Pats want Tayor. At any cost!

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Originally Posted by skinsfanthru&thru

why would we want to stick at the #5 spot to pick up ONE player, even if he is as good as reported, when we could get multiple good if not possibly pro-bowl players to fill the multiple holes we need filled? It's kinda like a boat with a few leaks, why only plug one leak when you can plug up several? I know Taylor has the potential to be a very good safety, but I'd rather have an all around strong team. It just seems like smart business and managing to me to make the team better at several spots rather than just one. That's a lot to be hoping for one player, a rookie on top of that, to be the saving grace of our defense. plus the contracts of the picks we'd draft in a trade for the #5 selection combined would probably be about the same, if not cheaper, than the one contract given to Taylor.

All that is contingant that the multiple player's aren't flop's, where's the guarentee that extra player's will make us better? sometimes quantatee doesn't mean quality, I would rather have 1 pure gold nugget than a pocket full of pennies, Taylor is as close to a guarentee in a draft that you will find, he also has the ability to make other's on our defense better, he can dictate to an offense on what they run, thus changing the game, I think we could fill need's at any other position in the draft without going for the top guy, but when it comes to saftey there is no one in this draft that can sniff taylor, I would be all for trading down if he wasen't in this draft, but he is, and he's one special player.

maybe this question can help, if you knew that taylor was going to be the next ronnie lott would you draft him at #5? I don't know any one who wouldn't, well this kid has lott like instinct's, with more physical ability, he may not turn out to be as good as lott, but he has the talent to possibly be better!

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but the thing is we don't know he will be that good and I'm sorry but Taylor has no where near the physical presence that Lott had. Taylor is a decent tackler but he's not the kind of safety, from what I saw during his days at miami, as someone who put fear into those coming over the middle like Lott did. how many times have we seen a player be awesome in college and so-so in the NFL? I'd be willing to bet more starting safeties of the past and present weren't drafted in the first round and I honestly don't see safety as our weakest point right now. Greg Williams has a proven past of getting the most out of his secondary and I think that with Bowens and Ohalete being young players with talent, they can still be molded into better players under his coaching. Sure I may be putting too much faith into our current players and coaching staff ,but I still firmly believe that the possibility of upgrading 2 or 3 positions, atleast depthwise for the time being, is better for the team than upgrading one position. If we upgrade the d-line, wouldn't that also help out the secondary and LBs? I also believe the best non-skill position player in this draft is Jake Grove(who we could get at #32) and I know I'm not putting my trust in Raymer to stay healthy the entire year.

So I'm not saying I'm against drafting Taylor, I just see us trading the pick away to garner the picks New England is offering as the better overall choice for the team to make. When you boil it down its either draft one potential probowler or draft 2 or 3 players who could be potential probowlers as well. I'll take the odds going with drafting 3 high seeded players over one. The only time I would even begin to think about taking one probowler over 2 or 3 is if the one player was a revolutionary player at their position like LT or Vick.