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    Draft blunders in recent years

    What do you see as some mistakes teams made recently?

    A couple that come to my mind are last year - Cleveland had a chance to go get RG III and they blew it - and then traded up to select a running back that they could've taken in their original spot. Wow

    Also Denver trading with us to go back into the first and select Tim Tebow

    Just my point of view of a couple of really dumb moves...

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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    The bears messing up our potential trade with them by not calling the league. Cost a draft spot and almost cost us jimmy smith.





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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Quote Originally Posted by JCroUSAF View Post
    The bears messing up our potential trade with them by not calling the league. Cost a draft spot and almost cost us jimmy smith.
    Are you implying that losing Jimmy Smith would have been bad? The guy is a bust!





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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Quote Originally Posted by steelerhater View Post
    Are you implying that losing Jimmy Smith would have been bad? The guy is a bust!
    Ah, starting your negative talk a little early this season I see. While Jimmy Smith has not yet lived up to his 1st round status, I'd hardly call him a "bust." He was injured in his rookie year, and perhaps you saw the last minute of the Super Bowl where he was productive during the 49ers last stand. He's only in his 3rd season, and will be 25 in July, so I wouldn't put that label on him just yet... Bc





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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Quote Originally Posted by Ravenswintitle View Post
    What do you see as some mistakes teams made recently?
    A couple that come to my mind are last year - Cleveland had a chance to go get "PLAYER X" and they blew it ... really dumb moves...
    Sorry Rwt, I did edit your post a little bit. My point is that the Browns have been making dumb draft moves since they came back into the league. Tim Couch, Courtney Brown, Gerald Warren, William Green, Jeff Faine, Kellen Winslow, Braylon Edwards, skipping on Ngata for an exrta 6th round choice, Brady Quinn, and (the almost 30 year old) Brandon Weeden. AND those are only the 1st rounders... Bc





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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Quote Originally Posted by BcRaven View Post
    Sorry Rwt, I did edit your post a little bit. My point is that the Browns have been making dumb draft moves since they came back into the league. Tim Couch, Courtney Brown, Gerald Warren, William Green, Jeff Faine, Kellen Winslow, Braylon Edwards, skipping on Ngata for an exrta 6th round choice, Brady Quinn, and (the almost 30 year old) Brandon Weeden. AND those are only the 1st rounders... Bc
    It really is amazing. No wonder they're always picking at the top...

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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Rams not taking RG3 and every QB needy team passing on Russel Wilson.





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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    we've been party to two blunders...

    1. Chicago mess in 2011
    2. Vikings trying to trade their pick to us in 2003. Allegedly, Jacksonville tied up the phone lines so they couldn't call the trade in, so they ended up passing, and Jacksonville FLEW up to the podium to pick Leftwich, who we were rumored to be trying to trade up and take. After Panthers got another pick in, Vikings finally went and took the guy they wanted all along, Kevin Williams, who ironically is retiring today. I think the NFL changed the way their trade lines worked after that one.
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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Tyson Alualu at 10 to the Jags? Has he done anything noteworthy? I know at least one person on here was in love with him, but more in the 2nd round, not Top 10 pick.
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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Basically every top draft pick the Raiders have made over the last five years.Except for maybe MacFadden but even he can't even stay on the field.

    For a Ravens related one I look at the Jags trading for our number 8 to take Derek Harvey. Since they were originally picking 26th I guess they were pretty good that year so they may not have had too many needs but he surely didn't fill any of them. And with the 3rd round picks they gave up they missed out on guys like Finley and Manningham. Meanwhile we parlayed that 26 and one of those 3rd rounders into 18 and the rest is Lombardi winning history.





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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Quote Originally Posted by Raven Werewolf View Post
    Basically every top draft pick the Raiders have made over the last five years.Except for maybe MacFadden but even he can't even stay on the field.

    For a Ravens related one I look at the Jags trading for our number 8 to take Derek Harvey. Since they were originally picking 26th I guess they were pretty good that year so they may not have had too many needs but he surely didn't fill any of them. And with the 3rd round picks they gave up they missed out on guys like Finley and Manningham. Meanwhile we parlayed that 26 and one of those 3rd rounders into 18 and the rest is Lombardi winning history.
    For a little while, we were nearly a draft blunder by taking Flacco at 18. Many of us saw him as a mid-2nd pick. The story is that Tampa Bay was talking him up at 20, so we traded up to 18 to get him first. He was clumped in with 2 other QBs behind Ryan in Chad Henne and Brian Brohm. Brohm was so great, he got beat out by 7th round pick Matt Flynn in the backup job to Rodgers. Henne had his shot first with the Dolphins, then with the Jags replacing Gabbert. But again, many people thought Flacco was not a 1st round QB.

    But, now, you can just hold up this picture and laugh:
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    Re: Draft blunders in recent years

    Quote Originally Posted by Paintballguy View Post
    ... every QB needy team passing on Russel Wilson.
    In a way that's not fair. Wilson was the 75th pick (mid-3rd round 2012), so every team passed on him at least twice. May as well say the whole league, except the Patriots, are idiots for passing up Tom Brady (6th round draft choice)... Bc





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