Are we adressing our D-line?

[SkinsFanSince91]

Originally Posted by That Guy

sorry, i can't stop laughing. you're response to anyone saying landry might not be the best choice is basically "that other guy is boom or bust" and landry's a sure thing. yet neither has played in the nfl. yeah he's shown more, but again, safety is low impact and you have yet to response to actual criticism, like how do we fix the DL with a 3rd rounder when you think a 1st rounder isn't going to make a difference? and what good is a safety when the DL suck and every play has to be made 15 yards downfield?

a 1st rounder has a better chance than a 3rd rounder. what if landry sucks? what if he doesn't help the defense at all? then we've wasted the pick. this is exactly what i was talking about though, you make an argument against other players and don't hold you're own view up to the same light, that's hypocritical.

show me where i said you couldn't. maybe if you answered the criticism instead of trying to talk down to people and ignore it we'd be getting somewhere.

and maybe if you weren't such an a$$hat, you wouldn't have to act like a 5th grader. I've already said what i think they should do, if you'd like i can repeat it, but that means you didn't bother reading it the first time, which, i believe is something you've accused me of. oops.

There u go forgeting to read again. I said that there is not a way to predict the future....With me so far...What scouts do is what I did in my argument. Nothing more and nothing less. They compare the players by experience, upside, and measurements/times. Landry is among one of the highly rated candidates because he is simply NFL ready. Not just by his experience, numbers, or upside, but by all of them. If players are evaluated by that criteria, then how else are these players compared b4 the draft?

As for the D Line problems, later on in the draft teams then look for depth or role players. So, while we can't afford to have a high draft pick not on the field, we can afford to have a 3rd round "run stuffer" or a 3rd round "pass rush specialist" that we can have in for key situations. That give us the luxury of bringing them along slowly, while having depth at the postions. So we could draft a run stopper/pass rusher type(s) to plug holes and provide depth. Golston came along well last year. He made strides for us. But more importantly, when he was drafted it was for depth at that postion. Cuz the year before that when C. Griffin went down, we were in bad shape. You can always expect to get more porduction when you have multiple players for depth than one, because they have the ability to get better at the same time or at their own pace. If one player is having a hard time adjusting to the league, then u always have the other who could be moving along faster tha the other.

When one player is drafted to fulfill so many expectations, unless they come in like Merriman did, they often dissapoint.

The skins have so many holes to fill, and with one pick in the first day, we can't realistically expect to pick one DE/DT and provide depth to one of our weaker postions(d-line) at the same time.

Drafting for role players are what championship teams do. PAt's had troy brown. Bears got mark anderson to get 12 sacks this year, and he wasnt a first round pick. He was a role player drafted in the 5th round just to rush the passer. We gotta dig and see if we cant do the same for stopping the run and rushing the pass.

I never saw, at length, what you think we should do with one pick in the first day to hel make us better. So please feel free to elaborate - again.

Also, you resorted to name calling first, so I'd chill on living in a glass house and throwing rocks.

I think I've responded, quite politely, to most of the questions/criticism. Let me know if there is anything that I haven't addressed.

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by SkinsFanSince91

I never saw, at length, what you think we should do with one pick in the first day to hel make us better. So please feel free to elaborate - again.

it's in YOUR draft thread:
http://www.thewarpath.net/redskins-n...iddle-1st.html

and safety IS a low impact position. look at the contracts and franchise value tags. only kickers make less.