The Best Draft Analysis Around...

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Money Quote:

Last spring, the Front 7 crop was strong throughout; this spring not. This year, the WR set is strong throughout, last spring not. Yet, last spring Cowbert (essentially) accomplished this: traded DeMeco Ryan (or Richard Marshall), Barry Cofield and Mark Anderson for Santonio “Baby Daddy” Holmes. Those were the Front 7 prospects available (and, contemporaneously, slotted here) at 32, 96 and 129 respectively. Ryan, then the 5th LB taken, was a better prospect than any in this class, Willis excluded. Cofield was a better DT prospect than any in this class, from Harrell down. Anderson was a better edge rush prospect than any in this class, no exclusions. On the flip side, Holmes, 1st WR taken last year, would struggle to reach #6 this time.

So it goes. Drafting need-first, scratching last season’s itch that is, is no doubt the low road to competitive ruin. Had the 2006 PS gone Front 7 early, this 2007 PSD would be good to go, whether in a LeBeau 34, Tomlin Tampa 2 or some yet unknown morph. True enough; the 2006 PSO would have been light at WR but not-for-long, considering that the 2007 PS are ideally positioned to draft at that position, early and often. As it is, chock-a-block with numbers if not talent at the spot, this PS FO figures to perform some contortion, reaching for that value imagined elsewhere. Front 7 figures, where the incumbents are approaching antiquity, or OL, considering that exodus (likely) to come past the 2007 season.

It's hard for me to see where he's wrong.

This website, run by passionate Steeler fans, provides extremely insightful analysis along with sometimes mind-boggling levels of venom directed at Bill Cowher, Jason Gildon, and most recently, Joey Porter...but amidst all the bitterness and mockery, they did have something in common: they were pretty much right. Cowher choked altogehter too often, the Stillers wasted alot of cash on a washed-up Gildon, and Joey Porter accomlished jack last year, and not much more the year previous.