The media generally praising the Packers draft didn't stop you from wailing and gnashing your teeth. It's a bit rich that you trot this out when they vaguely agree with you.
Also, they aren't in the business of in depth football analysis and insight. They're in the business of selling subscriptions and hits to their website. Sports media will throw names and exciting transactions and speculate to hell using very rudimentary lines of thinking as the basis because people will flock to it, especially during the offseason. Just because someone from the sports media suggests something, doesn't make it gospel.
Also, one of the articles you posted suggesting we could/should go for Graham was before we signed Shields and Peppers and before we drafted 3 wide receivers, 1 tight end and picked up Lyerla as an undrafted free agent. It's outdated.
Originally Posted by: mi_keys
Are we comparing draftniks and regular NFL media guys? That is where your richness is found. BTW, I don't care who likes or doesn't like something but I figure you, or most, are impressed by such things. To validate something I feel passionate about in a debate, with national media guys opinions (to show that they must be crazy, too), after being insulted some, was nice and refreshing for me.
Ironically, there have not been that many teams tied to Graham as a potential landing spot. Why is Green Bay?
Do you think drafting unknowns vs. adding a superstar would change the opinion? I've seen plenty POST draft pieces and cited them, here, that are in favor of this. It seems that they don't hold unknowns in the same regard as Packers fans do when we're talking about a Jimmy Graham type of player. In another thread I mentioned that I felt too many thought "well stocked at a position" was just having bodies at a position. Every team in the NFL has plenty of bodies for each position...it is the quality not the quantity that matters. We've fielded our share of horrible ILB's and S's over the last few years but the positions were "well stocked" with numbers at the positions. Rodgers, Quarless, Bostick, Lyerla, Perillo and Taylor is hardly "well stocked".
BTW, I saw in a Tyler Dunne chat, today, that he thinks Finley isn't out of the picture yet. Obviously, if Finley is back, then Graham makes no sense. With his injury concerns he could probably be had for a pretty reasonable deal. It would be fun to be debating keeping Finley around vs. Cobb or Jordy had Finley not suffered the injury. Jimmy Graham will have to do. [aiee]
Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."