Washington Redskins Picks

[Hostile]

Rd 1 - 006 - LaRon Landry S, LSU

BIOGRAPHY: Four-year starter awarded varying degrees of All-American and All-Conference honors since his freshman campaign. Led the team in tackles as a senior, posting 74/3/4 after 69/3/8 as a junior. Freshman and sophomore tackling totals were 80 and 92, respectively.

POSITIVES: Productive safety with a complete game. Instinctive, plays heads-up football and remains disciplined with assignments. Efficient, takes good angles to the action and goes for the knockout blow. Patrols centerfield, displays top sideline-to-sideline running ability.

NEGATIVES: Lacks hands for the pick and drops too many catchable interceptions.

ANALYSIS: Effective defending the run or covering the pass, Landry possesses the athletic skills and football intelligence to be used in a variety of defensive systems. An early choice who should quickly break into a starting

Rd 5 - 143 - Dallas Sartz, LB USC
Rd 6 - 179 - H.B. Blades LB, Pittsburgh
Rd 6 - 205 - Jordan Palmer QB, UTEP
Rd 7 - 216 - Tyler Ecker TE, Michigan

[silverbear]

Originally Posted by Hostile

Rd 1 - 006 - LaRon Landry S, LSU

BIOGRAPHY: Four-year starter awarded varying degrees of All-American and All-Conference honors since his freshman campaign. Led the team in tackles as a senior, posting 74/3/4 after 69/3/8 as a junior. Freshman and sophomore tackling totals were 80 and 92, respectively.

POSITIVES: Productive safety with a complete game. Instinctive, plays heads-up football and remains disciplined with assignments. Efficient, takes good angles to the action and goes for the knockout blow. Patrols centerfield, displays top sideline-to-sideline running ability.

NEGATIVES: Lacks hands for the pick and drops too many catchable interceptions.

[View Full Quote]ANALYSIS: Effective defending the run or covering the pass, Landry possesses the athletic skills and football intelligence to be used in a variety of defensive systems. An early choice who should quickly break into a starting

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Landry is a top 6 talent, and will likely help the Skins for years to come...

At the same time, I have to note that the Skins were dead last in the NFL in sacks last year, and by a fairly wide margin (the 31st ranked team had six more sacks)... they were the first team since 2003 to not have at least 20 sacks for the season...

I ask you, what have they done to address this GLARING deficiency?? Why, absolutely nothing...

They should have traded down a way, adding a later first day pick, then gone after the best pass rusher available, IMO...

[Ben_n_austin]

Originally Posted by silverbear

Landry is a top 6 talent, and will likely help the Skins for years to come...

At the same time, I have to note that the Skins were dead last in the NFL in sacks last year, and by a fairly wide margin (the 31st ranked team had six more sacks)... they were the first team since 2003 to not have at least 20 sacks for the season...

I ask you, what have they done to address this GLARING deficiency?? Why, absolutely nothing...

They should have traded down a way, adding a later first day pick, then gone after the best pass rusher available, IMO...

Well, bear, my old friend that is quite an easy question to answer....

I think this guy:



... has been reading the wrong strategy book.

[silverbear]

Originally Posted by AnyGivenSunday

Well, bear, my old friend that is quite an easy question to answer....

I think this guy:



... has been reading the wrong strategy book.

So, you're saying that he's brought a knife to a gunfight??

[Ben_n_austin]

Originally Posted by silverbear

So, you're saying that he's brought a knife to a gunfight??

I'm saying that he lacks skills in the area of strategery.

[Yeagermeister]

Shouldn't the title be pick instead of picks

[MarionBarberThe4th]

Landrys a beast. Hes going to hurt us for years

[SkinsHokieFan]

Originally Posted by silverbear

Landry is a top 6 talent, and will likely help the Skins for years to come...

At the same time, I have to note that the Skins were dead last in the NFL in sacks last year, and by a fairly wide margin (the 31st ranked team had six more sacks)... they were the first team since 2003 to not have at least 20 sacks for the season...

I ask you, what have they done to address this GLARING deficiency?? Why, absolutely nothing...

They should have traded down a way, adding a later first day pick, then gone after the best pass rusher available, IMO...

