12-01-2015, 04:00 PM
(12-01-2015, 03:56 PM)Benton Wrote: Scouting department, or just those doing the drafting? We can fault the scouting department for a lot (like the number of linebackers we've taken in the last decade versus the number of linebackers who were ever worth a snap). I don't see where they've got a lot to do with us going T/T (2015), CB/RB (2014), TE/RB (2013), CB/T (2012), WR/QB (2011), TE/DE (2010), T/LB (2009), LB/WR (2008). After that I get fuzzy. I know Leon was a first and we had JJ and Whit 1/2 in there somewhere. But going back over the last decade, we've had one first round DE, Dunlap. And that was five years ago.
I don't blame the scouts. I don't think the DL is the team's priority. Marvin wants to defend the pass and leave it up to the LBs to run everything between them and the line, so that's what we get.
Actually, Dunlap was a second rounder.
Our last first round front 7 player on defense was Rivers.
Our last DL in the first was Pollack (College DE, hybrid DE/LB in NFL)
They value DBs over DL early and it's showing when you don't strike gold with the best interior DL in a decade.
