Grade our draft

FrenzyFan · 04-25-2010, 10:52 AM

I felt similarly to this after last years draft. Our picks last year were lackluster at best. If you recall we passed on Cushing, and Orakpo. We selected Jenkins as the "better value" even though he's a CB who many say can't cut it there and needs to be a safety. At least he contributed on special teams but he was also an injury concern last year. The best move we made was the punter, and that was something of a surprise especially considering one of the best things he added for us was on kickoffs!
We won it all, but I don't see our run D getting any better from this. Maybe the thinking is that teams can't keep up with us in scoring by running - they have to pass. That being the case, we don't need a run D. It seems to me we needed to do something about defending the run, replace Fujita, and upgrade Shanle (even though I know he's consistent if not flashy). We didn't.

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04-25-2010, 10:52 AM	#11
FrenzyFan 100th Post Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 406	Re: Grade our draft I felt similarly to this after last years draft. Our picks last year were lackluster at best. If you recall we passed on Cushing, and Orakpo. We selected Jenkins as the "better value" even though he's a CB who many say can't cut it there and needs to be a safety. At least he contributed on special teams but he was also an injury concern last year. The best move we made was the punter, and that was something of a surprise especially considering one of the best things he added for us was on kickoffs! We won it all, but I don't see our run D getting any better from this. Maybe the thinking is that teams can't keep up with us in scoring by running - they have to pass. That being the case, we don't need a run D. It seems to me we needed to do something about defending the run, replace Fujita, and upgrade Shanle (even though I know he's consistent if not flashy). We didn't.
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