Teams to watch in the draft: Dolphins and Giants

[bakes781]

Both have a need at WR and LB. Both have picks right after us in round 1 as well as multiple picks in round 2. What the Pats do may very much depend greatly on what these 2 teams do.

 

[cstjohn17]

Both have a need at WR and LB. Both have picks right after us in round 1 as well as multiple picks in round 2. What the Pats do may very much depend greatly on what these 2 teams do.

The Giants draft very well, ideally they would make the draft picks for the Patriots.

 

[sg14]

I would think that BB is deathly afraid of the Tuna jumping over the Pats at 23 if there is a player they both covet,,

I bet at the Senior Bowl Parcells is telling BB, I'm moving down,,,,

Somehow these teams seem to know which player each team is after early on in the draft.

Wonder if that's Ernie Adam's job to figure that out for us??

 

[Box_O_Rocks]

Round 2 yields first-rate players - Cleveland.com

Round 2 yields first-rate players
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Tony Grossi
Plain Dealer Reporter

The latest NFL draft trend is to stockpile picks in the second round.
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So if there's a trend, you know the New England Patriots are at the forefront. They own three picks in the second round, plus one in the first round.

The Patriots are one of three teams (so far) with three picks among the first 50 selections of the draft. They own Nos. 23, 34 and 47.

The Browns, after their trade of Kellen Winslow, own Nos. 5, 36 and 50.

The Lions have Nos. 1, 20 and 33.

If you expand the list to include teams with three or more picks in the first two rounds of the draft, New England would rise with four, counting No. 58.

Other teams with three: Philadelphia has Nos. 21, 28 and 53; Miami has Nos. 25, 44 and 56; the Giants have Nos. 29, 45, 60.

These six teams, thus, will be considered the "players" on the first day of the draft. They can use the picks to move up to take a player they really want or stay pat and collect value in the second round.
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Coach Bill is always thinking:

A lot has been said about the Patriots' trade of quarterback Matt Cassel and linebacker Mike Vrabel to Kansas City for the relatively low price of the Chiefs' second-round pick.

The Patriots needed to dump Cassel's $14.6 million salary-cap charge as their franchise player. So that part of the deal makes sense. They couldn't ask for too much in return.

The mystery is why the Patriots "threw in" Vrabel, who was one of coach Bill Belichick's favorite players. Vrabel will be 34 in August and counted $4.6 million on the team's salary cap in the last year of his contract.

Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe theorizes that Belichick included Vrabel in the deal so that he could dictate his final destination.

Perhaps Belichick was concerned, Reiss suggested, that a smart player like Vrabel could come back to haunt him if he ended up with one of Belichick's former assistants, such as Mangini or Denver's Josh McDaniels.

Now, Kansas City may very well put another Belichick assistant, Romeo Crennel, in charge of its defense. The Chiefs are keeping the position open while Crennel recovers from hip replacement surgery.

But Belichick probably figures the Chiefs are less of a threat in 2009 than Denver and Cleveland.

Everything Belichick does is analyzed to the 10th degree.