NFL Draft

[MicroMiniMe]

Im sorry, but thats just sad. Cook had no business being drafted in the second round, let alone with the draft pick we got for that colon-cowboy Culpepper.

They must have been infatuated with his size...
/you can't teach size and he is the biggun this year.

Another possibility is the Jets stole Clemens right underneath them and they were up against the clock and bumbled it.

[kosmo]

Nah, I cant see them lusting after Clemens that bad, his arm strength is just terrible. I dont think he will be able to do too well at all in the meadowlands either. I hope the Bengals take Leonard Pope. I mean really, just picture the Bengals offense with a 6-7 recieving TE who runs a 4.5. Worry about the defense later, they have no business passing that up so late in the 2nd round.

[MicroMiniMe]

They must have been infatuated with his size...
/you can't teach size and he is the biggun this year.

Another possibility is the Jets stole Clemens right underneath them and they were up against the clock and bumbled it.

Why didn't the Queens take Ko Simpson. He is a solid 2nd round talent at a need position..
/meh

Edit:
I guess the 'queens started a run on overinflated gargantuan linesman. Bengals did the same...

Late Edit:
Egads, the year of the raw prospects for MN I guess.
Who knows what these guys will look like in 2-3 years. Studs, or NFL Europe I guess.

[BlackVCG]

Aaaaah, New England got Maroney.
Why, why.

I didn't want a reason to like New England...
With Dillon injured alot/aging it makes a decent fit. Maroney can run inside and pound it with the best of them or break it outside. At MN he would touch the ball 35 times minimum with some 50 carry overtime games and just a workhorse. I'm sure Belichik never tipped his hand to anyone. In NE Marony would actually have decent fantasy football value as well.

Well as an avid Pats fan all my life, I sure hope this Maroney guy will work out for us. I watched a video of him on the YouTube thing and he looks pretty explosive. Just have read some reports about him not being very consistent with his effort and going down too easily. Either way I think with Dillon still there and Maroney as a productive backup, NE will have a solid 1-2 punch at RB. That coupled with Branch and now Jackson replacing Givens will be an explosive offense. They have all the reason to go to the air and go deep with Branch and Jackson both being fast deepball threats, but I hope they stick to a solid running game like in the season before last when Dillon had his record year.

[kosmo]

Well since youre an avid pats fan, Ill say this: I hope the pats suck terribly this year. But they better be good enough to beat the crap out of Miami and that Culpepper piece of crap. So at least I dont hope for the worst for you.

Also, kudos to the Vikings for firing the personnel moron who screwed up our draft so badly.

[Rudz]

awww

bush is in new orleans..matt in arizona..heh and my eagles got an sc lineman atleast..justice..

[MicroMiniMe]

Yeah, Maroney's knock will be her ran behind the college equivalent to the Broncos O line. All three MN Gopher runners the last three years put up rediculous numbers.
But I think Belichek could be more motivating than Mason for coaching and not taking plays off/going down easy if that was another knock on him.

I think it mostly laughable when they knock college running backs on draft day for 'not having the skills to block.' Last time I checked most good running backs came from a heavy running program. Not picking up blitzers in shotgun protection... If they can catch a pass and see the holes the lines makes, the rest is learned in the pros.

Foley for ex-Viking and the draft I'll reserve judgement on. He was fired for being an ahole and overstepping his position on a continual basis. He may have been a decent football mind. The positions drafted and the supposed skill sets of those players looks good enough on paper. If Cook and Jackson flop after 4 years then we can burninate him.

Edit:
I'm also sure Maroney will be more effective than Kevin Faulk who was just a scat back speed type guy if I recall.

[kosmo]

Nah, we can burninate him right now. Essentially, that jack-hole traded Culpepper for a fat center that shouldve been drafted in the fourth, and Burleson plus a third round pick for some goon QB from Alabama. Thats just ridiculous.

[MicroMiniMe]

Nah, we can burninate him right now. Essentially, that jack-hole traded Culpepper for a fat center that shouldve been drafted in the fourth, and Burleson plus a third round pick for some goon QB from Alabama. Thats just ridiculous.

Any talk of Culpeppers 'trade' value has to take into consideration his career as a competent starter may be over. He also wanted out of town enough to go even more mental than he already was by not taking blame for his terrible game performances up to his injury. As Denny Green might put it, he was a product of the 'system' with the solid O line and Moss. Even then, he NEVER looked off coverage and would usually force a pass into the primary or secondary receivers. This year with a truly bad O line, you could see he never was that fast with reading coverages and Moss made up for alot of that deficiency. The 'system' was built to his and Moss' strengths and the O line would give him 5 or more seconds of protection pretty much every play.

Trevarious Jackson I actually have some hope for in two years as a starter. Cook I think will be a slighter better Chris Lewinsky player they 'plug in' to whovers position is injured. Probably never a true starter though.

[BlackVCG]

Edit:
I'm also sure Maroney will be more effective than Kevin Faulk who was just a scat back speed type guy if I recall.

Yes Faulk has just been a scat back who has extremely reliable hands for screens and quick passes over the middle, but after he catches it or when they hand it off to him he tries to do way too much with the ball and ends up fumbling it. I cringe every time he gets the ball and starts running because he never has the presence to know someone is there ready to knock out the ball.