The Cardinals pick M.Floyd @ #13

[RugbyMuffin]

What do you think ?

 

[CtCardinals78]

Sounds good!

 

[1DS]

Effffffff my life.

 

[Unsterblich856]

I was always yearning for the older days where we can say "oh well at least we have two great WRs!". Screw that. We could have had an elite pass rusher or blocker but we decided to tell common football knowledge of "the game is won in the trenches" by drafting a stupid shiny hood ornament.

What did getting Julio Jones do for the Falcons? Played worse and had two points to show for the move in the playoffs. What did taking Aldon Smith do for the 49ers? Gave them a lethal defense. I won't like this pick until we get a good o-line or OLB corps. I don't care if he has all-pro seasons every year until we are a good team.

 

[Southpaw]

Great pick.

 

[kerouac9]

I liked the pick, but Larry Fitzgerald is the de facto general manager of the Arizona Cardinals now.

It's baffling how they've decided to build this team. Kolb is gone after next year.

Still, I'm super-excited to have Michael Floyd here instead of Riley Reiff. I guess that the offense couldn't succeed with Andre Roberts and Early Doucet. 2012 Whis totally showed 2011 Whis what's up.

 

[joeshmo]

Public Polls people. Come on!

 

[sportznutt]

I like it a lot......we weren't getting any better via free agency or trade at the WR spot, and WR was a huge need last season.

 

[Dr. Jones]

Posted this in another thread.....


Horrible pick IMO. With the issues we have on the Oline and our crappy depth at LB we have no business picking a #2 WR.

This team just doesnt get it. Reiff, Ingram, Decastro, even Glenn, Jones, and Hightower would have been better picks.

Unbelievable.

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[Ed Burmila]

Now we have four great WRs and QBs who will be running for their life. The first part of that sounds good, and the second part doesn't.

 

[Duckjake]

I liked the pick, but Larry Fitzgerald is the de facto general manager of the Arizona Cardinals now.

It's baffling how they've decided to build this team. Kolb is gone after next year.

Still, I'm super-excited to have Michael Floyd here instead of Riley Reiff. I guess that the offense couldn't succeed with Andre Roberts and Early Doucet. 2012 Whis totally showed 2011 Whis what's up.

Yessir. Whatever Larry wants Larry gets. But when a guy is almost single handedly responsible for half your wins and 2/3 of your casual fans and millions from your sponsors and advertisers the last 5 years what else are you going to do?

No matter. It was really great to see how happy Floyd was to be going to Arizona instead of the oh crud I have to be the guy the Cardinals drafted look we've seen so many times in the past on the faces of our draft picks.

And think about this. Either Roberts or Doucet is now our FOURTH wide receiver. And we have King and Housler and hopefully Ryan Williams and Double Duece to get them the football. We're going to have our 2009 offense with a real defense.

I'm predicting it right now we're going......................................5-11.

 

[MoeIsBetter]

Liked it because I think he will be a very good player, but would have taken Melvin Ingram at that spot. Still think we got a great player and happy to see what the offense can produce with an elite superstar in Fitz, a tandem of Beanie and Williams, Michael Floyd at #2, Andre in his natural position of #3, and I really really like Early at #4. That right there is deadly, but if Housler can become something even remotely special, we could have one of the most explosive offensives in the league.

 

[Stout]

I was always yearning for the older days where we can say "oh well at least we have two great WRs!". Screw that. We could have had an elite pass rusher or blocker but we decided to tell common football knowledge of "the game is won in the trenches" by drafting a stupid shiny hood ornament.

What did getting Julio Jones do for the Falcons? Played worse and had two points to show for the move in the playoffs. What did taking Aldon Smith do for the 49ers? Gave them a lethal defense. I won't like this pick until we get a good o-line or OLB corps. I don't care if he has all-pro seasons every year until we are a good team.

Yep.

Posted this in another thread.....


Horrible pick IMO. With the issues we have on the Oline and our crappy depth at LB we have no business picking a #2 WR.

This team just doesnt get it. Reiff, Ingram, Decastro, even Glenn, Jones, and Hightower would have been better picks.

Unbelievable.

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Yep.

Man, I'm going to get blasted in the days to come on the board. It looks like this was a popular pick. I think it is about the dumbest thing we could have done, given who else was available. We eschewed BPA and drafted for a need--WR2.

 

[Ed Burmila]

Yessir. Whatever Larry wants Larry gets. But when a guy is almost single handedly responsible for half your wins and 2/3 of your casual fans the last 5 years what else are you going to do?

