I would like to point out that had Al picked Maclin BOTH the punt and kickoff problems would’ve been solved.

I can’t believe you remembered this. Makes me proud. But, I still wish we would’ve gotten Raji.

especially with all the bs surrounding his contract this year (Jamarcus ring a bell??).

I knew he was the most NFL ready guy, would complement what few receivers we had by giving us a solid possession guy, one who attacked the football on tape, and you could see by the TD’s he was the guy who would be ready for the next level. I thought for sure he would be gone by the time our pick came around, and figured Maclin was the logical pick.

I was blindsided by DHB somehow, and it’s unbelievable because I know how Al loves the track stars, but just thought we wanted Crabtree. Then I ultimately believed the talk about how we wanted only “character guys” per Cable and what little info the Raiders org. leaked surrounding the draft, and who they talked to and all.

Loved Robiskie, and his NFL readiness, and how he had it in his blood. Thought maybe the connection to the organization might make him a possiblity too, if we’d have done like we should’ve and taken OL or DT with our first picks.

I firmly believe if we’d have had a solid GM and better planning, we could’ve traded down, still got a Eugene Monroe or Loadholdt (loved that dude from the get go, and he’s arguably the most solid pick yet) addressed wideout and LB with later picks.

Ultimately, I don’t hate the guys we took (sans the wasted picks in Norris and that other LB) but it’s pretty clear it was asinine to use the picks the way we did. We could’ve traded way down, possibly even into the late second round and still gotten DHB and Mitchell if they wanted them so badly, and accumulated future picks like the Pats did.

When all was said and done the Pats walked away with three or four 2nd round picks for next year. With the Seymour trade, they’ll be able to accumulate even more down the road. Please, lord, let us sign a GM, and would it be too much to ask, that he’s decent?

No doubt we should have picked him or Maclin. But DHB? He better be amazing next year. As for Mitchell I still have hope for him since he has had signs of being very good this year. Everytime he gets in he does something really well. I still remember on our first kickoff last year he laid out Sproles. At least he can be a human missile

I mean coming out of college Gallery, Huff, McFadden, Russell were all can’t miss pro’s, Russell just won the national title and had one of the most impressive pro days ever it would have been retarded NOT to draft him, but for whatever reason we just haven’t caught a break on any of these guys. Who is to say who should get drafted where when pro-bowlers routinely get picked up in the later rounds, Chris Johnson goes 24th overall and adrian peterson goes 7 and at the time I remember there was basically NO talk of him going number 1 and all anyone would talk about is whether he could catch out of the backfield and that he goes down easy and fumbles too much well now he has had arguably the greatest start to a career of ALL TIME.
You could always argue we should have drafted differently a different position or whatever but it’s easy to say what should have happened after the fact and we have still drafted top line talent out of college and they have produced basically nothing you would think at least ONE of these guys would be a hit.
Bottom line is that the draft is a crap shoot and we keep rolling snake eyes.

I think the only real controversial pick was DHB and Mitchell but they are rookies and although they havent produced much i dont think they are as bad as the hype says.

its always fun to look back and see what everyone was saying before and after the picks.

The pick should have been Crabtree, Monroe, or trading down for more picks. The offense was and is what needs the most help. I would have gone Crabtree because I wanted Loadholt at RT and he was dropping on everyone’s board. He was there when we drafted in the second and so was Unger. We’ve wasted so many picks it’s not even funny!! Everybody has been talking about Crabtree being a primadonna, but the difference with his holdout and JRuss is that Crabtree is a worker and a guy who puts in the time. He’ll be another great pro that we passed on.