Al Davis Needs To Hire a GM

Color me pissed after draft day. Whie I expected us to go with Heyward-Bey I was hoping crazy Al would prove me wrong. I was hoping with Tom Cable takng the reigns he would straighten Al up like Parcells did to Jerry Jones. I guess not. Anyway here's my thoughts on the pathetic draft we turned in. 

Darius Heyward- Bey (Grade-FAIL)

I absolutely hated this pick, with Crabtree still on the board this pick deserves a -50 on a scale of 1-10. Yes, Bey ha all the speed you want, but does he have agility? No, he's a straight line runner that needs 3-4 steps to make cuts, he won't be shedding DB's in the immediate passing game. Another thing, with all that speed is it really worth it? KC has one of the fastest safeties in the league, Denver has the greatest CB in the league, and San Diego has arguably the best CB tandem in the entire NFL. Bey's speed will be for naught if he can't bump off of these guys with strength that he does not have. 

Michael Mitchell (Grade- EPIC FAIL)

Really we traded back for Michael Mitchell with Ron Brace still on the board? NT was one of our greatest needs and Curry could have been serviceable for another season but Al drafted Michael Mitchell, a 7th round prospect. I really shouldn't go into the fact that 6 safties rated higher than Mitchell went in later rounds. 

Matt Shaughnessy (Grade- FAIL)

Really? A fifth round prospect in the third Al? Given, there wasn't much choice in the DE market but in situations like these you go after another position and draft the guy one round early in the fourth not two rounds early in the third, third round picks are valuable. Also the fact that only two DE's (one higher rated than Shaughnessy) were picked before our next selection kind of pisses me off.

Louis Murphy (Grade- A+)

Finding Murphy this late in the draft was a no brainer. An early third round prospect in the fourth? I'd take that any day, then again, if you got ten bums off the street nine of them would take him, so it didn't take Al much Brain power. The fact that Murphy has an injury history may very well make this pick a very Raideresque BUST. But as for now I'm predicting a better rookie season for Murphy than Bey.

Slade Norris (Grade- WTF!!?)

Slade Norris!? Holy shit Al what the hell were you thinking. I bet every GM went "who?" after this pick. He's not from OSU, or Oregon, no he's he's from tiny Oregon state! I guess Al, being faced with the dilemma of having to reach on every pick finding himself in the 5th round looked into the rookie free agent pool. Really Zack Follet was better value for Detroit and they got him in the 7th.

Styker Sulak (Grade- C)

I would have given this grade a B had we not reached for Shaugnessy in the third. Sulak belongs exactly where he was drafted but we drafted a DE in the third? We wasted a pick on epic proportion with either this or the third round pick. There were so many needs, there's no reason to go DE twice with Burgess on the roster. 

Brandon Myers (Grade- Meh)

It's the 7th round. Really we could have gone for a sleeper NT here but Al feels the need to draft a TE when we have one of the better TE's in the league. Myers is good value here but we really should have gone elsewhere with this pick. But hey, I expect at least 5 of these picks to be cut within two seasons already, why should I expect any more out of the 7th?