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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 870112" data-attributes="member: 7261">I don't think anyone is debating that, it is how you get there that is in question in my mind.  This notion of "two CB's, preferably three, good ones on contract for the next 2-3 years" that someone posted, is more of what I was commenting on.  While that is an awesome philosophy and easy to put into words, its pretty much the same philosophy at several positions (OLB, OT, WR, DL).  Now how do you actually achieve that goal at CB and still meet your needs at other positions?  In the last 6 drafts, the Packers have had 13 1st and 2nd round picks, I call these your money picks, you need to hit on most of them.  The Packers have used 8 of those on DB's.  We have Alexander, King and Savage coming out of that group as what I would deem successful picks (37.5% success rate).  Meanwhile the other 5 picks were scattered around on other positions, WR (Adams), DT (Clark), OT (Spriggs), G (Jenkins) OLB (Gary).  Spriggs I would say at this point is the only bust of those 5.Yet, here we are once again talking about "should we draft another CB with a high pick?"</blockquote>

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