Listening to Falcons fans on this board, Justin Blalock is the weakest part of their OL and Chris Houston is soft. They expect us to attack both of them on Sunday.
If Justin Blalock is the weakest part of their OL, then that's one hell of an OL.
Do you realize how crazy it sounds to say "if BB had used one of his 3 6th rounders on X"? That's ridiculous. No one in the NFL is good enough to judge talent well that deep. BB is better than most based on our record, but even so it's totally hit or miss. We passed on Guyton for Bo Rudd. We passed on Pierre Woods for Mincey from Florida in 2006.
Antoine Bethea was clearly the best FS on the board, and one of the best players available, regardless of position. That wasn't finding a needle in a haystack. Drafting crap like Mincey & Dan Stevenson in the same round is stepping in that crap in the barnyard.
It's hard enough to hit in the firs round not to mention the 6th, and there's lots of misses in-between. We passed on Michael Turner for Cedric Cobbs (Turner went in the 5th round, we took Cobbs in the 4th, I believe in 2004). We took Dave Thomas in the 3rd and passed on Owen Daniels. We took Chad Jackson over Greg Jennings. Make those 3 changes and we are set for the long term at WR, TE and RB.
Sounds like praising with faint damnation.
Harris, Woodley and Merriweather would all have been good picks in 2007. Be grateful that we got one of them. Meriweather was the highest rated of the three, and with Geno Wilson likely to leave after 2007 we clearly needed to groom a replacement. We had just brought in Adalius Thomas, who had versatility at ILB. Meriweather will be a stud for us.
If Bill wanted a Safety at #24 in '07, then he should've drafted Eric Weddle. Stomper was off my board because of his on-field & off-field trouble the previous year.
Be grateful for what we got.