Since for us to finish around .500 would amount to a minor miracle given our schedule.

Rolle is an excellent prospect and a tremendous individual, but I think Seattle can grab him in the early second round.

Do you really see the Seahawks going after him? There really aren’t any better safeties out there?

which means gotta get the next stud LT and there should be 3 studs avail in that range… Oher, Andre Smith and Eugene Monroe.

Might even be able to trade down and still get one of that group while recouping our 5th from the rental of ……??? bugger, I can’t even remember his name.

Round 2 is best available DT,SS-FS, WR: Jeremy Macklin, Darious Heyward-Bay, Percy Harvin, Jauquin Iglesias, Terrance Cody,Terrance Taylor, Myron Rolle.

We could answer some ?’s by playing guys like Wrotto and Jamar Adams NEXT WEEK and see if they are for real or simply practice fodder.

or is he going to continue his studies?

I see the potential, kind of, but I haven’t seen him make a play in a long time.

If I’m taking a S with the Hawks 1st rounder it is William Moore or converting Malcolm Jenkins to S. But the safety depth looks to be outstanding and you can get a good one in rounds 2-3: Patrick Chung, Rashad Johnson, Emanuel Cook, Kam Chancellor, Derek Pegues, Nic Harris, Courtney Greene, Kevin Ellison, David Bruton, Michael Hamlin.

I’d like the Hawks to; if Oher, Smith and Monroe are gone to trade down into value range for Duke Robinson adding a 2nd rounder in the trade.

trade down = mid 1st. Duke Robinson

early 2+early 4 = late first: Hayward-Bey, Maclin, Harvin

mid 2. Patrick Chung

early 3. James Davis, CJ Spiller

free agency: Shaun McDonald

One of them will probably be a boring addition to replace Leroy Hill. The other might be a passrusher to safeguard LoJack in case he still looks lost.

For the draft, BPA, you know, but I figure getting a LT in the 1st round of the draft both reinforces Walter Jones in the long run and OL depth in the short run. Better OL means Matt gets hit less, sticks around longer….which we’ll probably need, considering His Successor we need to draft likely wouldn’t be ready in 09.

I like this idea a lot. I want us to start thinking about who our next QB will be without using a high pick that we could use to fortify other positions. I wish we would have taken Colt Brennan last year, considering he went in the 6th round…

Most people are calling Chase Daniel a third rounder, some even lower, which sounds like a steal to me. You see how long Hasselbeck can stay healthy for and we all get jazzed about one ridiculously talented young QB…

He gets compared to Drew Brees a lot which is obviously mostly based on the superficial height connection. I mean we are talking Colt Brennan-esque numbers except against REAL defense… wow. We might even be able to pair him with Maclin if he comes out..

As an avid MU watcher I’d feel better about Daniel if Holmgren—or perhaps more to the point, Zorn—were still on the staff.

He’s got a shot to play, though he really doesn’t have a pro arm. His ball’s got a lot of float, but between the numbers he throws the most catchable ball. Missouri has some very good receivers, and you don’t too much see them drop passes they should catch. He puts it where you can catch it. That quality is so underrated in QBs—he makes the routine throw pretty well.

To me, although his arm will be what people talk about it won’t be his biggest drawback as a prospect. He handles pass rush in a way that is kinda dysfunctional for a pro prospect, and it also hurts him against the better college defenses (see: Texas, Oklahoma). Because of his size he’s developed a habit of NEVER stepping up in the pocket. His instinct—not unlike Jeff George—is to drift back at the sign of pressure rather than step up into the pocket. He’ll be starting from square 1 on his footwork. He’s thrown a gaggle of picks recently, a disturbing number in plus territory. Some of that is just bum luck because he may read defenses better than anyone out there. But part of that is because teams are really pinching him with outside rush and he’s drifting back rather than stepping up. When he does step up his balls have a tendency to sail.

None of this means he might not be a steal it just means he has some warts. In what looks to be a poor QB class you may just have to live with that.

hopefully we won’t have many opportunities to draft in the top 10 in the next few years. stud OLT’s don’t slide past the top 10. I’d love to grab a good one in this draft and then maybe move Walter to guard in the next year or two.