4/28/09
2009 NFL Draft E-mails – Post-Draft
I agree with you 100 percent that the Lions need a left tackle, but I am also very excited about the tight end. I think that pick is really going to help Stafford. I really thought at the top of the 2nd we were going to take Britton or Beatty. Today they said on the radio that the Lions are high on Backus and don’t think he’s the problem. Not too sure about that!
I’m personally not worried because we can draft the No. 1 LT next year. Then stafford should be set with a premier LT, TE and WR for many years to come.
My Response:
Wow, yeah, I’d be scared about that. What has Jeff Backus ever done to warrant confidence? I’m really worried about Matt Stafford’s bust factor. I do like Brandon Pettigrew, but the Lions really needed to go LT. If they went Stafford-Pettigrew-Beatty or Stafford-Oher-Delmas, I would have given them a great grade.
The Lions can draft a left tackle next year, but now you’re compromising the defense. If the Lions took a left tackle this year, they could draft the top defensive player available in 2010. But now they’ll just have to go left tackle.
Do you have any idea as to why Chris Baker and Rashad Jennings happened to fall as far as they did and Baker not even getting drafted?
My Response:
Players inexplicably fall every year. Carl Nicks was a projected first-round pick last year. He dropped to the fifth round, yet he had an amazing rookie year with the Saints.
We don’t really have inside access to find out why teams soured on these guys. Maybe they interviewed poorly. Maybe the GMs and scouts saw something on tape they hated. It could be a number of things. But as we saw with Nicks, talent will ultimately prevail.
LOL. Your mock draft sucked. Percy Harvin in the third round. Ha. You have a guy going in the 2nd round who went undrafted, I am sure there were more awful picks like this but I stopped reading. Your site is 7 rounds of complete garbage. You’re a f***ing joke who has no connections and a biased point of view.
My Response:
Thank for the e-mail. I appreciate it.
I guess I should have made more illogical picks. I went with what made sense, and that backfired because there were too many dumb general managers picking toward the top of each round. I guess that’s why the same teams are always picking early – Lions, Chiefs, Raiders, Bengals, Bills, etc. It’s amazing that billion-dollar franchises can be so incompetent.
By the way, you contradicted yourself in saying that I have no connections yet I’m biased. If you have connections, you have to be biased toward the team you have the connection with. That’s one of the many reasons why journalism sucks now and newspapers are failing. Having no connections usually means unbiased writing (European journalism is handled this way). But I actually did have a connection if you read my No. 7 pick. So maybe I am biased after all. I never would have guessed.
Once again, thanks. I really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.
Back-to-back tight ends? James Casey provides great draft value in the middle of Round 5, but what is Houston going to do with all of these tight ends?
Mike H.’s Response:
While I definitely agree with you that it seemed very strange for the Texans to take back-to-back TEs with the 122 and 152 picks, do you really see James Casey primarily playing TE for the Texans? As a Houston fan and current student at Rice University, I was thrilled that my hometown team drafted Casey, who I’ve had the pleasure to watch from the stands for the past two years. And while Casey is listed as a TE, he moved around between TE, slot receiver, HB and QB so often that I can legitimately see him as multi-threat player for the Texans, whether they line up a double tight formation with Casey and Daniels, or put Casey in the slot, or even let him take a few snaps.
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