It bites not having a first-round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. And for all the years not to have one! The lockout has stripped us of everything football related to talk about accept the draft.
That is not to say that the draft can't be successful. Look at last year. Had the Raiders not had a pick in the first-round they would have still wound up with three players that were routinely drafted in the first-round of hindsight is 20/20 re-drafts.
No, it is not the physical realities of the on-field ramifications created by the lack of a first-round pick that doth sucketh, but the fact that we don't get to talk about it! And here in Raiderland that is really going cold turkey. We have had some prime draft real estate to discuss for the last 25 years or so. Wait, how long ago was inmate Robbins a football player? Who knows...who cares? Those sordid tales and wretched seasons are further behind us than a certain fat deuce QB's career is behind him.
Well, hell—now I've gone and forgotten the point of this post. Oh wait, it was to travel to imaginationland. So sit back, close your eyes and venture to the land of golden tickets, because the Raiders have just been awarded the first pick in the 2011 NFL Draft and we need to figure out who to take.
The answer is easy for me, Patrick Peterson.
When I think about the prospects in this draft he is the one guy that I fully expect to be on the short list for best player at his position. If I was forced to pick one guy from this class that is going to wind up in the Hall of Fame it would be Peterson.