National Football Post 1st round mock (with trades)

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

It's novel because the game has changed. This isn't the 70s or 80s anymore. Teams don't win because they have John Riggins or Tony Dorsett or Franco Harris or Larry Csonka or Thurman Thomas. If you can have one of those, then GREAT, but you don't need one to win the SB. Not at all.



It's easier to get a better anything in the early rounds, historically. Janikowski etc. But that doesn't mean the pick is "worth" it in the larger sense.




No, no it isn't. You're better off building up your passing attack and pass rush attack, in general. Welcome to the new millenium.

So says the team with a HOFer at QB.

Having one of those is pretty damn nice - but we don't. And no amount of draft picks spent on WRs or tackles is going to change that.

However, getting a powerful RB that can force teams to slide their safeties up into the box might help. Further, having a guy like Richardson that's an excellent pass-blocker will help us keep from having to chip with a TE on passing downs as often so it frees up Moeaki to operate over the middle. Better still, Richardson's a very nice pass-catcher in his own right, so LBs or safeties will have to either account for him, or be burned by him.

Richardson will do more to help this offense due to his versatility than any other player we could draft at that spot, other than a premium quarterback. His contributions to the offense would go far beyond merely running the football. They would extend to the secondary through the threat he presents, to the blocking schemes due to his blocking ability, all the way to having a direct impact on the passing game itself because of his ability to catch balls out of the backfield.

Congratulations - you have a HOF quarterback. Beyond that, Patriots fans don't have the ****ing patent on football knowledge. If you didn't have Tom Brady, you'd still be the same pack of self-loathing shitheads you Massholes have always been. You'd shut right the **** up when it comes time to talk football because no amount of scrappy white WRs, Gronknandez's or RBs by committee would've won you a damn thing.