finintheburgh said:
i see what your saying. i do think that joey has looked better, not tons but better. but like you said it may be because dc was supposed to be alot better than what he has shown.so in your opinion what happens this off season,if dc doesnt play the rest of the year how can we keep him at his salary.you know that if we draft a qb high it will send him through the roof.
like you said dc has to be in the right situation and i dont believe that we will have those pieces in place next year.
also i think that calling either one of these 2 a franchise qb is wrong i think there are only3 maybe 4 franchise qbs in the afc.every starting qb is not a franchise qb even if they made it to a probowl
What I think is that fresh off the knee surgery, a mediocre stint surrounded by a pathetic team is hardly anything to start concluding things.
You judge Daunte by what happened from 1999 to 2005, a heck of a lot more than you judge Daunte on those four games in 2006. That's what I am saying right now.
We will not be drafting a QB high, unless Daunte comes back in this year and does a heck of a lot more damage to his name. I'm not discounting that possibility...but I do not find it likely either.
Saban wants us to get players that help this team become overachievers. If we pick REALLY high, I expect him to be really high on Calvin Johnson.
Our receivers group is good, they get open and they are capable of making plays, but they are not consistent and that is really led by Chambers who is most inconsistent of them all.
If Derek Hagan has shown anything this year, in his rookie year, it is that he IS what we thought he might be coming out of the draft. He's big, and he's fast, he's a hard worker and god help him that boy can get open. BUT, he drops the ball. Not every ball, but he does drop some of them. I think teams allowed that to drop him into a 3rd round pick because, in the end, he'll never reach above the level of a guy like Eddie Kennison so long as he drops balls. Eddie Kennison, btw, is no Marvin Harrison or Torry Holt.
Miami got a great deal though, Hagan in the 3rd. That's a good deal because he's going to be a solid player that gets open a lot for a long time, and he works hard too.
And of course if you had a bunch of Wes Welkers you'd be ok.
But Marty Booker is not long for Miami...injuries, age, salary just pretty much ensure that much.
And truthfully, Chris Chambers is still too inconsistent. You need prime time difference makers...and if you're depending on Chambers to be a prime time difference maker every game you're going to be disappointed 60% of the time.
That's why you diffuse the responsibility as much as possible and add the best playmaker possible to the team and if we draft #1 or #2, to me that is Calvin Johnson. Period.
And if not, then a Joe Thomas or Sam Baker for the OL.
And if not, then an Adam Carriker, Marcus Thomas, Justin Harrell, etc for the defense.
