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We need any kind of blockers. Cutler, and especially the WRs, are not good enough where we can go sling the ball around with a crappy running game and expect to have a good offense ala San Diego or Indy. Also Forte needs to be a lot better.

Also I would not be opposed to Faneca. We need someone on the interior who can blast guys at the point of attack.

That Joshua Moore scouting report is pretty nice. Sounds like a good fit for the cover 2 (a 4.5 CB in a cover 2 is perfectly fine speed wise). And it sounds like he'll stick his nose in there on run support. This defense needs to be a top 10 unit next year (maybe top 5) with the additions and guys coming back from injury. Possibly top 5 because Cutler is probably going to get murdered.

If we're just gonna ignore the line I'd rather have drafted a WR there. I think our CB depth is not bad.

Is anyone even sure that Juaquin Iglesias and DJ Moore are still alive?

He's good and should be a starter from Day 1 which is needed after many of the guys we drafted last year barely saw the field.

I would not be surprised if Steve Young is having some degenerative stuff going on in his brain from all the concussions. He's pretty loopy.

Steve Young is acting like McCoy is in this great situation comparable to Clausen's while Bradford is getting condemned in St. Louis. It's Cleveland. They're nearly as bad as St. Louis. The difference is that Bradford will have $50 million in guaranteed money to cheer him up.

I'm assuming Wright will be an immediate starter alongside who? D. Manning is probably strictly a nickle back and returner at this point. Afalava tried hard but was pretty bad. Bullocks and Payne are camp fodder at best. Did Steltz do anything to show he could play SS?

He was a very good PR this past year. He's kind of Earl Bennett-y if you ask me (who I think basically sucks). Not real physical, not real fast, but runs great routes and catches everything.

All right, I can live with Major Wright. Good football name at least.

Bruce Campbell is available.

John Jerry for the Bears? I would've liked Asomoah or Burnett. That Abilene Christian guy is still on the board.

you've been holding that joke for a while haven't you? I think Pete saw Tate catch a TD and then look down upon the remains of Taylor Mays after a pathetic shoulder tackle attempt and knew he had to have him. Or maybe it was the TD in the corner that Mays was too slow to get to that convinced him. Hard to say. Golden and Jimmy will always look back with fondness on the one good quarter of football Notre Dame played against USC while they were enrolled there.

I don't know if he was top 5 for me. Probably not. Anyone think for some reason Kafka or LeFevour gets taken first? My top five are probably: Bradford Clausen Skelton Jarrett Brown Fifth would be one of McCoy, Lefevour or Crompton. McCoy and Lefevour were more productive, Crompton has far, far better physical skills. I'd probably hold off taking a QB after Skelton or Brown until late 3rd to 4th or later, though. Crompton is slower, way less accurate, and just wasn't that good. He played in a pro style offense which is the only check you'd put in his column over McCoy. Putting guys like Skelton, Brown, and Crompton over McCoy is over thinking it. Jarrett Brown? Really?

This Pete Carroll clown just sentenced his former WR Damian Williams to the Canadian Football League by selecting Golden Tate over him.

John Randle shouldn't be allowed out in public if he's not gonna wear war paint.

I guess you're right. All these years later and all anyone can talk about is how Jimmy Johnson screwed over his college QB, Steve Walsh, by drafting Troy Aikman over him.

