What will Danny and Vinny do?
Scenario #1 - QB Mark Sanchez falls to #8 and the Redskins trade up with Jacksonville to pick Sanchez. Since Danny boy needs to be over the top with everything, Lord only knows what they would give up to move up for the pick. After watching Danny for what seems like an eternity, my guess would be our first and third round picks this year and probably a second round pick next year.
Result - We get yet another QB of the future and he sits on the bench for a year do nothing and watches Jason Campbell run our pop-warnerish looking offense that to average 10 points per game for yet anther year. Meanwhile, our defense is absolutely run over because we have second stringers and retirees playing linebacker and defensive end. Of course, every game teams gang up on new high priced DT Albert Haynesworth and he gets injured mid-season and needs major surgery that will sideline him for a year and he is never the same player again.
Scenario #2 - QB Mark Sanchez gets picked early by another team so we don't have to worry about moving to pick him. Instead, we simply stay at pick # 13 and select either DE Aaron Maybin or DE Robert Ayers depending who is available and then we wait until the third round.
Result - We only get help at one position in the first two rounds, but boy do we need it. We could go for a SLB, but at least H.B. Blades(the most likely starter right now) is young. There is just no way the old and injury prone Philip Daniels and Renaldo Wynn can hold up for a whole season at DE. It just will not happen. They could also pick a RT, but again, at least we have Stephen Heyer who is young and still has a chance to improve.
What would be best for our team?
Scenario #3 - QB Mark Sanchez somehow still falls to pick #13 and we trade down with the New York Jets to pick allowing them to pick Sanchez. In exchange, we get the Jets' pick #17 and their second round pick. Hopefully, DE Robert Ayers falls to pick # 17 and we select him as well as the best LB available in the second round.
Result - We get some desperately needed help and youth on defense at two positions so that Andre Carter and Albert Haynesworth do not have to play 2 against 5 all season.
Scenario #4 - If Danny and Vinny are hellbent on picking another QB, here is the best we can hope for. Again, Sanchez falls to pick #13 and we trade down with the Jets. At pick # 17, we pick QB Josh Freeman(who a couple analysts have as the best QB prospect in the draft) and use our second round pick on the best DE available.
Result - Hopefully, we get a long-term QB of the future and we get some badly needed help on the defensive line.
With all that said, of course, this is Danny boy we're talking about so all this silly logical stuff could go right out the window. Seattle is also rumored to be considering taking Sanchez at pick #4. I don't know why they would take Sanchez so high because he will sit behind Matt Hasselbeck for the next 3 years and they have several other needs, but after living with Danny for a decade, nothing is a shock anymore. Needless to say, it would not be surprising if Danny boy traded away our entire 2009 draft to move up to #4 to drat Sanchez either. Result - I pretend NFL players are on strike this year and are not playing football and I do not watch ESPN from September 2009 through February 2010.
Time will tell, 48 hours and counting.
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JacksGhost
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