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Originally Posted by OnTheWarpath58
Well, ****.
I left this thread last night thinking that maybe a good night's sleep, a morning workout and a nice breakfast might soften me a bit on this pick.
Nope.
RT in the 1st round is for teams with very few, if any holes. I'm a firm believer that you better get your LT early, that it's OK to take a center late in the 1st if he's a lock All-Pro - but otherwise, it's too ****ing easy to find offensive linemen - RT especially - later in the draft.
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That's applicable to any position.
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If this happens, it will bother me to no end that our decision makers feel it's necessary to use the 21st overall pick on such a valueless position.
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Right tackle is not a valueless position. With the blitz schemes most defenses are running now, along with swapping out the best pass rusher from side to side, like we do with Hali, having a quality right tackle is nearly as important as having a quality left tackle.
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Trade up, trade down, whatever. Hell, I'd be OK with Taylor over a goddamn RT - it's like this organization forgets that NT is the most important position in the 34 defense.
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So you'd be happy with a underachieving two gap run plugger over a right tackle?
Now, the argument with this is that going into the 2010 season, both Taylor and Carimi were considered third/fourth round prospects at best and now both are being mentioned as potential first rounders based on a late season surge and a very good Senior Bowl week.
Unless the guy is an uber-freak like Ted Washington or Haloti Ngata, you never piss away a high pick on a fat ass run stuffer, especially one that hasn't done jack squat to date.
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*sigh*
Please be wrong, Goose.
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Oh, I'm sure he's not. They way everyone is automatically deferring to his prophetic insight, I don't know why they are even having the draft. Gosselin has already made the correct choices for every team. Let's just pack up the bags and head into training camp with our new rookie selected by the Nostradamus of Football, Rick Gosselin. All hail the prognosticating brilliance of the Rickster!