Packers vs Eagles Play-offs Game Thread: Show em what are are made off.

[Magooch]

There’s a LOT of great pass rushers in the NFL that weren’t drafted high in the 1st or even the 1st.

Yeah, it kinda goes both ways. Plenty of great pass rushers who have been found later...but it also just so happens that we DID invest high draft capital in two edge rushers; one of them has never really lived up to the potential (and contract) that we were investing in, and the other looks like a flop so far. Bad deal.

 

[Half Empty]

There’s a LOT of great pass rushers in the NFL that weren’t drafted high in the 1st or even the 1st.

Plenty of subjectivity involved, but Fox Sports lists their 10 best (actually 11, tie for 10th), and 8 were in the 1st, 2 in the 3rd and 1 in the 4th.
Fox list

 

[adambr2]

Yeah, it kinda goes both ways. Plenty of great pass rushers who have been found later...but it also just so happens that we DID invest high draft capital in two edge rushers; one of them has never really lived up to the potential (and contract) that we were investing in, and the other looks like a flop so far. Bad deal.

Yeah. I’m not one to say we should throw Gute to the curb or anything as he’s done a lot of positive things and hit a couple homeruns in free agency. I think his scouting on the Day 2/3 picks has been generally solid.

But whatever his plan/philosophy is with his 1sts, he really needs to revisit it as it is just not working out well at all. With Morgan, Van Ness, Wyatt, Walker, Stokes, Love, Gary, Savage, and Alexander, it’s just been a plethora of bad, meh, incomplete, TBD, or inconsistent. You could argue that Alexander was his best 1st and he’s played in less than half our games 3 out of the last 4 seasons.

Our success rate in the 1st has to improve. It seems like there’s too much emphasis on athleticism, RAS score, and projectables and not nearly enough emphasis on college production, NFL readiness and a safe floor.

 

[Team Ronny]

Which OL was hurt almost his entire rookie season?

With where we are drafting you aren't gonna get the top pass rushers. Those guys are long gone by the second half of the first round.

Yet teams like the Eagles move up in the draft to get the good ones. The Rams and Washington overhauled their dlines in less than 2 years. Washington traded away half of their high dline picks last season, and, look better because of it. It can be done..the Packers have refused to attack that position. They need better players there.

 

[gopkrs]

Yeah, you can find great in the later rounds. But that's irrelevant to the idea that you should almost always come away with a good football player in the 1st round. For some reason we haven't done that. I tend to blame the scouting dept. But maybe Gute.

 

[Heyjoe4]

There’s a LOT of great pass rushers in the NFL that weren’t drafted high in the 1st or even the 1st.

Agreed. I noted above that maybe big-school guys aren't necessarily the best choice. Now personally I'd like to see CB addressed in FA and the draft. Getting a top FA will change draft priorities.