John Abraham Goes Back to Atlanta

Oh. So we're wanting one player more than the other therefore we lost out on a guy apparently felt we could do without?

I guess in a way that makes sense.


But we're probably landing Manning. So that's irrelevant.

 

2011 1st round

2008 4th round

2007 6th round

2004 2nd, 2nd, and 4th round

 

My reasoning is that they did not want to waste Abrahams time because they have no clue what PM will want.

It all speculation but I do understand why people (myself included) thinks that chasing PM costs us chances to chase Williams (if we were even wanting him) and Abraham.


I hope we hit on the draft. If we do get a good pass rushing DE, this team will do very well next season. (especially if we get a good WR find as well to replace Brittle if he goes down)

 

DT, yes. DE, no.

And I mean obviously the verdict is still out on Morgan but he was a first round player and we've pretty much gotten nil from him in two years.

If we signed a guy like Abraham it would hardly set back our franchise. We have plenty of money to spend and apparently nobody to spend it on. Unless we're just gonna give PM a salary of $30m.

 

2011 - Hated the pick because I thought Morgan was overrated and average. BUT... he's been hurt. That's not a talent evaluation issue.

2008 - Jason Jones has been pretty good.

2007 - 6th round, so blah...But Jacob Ford was very good to be a 6th.

2004 - Laboy and Odom were both good, just never healthy.

 

what's the use of being good if you're out of shape and not healthy? wasted picks.

and jason jones is a DT, not a DE. we saw how he played at DE and it wasn't pretty.

 

You can't predict a player's health. Not the organizations fault.

JJones was drafted as a DE.

 

http://www.nfl.com/draft/history/fulldraft?teamId=2100&type=team


Our draft history, because ive had to pull it up 30 times the past 2 days

 

they couldn't look at antwan odom and tell that he had legit health issues which destroyed his conditioning?

and that second part just backs up my point. we have a very poor history of drafting DEs. we may have drafted JJ as a DE but he only produced as a DT. So, yet another DE draft failure.

 

So if a player contributes well at another position, he's a failure?


Odom's health issues should have been known. Give you that.