Daniel Sorensen Is A Liability

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

There's a whole lot of truth to that, and I see the parallels between Woods and Sorensen - both fan favorites, both made some heady plays...to the point where they could use their football acumen to put their bodies into position to make plays after their natural athletic abilities started fade due to the combination of age and injuries...

Look at that '96 draft, man. Woods, Tongue, Browning and Donnie Edwards.

That's the kind of draft you'd like to see in an ordinary year. Not even a HR draft, but 4 good, solid players taken that formed a real nice group of complementary pieces.

And maybe that's what we got on the offensive side of the ball this year with Humphrey and Smith plus a good young OT in Brown.

But we've tried that a couple of times on the defensive side of the ball and it just hasn't taken. As it stands, we're fortunate to get a single good contributor to the defense in most of Veach's drafts.

He needs a '96 style draft class to build the depth of the defense and firm up its foundation. I'm not saying he needs to have the Dorsey draft record where he's snapping up All Pros and HoF talents ever year (man he had a great run). I mean - at least not every year (he needs a few of those hits on his record).

But he needs more than the 1 and done drafts we're getting on the defensive side of the football.