Thank you! Any thoughts so far?first post has been updated
A little motivation from Saban and Houck should help with Parquet's listed weaknesses (inconsistency, hitting the weight room).Miami Dolphins' 2005 Draft:Strengths: Excellent size and a massive frame...Good athleticism and nimble feet...Has long arms which aid him as a pass blocker...Powerful and does a solid job as a run blocker...Smart player who graduated in 3 1/2 years...A team leader and captain.
Weaknesses: Not as strong as you would like and needs to hit the weight room...Doesn't always play up to his physical ability...Inconsistent...Will improve in the running game as he gets stronger.
Notes: Prospect who has a rare blend of size and athleticism...Has a lot of potential as well as the drive to succeed and improve...May have the potential to play left tackle in the NFL.
FF Champ was just providing his writeup for the Colts 2nd round pickAlso, Castillo was already taken by the Falcons in round 2FFchamp, why did you pick?Anyways, with their third rounf pick I think the Titans have to go with the best DL on the board. I believe that many of then young prospects we have at DE will turn out just fine. Many of them battled injuries this last year. However, at DT assuming K. Carter leaves we only have Haynesworth, One very solid young player in Randy Starks, and Rien Long who is developing OK, but may never be a grade A player. At this point in the NFL, you have to have depth in the middle. We need someone Who can who can help out against the run as our RUN-D slipped alot this year. THe Titans select:Luis Castillo- DT- Northwestern
JJ Arrington ... 3rd dwn back for Jackson. Gordon gone, Harris has no hands. Arrington has speed and is exactly what the Rams would like to have to backup JacksonShould have posted this earlier. What do you think about the Rams?Here is the ROUND 3 order.1. San Francisco 49ers - CJ Moseley DT Missouri 2. St. Louis Rams(from Miami) -3. Cleveland Browns -4. Miami Dolphins (from Chicago) -5. Tampa Bay Buccaneers -6. Tennessee Titans -7. Oakland Raiders -8. Arizona Cardinals -9. Washington Redskins -10. Detroit Lions -11. Houston Texans (from DAL)-12. NY Giants-13. Houston Texans -14. Carolina Panthers -15. Kansas City Chiefs -16. New Orleans Saints -17. Cincinnati Bengals -18. Minnesota Vikings -19. St. Louis Rams -20. Buffalo Bills -21. Jacksonville Jaguars -22. Baltimore Ravens -23. Seattle Seahawks -24. Green Bay Packers -25. Denver Broncos -26. New York Jets -27. Tampa Bay Bucs (from SD) -28. Indianapolis Colts -29. Atlanta Falcons -30. Pittsburgh Steelers -31. Philadelphia Eagles -32. New England Patriots -I will give a vote for Mosley. I thought he'd be gone by now.![]()
In case anyone was curious where I got the Denver forfeiting their 3rd round pick info:http://www.gbnreport.com/trades.htm
I guess we will agree to disagree. Majority of 5'9 RBS out of college do not make it as full time starters.JJ Arrington ... 3rd dwn back for Jackson. Gordon gone, Harris has no hands. Arrington has speed and is exactly what the Rams would like to have to backup Jackson ----------------While Arrington is much more than a 3rd down back, it would jive with the report that the Rams are worried about Jackson's health.
I don't know there are a ton of backs around 5'9 -5'10 that are pretty good. Holmes, Tomlinsom, Davis, E. Smith..etc.I guess we will agree to disagree. Majority of 5'9 RBS out of college do not make it as full time starters.JJ Arrington ... 3rd dwn back for Jackson. Gordon gone, Harris has no hands. Arrington has speed and is exactly what the Rams would like to have to backup Jackson ----------------While Arrington is much more than a 3rd down back, it would jive with the report that the Rams are worried about Jackson's health.
How many 5'9 backs that are drafted in the first 5 rounds make it to be a full time starter (that compared to backs of more prototypical size).LT2 (which Davis?), E.Smith are not 5'9I don't know there are a ton of backs around 5'9 -5'10 that are pretty good. Holmes, Tomlinsom, Davis, E. Smith..etc.I guess we will agree to disagree. Majority of 5'9 RBS out of college do not make it as full time starters.JJ Arrington ... 3rd dwn back for Jackson. Gordon gone, Harris has no hands. Arrington has speed and is exactly what the Rams would like to have to backup Jackson ----------------While Arrington is much more than a 3rd down back, it would jive with the report that the Rams are worried about Jackson's health.
There was a 3rd round order of picks in the 1st post, so I just moved that up to the top. I didn't know it wasn't accurate.I updated the 1st thread with the new order. Not sure how you want to handle the teams that got skipped.Aaron, has been helping me keep up with the first page of the thread lately as i have been busy and unable to always keep it updated. He set up the 3rd round order and I'm not sure where he got it. I had a genric 3rd round listing on the first thead that I had not adjusted yet so maybe he just didn't know that I hadn't fully fine tuned it yet and posted it I know for the second round we switched between the the teams with the same records. In the 3rd round doesnt it just revert back to the 1st round order?ARe yall pretty sure on this new order because if so I will switch form here forward.
Smith and LT are the whole inch taller at 5'10" .. I don't want to hijack this thread with this one but I did a thing a couple of years back on another site where the idea of protypical was not the norm. Not done since then, but more teams had backs 5'11 or shorter and/or less the 220 pounds. The Jamal lewis/Fred taylor, etc were exception to the rule and proved to fumble no less nor were more durable.How many 5'9 backs that are drafted in the first 5 rounds make it to be a full time starter (that compared to backs of more prototypical size).LT2 (which Davis?), E.Smith are not 5'9I don't know there are a ton of backs around 5'9 -5'10 that are pretty good. Holmes, Tomlinsom, Davis, E. Smith..etc.I guess we will agree to disagree. Majority of 5'9 RBS out of college do not make it as full time starters.JJ Arrington ... 3rd dwn back for Jackson. Gordon gone, Harris has no hands. Arrington has speed and is exactly what the Rams would like to have to backup Jackson ----------------While Arrington is much more than a 3rd down back, it would jive with the report that the Rams are worried about Jackson's health.
