Originally Posted by
smogboy
I'm willing to give Martin Mayhew a wee bit more breathing room here. While he might have residual effects of that Millen stench, I'm willing to give him a little bit more leeway just on the fact that his draft picks this year are at least playing.
Mayhew era picks like Matthew Stafford, Brandon Pettigrew, Sammie Hill, DeAndre Levy, and Louis Delmas are at least starting. And to a certain degree guys like Zack Follett, Aaron Brown and Derrick Williams are starting on Special Teams.
Neither Mayhew nor any other GM [[Parcells, Pioli or anyone short of Jesus) was going to fix this heinous train wreck that Millen saddled us with in one year. It's going to take at least a few more drafts for me to assess whether Martin Mayhew has any true football acumen or if he's a total football clod. I want to see how Mayhew is going to do in the next few years [[ugh... more rebuilding), but I think he's done a fair job so far with the draft. Let's see how these draft picks pan out at the end of this year; they'll take their lumps and make mistakes but hopefully they'll improve. If this was a true Millen draft, we surely would've drafted glitz & glamour with a wide receiver in the first round and had him fail to make the physical or be Cheech & Chong baked in training camp.
So my hope for this year's draft is that we get those vaunted linemen on BOTH sides of the ball. I agree that we do need to fortify the trenches. And after last week's debacle at catching the ball, dare I say that we might even have to spend a third or fourth round pick in snagging ourselves a semi-decent wide receiver? But with this team, there are so many holes to fill- it comes right down to which are the biggest most glaring spots on the team.
In my opinion, in order of need it'd have to be OT/OG/DT/DE [[the best available), CB, LB, WR and maybe even pick up a back-up veteran QB. So we'll play out this miserable season and I'm curious to see what other pieces Martin "sans Millen" Mayhew is going to add to the mix.