Joe Thomas and the Lions

[dall-assblows]

i think they want to draft him because thy see him as the next great franchise tackle.

personally i have no idea how he plays.

[JoeRedskin]

Originally Posted by dall-assblows

i think they want to draft him because thy see him as the next great franchise tackle.

personally i have no idea how he plays.

The draft is such a crap shoot. Didn't we read the same thing about Robert "how do you block?" Gallery a couple years ago? The only way to succeed in the draft is to have the best scouts you can get and a lot of them so you can look at as many prospects as possible and then get as many draft picks as possible. The more shots in the dark you take, the more likely you are to hit something. A strategy our front office seems to not understand.

Don't mean to hijack but I have come around to the "draft young players" theory. I think obtaining a guy or two in FA is fine as part of a building a team, but I think the trading "away" of draft choices is almost always going to be a mistake. Particularly for RFA's. Has any of them panned out for us? All I can think of is Morton, Coles and, of course, LLoyd.

I like both Cooley and Campbell, players for whom we traded future picks, but
who is to say that, if we had stood pat, we would have a couple of extra players who might be starters or solid role players? As for the QB, we could have traded down our No. 1 in 2006 and still have gotten Kelley Clemons AND extra picks. Cooley? who knows - it's not a hard and fast rule, and, again, if we found ways to accumulate more picks, maybe we would have more flexibility to trade into Cooley type picks.

sigh. sorry for the rant and hijack.

Please continue with your Joe Thomas thread (not to be confused with "The Dockery Thread")