Peer Pressure Fuax Draft

Seeing as how mocks are all the rage right now, and me being a fan of peer pressure, I thought I would throw together my off season dream scenario.

Coaching Staff

                  We go with Mike Mularkey, current Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator. This line from his Wikipedia page sold me right away.

“His skill for creating special packages to utilize multi-dimensional players such as Hines Ward and Antwaan Randle El earned him the nickname "Inspector Gadget". Even with his creative imagination, his philosophy of being the most physical punishing offense helped the Steelers average 10+ wins a year during his 3 years as offensive coordinator”.

 Is this guy a good fit or what? He changes his schemes to let the players he’s given have the best chance to succeed. He doesn’t try and jam a piece of a puzzle that doesn’t fit he just changes the whole puzzle so it does. And the “physical punishing offense” is exactly what this team has lacked over the last two years. I would love this kind of offense.

            We will need a strong defensive coordinator. If I had my choice I would love to somehow get Dom Capers or Rob Ryan or Ron Rivera. However I don’t see any of those guys getting out of their current situations. Instead I want to go down memory lane and take you back to last off season when we were looking for yet another defensive coordinator. It was between Dean Peas the former New England Patriots defensive coordinator from 2006 to 2009 and Wink Martindale. We took Martindale and Peas went on to be linebacker’s coach of the Ravens in 2010. Lets right our wrong and give Peas a shot. His defenses were consistently in the top 10 while he was in New England. If we can’t get him than keeping Wink just for the sake of continuity might not be such a bad idea and let him get a season with decent defensive talent.

Head Coach: Mike Mularkey

O Coordinator: Mike McCoy

D Coordinator: Dean Peas

Off Season

Resign CB Champ Bailey

Sign ILB David Harris

Trade Kyle Orton to Arizona for their 3rd round pick (69th overall)

2011 NFL Draft

 2nd overall: Nick Fairly, DE, Auburn

 An absolute beast that will help with pressuring the QB and an underrated part of his game is his run defense. An impact player from day 1.

 TRADE ALERT

The Broncos trade their 36th overall and 69th overall (AZ) for Kansas City’s 22nd overall pick.

 22nd overall: Stephen Paea, NT, Oregon State

 Now I am not sure if he can play NT but if I recall I believe Sayre did a mock a while back having him as our future NT, so monkey see monkey do. Him and Fairly give us a dominant line that along with the rotational veterans will now be much improved.

 46th overall: Jimmy Smith, CB, Colorado

 With Cox looking at a suspension and possibly jail time the Broncos go for another CB. In this deep class of CBs guys like Smith or Ras-I Dowling will fall and be ours for the taking.

 67th overall: Quinton Carter, FS, Oklahoma

 With Hill likely out and Dawkins vetting older by the minute we need some young blood. Enter Quinton Carter who with McBath would ideally be the future for this team.

 For the rest of the draft we go after a receiving TE, possibly Luke Stocker, some O line depth and OLB depth.

Summary:

 In this off season we got a head coach who has developed QBs to their full potential in the past, runs a physical offense and is very creative. We add a good D Coordinator who can turn this sorry crew around. We resign Champ and let him play out his career here and eventually he moves to safety. We add a stud ILB in David Harris to help with the run defense. We get rid of Orton who will have no use here. In the draft we get two big time additions on the line in Paea and Fairly who will anchor it for years to come. We add Smith as a potential Perish Cox replacement who was supposed to be Goodman’s replacement and we get Carter who can learn under the great Brian Dawkins and take over when Dawkins gets hurt or hangs ‘em up. Pick apart as you see fit.