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<blockquote data-quote="adambr2" data-source="post: 538639" data-attributes="member: 7277"><p>Defensive players picked by Thompson which have had enough "evaluation time" (2011 draft or sooner)</p><p></p><p>Davon House</p><p>DJ Smith</p><p>Ricky Elmore</p><p>Lawrence Guy</p><p>Mike Neal</p><p>Morgan Burnett</p><p>CJ Wilson</p><p>BJ Raji</p><p>Clay Matthews</p><p>Jarius Wynn</p><p>Brandon Underwood</p><p>Brad Jones</p><p>Pat Lee</p><p>Jeremy Thompson</p><p>Justin Harrell</p><p>Aar0n Rouse</p><p>Desmond Bishop</p><p>AJ Hawk</p><p>Abdul Hodge</p><p>Will Blackmon</p><p>Johnny Jolly</p><p>Tyrone Culver</p><p>Dave Tollefson</p><p>Nick Collins</p><p>Marviel Underwood</p><p>Brady Poppinga</p><p>Mike Hawkins</p><p>Kurt Campbell</p><p></p><p>So that's 28 defensive players picked between 2005 and 2011. Of those 28:</p><p></p><p>One became a star (Matthews)</p><p>One was a solid pro-bowler before injury derailed his career (Collins)</p><p>One has been incarcerated for a great deal of his career but has shown average starter ability when here (Jolly)</p><p>One was a solid starter whose career has been recently derailed by injuries (Bishop)</p><p>Five are at best average starters for their position (Neal, Burnett, Raji, Jones, Hawk)</p><p>Nineteen (House, Smith, Elmore, Guy, Wilson, Wynn, Underwood, Lee, Thompson, Harrell, Rouse, Hodge, Blackmon, Culver, Tollefson, Underwood, Poppinga, Hawkins, Campbell) fall into one of these categories: NFL reserve, practice squad body, journeyman NFL player/street free agent, arena league or some other league player, complete NFL bust.</p><p></p><p>That does not sound like the drafting guru Ted Thompson that I hear advertised. I count 9 out of 28 defensive draft picks from 2005 until 2011 that turned into even average starting players. We simply have to do better than that. </p><p></p><p>Note that many key players from the 2010 defense (Woodson, Pickett, Tramon, Shields, Green, Jenkins) were not drafted by the Packers. We need to get back to how we operated then, when we used ALL available avenues of improving this team. </p><p></p><p>I don't know what it is -- if it's smugness about his own perceived drafting abilities, overconfidence, just belief that this is best, but it's not a coincidence that since we started ignoring free agency completely, our defense has gone downhill. When you are going to use draft and develop ONLY, you better be hitting more times than not in the draft. We're not. </p><p></p><p>And the 2010 Super Bowl defense was not exclusively a product of draft and develop. Not by a long shot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="adambr2, post: 538639, member: 7277"] Defensive players picked by Thompson which have had enough "evaluation time" (2011 draft or sooner) Davon House DJ Smith Ricky Elmore Lawrence Guy Mike Neal Morgan Burnett CJ Wilson BJ Raji Clay Matthews Jarius Wynn Brandon Underwood Brad Jones Pat Lee Jeremy Thompson Justin Harrell Aar0n Rouse Desmond Bishop AJ Hawk Abdul Hodge Will Blackmon Johnny Jolly Tyrone Culver Dave Tollefson Nick Collins Marviel Underwood Brady Poppinga Mike Hawkins Kurt Campbell So that's 28 defensive players picked between 2005 and 2011. Of those 28: One became a star (Matthews) One was a solid pro-bowler before injury derailed his career (Collins) One has been incarcerated for a great deal of his career but has shown average starter ability when here (Jolly) One was a solid starter whose career has been recently derailed by injuries (Bishop) Five are at best average starters for their position (Neal, Burnett, Raji, Jones, Hawk) Nineteen (House, Smith, Elmore, Guy, Wilson, Wynn, Underwood, Lee, Thompson, Harrell, Rouse, Hodge, Blackmon, Culver, Tollefson, Underwood, Poppinga, Hawkins, Campbell) fall into one of these categories: NFL reserve, practice squad body, journeyman NFL player/street free agent, arena league or some other league player, complete NFL bust. That does not sound like the drafting guru Ted Thompson that I hear advertised. I count 9 out of 28 defensive draft picks from 2005 until 2011 that turned into even average starting players. We simply have to do better than that. Note that many key players from the 2010 defense (Woodson, Pickett, Tramon, Shields, Green, Jenkins) were not drafted by the Packers. We need to get back to how we operated then, when we used ALL available avenues of improving this team. I don't know what it is -- if it's smugness about his own perceived drafting abilities, overconfidence, just belief that this is best, but it's not a coincidence that since we started ignoring free agency completely, our defense has gone downhill. When you are going to use draft and develop ONLY, you better be hitting more times than not in the draft. We're not. And the 2010 Super Bowl defense was not exclusively a product of draft and develop. Not by a long shot. [/QUOTE]
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