NFL Network - How Could Any Team Have Passed on Peterson in the 07 Draft?

Well yeah, drafting AP and trading him or Betts for additional picks would have been fine. But I don't think Schefter is factoring a trade. He's just saying he thinks we wish Peterson was on our roster (over Landry I suppose) and I just don't see that.

Also, the career longevity expectancy for a RB in the NFL is about 5 minutes. He could blow up his knee at any moment and never recover. I've come around to the view that you want a solid RB, but it's not as though any one guy will suddenly give you a ground game. If Petersen were running behind a shitty O-Line, then no one would be talking about him. Very few backs fail behind that sort of blocking.

You know a running back that goes against this grain? Westbrook from Philly. There's a guy that gains yards on his own. If he were running behind Minnesota's line, I'd bet he'd already have 2000 yards.

Pretty easy for ANYONE to Monday morning or Thursday evening QB at this point....come on.

I think we did much better than OK with LL.

I think the SKins took the right player in Landry even if Sean taylor were alive today. Those two were forming an elite dou that made receivers fear going over the middle.

As far as running backs go - I am more on the side of building a great line first and most running backs can be found in later rounds - I think the Broncos showed this for years. Plus if you focus on building a strong line you can help your qb as well.

Look at James since he joined the Cardinals - he has not averaged over 4 yards a carry since joining the Cardinals and has 6 tds in 06 and 6 in 07 - far lower than when he was with the Colts.

Running backs have a shorter life span than most other positions in the NFL because of all the wear and tear they take on a weekly basis. Is this something as a GM you would want to throw a massive signing bonus on which a high round pick requires - I think not. Most scouts would take an elite corner, LT of DE over a running back any day because these positions are hard to find great players.

How could anyone passup Tom Brady?

Or Joe Montana??

The Redskins should not at all rue the day. We made the right choice. If we took Peterson, there would be an issue of PT between him and Betts, and after the loss of Taylor, we'd have no safety help at all. We are one of the few teams that were 100% right in passing on Peterson.

In all honesty, as someone who was watching NFLN at the time, it was pretty much a throw away comment. Probably not worth a whole thread or getting too bent out of shape about.

RBs are a dime a dozen in all reality. AP might be very good or even great but in the end how much value does he bring over say...Chester Taylor? Not much really.

Sure, it's easy to say now.

Where was Schefter on draft day with this take? That I would have been impressed with.

Hey... check out my Schefter brilliance. How did anyone pass on Dan Marino??

LOL exactly what I was thinking. I mean wtf were people thinking when passed Brady. Damn I could be an NFL analyst.

To quote the big tuna "it's a disposable position" and the "true test of a running back is durability."

People criticized parcells a few years back for not taking Stephen Jackson, trading back & getting J. Jones in the 2nd. I think they got barber the next year. Parcells knew that he could fill the position well without using his 1st round pick.