Day One: SOLID. Day Two: WTH???

[SuperSpck]

Until proven otherwise, I give the Cardinals FO a big thumbs up!!

What he said. I know it's knee-jerk reaction day, but let a little love in.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

And I get accused of wanting to draft for need? That is the most anti-BPA post I've seen in a while. Yeah, we have lots of volume at OLB, but IMO not a ton of talent. We could get by for a year on it, probably. Why risk it? We had a solid OLB talent fall to us and we passed to take a #3 WR that doesn't even have game-breaking speed; in other words, not the WR we were looking for. I like that we have Doucet, because he is good, but I don't like who we had to pass on to take him.

I have three draft publications in front of me, and checked out a few on the web.... and NOT ONE rated Avril over Doucet in BPA ratings.

 

[Skkorpion]

The one thing that a lot of people forget.

We're a different team now, we are drafting differently.

These 2nd day choices aren't expected to go in and start as we have been used to. These players are supposed to be solid back-ups in limited playing time in the first year or two, and hopefully by then they have developed into starting caliber players.

Think the Steelers. No matter which LB or OL that they lost, they already had his replacement on the bench.

Good post, Bach.

Like johnh, I too was hoping for a RB early. Whisenhunt obviously saw a different need. We hammered defense with DE/OLB a priority (clearly, two of those DEs are projected as OLBs).

Guess what? They just remade this team into a Pittsburgh defense. If that's where the hidden talent was, good for them.