Ralphy Boy |
04-24-2010 04:21 PM |
All in all, I give the draft a D. If not for Berry, it would be an F-.
I'm grading on a curve, which Pioli set last year when he showed it was entirely possible to piss away a top 5 pick.
We had absolutely NO room for error. Our team won 4 games. We drafted two role players in the 2nd round. TWO!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't care how good of role players they are, that is a FAILURE on the part of management. You simply cannot fuk up those picks when you have so many needs.
Both are too undersized to contribute at their respective position on an every down basis. Its as if Pioli, Haley, Weis & Crennel all created their checklist and simply forgot to include "Is a 3 down player".
Are we really to believe that Berry & Arenas improved our 31st ranked run defense?
We gave up 4.7 yards per rush. Teams attempted to run on us 531 times, thats the 3rd highest # of attempts and the 2nd highest average allowed.
We finished 31st in the league in sacks.
How would either of them help improve that total?
I see nothing to believe that we can be any better than we were last season on defense.
This really looks like a draft to help Cassel and I have no problem with trying to help him. He clearly needs it, but to pass on obvious problem areas is just stupid. They could have moved up for a defensive player, just like they did for Moeaki.
Why you give up so much for an injury prone TE who has proven so little in college I have no idea.
I'm not condemning the players, they might be great, but unless we address our lack of a NT and find a pass rush before the start of the season, we will suck again this year.
I had hopes for this draft going into it because Pioli did do a good job of addressing the offensive line issues prior to the draft but to fail to address what really are HUGE concerns just doesn't make a bit of f-ing sense to me.
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