Thread: Mock Draft-How Bears can acquire dream targets

Originally Posted by Dagan81

If we wind up not drafting a LT in the first round, Potter would be good competition for Webb. Potter, by dent of the fact that he's at best a third round choice, would be a more solid talent than Webb, but at the same time, scouting reports claim that he lacks the meanness to be a real force at LT in the NFL. I don't know much about the degrees of attitudes of football players, but if scouts are saying this about him, then he's going to have to really get aggressive when he gets to training with whichever team drafts him. If he has good mechanics, that's great, but he has to have some nasty to him as well, that much I do know.

My how things change. I have a 2011 draft magazine at work ( forget the name ) I was looking at today, and in their " A Look Ahead " section ( pertaining to this years draft ) they had Potter at #15 on their best players list. He was the #2 LT listed behind Kahlil . So I don't get how he's suddenly considered nothing more than a 3rd rounder this year. He's a good player . Some of these draft 'experts' are FOS and put out publications for 1 reason and 1 reason only - $$$$$$$.

They can't evaluate squat until these guys start playing on Sunday anyways. They can offer educated guesses and nothing more really ( like ALL of us ). I could turn out to be totally wrong about Potter. But I'd rather have him on this team - that's my educated guess.

Originally Posted by Blue Horse-shoe

My how things change. I have a 2011 draft magazine at work ( forget the name ) I was looking at today, and in their " A Look Ahead " section ( pertaining to this years draft ) they had Potter at #15 on their best players list. He was the #2 LT listed behind Kahlil . So I don't get how he's suddenly considered nothing more than a 3rd rounder this year. He's a good player . Some of these draft 'experts' are FOS and put out publications for 1 reason and 1 reason only - $$$$$$$.

They can't evaluate squat until these guys start playing on Sunday anyways. They can offer educated guesses and nothing more really ( like ALL of us ). I could turn out to be totally wrong about Potter. But I'd rather have him on this team - that's my educated guess.

I think we can all agree on one thing: a stinky fart would be a better LT than either OMG or Webb. lol

Originally Posted by Dagan81

I think we can all agree on one thing: a stinky fart would be a better LT than either OMG or Webb. lol

I'm to the point where trading a 4th or 5th rounder for the best 2nd stringer on some other team sounds like a good idea. Heres what he should be :

If he was a relief pitcher he'd be the forgotten man who only gets used when ur team is down 10 runs.
If he was a basketball player he'd be the guy who gets in, in the last 4 minutes of a blowout.
- the Tv anchor who gets the morning weekend slot.
- the neighborhood kid who gets picked last.
- the junkyard night watchman.
- the guy even the ugly girls ignore.
- etc etc etc.

But for us .... he's our STARTER. Ugh.

Originally Posted by Blue Horse-shoe

I'm to the point where trading a 4th or 5th rounder for the best 2nd stringer on some other team sounds like a good idea. Heres what he should be :

If he was a relief pitcher he'd be the forgotten man who only gets used when ur team is down 10 runs.
If he was a basketball player he'd be the guy who gets in, in the last 4 minutes of a blowout.
- the Tv anchor who gets the morning weekend slot.
- the neighborhood kid who gets picked last.
- the junkyard night watchman.
- the guy even the ugly girls ignore.
- etc etc etc.

But for us .... he's our STARTER. Ugh.

And, I mean, what were the Bears thinking of starting Webb and OMG at any position when one was a seventh round idiot out of West Texas Bum-Fuck and the other was the worst offensive lineman in the entire league? C'mon! I guess we must've been desperate or something.

Of course, Tice did a wonderful job of making this line decent considering what he had to work with. That much you can say for him. But his false sense of bravado over Webb may cost him his job. He is just simply too emotionally invested in this kid.

Originally Posted by Blue Horse-shoe

My how things change. I have a 2011 draft magazine at work ( forget the name ) I was looking at today, and in their " A Look Ahead " section ( pertaining to this years draft ) they had Potter at #15 on their best players list. He was the #2 LT listed behind Kahlil . So I don't get how he's suddenly considered nothing more than a 3rd rounder this year. He's a good player . Some of these draft 'experts' are FOS and put out publications for 1 reason and 1 reason only - $$$$$$$.

They can't evaluate squat until these guys start playing on Sunday anyways. They can offer educated guesses and nothing more really ( like ALL of us ). I could turn out to be totally wrong about Potter. But I'd rather have him on this team - that's my educated guess.

just want to say I'm with you. Potter seems to go in the 3rd Round. He played LT for a winning team. Much like Kellen Moore, he gets underrated. I'd draft both if possible.

Potter + Webb would be OK for next year. Competition and the better guy plays

Originally Posted by Dagan81

I think we can all agree on one thing: a stinky fart would be a better LT than either OMG or Webb. lol

A really good stinky fart would bring Jared Allen to his knees better than Webb for sure!

Originally Posted by BearJim

A really good stinky fart would bring Jared Allen to his knees better than Webb for sure!

Speaking of which...