Meet the Beast: Brian Orakpo

After having a nightmare that we drafted freeman, today was like a fairytale. Still hoping for good news with the OL tomorrow.

i love this pick.... im starting to really like this Defense...

anybody.but.sanchez. was my mantra going into today...THANK GOODNESS WE ADDRESSED A LINE NEED.

Could also go lb in the 3rd today. There is some quality still out there.

I challenge any team to put up a better front 4. This is a top notch crew now. Once the chemistry is there, we will be outstanding.

Hey I love the enthusiasm but slow down with all this best D-Line front crap. We have not played a down of football yet so lets just see how they start out against the G-Men. We as fans still need to remember games are won and loss on the field not paper.

I been saying all along that defense wins championships ( Steelers,Giants). Our defense was ranked 4th but we did not get to the QB. This was the big reason why we did not get many Ints cause QB has to much time to throw the ball. With Big Haynesworth he should help our run defense and pass rush. Our defense has to create more turnovers this year which translates to more points from the offense. Turnovers change momentum
and of course field positon.

Is this the 1st D-Lineman we have drafted in the 1st round since DE Kenard Lang out of the University of Miami? I'm almost certain it is. He left us to play for the Browns.

The knee injury is recurring...not random.

2007 - Right knee.

2008 - Left knee.

A few thoughts:

-The interest in Sanchez was legit, but they weren't going to trade up any higher than 8th to the Jaguars and they were relatively stingy in what they were going to give up. Plus, the deal would have had to have been coupled with a Campbell trade (or possibly someone else) for another 2nd or 3rd round pick

-A bit surprised that Orakpo fell, though not entirely (I had in my mock to the Skins a couple of weeks ago). His stock seemed to be falling recently through no fault of his own really. But this was the guy Vinny has wanted for a long time. He was definitely the driving force behind this pick. At the last minute I thought they might pick Cushing (he's another guy I know they liked), but I'm glad they went with Orakpo (Matty, sorry about the Maualuga text-my USC guy was messing with me)

-It is kind of funny though how we put so much focus on the dinner and private meetings they had with Sanchez, yet when a few of us pointed out the same exact stuff was happening with Orakpo...it was ignored.

-As for the pick itself, I think it's a good one. The knee issues obviously are something to monitor closely, but he has the ability to do all the things we envisioned for Jason Taylor (and he's a decade younger). He'll be exciting to watch.

One thing that has been overlooked in this flirtation with Sanchez is that Sanchez's agent released the details from that dinner meeting, and the restaurant also publicized it. I'm sure the Redskins interest in him was genuine, but it was overblown because of those two extra sources touting the meeting.

Ya I would have probably of gone with oher since the oline sucks and orakpo has had injury problems and some say he's too small for the 4-3 DE


That said, this would have been my next pick and let's see how great he'll do his first year, and see if we can get another DE to rotate with him or as a just incase pick