Other transactions are rumored as well. For instance, the rumor was circulated recently that the Chargers are shopping CB Antonio Cromartie for a RB, though you don't seem to like it or believe it.
Gearing up for the NFL Draft
Aaron Kiper Jr., I demand that you comment on the NFL Draft Projections currently up on ESPN Insider. Have you spent much time considering the draft? Do you have opinions?
Other transactions are rumored as well. For instance, the rumor was circulated recently that the Chargers are shopping CB Antonio Cromartie for a RB, though you don't seem to like it or believe it.
Other transactions are rumored as well. For instance, the rumor was circulated recently that the Chargers are shopping CB Antonio Cromartie for a RB, though you don't seem to like it or believe it.
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Ok, first mock drafts are complete shit. The Chargers took Larry English with the 16th pick last year. No one had Larry English going in the first round at all. Everyone was picking the Chargers to take a running back.
ReplyDeleteDon't look at mock drafts, because trying to put a single player to a singe team is damn near impossible and doesn't provide any information. As soon as one team makes a draft day trade to move up or down, every mock draft becomes worthless.
Instead, look at 1)Big Boards, which provide a general idea of a player's value relative to other guys in the draft. and 2)team needs.
Now you have 2-4 guys at 2-3 positions that your team might target. Then, you want to kind of hope your team takes a position you feel is a greater combination of need and value. Don't try to argue that they should have taken LB1 instead of LB2. I guarantee you the GM is going to choose the better fit between LB1 and LB2. You just be happy they are taking a linebacker.
For example, I hope the Chargers take a huge DT who can eventually replace Jamal Williams as the nose tackle in our 3-4 defense. If they take a RB, I am ok with that, because the last time they did, it turned out pretty well, but I think that you can find another RB who can produce later in the draft, while it is much harder to find a great nose tackle in the later rounds.
As for the Cromartie rumor, WOW... i think that's a shit idea...because you can find RBs in any round of the draft who can come in and produce. I actually like the idea of drafting two guys between rounds 3-7 and have them compete for a starting spot. Cromartie is a great athlete and I'd rather have three top corners in 7-on-7 passing league that is the NFL...
ReplyDeletebut if Cromartie really has fallen out of favor (probably because he gambles for the interception every time, allows too many catches, doesn't tackle and doesn't use his freakish athleticism very often...
but still...he did this.
I keep trying to think why AJ Smith would announce that he's considering trading Cromartie for a RB...it really doesn't make sense.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that Cromartie REALLY pissed off the entire Chargers organization, that they are trying to get Tomlinson to realize that they are willing to trade a quality (to great depending on the game) corner for a RB because he won't be the starter and maybe he'll take a paycut and a backup role, OR it is a subtle Phil Jackson-esque mind game on Cromartie that he needs to straighten up and listen to coaches or he will be traded or demoted below Jammer and Cason....
those are my current ideas from least to most likely
I love that he's playing a Phil Jackson esque motivational game with Cromartie, like when "Phil Jackson floated a fake Bynum-for-Bosh trade rumor last month" to motivate Bynum, as Simmons wrote in his NBA trade value column. Probably not true, but it definitely sounds like something Phil would do. So proud of AJ if that's what he did.
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