NT needed, not much to choose from

[Ralphy Boy]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Which makes moving to a 3-4 in 2009 when your roster was built for a 4-3 all the more stupid.

Agreed X 10,000

Originally Posted by POND_OF_RED

Giving up a top 5 pick just to make sure you adress one problem is stupid. You take the playmaker at 5 and hope Cody falls to the 2nd. If Cody doesn't fall you take a chance with a guy like Cam Thomas with the late 2nd or early 3rd. Chances are he won't be the big impact tackle we're looking for but I can deal with it for another year if we have Berry ball hawking in the secondary. You take the playmakers when they're there. Reaching on players in the 1st just to fit your system is how you miss out on the impact players this team lacks and needs.

I think that's debatable, especially considering our staff. During his tenure in New England, he traded down on more than one occassion, to address an area of need rather than staying put, picking up additional picks in the process.

If they feel that getting Berry (example only, don't care to debate him being the pick) is more beneficial to the overall team than say; trading our #5 (1700 pts) for Buffalo's #9 (1350), which we use on Dan Williams and we get an additional pick(s) in the process, I'm sure they'll do it.

Whether that's stupid or not is a matter of opinion, but the reason he took TJ last year so high was because he was a position of need and he didn't feel that the first round picks he was getting offers on were high enough to still get him later. Yes, he also didn't think the compensation he was getting in return was high enough either.

Fact is that if he is still following the NE blueprint, that I think most of us believe he is, then he's going to build his line first.

I think if Suh & McCoy go 1 & 2, followed by Bradford & Clausen, we'll be stuck at 5 and few teams if any will want to trade up for Berry. Its one thing to take a safety at 5 and another thing all together to trade up to 5 and take one. If Berry is off the board by 7 and Williams is there, I think Cleveland takes him or Bryant.