First of all, there are no "you ND guys." My point had nothing to do with Andy's woe-is-me [expletive]. My point is by not picking Taylor Mays, Poodle shot red flags up all over the place. Were there questions about Mays and his production on the field (and lack of INTs last year or so)? Yes. Were those questions answered very negatively when his own coach passed on him as the GM of an NFL franchise twice in the first round? I'd say yes. I'm not saying Poodle should screw over Seattle if he thinks Thomas is better than Mays. But I do think it's a funny turn of events, especially when you consider the whiny face he pulled out at Sanchez's PC last year. Poodle's all about Poodle. Weis is completely different. He's not the GM. He's not even the HC. I'm certain he told Pioli that he'd prefer JC as a QB. I'm also certain that Pioli made the decision (or the HC did). If they take Colt McCoy in R2 or even pass on Clausen and take a QB in a later round, you have some questions about Weis' opinion of Clausen. But so far, we know absolutely nothing about whether Weis wanted Clausen yesterday or not. Which ignores the fact that Clausen still likely was better off leaving early than not. He extended his pro career by a year, avoided the rookie salary cap, and if by some chance he's really good in the next year or two, he'll likely make more than he would have under his rookie contract next year (assuming he goes through his senior season without injury and with a great performance, despite trying to learn a new system, that prefers a mobile QB, which he isn't). Clausen didn't get screwed by Weis, or anyone. I think Denver will live to regret taking Tebow yesterday, but such is the flukiness of the NFL. So basically, anything short of Carroll drafting Taylor Mays is screwing him over. How extremely convenient for your negative opinion of him. Well, pretty much, yes. It may have been unavoidable for Carroll, but that was certainly the result of passing on him twice (and once for a safety). Sometimes you have no choice but to screw someone over, but what would you call it? It would have been hilarious if Thomas hadn't fallen and Seattle drafted Clausen over Mays, which was the rumor I heard today. I would say that the fact that Carroll didn't draft Taylor Mays only factors into the warped calculus of nutty USC fans who think Trojan players walk on water and people looking for dumb reasons to hate Carroll. It's seriously a non-issue for anyone who has a sane perception of how a football team should be run. And you're reaching even more if you think anyone would've accused Carroll of anything for drafting Clausen over Mays. FFS, one's a quarterback and one's a safety; I'm sure people could look past the ND/USC rivalry.

First of all, there are no "you ND guys." My point had nothing to do with Andy's woe-is-me [expletive]. My point is by not picking Taylor Mays, Poodle shot red flags up all over the place. Were there questions about Mays and his production on the field (and lack of INTs last year or so)? Yes. Were those questions answered very negatively when his own coach passed on him as the GM of an NFL franchise twice in the first round? I'd say yes. I'm not saying Poodle should screw over Seattle if he thinks Thomas is better than Mays. But I do think it's a funny turn of events, especially when you consider the whiny face he pulled out at Sanchez's PC last year. Poodle's all about Poodle. Weis is completely different. He's not the GM. He's not even the HC. I'm certain he told Pioli that he'd prefer JC as a QB. I'm also certain that Pioli made the decision (or the HC did). If they take Colt McCoy in R2 or even pass on Clausen and take a QB in a later round, you have some questions about Weis' opinion of Clausen. But so far, we know absolutely nothing about whether Weis wanted Clausen yesterday or not. Which ignores the fact that Clausen still likely was better off leaving early than not. He extended his pro career by a year, avoided the rookie salary cap, and if by some chance he's really good in the next year or two, he'll likely make more than he would have under his rookie contract next year (assuming he goes through his senior season without injury and with a great performance, despite trying to learn a new system, that prefers a mobile QB, which he isn't). Clausen didn't get screwed by Weis, or anyone. I think Denver will live to regret taking Tebow yesterday, but such is the flukiness of the NFL. So basically, anything short of Carroll drafting Taylor Mays is screwing him over. How extremely convenient for your negative opinion of him.

You ND guys have a weird definition of screwing someone over. Unless Weis was deliberately telling people not to take Clausen he didn't screw him over. And if he was telling his own team not to take him, for football reasons, then he was just doing his damn job. Jimmy Clausen, Brady Quinn, and Taylor Mays aren't entitled to be high draft picks, you know.

So he should F over his current employer by taking a player he thinks is worse just because he coached him in college? That's a huge reach.

Magic and Isiah used to kiss before tip off. The glaring exception that proves the rule. And I think they "only" did that once.

It's pretty lame that there were two days off between games 2 and 3 and now 2 more days off between games 3 and 4.