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Originally Posted by 44 70 chip
Well my post wasn't about older players specifically but the "careless" way the FO has used draft picks in general. Notice Carriker is not on there several other's like Eathan Albright...
The ones I listed are stand outs for pissing away draft picks.
Cooley love him, great TE but honestly don't need to spend 2 picks on a TE, there are highly comparable TE's drafted with ONE pick... Not putting Cooley down but he's not Antonio Gates.
Portis, if anything a smart GM would have asked for a pick back from Denver... throwing a pick in there was sheer stupidity MAYBE... Shut down corners are and were a much more valuable comodity than Mike Shanahan running backs... He's a good redskin and nothing against portis but they overpaid.
Campbell... we overpaid and even at the time the pick was considered a "reach" and "risky".
And so on... the point isn't ... oh hell the point doesn't need to be anything but this:
we used 19 draft picks to get Cooley, Portis, an average inside LB and MAYBE McNabb for a couple years, and Brown for 3 more games MAYBE more...
19 picks for 5-ish players
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Yeah, you summed it up perfectly. That's just plain bad. Real bad. What sucks is that the top teams in the league do it just the opposite, but this team stayed with it year after year, hoping one day it would work. Oh well, I do think Snyder has learned the lesson.
I mentioned this in another thread, but the guy I'm looking at more and more is Rocky McIntosh. Talk about falling all over yourself to get a guy that has been nothing but mediocre. For a Ray Lewis-Brian Urlacher-Patrick Willis type guy, fine, do what you have to do. Maybe. But Rocky McIntosh? Ugh.