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[QUOTE=Blitzwood;10273]I have to disagree with you again on this one.

1. I wouldn't select E. Brown at 15 because we already have Mario at RDE, who had 12 sacks last year, and we just signed Antonio Smith, who just happened to have helped his team get to the game we call the superbowl, to a long and lucrative contract opposite him. So while the thought of Everett at 15 makes you "giddy", I feel it would be as useful as a third testicle.
Him being from FSU is incidental

i don't think the Texans are likely to draft a rush end in the first. they want mario at RDE, and while they will likely move him around on third and long i don,t think they want to use the 15th pick on a situational player...unless one they really like falls.

2. Unless you know first hand what Bush is going to run next year, I remember watching games last year where Smith ran a cover 2....Not to take anything away from Jenkins, who would automatically upgrade ANY position in the secondary on the Texans.
If you're sick of D.R. falling anytime there is a ball thrown in his direction or Reeves never turning his head to possibly make a play on the ball, you won't mind this pick.

every team will run a cover 2 coverage at times, but that's different than running a cover 2 (tampa 2) as the basis for your entire scheme. I think jenkins would be best suited to that tampa 2 style. Even though our front seven has some characteristics of a tampa 2 team I haven't seen or heard anything to think we are moving that way. I do think Jenkins could play corner in the NFL, but his value is less to a team that wants to run a lot of man coverage. we don't know what our defense is going to run so that's one will just have to see what they do when they get on the field.

3. To call Raji lazy after witnessing last year what our DT's did is beyond logic. Okoye amassed a whopping:
24 TKL 1 SK 1 FF

and T.Johnson amass another whopping:
28 TKL 1 SK 1 FF

And those were stats for 16 games, not 13.

I have no idea if Raji is lazy or not so I'm not going to comment on that, but what okoye and johnson did last year has absolutely nothing to do with what kind of player Raji will be. If you think we need a DT that's fine, but I hope the front office doesn't build their scouting report based on what completely different players did at their position in the NFL. Besides, stats for DT's are only slightly less worthless than wins for a pitcher. DT's just aren't going to rack up huge stats...and that's not even getting into the fact that we were asking two guys who were better suited to play a penetrating style to play a 2-gap read and react style. Johnson played with a pretty high motor last year if you asked me even if his production didn't show it...the effort was there.

4. To say Cush is not enough of an impact player at SAM is comical. He was the SAM for the most dominant defense in the nation last year,

I have no problem drafting Cush, but I understand Roy's point. SAM is a position in the NFL that is pretty much designed to be a support player. SAM's are usually 2 down players in todays NFL. Again, i would be happy with Cush, but I see where he's not ideal.

5. Beanie Wells was one of the most durable and powerful runners in college the last three years. He generated 3382 yards in three seasons at OSU, He had more than 1200 all purpose yards last season, and more than 1600 in 2007.

i worry about taking any RB with an injury history with that much heavy use this early in the draft...it's not anything against Wells. I just don't see spending that much money on somebody who does have an injury history when he will just be there to take a little bit of a load off of Slaton.
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