Steelers Draft and Mel Kiper sucks thread!!

and I beleive I am the first poster to 500 posts and "hometown favorite"

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4/19/13 post by yours truly

bites, roc74, Memphis, demo...just wanted you guys to know I'm listening to Retrospective Buffalo Springfield and so truly enjoying reading your stuff with them in the background !

Something had to be said ! Wish you were here ...

Next Thursday can't get here fast enough ...

MoS

Lym, Guess great minds do cross paths at some point.

 

here is a wild thought, anyone want to disprove my theory. The Steelers will take 2 safeties in this draft.

1. Troy and Ryan are over 30 and haven't played 16 games since......
2. Just lost Will Allen and Ryan Mundy to free agency.
3. Would you bank your season on DCS or would you feel better if we drafed Wilcox and Wolff?

oh and can you feel the draft coming? 2 days until.........

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That's really darn good Gid... I just sat here and listened for an hour and reminisced.... also, did not see your reply but did see Lym's on the next page ... looks like 3 great minds crossing paths !


MoS

 

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found this little tidbit on PFT:

Steelers spending time with families of draft prospects
Posted by Josh Alper on April 23, 2013, 10:50 AM EDT

Two members of the Steelers? 2012 draft class wound up getting into trouble with the law during their rookie seasons and that?s led to a different approach to researching prospects this year.

General manager Kevin Colbert and coach Mike Tomlin each talked about the team?s decision to start spending more time with the families of players they are considering drafting. Colbert said that Tomlin has been proactive about speaking to family members of players the team drafted for a few years and that the rest of the team worked to ?extend the program? this time around by speaking to relatives at or after pro days.

?I just think it helps us develop a more complete picture about who and what a player is, and maybe more importantly, what he is capable of being,? Tomlin said, via Jamison Hensley of ESPN.com. ?I think the more you look at where they come from and who they come from, it helps you paint that well-rounded picture.?

Defensive tackle Alameda Ta?amu, a fourth-round pick last year, faced a laundry list of charges after a DUI incident that featured him nearly running over a police officer while trying to avoid capture. The team cut him in November, but brought him back to the practice squad a couple of days later. They did not bring back fifth-round pick Chris Rainey, cutting him in February after the running back was arrested for hitting his girlfriend. Rainey had other legal issues during his rookie season and has not landed with a new team.

No team can thrive if they regularly miss on draft picks, especially not ones transitioning their roster the way the Steelers have been doing over the last couple of years. A little extra research and knowledge about who they?re picking can only help teams avoid problems like Pittsburgh faced last year.
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Paying extra attention to players charecter, and red flags, this probably eliminates a few players that we might have considered.

 

NFL.com's mock draft

1. Xavier Rhodes
2. Margus Hunt
3. Jamie Collins
4. Marcus Lattimore
5. Nico Johnson
6. John Simon
6. Ryan Jensen
7. Miguel Maysonet

Awful, just awful

 

This is an April Fool's Day mock right? Zach Dysert in the second, this guy needs to just stop.

 

I still cant believe people don't think Elam can go to Pitt. He would b a perfect fit and learn under Troy for a couple yrs while bringing a presence to the field.

 

Listening to Colbert on Tim Benz this mornings, he talked about a need for a quantity of picks and talked about how deep rounds 2-4 are. Trade down coming?

 

Don't tell Demo that. You won't here the end of it.

 

Margus Hunt? Colbert already said this is a weak class for 5 techniques ! Pffft

 

Three linebackers? Two RBs? Who's the jacktard that put that together?

 

Here's a question: given only the most reasonable of possible selections at 17 (which means clearly someone like Dion Jordan won't be there, nor someone slated as a clear 2nd-rounder), whose name being announced Thursday night would make you scromit (combination scream + vomit)?

For me, it'd be Barkevious Mingo. Personally, he has J-E-T-S written all over him given that he has that Vernon Gholston bust potential.

 

Actually, the guy that did that lists Hunt as a DE and says he will take over for Keisel after the year.

Cameron Heyward anyone?

 

This. I really don't like the idea of Patterson either, just simply do not like his attitude and I think he has bust written all over him. Reminds me of Jonathan Baldwin.

 

No way, it is like my birthday. Seeing how my birthday is April 26th, it always falls sometime during the draft, this year it is rd2.

 

http://insidepittsburghsports.com/s...ting-a-young-qb-with-starter-potential/57787/

Steelers appear to be intrigued by Manuel and Bray.

 

I think Jarvis Jones may have just spilled the beans, he believes if he falls to 17 the Steelers will take him.

 

He would have to at least produce some sacks for us this season if we draft him. We need production from this draft.