'Connell pick.

 

[MaineMan]

I didn't like the pick then, and I obviously don't like it now.

Cliff Avril should've been the choice then, and obviously should've been the choice now.

Chicken Legs = another bad pick in another bad draft by Bill.

Ya gotta remember, 2008 was the last Pats draft in which Pioli and Dimitroff were involved. Pretty interesting how the two drafts since they left have been more productive so far. Of course, Atlanta's last two drafts, with Dimitroff as GM, have been pretty decent. The Chiefs? Not so much.

The point being that BB doesn't deserve all the blame for previous poor drafts (and he probably doesn't deserve 100% of the credit for the past two, either).