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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oannes" data-source="post: 149123" data-attributes="member: 816">Javon Walker and Sterling Sharpe were the only STARS.  I didn't say the others were busts, although, quite a few of them were.If you want me to look up how other teams 1st rounders fared over the last 20 years, and you think the Pack is somewhere in the middle, then wouldn't it make sense to double the odds and pick twice in that round?I think that's the problem with a lot of Packer fans.   As alluded to, we had a couple of "decent"  picks in Round 1.    I know it doesn't always work that way, but isn't the theory that you get most of your difference makers in Round 1?   We haven't gotten that.AJ Hawk and Nick Barnett are decent picks.  Barnett is hardly a star.  If he was on any other team, I don't think anybody here would think all that highly of him.  The same could be said of Hawk.   He was the 5th overall pick.  I expect to get a little more star power out of the 5th overall slot in the draft.   Hawk may, or may not, become a star.  Barnett won't be.   He's the kind of guy whose production you'd expect out of 2nd or 3rd round pick, and given he was late first round  I can live with him.We should make more trades....  the ones coming to my mind are... Ahman Green, Brett Favre and Al Harris.    We won handily in all of those deals.</blockquote>

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