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I agree - Jets need playmakers...there is really no one on that O that scares the opposing DC...I think Jets grab the best offensive playmaker on the board whether it be RB or WR....hopefully they grab a RT and S in FA and then grab a pass rusher in rd 2.
They sure played the Steelers tough in the 2 games we played Cleveland.
Right and Vince Young added a lot more value to his team even with a short stint than the other two.My opinion, which is a little different now that there is more of a 1st round pick cap, is that if you have a potential franchise QB, I would draft them every time. Even if Aaron Curry is an All-Pro, if you draft him first you are paying QB All-Pro money to a LB. You are behind the game salary cap wise even if they play great. I would hesitate if there are a lot of red flags, say like JaMarcus, or a situation like Leaf or Mirer where you just miss out on a great guy and reach for the next best.QB, just like every other position is littered with great picks and busts, but I don't think that QB is a "less safe" pick than other positions. I think that people remember QB busts more than Aaron Curry. Busts aside, QB is the only position that I know of that when you hit, you can go from dumps to playoffs the most quickly.I don't care if Clairborne is Revis good. He isn't going to change Cleveland as much as if RG3 is Cam Newton good.
Isn't there some risk that that is what's going on here as well? Luck is the great guy and RG3 is the next one, who has seen his draft stock catapult partly (or even largely) on the basis of two of the other top QB propsects returning to school and the other one being locked into the #1 overall position.I'm not saying that's all RG3 is, but this stuff is all hindsight. At the time, people weren't just saying Leaf and Mirer were the "next guy" any more than they're saying it with RG3 now, and if he does bust and someone tries to make the same point as you 5 years from now they'd likely use him as one of those examples.
Manning is a Colt as long as they can work out the money. Drafting Luck has little to do with it since he can sit the bench for a year or two and learn from the best.The Cowboys have a good core but need a lot of help so I see them going BPA.While Blackmon is a need for the Rams, they need someone to protect Bradford even more. If Kalil is as good as advertised they take him.
I'm seeing hype over RG3 like I've never seen and it concerns me when there's this amount of group-think. Personally, I have trouble finding holes in his game and clearly he's a smart guy who shouldn't have trouble at the next level, but yet there's something I'm still not feeling about him. This is coming from someone who was a huge fan of Vick when he came out and thought Cam would be good (though not like he was) but down on Vince Young. I still believe RG3 will be good (I've compared him to Steve Young) but I think Cam's success has heightened people's expectations for him and that it'll take him a few years to be a really good NFL QB.
Absolutely a risk. Without hearing all of the combine/tryout details, I have no idea on RG3. My main thought is still that if a team thinks they have a franchise QB in a pick, I would not hesitate to pull the trigger. Below is a list of Super Bowl winning QBs (not even including losing QBs like Kelly, Marino, etc.). While there are some Dilfers in there, most of the list is solid/HOF QBs. I know winning SBs helps to make the HOF, but look at the more recent ones starting with Aikman, we have S. Young, Aikman, Brady, Roethlisberger, Brees, Rodgers, Elway, Favre, Warner, P. Manning and E. Manning as 17 of last 19. The only odd balls are Brad Johnson and Dilfer who were on rare great Ds. With Brees, Roethlisberger, E. Manning, Rodgers and Brady as 5 of the 8 playoff teams, it is probably going to be 18 of 20.
The Browns have two first rounders, so they could go BPA and take Claiborne, and then focus on needs.How about:1.05: CB Claiborne1.23: WR Kendall Wright (Using the pick we got for passing on Julio Jones on a WR, I think Wright is a good fit here)2.05: DE Fletcher Cox3.05: RB LaMichael James (Browns want an RB with the speed to get to the outside, not to mention the irony of his name being so close to LeBron James)4.05: OG
Most of those guys were the #1 overall pick or late 1st/early 2nd picks. Since 1980 (as far as I went back) the best QB's who were drafted in the top 10 (and not #1) were Rivers, McNabb, Collins, Dilfer and McMahon.
I would put Steve McNair in there as a decent QB as well.That's an odd cutoff since you cutoff folks like Roethlisberger, Rodgers, Favre, Brees, Jim Kelly, Marino, etc. who were still early picks. It also conveniently leaves off 3 #11 picks, Roethlisberger, Cutler and Culpepper, who have been solid QBs. Emmitt Smith was a later 1st round pick, so we should exclude him from the discussion of taking RBs early in the draft? You can't exclude the #1 overall pick from the discussion because that is my point, if you want to win a Super Bowl, you are taking a QB in the 1st round.
