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Originally Posted by burningmetal (Post 702315)

I said the amount of busts every year. That's referring to all teams. Meaning that just because a team selects a player, doesn't make it the right choice. As for last year's draft? Two didn't play, so who knows with them, and one (Davidson) barely played. And Peat was a pick I couldn't stand, and he did not look good. It's kind of dumb to use last year's draft as an example after one year. I'm hopeful for a lot of those players, but we haven't seen much of them yet.

Burning, you can't argue with that. He sits there and changes it to last year. How the hell can you evaluate the draft from last year right now, you can't. One of the players never played, williams, swann (who i really liked) has concussion issues, was it tull that didn't play or sat for a while too from injury. He conveniently alters it to last year to somehow remove the argument that (and we don't know about last year yet) 3 of the last 4 drafts have not been very good at all.

I am not saying this draft won't produce four really good players, but i can say that I am not sold on Rankins and thought the move back to the 4rth for the Nigerian Canuck doesn't seem to be a good one. Hope they are all good, hope I eat my words, but you can voice your displeasure, that is what the site is for

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Originally Posted by burningmetal (Post 702323)

Yes, after he had already proven he couldn't produce. Every year was hype, followed by nothing. As for cleaning house. It remains to be seen what that did. Too early to tell.

You've got to admit last year has looked better than the previous seven or so.

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Originally Posted by AsylumGuido (Post 702324)

Sure they do. You can't hit a home run unless you give it a powerful swing. If they feel like he can be great then why not take the shot.

Right, so we've finally come to some agreement.

My sticking point in this particular case, is it didn't seem like the appropriate time to take a shot. But they did, so it's in the books now. Time to start looking forward.

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Originally Posted by AsylumGuido (Post 702326)

You've got to admit last year has looked better than the previous seven or so.

By default, I suppose. I actually felt good about several picks last year, unlike years past. But I just haven't seen much from anyone outside of Anthony and Kikaha, in actual games.

I also like some of the picks this year. I'm looking forward to seeing how they progress.

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Originally Posted by AsylumGuido (Post 702326)

You've got to admit last year has looked better than the previous seven or so.

true

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I feel quite underwhelmed too, there were 3 guards on the board when the Saints traded into the 4th and they take a DT from Canada. Did they forget they have a HoF QB to protect?

Seems like every year the Saints swing and miss in the draft or they out think themselves.

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Forget Canada he is from NIGERIA

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Originally Posted by spkb25 (Post 702325)

Yeah, Tull was the other guy along with Williams who didn't play. I forgot about Swann before you mentioned him. That was another who showed flashes, but those concussions made it hard to form a strong opinion.

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Originally Posted by Euphoria (Post 702334)

Forget Canada he is from NIGERIA

That is true they really pick sports up fast

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I will agree about hicks , they loved him to start the words were hes a monster hell make the difference then the injury, then hes hampered by nagging injuries and when he got clear of injury he got lazy taking off plays , then the trade for hoohiahamma that made us a better tight end set.