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Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.Very in depth and well written story.
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Haha, people were saying he's Shawn Crable 2.0. What dopes. Deus looked like a fool, as usual, but that hasn't stopped him from his smug postings.
I don't understand the hatred of PFF on this board. PFF is fine, though you have to take their metrics with a grain of salt because it's just systematizing something inherently subjective. The people doing the grading spend a lot more time watching football than I do, and probably a lot more time than most people on this board, though. It's certainly more valuable than the talking head narrative-based analysis you see elsewhere.
Some comments on the comments
1. I went back and read about 10 pages from the link JMCOO gave us (thanks) and came away with the following impressions.
a. I was surprised, actually, that there were as many fans OK with this pick as there were. I mean, it wasn't like it was expected or loved, but at least in those first moments before the Dobson pick, my impression was that a bit more than half the posts were relatively positive.
b. I think the biggest mistake most of the negative commentators made was to label him a "work out warrior", whose main attributes were good combine times. They seemed to neglect the fact that he had pretty impressive production #'s as well. When you look at those production numbers and add the facts that his team was so bad, he had so many coaches and position changes; its kind of surprising that he lasted as long as he did.
c. I was a bit surprised to see ausie being the first guy to be fully on board with this pick. He is usually one of BB's biggest draft critics. Give yourself a pat on the back ausie. You nailed this one....right from the start.
d. DI was a **** as usual, and would probably STILL thinks he is right, even today.
e. Sorry but I can't remember the poster, but someone wisely mentioned, early on, that Collins would need a lot of coaching before we saw the results of this pick. Another guy who got it right from the moment he was picked.
f. You can't call yourself a "secret superstar supporter" unless you have #91 as your jersey number.....and picked it before this thread started.
g. The link JMCOO posted to the draft thread last year is compelling reading starting on page 15.
h. While I was reading about the early impressions of the Collins pick, I couldn't help think about some of the similarities to the Easly pick. Both were guys with EXPLOSIVE and rare measurables, great production (when on the field), and significant question marks that dropped them to the Pats
i. If the 2013 draft class makes a reasonable 2nd year leap and Easly can be a factor this year, BB would have literally CRUSHED the last 4 drafts.
j. Everyone likes to throw Ozzie Newsome's name around like he was a GM they wished BB would be more like. Now I respect Newsome, but he's had more than a few misses in recent years and his team was on the outside looking in this year. He's a good object lesson in the "be careful what you wish for" adage, as well as a good exemplar of how hard it ism, even of the best of GM's, to be consistently successful in the draft.