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Originally Posted by nunusguy
Well that's all very hypothetical, but OK 2 can play that game. Suppose besides Chris Williams we also have a chance to draft Ryan Clady (who went at #12), the LT in the Draft who is playing at a P-B level in his rookie year ? Given the opportunity to take him I imagine we would have surely jumped.
As far as Slaton goes the pick was in large part dumb luck just as the 4th round pick of another Texans RB, Dominick Davis, was several years ago.
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I am pretty happy with the LT they got in the draft. I wouldn't trade Slayton and Brown for Clady right now, maybe in the long run, but not at this point. Also, while I am happy to bash personnel decisions made by this team, smith and kubiak have done a pretty good job in the drafts so far, so I am not going to call them picking slayton "dumb luck", unless you are saying him still being there is dumb luck. of course that can be said about a lot of players, but that is how winning franchises are made and sustained (the texans are not one, but the draft is the way to do it). I guess you could also say that brady being picked in the 6th round was dumb luck, but i will take that kind of luck every year, of course, the patriots consistently have good drafts, so maybe picking players in later rounds isn't all "dumb luck" after all.
p.s. slayton is playing at a pro bowl level in his rookie season as well.
12-11-2008, 10:50 AM
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