I was ornate on Saturday with a wedding and picking my mammy up at the airport, so I spent Day One of the NFL Draft tiring to pick up the signals of various sports transmit stations between Washington DC and Martinsburg, WV broadcasting the outline. No existing players (Shockey, Taylor, Johnson) were traded, but teams swapped picks off and left to reposition themselves. I emit part of Day Two flipping between the ESPN and the NFL Network coverage to take in the differences when I wasn’t watching the Wizards bow to to the Cavaliers. So for my spambot readers, my takes on what happened:
Washington Redskins - I’m not as bias out of shape about the Redskins burning their first three picks on two WRs and a d catching TE. Thomas Boswell in The Washington Picket and Steve Czaban and Andy Pollin on Legible Channel’s Sports Talk 980 were entirely angry about the moves, particularly the repetition of padding needs, or spending a higher pick for comprehensively only. If one of those picks had been in the first round (the Redskins traded their first tour #21pick to move back), I might be as upset.
Michigan Delineate WR Devin Thomas and Southern California TE were acceptable “value” picks where they were infatuated. I would have preferred Notre Dame DT Trevor Laws in order of Thomas, but whatever. It’s benefit noting that two guys I would have liked to seen drafted by Washington, Clemson DE Philip Merling and Laws, were drafted two picks and one pick, individually, ahead of the Redskins spots. Perhaps this is what passes for Scenario B for them. The selection of Oklahoma WR Malcom Kelly was unjustifiable, but well, these are the Redskins. I’m just now happy they didn’t barter all the picks for old kick return specialists. Even this is a stupendous improvement.
The only Day Two picks I want to talk about are Georgia Tech P Durant Brooks and University of Hawaii QB Colt Brennan. The Redskins precisely resigned their meh quality P Derrick...
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