ROFL

Yea if you want Mays you can't take Rolle.

Maybe he wants to run a new type of defense with 3 safety's? Let's call is the quarter :)

The Chiefs had a 6th round pick before they traded it....I thought they traded it during the draft I guess.

By the way, if any of you pass on an inside linebacker, you are as dumb as PeeHoley.

Wait.

Can we proceed as though the whole ill-fated Matt Cassel trade never occured?

Because as someone that is pretty sure I'm smarter than Scott Pioli and his band of merry yes men, Matt ****ing Cassel would've never stolen a dime of my money or even been allowed to change the tires on the team bus.

Personnel departments across the NFL are brimming with people who have little talent for it. Sometimes these people make it to high positions, largely on account of luck and being associated with the right people. Acquring a title in the personnel department for an NFL franchise doesn't require experience playing football and doesn't require experience coaching football. All it requires is luck meeting/knowing the right people and being in the right place. Couple that with the fact that player procurement is an inexact science and there is plenty of room for failure. The great thing about it is selections can be accurately judged rightly or wrongly one way or the other over time. Four or 5 years from now we can look back on this thread and it'll leave no doubt as to how much better or worse Pioli is than some random internet guy. Do that every year for 4 or 5 years straight and it will determine Piolis competence one way or the other.

Choosing only from the players available at the time of the pick, without hindsight of where players would exactly go, and with no trades:

1.) Eric Berry, S, Tennessee
2a.) Jimmy Clausen, QB, Notre Dame
2b.) Terrance Cody, DT, Alabama
3.) Donald Butler, ILB, Washington
4.) Akwasi Owusu-Ansah, CB (and KR), Indiana (PA)
5a.) Matt Tennant, C, Boston College
5b.) Tony Washington, OT, Abielene Christian (I know he ended up undrafted. But I would have taken him here, TBH)
5c.) Arthur Moats, OLB, James Madison

More OL and small school than I anticipated. Still, though, I got 5 players who would start on day 1, 2 others that would earn a starting job quickly (Clausen, Owusu-Ansah), and a situational pass-rusher. If I could have traded up at certain points for Eric Norwood or a WR like Andre Roberts than I would have.

I'm glad people are seeing the greatness that will be Donald Butler.

Daniel Te'o-Nesheim could turn some heads as well. In fact, I think he could be the next big time DE drafted in later rounds.

What's going to be really awesome....is that we'll get to see him twice a year when he is starting for the Chargers.

:facepalm:

1. Clausen
2. Mays
2. Tate
3. Griffen
4. Campbell
5. Cam Thomas
5. Matt Tennant
5. Lindsey Witten

Yeah, I don't even get to root for him anymore.

Win!

Also Cam Thomas just falls into San Diego's lap, why is it some coincidence that good teams just have guys fall right to them?

It's funny to me that all these guys that "obviously" suck were drafted by teams who historically make great defensive selections.