It would have been the ideal scenario, and when Quinn fell to 6th I thought the deal with Miami was going to be made

But then Miami decided to make a bonehead move in picking Ginn and you guys got to take advantage of Quinn falling

If the value is not there, there is no reason to trade down for the sake of trading down

[jrumann59]

Originally Posted by SkinsHokieFan

It would have been the ideal scenario, and when Quinn fell to 6th I thought the deal with Miami was going to be made

But then Miami decided to make a bonehead move in picking Ginn and you guys got to take advantage of Quinn falling

If the value is not there, there is no reason to trade down for the sake of trading down

to a degree you are right but with no picks after landry all of your 2nd day picks are nfle bound and will be on the bottom 10% of the roster. you guys could of had spencer or any other pass rush specialist plus extra picks. looking at your draft you guys could have 4 deion sanders and it wouldn't matter with your pass rush

[SkinsHokieFan]

Originally Posted by jrumann59

to a degree you are right but with no picks after landry all of your 2nd day picks are nfle bound and will be on the bottom 10% of the roster. you guys could of had spencer or any other pass rush specialist plus extra picks. looking at your draft you guys could have 4 deion sanders and it wouldn't matter with your pass rush

We could have, but who was trying to move up? Do you move down from the number 6 spot to the number 21 spot and pick up a 3rd only for the hell of it?

The most ideal scenario was a trade down which yielded a few other first day picks. That scenario unfourtantley did not matieralize and thusly Landry was the pick

Yea, ideally it would have been nice to trade down with Miami and pick up a 2nd. Or a 3rd and 4th. But if Miami was only offering a 4th, do you make that trade, or take the best guy you can at the spot you are in?

Its clear the D coaching staff felt the bigger problem was with the back 7. Sending a house blitz with Mike Rumph covering clearly isn't going to cut it. The blitzing worked real well in 2004 and 2005 because the secondary was actually covering guys

The logic (you and myself may not agree with this) is the back 7 needs to be as strong as ever and versitile so we can bring different blitz and coverage packages. The d-line simply needs to be able to fill to stop the run, and the lb's make the tackles. The upgrade of Fletcher-Baker over Marshall should help. Highway 57 in Warrick Holdman is gone. Landry has the speed and hip movement to cover, unlike AA

Now I am one who feels a d-lineman would have been better served, just not at the number 6 spot. No d-lineman in this draft was worth a 14 million dollar bonus. Unfourtantley the trade down scenario did not matieralize

[skinsngibbs4life]

Originally Posted by SkinsHokieFan

We could have, but who was trying to move up? Do you move down from the number 6 spot to the number 21 spot and pick up a 3rd only for the hell of it?

The most ideal scenario was a trade down which yielded a few other first day picks. That scenario unfourtantley did not matieralize and thusly Landry was the pick

Yea, ideally it would have been nice to trade down with Miami and pick up a 2nd. Or a 3rd and 4th. But if Miami was only offering a 4th, do you make that trade, or take the best guy you can at the spot you are in?

Its clear the D coaching staff felt the bigger problem was with the back 7. Sending a house blitz with Mike Rumph covering clearly isn't going to cut it. The blitzing worked real well in 2004 and 2005 because the secondary was actually covering guys

[View Full Quote]The logic (you and myself may not agree with this) is the back 7 needs to be as strong as ever and versitile so we can bring different blitz and coverage packages. The d-line simply needs to be able to fill to stop the run, and the lb's make the tackles. The upgrade of Fletcher-Baker over Marshall should help. Highway 57 in Warrick Holdman is gone. Landry has the speed and hip movement to cover, unlike AA

Now I am one who feels a d-lineman would have been better served, just not at the number 6 spot. No d-lineman in this draft was worth a 14 million dollar bonus. Unfourtantley the trade down scenario did not matieralize

why even try? some people just critize for the sake of critizing. No logic is used.

[zrinkill]

Originally Posted by skinsngibbs4life

why even try? some people just critize for the sake of critizing. No logic is used.

Kinda like a redskin fan coming to a Cowboys board and expecting us to talk good about their retarded team.

[skinsngibbs4life]

Originally Posted by zrinkill

Kinda like a redskin fan coming to a Cowboys board and expecting us to talk good about their retarded team.

not even expecting you to talk good, but at least bash for something logical

[Bob Sacamano]

so no pass-rushers?

I love it, nice going Gibbs!

[skinsngibbs4life]

Originally Posted by Bob Sacamano

so no pass-rushers?

I love it, nice going Gibbs!

considering you are not a fan of our team, and you don't know much about our defense, i'll give you a break