Good try, jerra, you almost got it

[GimmeTheBall!]

Well, mens, just when I think Jerra has lost it, he comes across as a sane man. A sane man with good instinks.


It seems to this fertile mind (more fertile than the mississippi delta) that it was only yesteday when young Stephen Jones had looked us in the collective eye and with a twinkle in his good eye toldt us that safety was the top necessity.

Then we somehow started thinking, in that southern, minimal edication type of manly thinking, "Hey, old Kiffen, would not come here without a promise of a 1st-round lineman, would he?" Then somehow all of us rushed to the DL line of thinking
It have come full circle mens, and no matter if we like our Frederick the Giant or not, jerra went to the fundamentals of football. Not only that, but the very basic and organic position -- center.

OK, this is what most of us wanted all along -- ah mean the very unsexy but very necessary O lineman.

Now, allow gimme to pontificate like a pontiff about this 1st-round selection: we needed a guard or a tackle but we got us a center.

It seems to be that old Jerra still thinks our soon to be 33-year-old Oh No Romo can and should be limber and keep on running like a goose from a bed and bath store. In Jerra's mind, a center can protect the QB better than a tackle or guard. Yes. OK, mens I will allow you 10 seconds to laugh over that statemant.

Yes, Jerra do not understand the fundamental theory of O linesmanology. A center is preoccupied with snapping der ball and then taking 1 step back and blocking the explosive nosetackle. But tony will need good protection on his blind side and his other side should be choose to run around a bit.

Yes, Jerra did the right thing: he chose a O lineman. But he needed to choose a guard or tackle. Jason's body languige showed that.
It might be that Jerra thought this was the best O lineman available. But time will tell.

Mens, if it were not for the court injunction keeping me from phoning Jerra or getting within half a mile from his presense, I just might tell him: "Good effort, Jerra. At least you did not go for a kicker or TE or a LB to replace Lee. You went for a need."

But life is a continuing education for Jerra. He will learn in time. But, like Romo and Goldie Hawn, time is not on the side of Jerra.

today we pick a safey and a DL

 

[Beast_from_East]

Well, mens, just when I think Jerra has lost it, he comes across as a sane man. A sane man with good instinks.


It seems to this fertile mind (more fertile than the mississippi delta) that it was only yesteday when young Stephen Jones had looked us in the collective eye and with a twinkle in his good eye toldt us that safety was the top necessity.

Then we somehow started thinking, in that southern, minimal edication type of manly thinking, "Hey, old Kiffen, would not come here without a promise of a 1st-round lineman, would he?" Then somehow all of us rushed to the DL line of thinking
It have come full circle mens, and no matter if we like our Frederick the Giant or not, jerra went to the fundamentals of football. Not only that, but the very basic and organic position -- center.

OK, this is what most of us wanted all along -- ah mean the very unsexy but very necessary O lineman.

Now, allow gimme to pontificate like a pontiff about this 1st-round selection: we needed a guard or a tackle but we got us a center.

It seems to be that old Jerra still thinks our soon to be 33-year-old Oh No Romo can and should be limber and keep on running like a goose from a bed and bath store. In Jerra's mind, a center can protect the QB better than a tackle or guard. Yes. OK, mens I will allow you 10 seconds to laugh over that statemant.

Yes, Jerra do not understand the fundamental theory of O linesmanology. A center is preoccupied with snapping der ball and then taking 1 step back and blocking the explosive nosetackle. But tony will need good protection on his blind side and his other side should be choose to run around a bit.

Yes, Jerra did the right thing: he chose a O lineman. But he needed to choose a guard or tackle. Jason's body languige showed that.
It might be that Jerra thought this was the best O lineman available. But time will tell.

Mens, if it were not for the court injunction keeping me from phoning Jerra or getting within half a mile from his presense, I just might tell him: "Good effort, Jerra. At least you did not go for a kicker or TE or a LB to replace Lee. You went for a need."

But life is a continuing education for Jerra. He will learn in time. But, like Romo and Goldie Hawn, time is not on the side of Jerra.

today we pick a safey and a DL

There really were not any Tackles or Guards at 31 that are significantly better than what we can get today in the 2nd and 3rd rounds.

We basically got wiped out when Vaccaro got picked and so we had to take the best deal on the table from SF and bail.

Sometimes these things happen in drafts, all your top targets get picked and you get wiped out. It sucks, but it is what it is.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

There really were not any Tackles or Guards at 31 that are significantly better than what we can get today in the 2nd and 3rd rounds.

We basically got wiped out when Vaccaro got picked and so we had to take the best deal on the table from SF and bail.

Sometimes these things happen in drafts, all your top targets get picked and you get wiped out. It sucks, but it is what it is.

Yes and no.

CZ wont be uniformally happy with this pick but it was a needed one, albeit a reach when Jerra could have waited for the 2nd round and saved hisself a lot of money. I think there were plenty of guards and tackles left at 31. Whether they would half panned out, I dunnot. No one do.

Jerra is gonna get slammed anyway with any pick. He almost got it right. an unsexy pick but one that makes more sense than a safety or DL in the 1st round.

 

[Eric_Boyer]

There really were not any Tackles or Guards at 31 that are significantly better than what we can get today in the 2nd and 3rd rounds.

We basically got wiped out when Vaccaro got picked and so we had to take the best deal on the table from SF and bail.

Sometimes these things happen in drafts, all your top targets get picked and you get wiped out. It sucks, but it is what it is.

yep.

I was hoping we traded the #31 for a 2nd or 3rd and next years #1 (after Ogletree was gone)

 

[ferrispata]

Frederick can play guard also.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Frederick can play guard also.

He made his bones playing center. If jerra is up to a reclamation project, then that is one more hurdle he face and if he do not pan out as a guard then what half we left? a backup center, which was not a high-need position.

the jury will be out on Jerra and his pick until the middle of the season.

 

[burmafrd]

Fredrick will start at Center and be much better than Costa. Significant upgrade at a critical position. Good pick. If early so what?

 

[zrinkill]

Why did someone bump this thread?

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Fredrick will start at Center and be much better than Costa. Significant upgrade at a critical position. Good pick. If early so what?

All in all, perhaps a good pick.

But a "good pick" is far from an NFL starter, much less an NFL star.

I do think he will do well.

One of my points was, Jerra could have waited, say well into the middle 2nd round to get Frederick the Giant. And he could half saved hisself a lot of money instead of paying 1-round money.

But O line was a need. No doubt about it.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

Why did someone bump this thread?

just to spite you, little ball of hate.

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

You can now go back to your rented room and sulk.

 

[pupulehaole]

i stopped reading after you said "he comes across as a sane man".

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

i stopped reading after you said "he comes across as a sane man".

Well, you missed a lot of good stuff. Covered were the secret to living to 95, the meaning of life and justice and why Phyllis George is no longer a sportcaster.