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Originally Posted by NBT

The thing I am upset about is not so much the Draft, as we signed a big free agent DE in Colvin, and then he didn't work out! I thought with his signing we had closed the biggest hole left when we didn't go for a DE somewhere in the Draft. Now we are back where we were. Does Kubiak and Richard Smith think we have someone already on the roster that is going to step up and deliver that passrush we are (have been) lacking? They will have to show me.

What if we didn't take Brown? Then we're going into the season with a gimpy Salaam and....not much else IMO. Molden and Slaton both look like they are going to help fill some holes. Sure they could have gone DE instead of some of the later round picks they did take, but there has to be somewhere there they like better than who we took, and the chances of Colvin working out were probably better than any late round pick we could have taken. They tried several different people out at DE. None of them worked out. It's not like they ignored it.

Just drafting a position doesn't solve the problem. If the last draft class lives up to their potential then we'll have a lot less holes to fill.