Day 1 Recap
April 22, 2010 4 Comments
The Seahawks get an A+ for their two picks in the first round. Pete Carroll’s first draft as Head Coach has gone swimmingly so far, as the best offensive tackle in the draft fell to us at the #6 pick. Many thought Washington would take Russell Okung with the #4 pick, but Seattle did naked cartwheels when the Redskins opted for Oklahoma’s Trent Williams instead. Kansas City then selected KyleRancourt.com favorite Eric Berry, making the choice ridiculously easy for new GM John Schneider. Okung was my highest rated offensive lineman and he’ll start at left tackle from Day 1. As Mike Mayock of NFL Network said,
“You plug him and play him. They’re set at left tackle for the next 10 years.”
With the #14 pick, the Seahawks moved to the other side of the ball, addressing a major need. As I said before, we haven’t had a good safety since parachute pants and denim jackets were cool, so getting one with our first two picks was something we needed to do. We get the 2nd best safety in the draft with former Texas Longhorn Earl Thomas. Thomas is a red-shirt sophomore, so he’s only 20 years old. His size is his only question mark, but his ability to play both safety and corner means he’ll also be a starter from Day 1. With the first two picks, Carroll and Schneider get starters at two key positions. That’s a helluva draft so far.
Last year’s #1 pick enjoyed the Earl Thomas selection, too. Here’s Aaron Curry‘s thoughts via twitter:
In non Seahawks news, if you would have told me before the draft that Tim Tebow would be selected ahead of Jimmy Clausen, I would have called you crazier than all but 2 of my ex girlfriends. Yet here we are. It also kind of makes me smile that Clausen fell to R2, because I think he’s kind of a douche. While getting him in the 2nd round would be much better than paying him like the #6 or #14 pick, I still don’t think we need to trade up and get him. Everyone seems to think that since he’s begun his free fall that we need to trade what little assets we have in order to get our QB of the future. My problem is we already traded high picks for Charlie Whitehurst and gave him $10 million dollars. You don’t want that much money invested in three different QBs. So I could see it if we didn’t have Whitehurst, but they traded for him for a reason. We may not like it because we don’t know about Whitehurst, but the people making decisions are far more educated than the general populous.
Day 2 starts tomorrow and will feature rounds 2 and 3. Saturday morning will begin with round 4 and go until the end of the 2010 draft. More thoughts tomorrow before Day 2 starts. Until then, just be glad we don’t have JaMarcus Russell on our roster.
Day 1 Grade: A+
I was kinda surprised to see Tebow go before Clausen too. Personally, I think his mom should have grown a pair and shop-vac’d him right out of her cooter and saved the world from possibly the most over-hyped QB ever. For now, I guess, I’ll just keep blocking out the retardedness that is Tim Tebow. Shouldn’t be too hard though, I have a feeling he’ll be riding a lot of pine unless he figures out a way to pass without posting the route up on a damn billboard for the defense to pick apart. Jesus Christ, his motion is so damn slow.
On a happier note, I am thoroughly pleased with our first two picks, and equally happy to see Curry’s excitement too. You’re still dead to me for having a Twitter account though.
I think this is the angriest I’ve ever seen you. While I don’t think Tebow will make a very good pro, he will still go down as one of the best college football players of all time. I actually really like Tebow, just not his prospects in the pro game or his appearance in the anti-abortion commercial during the super bowl. Also, I’m not quite sure he is the most over-hyped QB ever because most of his pre-draft hype was negative.
Having said all of that, I’m still not sure his new throwing motion will matter. I’m still curious as to why the Broncos drafted him when they just traded for Brady Quinn and already were apparently pleased with Kyle Orton.
And twitter has grown on me. I can pick and choose where I get news from and its up to the minute. It’s pretty cool, even if I don’t post that much.
I apologize, I guess my last post did sound angry. To the contrary, I am pretty pleased so far with the draft. I agree that Tebow is arguably the best college player of all time, but I don’t see that talent translating to the NFL though. He’ll be good trade-bait in 2011 after being 3rd string behind Orton and Quinn. Unless he puts in more practice hours than Tom Brady and Peyton Manning combined to shorten up his motion (especially under pressure), a NFL DE will pick him to pieces.
Oh, and after sleeping on it, I am even more excited about our picks. I’m excited to see what Earl Thomas will do.
Yeah the more and more I think about it, the more and more I’m excited for Earl Thomas. I’m actually going to post something else about him later today. I stayed up until like 2am last night just finding video and analysis about him and more than one draft guru had him ranked above Eric Berry. His biggest knock is his size, but when you look at the sizes of the other safeties in the league and the elite ones (Ed Reed, Bob Sanders, Troy Palomalu, etc), he’s basically the same size, save a half an inch.
I’m getting an Earl Thomas jersey. I just hope they give him a cool number. I heard 29, but that’s not gangster enough. Give him 21. fuck Kelly Jennings.