My Annual Lament

[HPF Bob]

Every time I see Patrick Willis, I remember that we drafted Amobi Okoye instead and let the 49ers take him with the next pick. Wouldn't Willis and Cushing make a killer pair of ILBs?

[Nconroe]

Yes, but time to move on.

[painekiller]

Bob, I'm right there with you on that one.

[chuck]

Every time I try to whip myself into a lather about Okoye I stop to remember that somehow, some way, Rick Smith managed to draft JJ Watt.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by chuck

Every time I try to whip myself into a lather about Okoye I stop to remember that somehow, some way, Rick Smith managed to draft JJ Watt.

I blame the Okoye pick and lack of progress on Richard Smith. you draft a kid who is a one gap penetrating fool, and you ask him to be a 3 tech read and react guy. He did the same thing to Mario. I have never been a fan of read and react. I have always been a fan of attaching styles of defense.

Hell JJ Watt would look bad in Richard Smith's defense.

Just my opinion on the Okoye over Willis pick. And BTW I bitched about it when it happened. I said at the time that Willis would be Rookie of the Year, and possible HOFer. And I liked the Okoye pick, just liked Willis more.

[nunusguy]

But MLB DeMeco had just been chosen 2006 NFL defensive rookie of the year, so it would have been difficult to take another LB so high, so soon.
The real tragedy was leaving Revis on our Board.