The second round is Fili Moala,
Third Round is C. Mathews
Fourth Round is Jairus Bird ….plays Safety or Corner
BPA for our needs

Add Peppers, Tank Johnson, Karlos Dansby and D. Landry in FA and …..and you got yourselves quite a squad!

Offensive domination, that’s what.

about Knowshon that I absolutely love is his vision. He has the best vision of any RB I’ve seen since Tomlinson came out of TCU. It’s also a skill that doesn’t erode with a lot of carries…

Solid start to the rebuild. I’d be afraid though that all three of the Chung, Brace, and Delmas prospects may go in the second. All three are gaining steam since last week. If we could get two of those guys, we’d be really fortunate.

We need to find a second round DT that we can build a foundation around…

Start over the ball and work your way backwards until you get to safety…if you can find a Safety who can play corner…you are doubly golden.

Bring in FA’s that fill the gaps until the kids are ready. In 2010 you draft the best defensive players in the first three rounds….we won’t need to worry about offense for a long long time if you get Knowshon.

I don’t like the idea of finding all skill positions and lighter, faster players like safeties. We need to rebuild the front seven and the middle of the defense was horribly weak. I think we can do that in FA and the draft despite using the first rounder on a RB…

most of the time you and I dont see eye to eye! That being said… I really like the prospects here!

We had the 12 best rushing attack in yard per game last season. And it’s not like we’re gonna magically add 150 yards of offense or something. If the running game is sick that’ll probably take away yardage from Culter’s throwing because he’ll have less field. I dunno…I don’t hate Knowshon, I’m just saying.

although I could be wrong on him.

Interestingly enough, however, I did see one mock draft that had the Broncos taking Maualuga one and Fili Moala in the second round. Manning the front lines with USC!

We’ll see how everything works out with the combine and everything.

I believe that NE’s offensive style is the short pass to spread out the D to allow room for your runners. With that in mind you don’t need a great runner, plus with the style of OLine play we employ it’s doubly apparent, to me, that RB is not crucial in the scheme we are about to run. Plus I don’t want to pay mucho bucks for an elite runner for an extra .5 yard per carry over a Hillis. I like the power/speed tandem of Hillis and Torrain or even Bell.

I’m firmly in the Maualuga or Channing camp, leave the star running back on someone else’s roster, we’ll do just find. I think Maualuga is a difference maker on the defence, in the style of a Merriman. A leader who makes the defense better by just being on the field. We need that, not another offensive weapon.

I can’t help it. I think we can get by with what we have at RB while we fix the defence which has to be priority #1, I don’t think anyone will disagree with that. I think it starts with Rey. Most mocks have him going about 12, so I’m very hopeful. I love Chung in the second round, absolutely. And a DT in the third would be awesome too.

I didn’t mean to attack you, I’m very passionate about this for some reason. I can see where you are coming from, I just think that there are other options.

One other thing I wanted to mention was that NE seems to have gotten by ok at the RB position with a committee. I’d be totally down with that if thats the direction McJedi wants to take us.

It was a very fast car. It drove as well as the driver could handle it, but over time, the brakes wore out. Concerned, the owner took it to the shop where they recognized that the brakes were shot, but while he was there, they sold him on a new, more powerful supercharger. He had it installed and drove cheerfully off. Until he had to stop, of course.

Or until we have to stop someone. :-D I know – it’s nice to think about a new, powerful, dominant force on offense, and I’m quite sure that Moreno could possibly be the next Adrian Petersen. But our offense is pretty darned good, if very, very young. It will mature and get even better, but before we add that last supercharger we might want to look at the long term effects of not using another 1st round pick on a faint, trembling and nearly terminal defense.

Then next year people will want to spend a 1st rounder on TE or WR. Some people just love offensive weapons. I don’t blame them it makes it fun to watch. But what I would rather see is a defense that can stop opposing teams. That means we need to pick up players that can be effective immediately next year. Translation 1st and 2nd round picks on defense.

Matt Stafford better personally thank Moreno if he goes #1 overall to Detroit. Not a slight against Stafford, but Moreno’s game sure helped Stafford rise to the top of the QB list, IMO… Though I want defense defense and more defense…the one offensive player I could live with at #12 is Moreno.

We learned something this year. We can not go with a running back by committee with these current guys. Fragile Selvin, Tater Tot Tatum, and Tanked Torain are waaaaaay to fragile.

I’ll put this in terms of baseball. For years the Chicago Cubs were waiting and waiting for some pitching to pair with the good offensive teams they had. They had talented guys who were ALWAYS injured in Wood, Prior, Zambrano, Willis, Clement, and Tavaras. Everyone of these guys are known to now be fragile, though were thought to be perenial HOF’s when they came out. Now Prior and Willis are wailing away in suck. Zambrano is declining at a young age. Clement isn’t even playing anymore. Tavaras retired, IIRC.

My point is, we don’t know if J.D. is going to run things exactly the same as NE and that at some point we’re going to need a dependable back. For all of you saying that we have one of the best offenses, the point totals compared to yardage is honestly a disgrace. We had a young qb, who to me, made rookie like mistakes at points.

How long does it take to develop a NT? A number of seasons no matter where drafted. Our corners are not what they were suposed to be. We have questions AAAAAAAALLL over the defense. Yet, if we don’t maintain the offense, Cutler is going to get messed up somehow.

If you have 8 other picks and free agency, plus Nolan, and you can not make this defense at lest top 20, then something is wrong. If we sign one of the big free agents and have 8 other draftees, while ensuring that some pressure will be taken off of Cutler, which makes efficiency better, I think you do it.

I think we’re putting a little to much into DT. If Raji failes, then we would essentially have to restart next year. I think you take a LB or RB so you make sure you at least get something that will make a major improvement now.

To me, you go RB, then straight D in the rest of the draft.