One good reason that the Cardinals are in the Super Bowl is that a few years ago Dennis Green chose an interesting strategy for the draft. He and his staff make a list of the top 140 players in the draft and placed them in descending order. Any time a player was drafted they drew a line through him and moved on. When it was their turn, they took the player at the top of the list. No matter what strategy you espouse, this one worked out well for Arizona.

It begs a very tough, very personal question - who are those 140 players and in what order? Since that's too much, I'd like to start with the top 32 and ask the faithful who they would rank, and  where. I'd leave out the two positions where we don't have need - starting QB and starting O tackles - if this was an actual draft. Everything else I'd leave on the table, er, list.

I chose ESPN's, not for any love of the site but because it was the first site that I could get a decent cut and past on their list. I disagree with some of the players and many of the rankings, dropping Clint Sintim and adding Larry English, but it's a starting point.

Two questions - would you accept such a strategy, given that it worked so well for Arizona, and what players and order do you believe in? Here is a starting point:

1.     Andre Smith	OT	Alabama
2. Michael Crabtree	WR	Texas Tech
3. Aaron Curry	OLB	Wake Forest
4. Mark Sanchez	QB	USC
5. Matthew Stafford	QB	Georgia
6. Eugene Monroe	OT	Virginia
7. Malcolm Jenkins	CB	Ohio State
8. Aaron Maybin	DE	Penn State
9. Jeremy Maclin	WR	Missouri
10. Brian Orakpo	DE	Texas
11. Jason Smith	OT	Baylor
12. Knowshon Moreno	RB	Georgia
13. Brandon Pettigrew	TE	Okla. State
14. B.J. Raji	DT	Boston College
15. Rey Maualuga	ILB	USC
16. Percy Harvin	WR	Florida
17. Vontae Davis	CB	Illinois
18. Everette Brown	DE	Florida State
19. Tyson Jackson	DE	LSU
20. Brian Cushing	OLB	USC
21. Chris Wells	RB	Ohio State
22. James Laurinaitis	ILB	Ohio State
23. Michael Oher	OT	Mississippi
24. LeSean McCoy	RB	Pittsburgh
25. D.J. Moore	CB	Vanderbilt
26. Hakeem Nicks	WR	N. Carolina
27. Larry English	OLB	Virginia
28. Peria Jerry	DT	Mississippi
29. Rashard Johnson	S	Missouri
30. Sean Smith	CB	Utah
31. Brandon LaFell	WR	LSU
32. Max Unger	C	Oregon

I left the tackles and QBs on the list for argument's sake, Given the vast discussions of whether it is reasonable to take a running back at 12, this approach would solve that, since you are ranking players long before the draft. Would you use this approach (and if not, which approach do you recommend?), and what players would you rank?