You are normally a lot better than this. As I said yesterday, this is not a glamour draft and I too was not jumping for joy at the appoach. A closer look shows a number of good players. Maybe not next year , but your three year time frame should show contributions by a number of these players. The improvement to the special teams should get us an extra win or two. I’m sure a number of players won’t make it. That too is normal. Wait until TC to write off the entire draft . These are the same guys who got the players last year. Did they go senile in one season.

I don’t mean to be. I thought I said a lot of positive things as well:

• 10 players make the squad
• UDFA Kevin Ogletree has a chance to make the team
• Hamlin could see significant time at safety this year
• Jason Williams will be similar to Kevin Burnett, but with excelletn special teams skills. I predicted he leaves in FA, but that must mean he was pretty good
• One of the DBs could be Pro Bowl quality
• And best of all … McGee progresses nicely and is our QB of the future

Maybe I feel better about this class than I thought I did. You know, Raf had a post earlier saying that we need four players to come out of this draft. One theory is that Jerry & Cis knew we didnt have the high picks to rely on, so let’s go with quantity to try and find our five. I think that’s a possibility that they found our four.

So, this isnt the draft class I would have taken. I liked Sean Smith at 51. Then we traded back and I would have traded up to the top pick of round 3 to make sure I got Gilbert. Not getting a DLineman is the hardest thing for me to swallow in this draft. I thought we had several reaches (Brewster, Butler, Smith) that we could have taken a round later. Some guys I wouldnt have taken at all (Buehler, Hodge, Johnson.) I just think we didnt set ourselves up as well as we could have. All that said, I believe we got some pieces that will contribute to this team over the next few seasons. How much we will have to wait and see. I’m willing to give them the chance.

This isn’t what I was looking for either and seeing 5bling’s story on what could have been didn’t help either. I may have jumped the gun. Your points are well taken. The high motor , high character guidelines may have been the keys for the picks. I hope that they are all football guys and Jerry and Tom show everybody that the others don’t know sh**.

And I don’t think you’re judging their potential fairly.

I’ll use a fanpost to go into more details, but this class has a lot more potential in the long run:
- Williams replaces Brookings by next year
- Brewster replaces Kosier/Hollan in 3 years
- McGee replaces Kitna in 2 years
- Butler and/or Williams will become part of the OLB rotation by next year, maybe this year.
- Hamlin and/or Smith become starters next year
- Mickens replaces Ball for the dime CB this year
- Buehler contributes this year as KO specialist & part of coverage team.

Like you, I don’t see Johnson or Phillips making the team.

And all will have an immediate impact on special teams except Brewster.

Very decent draft.

The pick surprised me, but after finding out more about him I think he fills Davis’ ST’s role and according to our BTB experts, could be a key player for running the Phillips 46 defense.
I think he has a very good chance to stay.

Generally speaking, in order to be on the team in 5 years, they will need to be re-signed to a new contract. That means, if you expect them to be re-signed, 5 draft classes between now and then, you don’t believe our talent level will surpass this group’s.

If that’s true, get used to 8-8 records.

extremely biased

Guy was a total clutch player at OU. A lot of times he did in fact look better than Iglesias. I remember his one handed grab against Texas Tech. If I’m not mistaken he caught that with his bum arm. Guy could end up surprising folks. I wouldn’t write him off so quickly.