I feel like they need to veer back to the center, and balance the reaches and the stretches and project players with more solid, well-coached guys from BIG TIME college football programs and reliable, solid VETERAN free agents from other teams, who know how to lead the locker room or fire the team up on the field -- like the Jon Vilma, or Jeremy Schockey type guys used to have that leadership role on the team.

I think the weakness is not so much the people doing the picking, as it is maybe the philosophy.

Just in general, as a philosophy, we have soooo many of these projects, reaches, stretches, long shot picks and riverboat gambling type draft picks and free agent acquisitions on our team these days. And in the beginning, it worked really really well, with guys like Colston, Nicks, PT, etc. But now, they keep on reaching, and groping ever further, and signing these weird, obscure guys, small school unknowns, minor school programs, or guys like Gallette who come to the team with obvious baggage and red flags.

Look around the defense: you have all these minor, journeyman, barely-NFL-caliber guys from no-name schools sprinkled around in this defense...and everyone is saying they lack leadership and they can't figure out the schemes and learn the system or whatever the excuses are. Well, anybody wonder why? You don't learn that stuff or how to be a locker room leader, at the City University of Saskatoon or John Jay Haircutting College or if you only played one football season as a senior, and majored in curling or badminton in college instead of football.

I feel like they need to veer back to the center, and balance the reaches and the stretches and project players with more solid, well-coached guys from BIG TIME college football programs and reliable, solid VETERAN free agents from other teams, who know how to lead the locker room or fire the team up on the field -- like the Jon Vilma, or Jeremy Schockey type guys used to have that leadership role on the team.

Wow, because we all know there was starting talent in the 6th round instead of Rooks...

There are always plenty of starters 6th, 7th, and UDFA. Opportunity cost by missing on Rooks. Here are some of the picks after Who? Rook:

ILB Jackson, W. KY (not that we needed any run-stuffers there; plus Hawthorne did so well)

WR Jeff Janis, Saginaw Valley St (nah, our WRs never get hurt and GB doesn't know how to draft WRs late, especially white ones)

ROT Seantrel Henderson, Miami (nope, he'd just be wasted being groomed to replace Strief and Armstead will never get injured...although Henderson started for Miami)

OLBs Smallwood (UConn) and Starr (S. Dakota)...silly to give up on Junior learning to keep containment and/or stop the run. Give him another year. 2015 for instance