2012 Eagles Draft Thread - Defense Please

[hbionic]

Troy Palomalu. farg.

[ice grillin you]

Troy Palomalu. farg.

i didnt know pittsburgh traded up for polamalu...

so the two pennsy teams essentially made identical deals to go up and get their man and one came away with a bust and the other a hall of famer...in a nutshell could anything else so perfectly show why they have multiple superbowls and the eagles dont

[Seabiscuit36]

Yep, remember that day like it was yesterday.  I was stuck at work, and they had blocked ESPN.  Had just gotten the internet setup on my nextel I-90 and i watched the draft on a colorless screen.  All i wanted was Polamalu, but knew that it didnt make sense with Lewis and Dawk. When they picked Mcdougle it seemed like a good pick.  Heck, Jamaal Green seemed like a steal. 

[SunMo]

every year they take a player that we (fans, analysts, Eagles) think is a "steal."  I've come to learn that we are always wrong.

[ice grillin you]

i think its a case of fans of all teams overrating and wanting to believe their teams draft picks are all winners


other than pimp and maybe killa i cant remember ever thinking they got a steal....green barely started in college and i didnt even know who he was much less remember people talking about him as a steal?....i remember thinking it was cool they were taking a local guy

[SunMo]

the winston justice pick comes to mind as a pick where everybody was like, "OMG they got a 1st rounder in the 2nd round!"

[ice grillin you]

yeah i liked that pick...i LOVED the bunk pick too...and burgess

but i didnt consider any of them steals

to me its hard to get a steal outside of the first round...95% of the time a steal is a guy that is a top five talent and falls 8-10 spots in the first round...sapp was a classic steal imo

once a guy falls to the second round theres usually a reason and the dynamic goes from being positive (oh man hed be a steal) to negative (ewww do we really want him? - how far is he going to fall)...pimp is an obvious exception to the rule

[phattymatty]

i really want the birds to get that Vandy DE Tim Fugger because that is an amazing name.

[rjs246]

I want them to pick an undersized white dude from Iowa with perfect grammar so I can sit back and watch this place melt down into convulsive fits of dementia.

[Sgt PSN]

yeah i liked that pick...i LOVED the bunk pick too...and burgess

but i didnt consider any of them steals

to me its hard to get a steal outside of the first round...95% of the time a steal is a guy that is a top five talent and falls 8-10 spots in the first round...sapp was a classic steal imo

once a guy falls to the second round theres usually a reason and the dynamic goes from being positive (oh man hed be a steal) to negative (ewww do we really want him? - how far is he going to fall)...pimp is an obvious exception to the rule

Oh, how quickly you've forgotten about HOF Ingram. 

[ice grillin you]

hell no...id do that pick again a million times over

you wanna take a chance at a HOF'er or you want teonashammy

[Sgt PSN]

I guess I should have only quoted the first line of your post.  I was really just ribbing you for how much you loved the pick at the time but didn't mention him along with Bunkley.....both of which were picks I thought were going to be real game changers for the Eagles. 

[ice grillin you]

i mentioned bunk because i thought he was a player with the talent to go top 5 similar (but not as highly rated) as sapp....and the fact that they got him at 14(?) was in the steal category imo

HOF i no doubt worshipped but more for the hope of what he could become if he stayed healthy as opposed to thinking he was a steal

[Seabiscuit36]

All i wanted was Ngata when he there at 13.  farging eagles figured there wasn't that big a difference between the two players.  Ozzie must have done a jedi mind farg on the eagles FO or they just proved how much smarter they were. 

[ice grillin you]

i think that had more to do with the type of player nagata was...in their mind he was a 3-4 NT run stuffer take on two guys type...whereas they like the smaller quicker tackles who can get up the field...i wouldnt be suprised if nagata wasnt even on their board