This is a good point. Reminds me as a Chicagoan of the old Bulls teams with Jordan. Everyone realizes that it's a terrible idea to let a player play GM, but what else are you gonna do? You can't tell him no.

They're painted into a corner to some extent with Larry, but you'd think with the massive amount of money we paid him long-term the front office might be able to say "OK, let us handle this part Larry."

 

[sportznutt]

Now we have four great WRs and QBs who will be running for their life. The first part of that sounds good, and the second part doesn't.

I wouldn't say great. We have one great, one with great potential, and one really good. Have we re-signed Early?

 

[Duckjake]

Yep.



Yep.

Man, I'm going to get blasted in the days to come on the board. It looks like this was a popular pick. I think it is about the dumbest thing we could have done, given who else was available. We eschewed BPA and drafted for a need--WR2.

Just a few short weeks ago on ASFN Doucet was a solid WR starting to come into his own and well worth a $5 million signing bonus. Drafting for need would have been taking Reiff. The BPA goes, not in order, Floyd, Ingram, DeCastro and Mercilus or Mcllelin(sp?) in my book.

We only have two needs on the football team since the Cards brought back Levi Brown. A QB and someone to play RT. Miami made the Levi Brown pick drafting an overrated QB because of need. Not us.

Upgrades for guys like Lenon/Bradley and Toler sure but needs? I really don't see it.

Getting a talented guy who appears to be really excited about playing for Arizona is almost by itself worth the pick. Armpit of the NFL no more.

 

[Totally_Red]

I wanted a trade down. Four acceptable players there in Reiff, DeCastro, Floyd and Ingram. Why not trade down and pick up an extra pick? I would have taken the deal Seattle got, a 4th and a 6th to move down to 15 or so.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I had to go for "on the fence". I thought there were better players still available and I really wanted to see us trade down. I don't hate Floyd although I'm not convinced he's good value at that spot. I believe in the BPA approach but if you're drafting a number two receiver at 13, he better be CLEARLY the BPA and I just don't see that.

Steve

 

[Duckjake]

I wanted a trade down. Four acceptable players there in Reiff, DeCastro, Floyd and Ingram. Why not trade down and pick up an extra pick? I would have taken the deal Seattle got, a 4th and a 6th to move down to 15 or so.

It is just speculation but I would guess from all the talk that was going on prior to our selection that we were trying to trade down but things just didn't work out so we took Larry's guy.

 

[SissyBoyFloyd]

I don't see why we take RBs if we aren't going to put a line on the field who can open holes for them. I guess Whiz has a single track mind. I am very disappointed again this year that we haven't addressed the OL when there were so many good players all sitting there for us: Reiff, DeCastro, Glenn. I am just sick of this 3rd and 1, what pass play are we running. 1 minute left in the game and we have a lead, but can't run out the clock and even throw on 3rd down and stop the clock for the opposing team. I am just sick of the same old thing. Damn it, we keep using our draft to replace players we let go like Boldin & Breaston, instead of improving the area we are always bad in.

 

[FrustratedFan04]

This is a good point. Reminds me as a Chicagoan of the old Bulls teams with Jordan. Everyone realizes that it's a terrible idea to let a player play GM, but what else are you gonna do? You can't tell him no.

They're painted into a corner to some extent with Larry, but you'd think with the massive amount of money we paid him long-term the front office might be able to say "OK, let us handle this part Larry."

 

[FrustratedFan04]

I don't see why we take RBs if we aren't going to put a line on the field who can open holes for them. I guess Whiz has a single track mind. I am very disappointed again this year that we haven't addressed the OL when there were so many good players all sitting there for us: Reiff, DeCastro, Glenn. I am just sick of this 3rd and 1, what pass play are we running. 1 minute left in the game and we have a lead, but can't run out the clock and even throw on 3rd down and stop the clock for the opposing team. I am just sick of the same old thing. F***.

 

[FrustratedFan04]

I wanted a trade down. Four acceptable players there in Reiff, DeCastro, Floyd and Ingram. Why not trade down and pick up an extra pick? I would have taken the deal Seattle got, a 4th and a 6th to move down to 15 or so.

It takes two to make a trade. Who were we to trade down with if no one wanted to do so?

 

[FrustratedFan04]

One thing we all have to note is that as of pick 20 the renowned OL are all still on the clock.

 

[FrustratedFan04]

Pats move up to 21 for the 27th and a 3rd.