Rumor from another website form a source, says they are looking toward Jason Smith OT from Baylor.
Any thoughts?
I think this would be good if its true. Cause pretty much we can guarentee Curry will be there.
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Rumor from another website form a source, says they are looking toward Jason Smith OT from Baylor.
Any thoughts?
I think this would be good if its true. Cause pretty much we can guarentee Curry will be there.
People need to stop the Curry love. When was the last time a top-5 LB turned out to be worth the pick? DT. And Curry's no DT.
Smart move by the Lions. Smith will anchor their line for the next decade. They can go QB either with the 20th pick (if Josh Freeman is there), they can go with more OL (Duke Robinson or Alex Mack), or they can go LB/DL.
They have enough holes on the team that any they can pick the best player on the board.
The obvious answer is trade down, but we all know that's a long shot.
I think Raji at NT or Smith/Monroe at LT (should they drop) are better picks.
I just don't see the fuss about Curry. He's a versatile LB that can play the 3-4 or 4-3. He's great against the run. He's going to be a very good to great LB in the league. He's a safe pick in that respect.
But he's a LB. Like safeties, CBs, WRs, RBs, and TEs, I think LBs are very bad players to draft high. A LB is usually replaceable (not under Herm/CP, sure, but they were idiots). It's usually a bad idea to sink too much money in that position.
Am I missing someone, or has there been a good LB taken in the top-5 since DT? And DT was a pass-rushing LB that could rack up sacks. Curry isn't, which isn't a knock against him, but he isn't that guy.
Where I could see us getting a very good LB in the 3rd round - someone who could start at OLB from day 1 - I don't see us getting a LT or NT there.
And I just think a NT is a bigger need for us than LB, should Smith/Monroe go 1 and 2. Right now, we have no one on the DL who I trust in the 4-3, much less the 3-4. Dorsey isn't a NT (he's barely big enough to be a 4-3 DT), and I'll never understand why Tank has defenders on this board. I just don't see us having a lot of choices here.
Even in its cobbled state, a 3-4 LB corps of DJ/Vrabel/Beisel/Williams would be adequate (not good, but adequate) to get us through 2009. A 3-4 DL of Dorsey/Tank/Hali isn't. A 4-3 DL of Dorsey/Tank/Hali/Draft pick isn't, if we decide we can't move to the 3-4 this season. Teams will just run on us, wearing our LBs out and controlling the clock unless we get a big DT in the middle of that line.
Our DL in 2008 was the worst of all time. This isn't exaggeration. We couldn't rush the passer or stop the run. As good as Curry is (and don't get me wrong, he is good), he isn't going to be able to fix that problem. A big NT like Raji could go a long way to helping our DL look respectable in 2009.
At the very least, we can draft a starting LB in the 3rd or 4th rounds, if we're not sold on Beisel being a starter.
In all of this Curry excitement, people have forgotten how miserable our DL players are. Even if Dorsey takes the leap into being a Warren Sapp style DT (he was never drafted to be a space eating DT), our run defense would still be a sieve. We need big, heavy guys to anchor our DL before anything else.