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SmashMouth 04-02-2010 06:23 PM

Yasinskas Mini-mock Draft!
 
NFC South mini-mock draft - NFC South Blog - ESPN

Some good news to share with you. The ESPN Blog Network will be doing its own mock draft, which each blogger making the picks for his division.

I won’t give you the exact date just yet, but it will be coming the week of the draft. This something many of you have been asking about and I’d been pitching it to the Boys in Bristol that make the big decisions. I think some of my colleagues may have been doing the same. Anyway, we just found out we’ve been cleared to do it.

Again, this is down the road a bit. So, to help pass the time, I’ve decided to do a preliminary mock draft for the NFC South teams. Obviously, we don’t know what other teams will do and that’s going to shape what NFC South teams can do. This is subject to change and I’ll probably do it again several times before we do the league-wide mock draft.

But, as of the moment, here’s what I’m thinking for the first pick for each NFC South team:

3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. First, they have to hope and pray the Rams take quarterback Sam Bradford at No. 1. If St. Louis doesn’t do that, the Rams and Lions could take defensive tackles Ndamukong Suh and Gerald McCoy with the first two picks. If that happens, it could be disastrous for the Bucs. They need a defensive tackle probably more than any team has needed a certain position in history. If they don’t get one, they could try to trade down. If they can’t trade down, they’ll have to settle for safety Eric Berry. For right now, I’ll say they end up with a defensive tackle. I’m going to say Suh goes to the Lions and McCoy to the Bucs.

19. Atlanta Falcons. The glaring need is at defensive end. But the chances of an elite pass rusher at No. 19 are slim. The other obvious need is outside linebacker. Sean Weatherspoon's name keeps coming up, but I’m going outside the box here. I’m giving the Falcons Penn State linebacker Navorro Bowman. This is more of a hunch than anything, but I keep hearing a lot of teams like Bowman better than Weatherspoon and I’m thinking the Falcons could be one of them.

32. New Orleans Saints. The flip side to winning the Super Bowl is you get the last pick of the first round and are at the mercy of the teams ahead of you. But the good news is the Saints don’t have huge holes and can pretty much go for the best athlete available. Quarterbacks and wide receivers are off the board here, but the Saints can go in just about any other direction. Defensive end, defensive tackle and outside linebacker would seem like the biggest needs. I’m going with Weatherspoon to the Saints.

48. Carolina Panthers. They traded away their first-round pick last year to get defensive end Everette Brown. A lot of people think the Panthers will take a wide receiver and there’s a very real chance they will. But I wouldn’t go that way, given the fact the Panthers used early picks on Dwayne Jarrett and Keary Colbert and neither developed into anything. Part of the blame falls on Jarrett and Colbert. But I put more blame on John Fox and offensive coordinator Jeff Davidson. They’ve been too conservative to let young wide receivers do much and it’s tough to get much out of your No. 2 when Steve Smith is No. 1. For the moment, I’m giving the Panthers Alabama defensive tackle Terrence Cody. He’s an extremely big guy and, in the days when the Panthers still had a quality line, they had Kris Jenkins and Maake Kemoeatu plugging up the middle of the line.

Nothing really new...

QBREES9 04-02-2010 09:28 PM

Re: Yasinskas Mini-mock Draft!
 
The Saints will draft the best player available. Like they always do.

Rugby Saint II 04-04-2010 01:12 PM

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BPA like we always do.

homerj07 04-04-2010 04:03 PM

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BPA on defense.

jeanpierre 04-04-2010 06:00 PM

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BPA then make a trade where you have depth for a proven, talented commodity at a position that has to be shored up...

strato 04-04-2010 06:57 PM

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I can live wit dat

saintsfan1976 04-04-2010 07:31 PM

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No, Payton will trade up for the player he wants. I say no later than 26

CantonLegend 04-04-2010 09:12 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by QBREES9 (Post 216171)
The Saints will draft the best player available. Like they always do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II (Post 216359)
BPA like we always do.

idk that we always do that

would be nice for us to get a guy that fills a need and is also the best player available

saintsfan1976 04-05-2010 08:22 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CantonLegend (Post 216409)

would be nice for us to get a guy that fills a need and is also the best player available

Plenty of players around picks 25-35 could fill that role. Personally I like a stud DT or DE/OLB player to rush the QB. Gotta be an impact guy though... Trading up is fine w me also.

Rugby Saint II 04-05-2010 10:36 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by CantonLegend (Post 216409)
idk that we always do that

would be nice for us to get a guy that fills a need and is also the best player available

Maybe not every single time Canton.........but a gambling man could make a killin' on that bet though.:doh:

saintsfan1976 04-05-2010 12:29 PM

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Wanna talk about something we "always do" - as in since Sean Payton has been in control....?

TRADE UP.

He goes after what he wants.

CantonLegend 04-05-2010 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II (Post 216473)
Maybe not every single time Canton.........but a gambling man could make a killin' on that bet though.:doh:

id venture to say that we didnt do that last year......we didnt do that the year before even tho we did trade up to get the guy we wanted. IMO the only time we've done that under sean payton is in '07 when we drafted robert meachem

he was supposedly the BPA and he had slipped a few spots into our arms.....then you can look at 2006 when we drafted reggie. probably the BPA according to just about everyone. he didnt really fill a need but SP was lucky to get him because hes done magical things for us since then

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Originally Posted by saintsfan1976 (Post 216483)
Wanna talk about something we "always do" - as in since Sean Payton has been in control....?

TRADE UP.

He goes after what he wants.

we are not shy. we like to be aggressive and the more and more i look at this draft, the more i truely believe we will trade up

i hear a lot about us trading back for more 2nd round picks but the truth is that we dont trade back. our front office and our coaches do their homework. especially in the late rounds. but we are very aggressive when we see someone we like and i expect this draft to be no different

if a DE slips or a guy like dan williams falls i can see us giving the finger to all the other teams as we jump ahead of them to grab our guy

hagan714 04-06-2010 06:48 AM

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I’m going with Weatherspoon to the Saints.

I could live with this pipe dream. Sergio Kindle is next on the dream list.I can not see either one dropping to us


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