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Originally Posted by SirClintonPortis
Disagree slightly here. We committed our top two picks to defense mainly because they were damn good prospects according to our scouts, not mainly because of the performance of D in the year prior. Identifying positions of need is good and all, but grading the prospects before taking them is absolutely necessary.
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I think we all can pretty much assume the scouting department did something right and had these guys on a list of players the team should take if available. No one here will honestly know what the game plan was unless someone from the coaching staff comes out and says "this was our plan" or "we had a plan but because certain players were picked we had to look at BPA at other positions of need."
I think they knew Carter would be gone so they needed a replacement...Kerrigan, they knew this defense needed a NT Jenkins. Now I know some will say he's not NT material he was brought in to be a DE... whatever. When he was picked all the commentators even said the team is going to try to utilize him at NT but if he doesn't work out he will be a nice DE, another big body for teams to account for.
I'm actually happy with how our draft went other then I'd like to have had Dalton. Now the defense is somewhat shored up. They need to only fix a few pieces like FS and add better CB's. The offense is better but people don't want to look past the losing to see it. Our OL was performing 10x better at the begining of the season prior to all the injuries, the RB's wer doing well and getting yards with a healthy OL, Davis was looking like a real deal until he got injured and I think he's been playing gimpy lately, and unfortunatly all the young WR's are being forced to play but that should only benifit the team in the long run because they will have had some in game experience for next year when the team can hopefully get a more qualified QB.