Considering the holes this roster has, is this really the year to draft a QB?
Fitzpatrick did well last year behind a below average line and with no TE and raw receivers. There is no reason he should not start the pre-season as the named starter which means any draft pick will no initially see the field. With our holes elsewhere, our No3 and possibly our No34 need to start immediately.
You should IMO only draft QB above BPA if you're having a crisis at the position and I don't think we have. Peterson, Peterson, Miller, Green and Quinn are all better players available than Newton and Gabbert at their positions, and all fill a greater area of need than QB.
I doubt Dareus falls to No3, I don't think Fairley is a 3-4 DE but I do think that we can get guys like Jenkins, Bailey and Guy outside of Round1. I'm hoping Merriman regains his form but even if he is shadow of his former himself he's still a player the opposition need to account for. Miller may not be big enough though I do think he could have a LaMaar Woodley rather than Wimberly like career. No3 is too high however. Whilst you should build a team from the inside out can we really pass up on a talent like Peterson? With McGee constantly injured, Florence and Youboty possibly leaving, a secondary of McKelvin and Corner scares me more than a DL of Carrington-Williams-Edwards plus Troup, Johnson and others.
And as there is only one TE worth taking in this draft can we fail to pass on Rudolph considering he would have been the highest rated TE next year as well? He could be there at No34 too. Look what Gronkowski added to the Pats.
I think we should continue to develop Levi Brown as a future backup, and sign a guy like Bruce Gradkowski to a 2year deal to sit behind Fitzpatrick. With QBs like Luck, Barkley, Foles, Pryor, Lance Jones and John Brantley likely to be in the 2012 mix, alongside LTs of the likes of Kalil, Potter, deChristopher, Datko, Jonathan Martin and Riley Reiff gives a possibility of upgrading most of the offense next year once we've dealt with the Defense this year around.
For the record, my hoped for draft is
1. Patrick Peterson, CB, LSU
2. Kyle Rudolph, TE, Notre Dame
3. Jarvis Jenkins, DE/T, Clemson
4. Lawrence Guy, DE/T, Arizona St
4. Thomas Keiser, OLB/DE, Stanford
5. Darius Morris, G/RT, Temple
6. Alex Wujciak, ILB, Maryland
7. Davonte Shannon, SS, Buffalo
Fitzpatrick did well last year behind a below average line and with no TE and raw receivers. There is no reason he should not start the pre-season as the named starter which means any draft pick will no initially see the field. With our holes elsewhere, our No3 and possibly our No34 need to start immediately.
You should IMO only draft QB above BPA if you're having a crisis at the position and I don't think we have. Peterson, Peterson, Miller, Green and Quinn are all better players available than Newton and Gabbert at their positions, and all fill a greater area of need than QB.
I doubt Dareus falls to No3, I don't think Fairley is a 3-4 DE but I do think that we can get guys like Jenkins, Bailey and Guy outside of Round1. I'm hoping Merriman regains his form but even if he is shadow of his former himself he's still a player the opposition need to account for. Miller may not be big enough though I do think he could have a LaMaar Woodley rather than Wimberly like career. No3 is too high however. Whilst you should build a team from the inside out can we really pass up on a talent like Peterson? With McGee constantly injured, Florence and Youboty possibly leaving, a secondary of McKelvin and Corner scares me more than a DL of Carrington-Williams-Edwards plus Troup, Johnson and others.
And as there is only one TE worth taking in this draft can we fail to pass on Rudolph considering he would have been the highest rated TE next year as well? He could be there at No34 too. Look what Gronkowski added to the Pats.
I think we should continue to develop Levi Brown as a future backup, and sign a guy like Bruce Gradkowski to a 2year deal to sit behind Fitzpatrick. With QBs like Luck, Barkley, Foles, Pryor, Lance Jones and John Brantley likely to be in the 2012 mix, alongside LTs of the likes of Kalil, Potter, deChristopher, Datko, Jonathan Martin and Riley Reiff gives a possibility of upgrading most of the offense next year once we've dealt with the Defense this year around.
For the record, my hoped for draft is
1. Patrick Peterson, CB, LSU
2. Kyle Rudolph, TE, Notre Dame
3. Jarvis Jenkins, DE/T, Clemson
4. Lawrence Guy, DE/T, Arizona St
4. Thomas Keiser, OLB/DE, Stanford
5. Darius Morris, G/RT, Temple
6. Alex Wujciak, ILB, Maryland
7. Davonte Shannon, SS, Buffalo
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