Quote from: Chris on May 06, 2011, 07:53:49 AM
Assuming that a player is going to replicate the career of a bust because they share a similar body type seems like an inexact metric to me. It seems like people who didn't like the pick are reaching for more reasons not to like it. Can we assume that Brewer is the next Jumbo Elliot because they both went to Big Ten schools?
Regarding the "Troy is not Miami" angle, how did that work out for Osi and DeMarcus Ware?
I think those 2 were more dominant. It might be true that people who didn't like a pick reach for more reasons not to like it afterwards. But the converse is true also. Look no further that the about face many board member have performed with Greg Jones: a barely mentioned prospect in a weak LB class who now that the Giants have drafted him, is hailed as the solution to all our LB problems.
The way I look at it at this point is that no one has any new information. Everything that can be known about the 2011 class is known. Rehashing old information does not make it new or more insightful. Neither does it shed anymore light on a prospect's likely success. We can only wait for mini-camps or whatever is next. Usually those don't shed much light, either.
We can all try to make ourselves feel better about our picks, now that they are ours. Or we can nurse our grievances that our favorites were selected by other teams. But neither yields any further insight on how the new Giants will actually perform.
Only time will tell.