Draft Day!

[Mac]

Im being realistic rlaw, some people hate that, but it's true.

The OL class next year is stacked, but Dilfer wont make it through this season healthy with the OL we have, and Frye shouldnt play a snap unless its a blowout...

McMillian is a good pick because we finally get some depth at the LB spot, which is what he will play...

With June 1 cuts coming, we have to pray we atleast get something for the OL. There will be slim pickings out there, but we are in very bad shape as far as our OL is concerned. We are one injury away from getting about 2YPC and zero offense.

We entered the draft in very bad shape at OL, DL and LB and we have done very little to imrpove that.

When you goto the draft, you try to fix your team...to say we dont that is a stretch.

Pool has promise, Edwards has a chance to be great or be a complete bust, you never know with a WR. Frye is the best pick by far. Perkins was a terrible pick and McMillian is a good pick for depth.

So the best grade I can give is a B-, I cant deny the talent Edwards has and the Perkins pick brings the draft way down...and not addressing our big key areas brings it down as well.

 

[cavincali]

i know the future and none of the o-lineman will get hurt this year. :chuckles:

but on a side not. dawg talk had a thread saying , from kffl, that green has really impressed the coaches with his workouts and will give him another chance. so maybe they will forget about droughns. who knows.

 

[Mac]

It's not about them forgetting about him, he and his agent say he will holdout if he doesnt get an extension.

Which is fine by me, he can sit the whole year out, he wont make much of a difference on this team anyway.

Ill take Suggs and Green over Drougns.

 

[E-Light]

It's not about them forgetting about him, he and his agent say he will holdout if he doesnt get an extension.

Which is fine by me, he can sit the whole year out, he wont make much of a difference on this team anyway.

Ill take Suggs and Green over Drougns.

Droughns is one of the cheapest players in the league. His salary is similar to greens. We'd have to double his contract just to pay him near 3 mill. Considering we were going to pay the scrub from Baltimore 3 mill, i'm not too worried we won't be able to give him a cheap extension.

 

[Fundamentals]

1- Braylon Edwards- WR- Michigan
2- Brodney Pool- S- Oklahoma
3- Charlie Frye- QB- Akron
4- Antonio Perkins- CB- Oklahoma
5- David McMillen- DE/OLB- Kansas
6- Nick Speegle- OLB- New Mexico
6- Andrew Hoffman- NT- Virginia
7- Jon Dunn- OT- Virginia Tech

 

[Mac]

Droughns is one of the cheapest players in the league. His salary is similar to greens. We'd have to double his contract just to pay him near 3 mill. Considering we were going to pay the scrub from Baltimore 3 mill, i'm not too worried we won't be able to give him a cheap extension.

Why give him an extention? He is a Denver RB, he was crap before he got there, did well in the system, and now he is back to being the true RB he is, which isnt much..

Like I said, I hope he holds out for the entire year, just gives Green another chance to prove he is the best back on the team. Suggs and Green, both better than Ruben.

I think in three years, the players we have in this draft will make us look back and say this was a good draft. Im just sad we have to go through this process that we have to wait three years to see what we get.

 

[E-Light]

Droughns contract

$950,000 in 2005
$1.15 million in 2006

An extension on him will hardly be costly. He is reportedly wanting his contract doubled.

So not even 2 million for 1st year.
Little over 2 million second year.

He rushed for 1200 yards last year, I don't care what the system is, he got some of that on his own. I see no reason to not pay him what he wants, and what he wants is a marginal increase in salary.

 

[Deadlock]

Forget Greens.. He got enough opportunites.. he only knows how to smoke.. He could of been good but he blew it.

 

[Mac]

Forget Greens.. He got enough opportunites.. he only knows how to smoke.. He could of been good but he blew it.

He has had one oppurtunity to start when challenged.

And he hasnt been in trouble in the NFL for smoking, so hmm?

 

[NarlCavs]

Overall it was a decent draft but I'm not overly excited about it. The 2nd day was average but it's always tough to rate the later round picks until after a couple of seasons.
I would have liked to have seen the Browns address the O line and front 7 on D a little earlier. They did pass up some solid LB and D line prospects in the 2nd-5th rounds.
Elton Brown of Virginia was the G I think was brought up earlier. He would have been a solid 4th round pick. he was the highest rated G in the draft by most and will be a future starter. Perkins is really more of a return guy and a nickel back at best.

The Browns still need to add LB and D-line help before training camp. they're still thin at both spots.

As far as Green goes, I did read he's one strike away from being suspended under the NFL drug policy so he must have tested positive for something. I think he was already in the testing program after beign drafted. That's a big reason there hasn't been trade interest in him. He's not a player you can count on and he has a lot of off field issues.

 

[cavincali]

at first i couldnt come up with what you were saying mac. but its been so long. did he get busted for having possesion in his house.

i think we dont know what the front office is doing with the linebacker core. i dont think they are trying to get big name guys, but rather smart ones.

what im trying to say is that getting recognizeable linebackers isnt needed. i hope we arent done with the backers but the smart players will play fine.

 

[Fundamentals]

He was in trouble for marijuana throughout college, then was arrested for possession of marijuana in the whole domestic violence thing last year, which placed him in the second stage of the NFL's substance abuse program, meaning he gets more frequent testing, and after his four game suspension last year, whenever the next time may be, he'll be suspended for a full year for that one. I've read that he has turned it around this offseason, but I read that last offseason as well, so I am skeptical at best.

Now that I have had time to think about it, Perkins is the most questionable of the picks. Brown would have been a better fit. However, even then, Perkins was considered a third rounder, and he adds some explosiveness to the return game. Maybe the best value pick, but I'm not certain.

I really like what I've read on the Speegle kid from New Mexico. He is big, tough and smart, a combination hard to find in the NFL.

 

[Deadlock]

Over all I liked the draft.. I really like Edwards and Frye.. Plus we got a solid SS in Pool. Not really sure on day 2 since I dont know any of them so I'll just have to wait and see about them.

 

[RuanuLaw]

Im being realistic rlaw, some people hate that, but it's true.

The OL class next year is stacked, but Dilfer wont make it through this season healthy with the OL we have, and Frye shouldnt play a snap unless its a blowout...

McMillian is a good pick because we finally get some depth at the LB spot, which is what he will play...

With June 1 cuts coming, we have to pray we atleast get something for the OL. There will be slim pickings out there, but we are in very bad shape as far as our OL is concerned. We are one injury away from getting about 2YPC and zero offense.

We entered the draft in very bad shape at OL, DL and LB and we have done very little to imrpove that.

When you goto the draft, you try to fix your team...to say we dont that is a stretch.

Pool has promise, Edwards has a chance to be great or be a complete bust, you never know with a WR. Frye is the best pick by far. Perkins was a terrible pick and McMillian is a good pick for depth.

So the best grade I can give is a B-, I cant deny the talent Edwards has and the Perkins pick brings the draft way down...and not addressing our big key areas brings it down as well.

Ok, I respect your opinions.

Right now, all we are doing is speculating. We dont know shit about football. We think we do, but we have no idea. There is a reason we watched the Draft, and not actually drafted the players.

Again, I TRUST Phil, and I think that he knows what he is doing. So until next year I will say that ALL of our picks are GREAT because we really don't know who will turn out to be what.

Phil just went the way he did in Balti. BPA!!!

 

[Slim Sheedy]

bpa?