If only we took a flyer on that Brady kid to be an understudy to Kordell 15 years ago.
Interesting Read from ESPN's Scott Brown on our 2011 Draft. This one hurts!
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Kordell was a lot of things but he was not a cheat as far as I am aware and that will always have him as the better player in my book. I have no use for guys that cheat to win ever.
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I don't like articles like this that blatantly Monday morning quarterback the draft and say 3-4 years later "look who you missed, na-na-na-na-na-na".
I respect looking at draft patterns and finding philosophical flaws that are repeated by organizations. I respect looking at drafts as a whole and maybe comparing their productivity to the average.
This article does none of that. There is no good analysis at all associated with this article.
Richard Sherman was the 34th defensive back selected in that draft. It wasn't just the Steelers that didn't correctly scout him as a top prospect. And stuff like this happens every draft. There is always those few players drafted in the 5th - 7th round that end up surprising everyone and being much, much better than thought.
Heck, our organization found one of those in Antonio Brown just one year before this draft in 2010. Funny how he doesn't criticize every team that picked a WR before Brown was selected.
When you look at 2011 philosophically, it wasn't all that bad.
The players we selected (Heyward, Gilbert, Brown, Allen) with our four top-130 selection have NFL skill sets. At the time I thought they reached a bit on Gilbert and Allen, but neither are "busts" and both are still in the league and will be for quite a while. In fact the Gilbert selection looks pretty good. He is out-producing every O-line player selected in the 3rd and 4th rounds considerably (Moffit, Rackley, Reid, Barksdale, Boling, Arkin, Brewer, Hairston) so their "board" on O-line prospects was probably done pretty well.
Heyward is arguably our best defensive lineman on the roster right now.
Even pick #162 in Chris Carter had no philosophical issue with it. Carter had NFL talent and contributed on special teams while given every opportunity to "make it". The fact he washed out after his full rookie contract doesn't make it a bad pick.
I can nitpick maybe Keith Williams and Baron Batch because both lacked what I consider "minimum" NFL ability but we're talking about pick #196 and pick #232. That fact both of those guys made it through camp and played real NFL games is better than 40% of picks taken after #200.
Of all the drafts to be critical of, this is not one of them.
I respect looking at draft patterns and finding philosophical flaws that are repeated by organizations. I respect looking at drafts as a whole and maybe comparing their productivity to the average.
This article does none of that. There is no good analysis at all associated with this article.
Richard Sherman was the 34th defensive back selected in that draft. It wasn't just the Steelers that didn't correctly scout him as a top prospect. And stuff like this happens every draft. There is always those few players drafted in the 5th - 7th round that end up surprising everyone and being much, much better than thought.
Heck, our organization found one of those in Antonio Brown just one year before this draft in 2010. Funny how he doesn't criticize every team that picked a WR before Brown was selected.
When you look at 2011 philosophically, it wasn't all that bad.
The players we selected (Heyward, Gilbert, Brown, Allen) with our four top-130 selection have NFL skill sets. At the time I thought they reached a bit on Gilbert and Allen, but neither are "busts" and both are still in the league and will be for quite a while. In fact the Gilbert selection looks pretty good. He is out-producing every O-line player selected in the 3rd and 4th rounds considerably (Moffit, Rackley, Reid, Barksdale, Boling, Arkin, Brewer, Hairston) so their "board" on O-line prospects was probably done pretty well.
Heyward is arguably our best defensive lineman on the roster right now.
Even pick #162 in Chris Carter had no philosophical issue with it. Carter had NFL talent and contributed on special teams while given every opportunity to "make it". The fact he washed out after his full rookie contract doesn't make it a bad pick.
I can nitpick maybe Keith Williams and Baron Batch because both lacked what I consider "minimum" NFL ability but we're talking about pick #196 and pick #232. That fact both of those guys made it through camp and played real NFL games is better than 40% of picks taken after #200.
Of all the drafts to be critical of, this is not one of them.