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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
There's never no chance, but he carries a huge risk with far less potential upside than someone like Graham.
Even more laughingly, he's smaller and slower than Brad Cottam as well. Of course, I fully expect that Cottam will be cut because he's not one of the Brahman, so a direct comparison will be difficult.
I'll ask you this much:
Was trading up to get Tony Moeaki worth Cam Thomas?
A week ago, did you know who Tony Moeaki was, and did you have him in the same galaxy of his ability to help this team as a Cam Thomas?
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First off, I knew who Tony Moeaki was before a week ago and with the Ferentz connection, I wasn't surprised by the pick in the least. There is quite a bit of Big Ten football broadcast on ESPN to the west coast and I've seen Iowa play numerous times over the past few years.
Furthermore, it's not my decision as to whether or not Moeaki was worth losing Cam Thomas. The question in the War Room was this:
Can we go into the season with Leonard Pope, Brad Cottam and Jake O'Connell as our tight ends?
Can we go into this season with Ron Edwards and Shaun Smith as our NT's?
Which is better addressed at this particular point in the draft?
There is absolutely no denying that tight end was a position of need. They felt that Moeaki was worth taking at that time and quite frankly, no one, Pioli included, knows if it was exactly the right decision.
But with that said, I'm not going to pretend that someone like Cam Thomas, a fifth rounder, would have even been on their board in the fifth.And even if he was, that shouldn't paralyze
any GM from doing what they think is right at any given moment in the draft.