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Originally Posted by txramsfan
Some of you guys make me shake my head and realize that you probably don't watch alot of college football. If you did, you would realize that there were more holes on this team than just DE and that Dorsey was the best DT to come out of college THIS DECADE.
Again, if Randy K is right we should fire everyone in the front office because to only evaluate Dorsey as a smokescreen tells me that they have no earthly idea how to evaluate talent.
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This is kind of all over the place.
I don't see what watching college football has to do with realizing what needs our team has - don't you mean watching NFL? College football of course has everything to do with evaluating the prospects, but that's something else.
Anyway I just don't see DT as a huge need right now when we got 2 pretty good DT's only last year in the draft, DE was as much a need as any position can be in my opinion - we were absolutely desperate for a DE.
That they used Dorsey as a smokescreen doesn't mean that they "evaluated him as a smokescreen" (whatever that means) it only means that he wasn't the #1 player that we wanted (he could have, and perhaps was the #2 player after Long that we would have picked).
I'm not saying at any point that Dorsey wasn't a great prospect (I believe that he was/is). I just agree with the FO that Long was a better prospect overall, also taking into account his position as well as his skills - therefore it seemed like a win-win situation to use Dorsey as a smokescreen. Actually the fact that we used Dorsey as a smokescreen tells you we thought that he was a damn good player coveted by the other teams below us - otherwise it would make no sense.
Summing it up, I think Dorsey is a great prospect, the FO thought so too, we tried getting some free picks, failed then took our guy. Makes sense to me.