If you finally gotta give him credit for paying attention to the O line now, you weren't paying enough attention when he picked up Sitton, Wells and Lang.
"all_about_da_packers" wrote:
In fairness, I think Dakota was implying that Ted is finally targeting o-linemen early in the draft. But his last statement states that perhaps it wasn't so much a change in strategy as much as Bulaga being too good to pass up (matching both need and "Best Player Available").
If we are honest, Ted for the most part has done a disservice to his coaches in the o-line talent he has given them. Recall Will Whiticker, Guard, selected seventh round and forced to start in his first year because Ted failed to bring in adequate bodies to replace Mike Whale.
Then there is the fact that he drafted Sitton, Barbre, and Lang in the fourth rounds, Giacomini and Newhouse in the fifth rounds, and Tony Moll in the sixth. Yes Sitton is closing in on being a Pro-bowler, but look at the rest of the list. Okay, Lang has some promise, but Barbre and Giacomini have done nothing of note; they were projects that have thus far failed.
Moll and Giacomini were converted TEs. Barbre was a Div II physically gifted beast with not much else going for him. Lang was a converted D-linemen in college.
The point is that yes he drafted some players with potential in Sitton and Lang, but he's also drafted some duds; that's a normal risk in the NFL Draft but one that is magnified as you go on to the later rounds.
Put differently: you have a better talent pool in the earlier rounds to choose from. As you move later on, you start taking players that may have potential, but the bust factor is also bigger. He may have hit on a couple of mid-late round picks, but still the players with "a chance to stick" he has drafted in the later rounds have certainly NOT left his coaches with a ton of sound talent / skill / fundamentals to work with.
"Dexter_Sinister" wrote: