Official 2012 Draft Discussion Thread

[brasho]

Originally Posted by bucfan12

If we go MLB next year, this is the guy you want, not Luke Keuchly...

http://youtu.be/IK20TaJ7Ixs

Can you imagine this lineup in the future:

WLB: David
MIKE: Teo
SLB: Foster

Nope, that's the guy you want. A traditional thumper. I like Te'o, I'm not sure if he is what would normally be considered as a T-2 style MLB. He's more of a Keith Rivers-type, big, fast, physical (but not necessarily agile or super skilled in coverage )if you know, if Rivers wasn't made of glass.

I wouldn't mind Te'o, but he doesn't seem to fit the Schiano bill....which also seems to be Dungy's old bill.

[brasho]

Originally Posted by jojo

The Cowboys 5th rd. WR Danny Coale did NOT get the Intriguing rating from McShay, but got the Impact rating instead:

http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas/cowbo...he-most-impact

He didn't light it up at Va. Tech, but running those 4.3s 40s got the attention of pro scouts. He will make the roster as slot receiver, mark it down now.

Are you lost? What does Coale have to do with the Buccaneers? BTW, he played awesome at VTech but reports of him running 4.3's are a little off. He ran 4.50 at the combine and then ran 4.37 on VTech's superfast track. I like Danny Coale, but he was a tad of a reach in round 5.

[bucfan12]

Originally Posted by brasho

Right... which is my point. Brooks wasn't known as a thumper, yet he did pretty well for himself.

Yep, Brooks wasn't known as a thumper, but he flew to the ball and didn't have much trouble doing that.

David has a lot of similarities and his style to Brooks is very similar.

[Caddy]

So I finished equal 1st in the Buccaneers.com Draft competition. =D

Unfortunately my tiebreaker was horribly inaccurate so I came 4th, but I still win a prize! Next year I'll make sure to have a better answer to 'how many minutes will the first round of the draft be'.

[scottyboy]

dont know where to put this, but you guys signed gary gibson from...wel, it's obvious.

seriousy, it seems every other day Schiano brings in a former rutgers player haha

[Giantsfan1080]

He already cut Girault though so there must a quote of Rutgers guys.

[scottyboy]

Originally Posted by Giantsfan1080

He already cut Girault though so there must a quote of Rutgers guys.

that's sad. I LOVED Girault. but then again he's been out of football for at least 2 years haha

[brasho]

Originally Posted by bucfan12

You can average 3.5, 3.7 yards per carry and still get 1000 yards in a full season. 1000 yard backs aren't that great. That's just average now a-days. It's physically wearing defenses down.

Richardson will do that. He's a load and just a game changer. That's how he differs from the rest of the class and the prospects over the last 5 years . No one even comes close to T-RICH in this draft at RB. He's the best position player in this draft as well.

How'd this pick work out?

Well, you were right. Richardson is probably going to get his 1000 yards like you said... and like you said, he'll get it by averaging 3.5 yards per carry.

One place you are definitely wrong though is saying that no RB comes close to Richardson in this draft class. I'm pretty sure that Martin's 300+ more yards and 2.2 yards more per carry might be proof otherwise.