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With all the OL draft info I read Glenn is starting to get my fancy, he is projected as a guard but can play OT. So he would give us the option of LG,RT, or even LT if needed. He is rated as a very good player and listed as a potential all pro. I think if one of the top DEs arent there, I would grab him before Martin or Adams.

I think we will address CB but can get a good one to fit our system in the 3rd or 4th.I am chilling on Martin as I read more about him and dont think he is worth the 19th pick. Adams has a risk factor so I think Mercilusl,Ingram, or Coples if he is there will be our first pick.

I agree with you on Mercilus, other than if Coples drops. I prefer a OL in the second, but I think Randle is one of the better WRs this year and would have no problem if they took him.

Close to the draft, looking at what we got; QB- With Cutler, Campbell, and McGown, we now have a legit backups for a potential problem. Throw Enderle to the scrap heap. RB-Forte, Bush,Bell,Allen and throw in Klutz and we wont be drafting at this position. I would say rock solid at RB. TE-Davis, Spaeth, Adams stick and the A. Smith, and D. Ross will be gone. Not a position of strength but a wait to see with Davis. I dont think think we will draft. WR- Marshall,Bennett,Hester,Davis, Weems,Thomas, Sanz, and Komar. I dont count Knox because I dont think he plays this year. We still need to draft another prospect to be a #2. I think Bennett is a #3 on a good team. Hester a special play guy and not sure what we have with the rest of wide outs. OT-Webb,Carmi,Horn. Defitinely will be drafting one. Webb sucks,Carimi off of injury and the possiblity of Williams coming over makes him a swing taclke. I think we will draft with one of first 2 picks. OG- E. Williams,Louis,Henry,Stephens, Wroto. I think if they draft a OT they keep C. Williams at OG and dont draft one. If they move him to OT will draft a OG. Spencer can also play OG. OC-Garza, Spencer. We wont address it this year, but if Konz would drop to the second round, I would take him and move Garza to OG. So on offense we will draft another WR, OT and depending on how the draft falls at the other OL positions. Konz out of the first round would be a steal and I think we would have to take him, he is that highly regarded.

If there going with Davis, they really dont need to draft another TE, we have 5 on the roster right now.K Davis, Adams, Spaeth,A.Davis,Ross. So we have other needs we need to address before TE. I am not sure about Davis, but we cant fix everything in one off season.

You forgot Spencer. and I agree with the picks.

I totally agree with you on the importance of the OLine and we havent addressed that, but hopefully the draft gets us some help. It is impossible to get eveything done in one off season and we will just have to look at the total picture after the draft.

I get your research, my point is I dont think he is very good.

Tall WRs from the south are notorious for being good nitters.

Call it what you want but when you competing with a home team, they have some advantages,(its his home, familiarity, and friends). The unsigned FAs refers to the need to fill roster spots, not refering to your blog. We only have 3 CBs on the roster, and Jennings is a marginal starter. They just have a lot of spots to full, and would be hard pressed to do that with spending more money on bigger names.

Emery didnt blow the Mincey deal, he was ready to sign a deal and the Jags upped their deal and he just stayed home. I would have liked either Winston or Grubbs, but I am not running an NFL team and they had people targeted and those werent on their list. The only thing that bothers me so far with this off season is not signing a OT, but just not that many options out there. We only have 1/2 of the picture, we need to wait till after the draft to hold judgement, everybody wants all these bigger FAs names but we simply didnt have the money to sign eveybody. When Wimbley signed at 7 mil per year we didnt have enough money left to pay that. If Cutler gets hurt again then they will be lauded for signing Campbell, I in no way think that was a bad signing. The 3.5 it cost for him wont have given us any of the bigger names anyway and you have to keep in mind, we have many roster spots to fill and have to have bodies there and spending on a couple of bigger FAs wouldnt have worked. We still have many spots to fill and they cant all be undrafted FAs.

I agree with you on Egnew in that later round.

I think they are going for it this year, because of the age of the stars on defense, they are trying to make a push this year and thats why the dollars for a good backup QB. If Culter gets hurt, then it will have been worth it, if not , no more Hanie circuses.

I agree, I think Randle will go in the second round, but was just using his draft site. Irwin will just be a situational pass rusher, dont see him ever being an every down end.

Looking at the whole draft I would take Martin/OT in the first-Irwin/DE in the second-Trum Johnson/CB in the third and in the fourth Randle/WR, according to their player draft spots. I think they will get either Reiff, Martin or Adams will be there in the first round. The only way they go DE is if Coples drops. WR if Floyd is there.

We have a lot of roster spots to fill, you cant sign 2 big contracts to two players and then what do you do about all the other spots you need to fill. They are fixing shit that Jerry didnt address. A better back up QB, a better back up RB. If we had those two spots fixed last year we would have been in the playoffs. I am, like you, thinking the LT spot is the most important position we needed to fill in the off season. You cant fix everything in one season, and thats why I think they will draft a OT in the first round of the draft. I would have liked both of those LTs brought in for a look, but they do have injury issues, which may be more of a problem than we can see. FAgency has been going for a few weeks, and nobody has signed them yet. I think they will draft a LT, then a CB and then a DE in the draft and if Emery hits on those spots were moving up the ladder, time will tell.

We better our team with Bush over Barber, Campbell over Hanie, and Marshall over everybody. You cant fix everything in one off season but we didnt have the money to due all the upgrades everybody thinks we should have done. I see us as a better team right now,and after the draft we will know more. I give him a C plus right now.(Emery) If we get a OT,DE, CB and some backups, I think we will be a lot better.

That will soon change after the draft, I would say Sanz will be leaving but it might be one of the new guys.

Beilcheck was a lousy coach at Cleve and now he is some kind of a messiah. The point is we dont know how well this will work till he does it. I think he is a big upgrade to Martz, just because he will adjust to our talent we have instead of running a system. The OL was the worst, and now I will see what he can do with his input on personal. This year will say a lot about his ability to make an OL good and run a good offense.

These blobs are quite meaningless when it comes to real life, we just need to keep everything in prespective. We all have opinions and just roll with it.

The point was they paid him as a WR hoping he would be that, he aint even close.

The only thing that bothers me is not addressing the OL, but we still can in the draft, I dont think in any one offseason you can fill all your needs. I think we shored up some areas but need to have a huge draft and hit on 3 to 4 players that make a contribution. The draft is where Emery expertise is, so we will know in a month how we did.

If Cris Williams was so good at LT I dont think he would have been playing LG. I think he didnt meet expectations and they moved him around to try to find some valve with him. He is not a bust, but not who I want playing the LT spot going into 2012, we should shoot higher than that.

As far as valve of players, I find Pro Football Weekly and National Football Post, to my liking. I think they do a accruate job, but there are tons of websites out there to confuse any valve other than the front of the draft.

What you pay a guy doesnt determine his valve. We paid Hester a good paycheck and said he was a #1, he barely resembles a #4 on a good team.