<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticBalla32 @ Apr 28 2007, 06:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Guys, I'm not an avid football fan, but I do like the sport and I do follow the Pats and watch at least half their games. But how did we do in the draft? I don't follow college football, but how good is this Meriweather guy? Was it a good pick?</div>Brandon has a lot of talent/potential. The reason he fell was because of character issues, if not for those he probably wouls have gone a lot earlier. He'll be a very good player in this league if he can control his issues, and with the Pats he hopefully will. They have a history of handling players with character issues.As for the Lions pick, Harris is still on the board, along with Stanton and Edwards. I really like Stanton, but Harris would be great.And guys, it's Beck, not Buck.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (CelticBalla32 @ Apr 28 2007, 06:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Guys, I'm not an avid football fan, but I do like the sport and I do follow the Pats and watch at least half their games. But how did we do in the draft? I don't follow college football, but how good is this Meriweather guy? Was it a good pick?</div>He's a very good DB. I've had the opportunity to watch him closely over the last two years. Very smart, good in coverage, good tackler..Just a great all-around saftey, can do it all. People knock him for his off the field behavior and the brawl, but he's gonna be a great player. Sadly the you guys picked him. Anyways, about the whole Quinn thing. Almost every Dolphin fan I've talked and heard from is going hay-wire. I'm not upset at all though. If they feel Quinn isn't worth the 9th overall pick, but Ginn is, I support the decsion. I was never too crazy about Quinn anyway. A lot of people consider some of the 2nd Round projected QBs to be almost as good if not better than Quinn. And now we see why we passed on him, taking Beck in the 2nd Round. He'll be 26 by the time season starts, but he looks very good. I think it's very possible he could develop into a better QB than Quinn.
I called it!!! The Lions will take Drew Stanton!!! Their trade with the Bills worked out both ways. Stanton will be perfect for Detroit.
im not even watching..Pats don't have a 2nd round pickim pumped about the team though..Meriweather is just insurance for Rodney Harrison..we already have a contenderhopefully the 49ers end up sucking so we can get a top 5 pick next year
God dangit Millen.Our defense sucks crap. We lost tons of guys. We don't even need a QB and you draft Stanton ahead of Woodley/Harris? Should have taken Poz.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Winchester @ Apr 28 2007, 06:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>God dangit Millen.Our defense sucks crap. We lost tons of guys. We don't even need a QB and you draft Stanton ahead of Woodley/Harris? Should have taken Poz.</div> I agree, I don't get the pick at all.
I actually like the pick of Stanton. No, he doesn't have a rocket arm or amazing strength, but he's got everything to be a successful QB in the NFL. He has average arm strength, but he has solid mobility, does everything well, but nothing fantastic. He has great leadership and character, which is very important for a QB. Plus he will be learning under Mike Martz, and will learn from Kitna, who mentored Carson Palmer in Cincinnati his first year. Plus at MSU, his WR's pretty much sucked all year, with the exception of maybe Trannon. His running game wasn't as good as expected, and the coaching was pretty bad too.
Mike Williams is gone. Traded to the Titans.http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cf...p;news_id=55909Probably for somewhere around 4th or 5th round pick.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Stonesalltheway @ Apr 28 2007, 07:10 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I actually like the pick of Stanton. No, he doesn't have a rocket arm or amazing strength, but he's got everything to be a successful QB in the NFL. He has average arm strength, but he has solid mobility, does everything well, but nothing fantastic. He has great leadership and character, which is very important for a QB. Plus he will be learning under Mike Martz, and will learn from Kitna, who mentored Carson Palmer in Cincinnati his first year. Plus at MSU, his WR's pretty much sucked all year, with the exception of maybe Trannon. His running game wasn't as good as expected, and the coaching was pretty bad too.</div> Stanton has terrible mechanics and makes bad decisions.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Apr 28 2007, 08:12 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Stanton has terrible mechanics and makes bad decisions.</div>He is a very accurate passer, most of his mistakes come when he tries to do too much, or when he has to throw the long ball without a rocket arm. As for his mechanics, I always thought they were good and he gets his throws off quickly which is always a good thing.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LightsOut @ Apr 28 2007, 06:23 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Anyways, about the whole Quinn thing. Almost every Dolphin fan I've talked and heard from is going hay-wire. I'm not upset at all though. If they feel Quinn isn't worth the 9th overall pick, but Ginn is, I support the decsion. I was never too crazy about Quinn anyway. A lot of people consider some of the 2nd Round projected QBs to be almost as good if not better than Quinn. And now we see why we passed on him, taking Beck in the 2nd Round. He'll be 26 by the time season starts, but he looks very good. I think it's very possible he could develop into a better QB than Quinn.</div>I went and thought about this pick for a few hours, and I'm still furious over this. No disrespect to Beck, but he's not going to be what Quinn will be in the NFL. Quinn has good size at 6'3, he makes good reads on the field, he controls the huddle well, he knows how to handle the NFL publicity already considering he got more publicity at Notre Dame than many NFL starters got, he's a smart quarterback, and it is reported that he is very coachable, as well as will try hard to be an NFL quarterback.His biggest problem is his passing accuracy, which was still not that bad. He had one or two mechanics problems, related to his drop back and push off at his feet, which are completely fixable. He is going to be a stud in the NFL in my opinion, and those idiots missed on him.
Another advantage of taking Quinn is he was taught under former Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weiss and understands the game very well....Weiss is an incredible coach and is a big reason the Patriots have three super bowlsMiami is retarded...Ginn Jr will NOT make an impact..he's pretty much Wes Welker..so they basically didn't do anything
Man Jerry Jones keeps pissing me off. He keeps trading down. I look forward to Cowboys picking someone and then it's gone. They have made 3 trades. And the first one where they got Browns #1 for 08 was great. But the one with the Eagles and another with the Browns is not necessary. It's just giving other teams better players. He trades 1 decent pick for some low craps
Browns doing more dealing with Dallas, get Eric Wight in the second round. Why not a running back? Ugh.
