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Some comments on the comments
1. as the division of labor become more and more specialized it seems to be to be getting more and more difficult to predict the future success of athletes even those who are grouped in the same position group.
What I mean is these days, at DT is not always a DT. Now days you have 2 kinds of DT's, You have the run stuffing, pocket pusher like Eddie Goldman, and then you have the penetrating disruptor best exemplified by Aaron Donald, and we hope Dom Easley. So we are left to wonder if we can get enough of a pocket push from Goldman in a league where the pass continues to predominate. As well as wonder if guys like Hardison and Easley can stand up to run game, if the pendulum starts to swing, as people see the success teams are having in the run game with guy like Lynch, Murray and Bell.
So there is one side of me that wants to roll the dice and see a future with 2 dynamic DT's like Hardison and Easley, while there is another who thinks that we'd be better off with a future DT tandem of Goldman and Easley.
2. OT - I get the feeling that the Pats are very high on Sealver Siliga's development arc, and see a much higher ceiling for this kid than is apparent to the general football world at this moment. I'm not sure who this kid might turn into. Whether he's a shorter Richard Seymour, or perhaps our version of Seattle's Michael Bennet, or something completely different altogether. All I "know" is that I think they think that this kid might turn out to be a special player instead of the solid role player, that most people think of him right now. Call it a premonition.
3. Todd Gurley is becoming more and more intriguing to me at the end of the first round for a couple of reasons. First, I think the pendulum is starting to turn a bit as how teams are looking at the running game. As teams start to go more and more to lighter faster LB's and DLmen, the opportunities to attack them with the running game become more readily available. Secondly Gurley seems like a special talent who could become a true 3 down RB.
The problem I have with picking him is not a question of IF we would be better with him, but "how much better", as opposed to the RB corps we have right now. And is that difference worth the first round pick and the eventual impact the OL or DLman we could have made. It's kind of a delicate balance you have to weigh. As well as the fact that there are more quality RB's available than potentially great DLmen.
But no one said the decisions are easy. The only thing that you can count on is that regardless of who they pick, most of us will think we could have done better.
4. I am fully on board with those who believe our top priorities should be on the O/D lines. We started the process last season with Easley Stork and Flemming, and it's likely to continue into this season. At least that's MY hope.
5. I am also fully on board in my belief that all our key FA's and Revis will return. If I'm wrong then a lot of my assumptions change.
6. My mock draft at this point consists more of where the players play than who they are. I'm not knowledgeable enough yet to add the who to the where, so pardon my vagueness, plus my vision only goes as far as the end of the 4th round.
32. - DT
64. OG
96. DE
98* LB
101*. RB
131* OL
* - These last 3 picks are approximations caused by the vagaries of the comp picks
1. as the division of labor become more and more specialized it seems to be to be getting more and more difficult to predict the future success of athletes even those who are grouped in the same position group.
What I mean is these days, at DT is not always a DT. Now days you have 2 kinds of DT's, You have the run stuffing, pocket pusher like Eddie Goldman, and then you have the penetrating disruptor best exemplified by Aaron Donald, and we hope Dom Easley. So we are left to wonder if we can get enough of a pocket push from Goldman in a league where the pass continues to predominate. As well as wonder if guys like Hardison and Easley can stand up to run game, if the pendulum starts to swing, as people see the success teams are having in the run game with guy like Lynch, Murray and Bell.
So there is one side of me that wants to roll the dice and see a future with 2 dynamic DT's like Hardison and Easley, while there is another who thinks that we'd be better off with a future DT tandem of Goldman and Easley.
2. OT - I get the feeling that the Pats are very high on Sealver Siliga's development arc, and see a much higher ceiling for this kid than is apparent to the general football world at this moment. I'm not sure who this kid might turn into. Whether he's a shorter Richard Seymour, or perhaps our version of Seattle's Michael Bennet, or something completely different altogether. All I "know" is that I think they think that this kid might turn out to be a special player instead of the solid role player, that most people think of him right now. Call it a premonition.
3. Todd Gurley is becoming more and more intriguing to me at the end of the first round for a couple of reasons. First, I think the pendulum is starting to turn a bit as how teams are looking at the running game. As teams start to go more and more to lighter faster LB's and DLmen, the opportunities to attack them with the running game become more readily available. Secondly Gurley seems like a special talent who could become a true 3 down RB.
The problem I have with picking him is not a question of IF we would be better with him, but "how much better", as opposed to the RB corps we have right now. And is that difference worth the first round pick and the eventual impact the OL or DLman we could have made. It's kind of a delicate balance you have to weigh. As well as the fact that there are more quality RB's available than potentially great DLmen.
But no one said the decisions are easy. The only thing that you can count on is that regardless of who they pick, most of us will think we could have done better.
4. I am fully on board with those who believe our top priorities should be on the O/D lines. We started the process last season with Easley Stork and Flemming, and it's likely to continue into this season. At least that's MY hope.
5. I am also fully on board in my belief that all our key FA's and Revis will return. If I'm wrong then a lot of my assumptions change.
6. My mock draft at this point consists more of where the players play than who they are. I'm not knowledgeable enough yet to add the who to the where, so pardon my vagueness, plus my vision only goes as far as the end of the 4th round.
32. - DT
64. OG
96. DE
98* LB
101*. RB
131* OL
* - These last 3 picks are approximations caused by the vagaries of the comp picks
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