YOu missed these 2:4. Tennessee Titans - Andrew Walter - QB - Arizona State5. Oakland Raiders - Ronald Bartell - CB - Howard
I can't argue the pick as this is a good value for the Lions and does give them a QB option if Harrington doesn't work out. I truly do covet Campbell in the third round and hope he is there for the Lions to draft come April. Good pick.Here is a situation where the Lions trading down a few spots and picking up the extra 3rd round pick makes sense. They could get a DE, S, TE and a QB like Campbell in the third round while improving their team if they get the extra third along the way.The Lions select QB Jason Campbell.
Close call, but I think the Lions will take a QB on the first day and they're not sold on Joey as the franchise QB to lead them into the future. Campbell's size, athleticism and overall potential translate to him being a great value with more upside and potential impact than most players left on the board.
I took a close look at several other players including OT Logan Mankins, S James Butler, LB Robert McCune, C/G Chris Spencer and QB Kyle Orton.
I think the Lions can pass on a S, OG/C or LB at this point and still get a good player with similar talent in the 4th or 5th round. I didn't feel that comfortable with the fall off behind Orton and Campbell. Campbell or Orton both represent good value in the 3rd round and Campbell's upside is just too hard to ignore.
With the way the draft would shape up in this mock, the Lions would likely be looking to shore up their OL next and probably looking to grab a S, CB and LB/DE/DT. In other words, defense. They could also add a starting safety via free agency. They've tried that a few times in recent years with little success.
Campbell more than replaces Mike McMahon and he is a potential long-term solution as a backup/starter giving the Lions a potentially effective exit strategy if Harrington flounders in 2004.
With Pick number 73 the Houston Texans select Marion Barber III RB MinnesotaThis pick is a best available player pick which adds to the depth at RB for the Texans. Barber is a strong hard runner with decent size and average speed. he split time at Minnesota and will be expected to overtake Johnathon Wells and Tony Hollings neither of whom have done anything special as reserves to DomDAvis. Barber has some history returning kicks which would be of help if he could unseat the popular but averge-at-best JJ Moses. With to picks close together i would think that one of these picks would be candidates for a trade down in the real draft.according to the order posted above, here is the current status of round 3:
ROUND 3
1 (65). San Francisco 49ers - CJ Moseley - DT - Missouri
2 (66) St. Louis Rams (from Miami) - Craphonso Thorpe - WR - Florida St
3 (67) Cleveland Browns - Mike Patterson - DT - USC
4 (68) Tennessee Titans - Andew Walter - QB - Arizona St
5 (69) Oakland Raiders - Ronald Bartell - CB - Howard
6 (70) Miami Dolphins (from Chicago) - Jeremy Parquet - OT - Southern Miss
7 (71) Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Marcus Johnson - OG - Ole Miss
8 (72) Detroit Lions Jason Campbell QB Aubrun
9 (73) Houston Texans(Dallas)
10 (74) Washington Redskins
11 (75) New York Giants
12 (76) Arizona Cardinals
13 (77) Philadelphia Eagles(KC)
14 (78) Houston Texans
15 (79) Carolina Panthers
16 (80) Minnesota Vikings
17 (81) St. Louis Rams
18 (82) New Orleans Saints
19 (83) Cincinnati Bengals
20 (84) Baltimore Ravens
21 (85) Jacksonville Jaguars
22 (86) Seattle Seahawks
23 (87) Buffalo Bills
24 (88) New York Jets
25 (89) Green Bay Packers
26 (90) Denver Broncos - forfeited pick
27 (91) Atlanta Falcons
28 (92) Tampa Bay Buccaneers(SD)
29 (93) Indianapolis Colts
30 (94) Philadelphia Eagles
31 (95) New England Patriots
32 (96) Pittsburgh Steelers
Sorry things got messed up. Unless someone has a big problem with it, let's just go with this and let the Titans and Raiders make their picks before moving onto the rest of the draft.
Couple of ideas...Casserly is a big BPA guy..(he drafted a QB in third round one year after drafting David Carr)2nd, Capers has had a couple of accounts where he has said that you need 2 RBs. the comments seemed to imply that the Texans do not have the 2nd guys here. Remember DomDavis has not proven the ability to stay healthy and the Texans feed that position pretty heavily. This pick, IMO, is very realisitc especially if one the better guys fall.NooooooooooooI was hoping he would last to me with the Carolina pick. The RB crop is still pretty deep though.I have my doubts that the Texans would pick a RB this early just to return kicks and back up Dom Davis.
except that saying you're taking BPA implies that you really are taking BPA, and i think the resistance here is that Barber isn't clearly BPA. it may be that you just really like barber. otherwise i think this would be a poor pick. their OL isn't any good and now they've added a 1st day pick RB for a 2nd consecutive year to back up dom davis and still haven't added any OL. i don't like that strategy - though i really like the players you picked in the 1st 2 rounds. yesterday kiper was talking about pacman possibly going #3 overall.i don't think i understand how the draft order is decided. if arizona picks last out of their group in the 2nd, wouldn't they be bumped up in the 3rd? maybe this is a digression from mock talk but i'm sure we have time....but how does it work really? i thought that you had tiers of teams with the same records, broke the tie to determine order, and then each round the team picking 1st out of the tier moved to the bottom.Couple of ideas...Casserly is a big BPA guy..(he drafted a QB in third round one year after drafting David Carr)