Sintim was my 2nd OLB after orakpo (ya he's a tweener but he's a OLB in a 3-4). Sintim had the stats as a OLB. I was impressed with his sack amount and/starts and tackles for a loss.

Mattews
Year GP TKL TFL SACK PBU INT
2004 RS - - - - -
2005 11 8 0.0 0.0 1 0
2006 13 15 1.5 1.0 0 0
2007 13 17 3.0 0.0 1 0
2008 13 56 9.0 4.5 2 0
Totals 50 96 13.5 5.5 4 0

Combine

Clay Matthews OLB Southern California 6-3 240 1 4.62 23 35 1/2 2.68 1.49 10'01" 4.18 6.90

Sintim
Year GP TKL TFL SACK PBU INT
2004 RS - - - - -
2005 12 53 7.0 3.0 1 0
2006 12 45 10.0 4.0 0 0
2007 13 77 9.0 9.0 0 0
2008 12 70 13.0 11.0 3 0
Totals 49 245 39.0 27.0 4 0

Combine
Clint Sintim OLB Virginia 6-3 256 2 4.75 -- 34 1/2 2.71 1.56 09'11" 4.40 7.37

Ok my charts not the best here but you get the picture. Mattews has slightly better numbers at the combine via stats.

But in real live game situations ... Sintim wins hands down.

and then you throw in 2 3rd round picks you traded for mattews ...

The one thing that mattews has going for him is he is good at special teams. And thats one thing we need help with definately.

So obviously Ted Thompson wanted this guy and was willing to toss out our 3rd rounders for him.

I'll be comparing the 2 for the next few years to see how my pick would of worked out.

"Dulak" wrote:

This to me is a stupid move.

We gave up 3 selections for THIS guy? Really?

This is a guy we could of got at 41 IMO.

I like the Raji selection, but THREE draft choices for a guy who wasn't even looked at as a top 10 pick. I also prefer Everette Brown.. and please don't tell me he's a clone of Jamal Reynolds only because they went to the same school..

Now we won't see ourselves picking until the fourth round.. great.

41,73,83 ... GREAT LINEUP.. GONE

NOT TO MENTION THE PICK WE GOT FOR A HALL OF FAME QUARTERBACK IS GOING TO THE PATRIOTS.

One of the stupidest moves I've ever seen. Sorry!

"nickb364" wrote:

Wasn't #83 the Favre pick? If so it's kind of funny that it turned out to be a guy that helped his team beat Favre 2 weeks ago.

"Stevetarded" wrote:

For the record, I LOVE these first 2 picks. I was mad as hell at Ted Thompson last year and this year, he's done just about everything RIGHT.

"zombieslayer" wrote: