Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Charles Robinson Is an Idiot
He writes for Yahoo sports. He is their main NFL man. He recently wrote a column about grading the draft. I am suggesting that Mr. Robinson knows little about most teams and arbitrarily assigned a letter grade to draft depending on how he felt at the moment. He added one paragraph to each assessment and there are 3 blatantly wrong assertions about the Steelers in this one paragraph and a few others that are questionable. The first..."The Steelers paid deeply to move up seven spots in the first round." Well, no we didn't. We had four 4th round picks and gave up our 1st, our 3rd and one of the 4ths. The real effect of this trade was that we swapped our 3rd round pick and made our highest 4th round pick our "real" 3rd round pick....which is hardly a big deal at all in my estimation, but what do I know? The second...."Safety Anthony Smith provides good depth at safety". Huh? Ok, dude, our safety left to go play with another team. The guy we signed to replace him is no standout. We needed to draft a good safety to play for the next 3-4 years until we determine his real value. What we did was draft a safety in the second round who most people didn't have on their draft boards and has been described as a "weak tackler". You use the 4th-7th rounds for depth. When you draft a safety in the second round, it better not be just for depth. Third...."DL Orien Harris could be starting by opening day." Mr. Robinson, I will bet you $1 million dollars that won't happen unless there is a bad injury to one of our starters. Starter? Are you kidding me? We just gave Keisel the deisel a HUGE contract to replace Kimo. Hampton is the unquestioned leader of the line and Aaron Smith is a key component on this team. How on God's green earth is a mid round pick going to start on this line? How long can this idiot write this drivel without being called on it by his superiors?
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