Draft day is one of my favorite days of the year. Usually I end up drunk and depressed as I watch my skins make terrible decisions. Last year I was able to convince myself that we had a decent draft, despite the fact that we drafted a bunch of crappy offensive players with our first several picks. In fact our only good one was drafting Chris Horton in the 6th or 7th round.
This year started out better, as I watched the Raiders make the biggest mistake of the draft. I think Heyward-Bey will be a good player eventually, but what a stupid mistake to take him at #7 when he would have been around at 20 or later.
But the stupidity of the Raiders created some interesting movement, possibly resulting in the fall of Brian Orakpo right into our laps. He should be able to pick up the slack on the D-line and with the help of Haynesworth in the middle should be able to get double digit sacks-shoring up the lack of a pass rush we got out of Jason Taylor last year.
The rest of the draft was filled with a bunch of players I have never heard of but I do have some hopes for the corner we picked up later on out of Maryland. Kevin Barnes was thought to be a possible 1st rounder had his season not been derailed by an injury. I wont even pretend to know anything about the rest of our draft, but hopefully this years draft works out better than ours did last year.
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This year started out better, as I watched the Raiders make the biggest mistake of the draft. I think Heyward-Bey will be a good player eventually, but what a stupid mistake to take him at #7 when he would have been around at 20 or later.
But the stupidity of the Raiders created some interesting movement, possibly resulting in the fall of Brian Orakpo right into our laps. He should be able to pick up the slack on the D-line and with the help of Haynesworth in the middle should be able to get double digit sacks-shoring up the lack of a pass rush we got out of Jason Taylor last year.
The rest of the draft was filled with a bunch of players I have never heard of but I do have some hopes for the corner we picked up later on out of Maryland. Kevin Barnes was thought to be a possible 1st rounder had his season not been derailed by an injury. I wont even pretend to know anything about the rest of our draft, but hopefully this years draft works out better than ours did last year.
Original Story:
http://thehungryactor.blogspot.com/20...
