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I just posted a thread on Bruce Irvin visiting Halas Hall. He's the other LB/DE prospect Lovie went to watch workout this week. I think what the sportswriters are saying is accurate. FA was for upgrading the offense and the early rounds of the draft will be for doing the same with the defense.
To me that just makes good sense. There really isn't a need to add two new WR's immediately when there's so many other holes to fill and we're desperately thin at positions like DE and OLB and those are paramount positions in our defense. I would like to see an Olineman in here somewhere though. If we can't find an OT worth taking then at least we should take an OG this year to give us some flexibility over who we re-sign for 2013.
If we can do that I'd be in favor of having Tice throw the LT spot open for competition between Webb, CWill and Carimi and use the loser as a swing guy. Either that of use a mid round pick for a guy who rates as a good LT prospect and coach the guy up this year.
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I wish they would just not worry about the roster we have, and go bpa, and fill the roster w/the best players they can get.
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Originally Posted by
Riczaj01 
We have done the athlete thing in the past to our own detriment though, I'd like to just get down and dirty football players over athletes. We seem to get bit often getting a pool jumper over a player.
but again, If he comes up and is the bpa, then I have no issue w/it.
People need to get over the athlete vs football player thing. Somehow Skelator's all-athlete drafts got people really down on grabbing those guys over pure football players. It's thinking like that that sees guys like Mike Wallace fall behind duds like Mohamed Massaquoi and Derrick Williams, just because he's called a track star and they are called developed gamers. For every guys drafted because of his athleticism that proves poor at pro football, there's a heady and positionally sound player who isn't athletic enough to hang with the pros. Also, Robinson isn't in the category of workout warrior athlete and iffy football player. He's actually a very solid player whose scouting reports is on par with a lot of kids coming out of college where they simply don't get the coaching up to develop that cerebral game that they do at the pro level.
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Well put. I'd like to see us paying more attention to future needs like a talented coachable LB prospect. Great teams have guys in the hopper ready to step in when a vet's productivity declines vs his paycheck. Over the years we've tended to ride old war horses too long because we didn't have young talent prepared to go. I think that's one of the main things we need to improve on in the Emery era. We need to begin anticipating needs.
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Soul you have to fix the starters before you can start doing that.
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Originally Posted by
motownbear Soul you have to fix the starters before you can start doing that.
LOL, well there's that too but I think Emery is beginning to get a handle on that. Marshall is an upgrade on the level of Cutler and Pep. I think the guy is a top 5 WR and he's been doing that without a real top 5 or even a top 20 QB throwing to him. Signing Bush is a good upgrade over Barber and an entire universe better than Taylor.
The think is if you don't begin to upgrade your prospects too your eventual starters begin to be far less than what you'd wish for. Isn't that about how the Oline got the way it did? There are 3 areas I think we need to cover with solid prospects this offseason and that's LT, LB and CB. If we can get starting material at DE and one of those other spots in the first three rounds to go along with what we've done so far I'd be ecstatic.
Another WR in the first 4 rounds would be nice but I'm not as critical of the guys we have as others. There's a tone of WR talent in this draft all the way down into the middle rounds and I'm sure we can pickup a guy who can make the roster in there somewhere without having to burn a first round pick on one. Gimme the DE or a guy like DeCastro in one and I'll be a happy camper but not so happy if we pass on one of those two for another WR.
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