WEEKEND (draft) at BERNIE's is JUST STUPID

[Tony Soprano]

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Go back and try to find a critical post from me on Bernie's articles. Good Luck.

However, his latest about a Man-Crush on Long and swooning is just plain stupid.

Some have pointed it out here - and then Mel Kiper repeated it yesterday - the athletic skills of Long are as good as any DE to come out in the last six years. Long gets driven into the high-motor effort stereotype, when, in fact, he's an elite athlete - along with crashing the books and the weight room.

I think Bernie got burned by some some pre-draft comments by teams bluffing and jiving - and hell hath no fury like a bamboozled man.

Teams are happy with their first round picks and whoop it up - and that happens every single year.

I feel Bernie's pain over "what might have been" and "we had the time
of our lives (before draft-day)," but I think Long's career will be double Dorsey's effective playing days.

STLtoday.com - Bernie's Extra Points - Blog Archive - Chris Long: Ram Hearts A Flutter

[general counsel]

In fairness to bernie, he did say at one point yesterday that he personally preferred Dorsey, so he is being honest about it. No reason to criticize Long.

I also read several of his posts yesterday and he sounded a LOT like a small handful of us on the board that were urging everyone else to calm down after the avery pick, especially in the context of need, ellard/saunders evaluation, and most importantly criticizing the insane notion that others "knew" he would be available in later rounds and that he was the 11-12 "rated" wr in the draft (by point out of course rated by whom?)

ramming speed to all

general counsel

[Tony Soprano]

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I've never criticized him before. Points taken.

[RamOfDenmark]

I think Bernie got burned by some some pre-draft comments by teams bluffing and jiving - and hell hath no fury like a bamboozled man.

That's what I think as well - Bernie got fooled into thinking Dorsey was going to be the pick. He reported they were going to take Dorsey, they pick Long, and now he feels like he's a fool. So he has to make some stupid mocking remarks on Chris Long.

I would like to repeat it once again: Chris Long is a great athlete. We didn't pick him because of his father, we didn't pick him because he's a nice guy, we didn't pick him only because of his motor and leadership skills. Bottomline is, he's a great athlete and that's a big part of why we picked him. All those other things, the intangibles, they're plusses of course, but make no mistake we didn't just spend the 2# overall pick on a nice guy with a motor who's low on talent.

[txramsfan]

Well, at least I won't have my "inner Cartman" come out as we did draft a WR in the 2nd Round, but Avery? He's more of a Hakim than Bruce. Bruce had much better hands coming out of Memphis State than Avery does. Watched him drop 4 wide open passes against SMU myself. Now, could he have had a bad game? sure, they all do. Let's hope so.

[AvengerRam]

Well, at least I won't have my "inner Cartman" come out as we did draft a WR in the 2nd Round, but Avery? He's more of a Hakim than Bruce. Bruce had much better hands coming out of Memphis State than Avery does. Watched him drop 4 wide open passes against SMU myself. Now, could he have had a bad game? sure, they all do. Let's hope so.

Was that when he was playing with the thumb injury?

[ENN107]

Bernie doesn't know what he is talking about. He is a Cardinal reporter not a Ram reporter