Grade Rocky McIntosh

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Originally Posted by Schneed10

Call it blind faith, but when I see the coaching staff get locked into a guy and go all out to get him, I get really excited. Gibbs and company have earned that blind faith if you ask me, they've been great with Day 1 picks. Taylor, Rogers, Cooley, Campbell (jury still out).

I love it. I'm very excited. I voted A.

I'd like to add (That Guy, please don't take offense) that all of the draft ratings and all that nonsense that people get so wrapped up in is just bogus. I don't care what Scouts.com says about a guy, or Mel Kiper, or whatever. If the player is someone that Joe Gibbs and Gregg Williams are excited about, then I tend to follow suit.

Not sure whether that makes me a homer or if it means that I simply tend to defer to some of the best football coaches in the game.

I have to agree that all the players that gibbs and supporting cast has targeted have turned out to be great picks. I think giving up a 2nd round choice next year to move up may be a lot to give up, but depending on how you look at it - it may be worth it. It's a real good sign to me that they were targeting him in the first place.

I think they didn't want to take the risk of having some other team pick him up. To me, 18 picks (35 to 53) might have been too much of gamble to assume that some other team didn't rate him as high as the redskins. Especially the run on lbs before the 35th pick. Gibbs looks like he went with his instincts on this move and I think his instincts are one of the major differences between him (a great legendary coach) and good coaches. Now he is applying those instincts on the personnel arena.

We will probably never know if some other team would have picked up McIntosh, but at least the redskins are not kicking themselves today for not making the move to pick up the one player that they really felt good about and letting someone else get him. It looks like to me that they are making all the right moves with their weaknesses - taking the steps to turn their weaknesses into strengths.