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Breaking Down the 2007 NFL draft Pt2

As my Great Uncle Louie would say if he were still with us, “New?”, which is a Yiddish slang greeting for What’s new. If he were around today and he asked me that I’d tell him how I lost my voice Working at the Draft. Being an Eagles fan with South Jersey roots, Uncle Lou might have said “So vat about this Kolb? He’s so good that he’s a 36th pick?” So my question to our readers and listeners: Is Kevin Kolb really worth the 36th pick? Is Ted Ginn the 9th Pick? Is Anthony Spencer the 26th Pick?

I can’t really argue much with Picks 1-8. The level of talent is in line with those choices. The same can be said for most of the rest of the first round, with the exception of the Packers Pick of Justin Harrell, who was a low 1st to high 2nd rounder. In breaking down the 1st round I don’t see any other outrageous selections. I do see teams that went safe, for the sake of being safe. Get It? Again, as we like to say, any grade you give a teams' Draft class right now is just too premature. Skill Players take 2 to 4 years to develop, and “Pit” players 3-5 years. So giving a draft grade now on a player who has yet to show his full potential is just wasting time. You CAN grade a team’s draft now as far as value in relation to the slot of that pick.

Some other observations: I thought the Saints gettting Meachem at #27 was a steal, and the Jets pulling the deal on Revis took guts, as well as jumping ahead of the Steelers to get their home town college star. Not that the Steelers made out so bad either. Smart teams will always have a plan B (and C and D and E) regarding when a player they zeroed in on gets drafted in front of them. Timmons was plan “B”. Some teams didn’t bother with “lets see who the next best player is at that position” but rather, “the Next best player available”.

While the trend is leaning towards more and more draft day or just pre or post draft dealings, are these trades really worth making? Who makes them? When Oakland got a 4th for Randy Moss on Sunday, did they settle for less? Or did they know that the market for talented but head cased wide outs was a 4th round pick? One NY based but nationally known scribe trumpeted Monday “lets just give the Pats the title now” Why? Playing the games means that little? One thing that struck me as funny this past weekend was that teams began “reaching” for “project” type players much sooner then in years past.

Next post: breaking down the second and third rounds…..
 

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