and he had him to the Hawks at 4 before he jumped to 2nd overall. I wonder if we would have taken him if available over Curry?

Also, Rob and I used to sit in the back of 300 and 400 level English/Lit classes at CWU talking Seahawks back in the day when it wasn’t all that fun to talk about the Hawks, so I’ll always like his opinion more than Kiper/McShay.

What?

I can list Jason Smith and Darius Heyward-Bey as two names that popped up right away that were pretty out there.

TMQ writes Game Over in notebook.

It’s all about 2011 mock drafts

but the picks change a lot before he settles on the last one. Mock drafts are a crap shoot in general and October mock drafts don’t often resemble draft day picks. I think its also pretty probable that Ruskell has no more idea of who he’ll draft first than a list of a dozen guys he’s keeping his eye on.

I was trying to be obvious in the sarcasm of my title. I posted it for laughs. As inaccurate as its sure to be, its fun to see what people think now compared to 6 months from now.

As far as Rang’s accuracy, I think you misunderstand. Rang has said that during the months leading up to the actual draft, he’ll often start plugging in other players in his projections so that readers will have an idea of who is on the radar. For example, last year, he had a lot of projections with Smith, Crabtree, and Sanchez. Its kind of funny that, when he projected Sanchez at #4, almost every other pundit got on the Sanchez to Seattle bandwagon within a week! Rang stayed with Sanchez for I think 9 weeks before officially picking Curry two weeks out.

Its possible that Balmer was never on Ruskell’s radar, but Balmer was just a name Rang threw out leading up to the draft, as he typically does. IIRC, Lawrence Jackson was the prediction, not Balmer, in Rang’s final 2008 mock.

They provide good discussion during the Bye, and they give you hope when the team is down. I find that if one does not take them seriously, they became way more fun. I’m sure there is a good example of that in pop. culture, but it’s too early for me to think of anything. Pro Wrestling? Olympic Figure Skating?

But I would be fucking ecstatic if the Seahawks landed Trent Williams.

We got the smartest man from New Jersey!