In talking with Cecil Lammey of DraftGuys.com — one of a small army of draft gurus and reporters that descended on Senior Bowl practice this week — the idea of consistency was reinforced.
With most NFL teams forming opinions on college players well before the All-Star/pre-draft season, these days of practice are used for equal parts cross-checking and observation.
How does a player look in practice? How does he take coaching? How does he respond to going against equal talent?
Of course, a dominant performance at the Senior Bowl (Lammey brings up 2009 first-round pick Robert Ayers as an example) can have draft-day affects. This is particularly true for positions along the line or “in the pit.” Daily at Senior Bowl practices defensive linemen go one-on-one with their offensive counterparts.
Last year, it was Ayers looking good against first-round tackle Michael Oher. This year, defensive end Brandon Graham is getting attention.
Stay tuned…
Bradley’s Buzz: Kiper prescribes a pass rush for the Falcons, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Am I the only one that thinks mock drafts at this point in the offseason are a bit ridiculous? I guess it doesn’t matter what I think since I’m obviously looking at them.
A Falcoholic Fireside Chat, The Falcoholic
Got a chance to catch up with “tlozwarlock” of The Falcoholic today on Skype. More to come…
Senior Bowl: Surprising Stars In Mobile, Scout.com
The play of linebacker Donald Butler will be of particular interest this weekend. I’ve read some good things in practice reports (see below).
A Glimpse At Senior Bowl Prospects The Falcons Could Draft, The Falcohlic
Put on your Falcons sweatshirt and grab a pen and notepad. You can play scout when you watch the Senior Bowl on television.
WEDNESDAY UPDATES FROM THE SENIOR BOWL:
17 Comments
we need to draft a ShutDown Tall Corner in the Deaft, m release CH23or Tye Hill because they havent shown me much and they are too little. What are your thoughts??
If there was a tall corner to be had, then I’m sure someone would snatch him up. However, most of the corners with any assemblence of talent are 5′11″ or shorter. Being tall doesn’t make you good. Most tall, slower corners end up being safeties. All we need is for our athletic corners to TURN THEIR DAMN HEADS AND FIND THE BALL! What we really need is a pash rush so the secondary isn’t covering for > 8 seconds every play.
Your both retatrded. You dont know crap about corners. We dont need corners,we need wide recevers, Jenkins sucks. I say screw the defense, we need a red zone treat. All people worry about is defense when we cant score but 2 to 3 times a game.
Jbone YOU’RE retarded. Didn’t you see us this season?? We had no problem on offense, defense lost most of our games (Although we would’ve been at least 10-6 if it weren’t for Jason Elam). Duh!! The defense kept giving up the big plays down-field at the most in-opportuned times.We need at least one shutdown corner and a good safety. We also need another defensive lineman, a good pass rusher. We need to take Jamaal Anderson off the roster.
How can you call them retarded when you think our problem is on offense?? You must not be a true Falcons Fan…
Oh yeah, but I do agree, Jenkins is not doing us any justice. Maybe Harry Douglass should start…I dunno, just a thought.
Everybody here is retarded! You guys are both wrong. We need someone to RUSH the passer then the corners will have a much easier job. But yes we do need some more Offensive power. I heard Dexter mccluster is tearing it up. He’s like a far superior version of Norwood. We do have HD coming back at WR. That would be a Supa fast combo. We should trade down for 2 #2 picks as long as one is kinda high in the round.
joe hayden, donovon warren, pat robinson, perrish cox, carlos dunlap, and brandon graham, are the ppl atl should draft, sidbury will develope into a passrusher, william moore will be healthy, when peria jerry comes back well have one off the best DL’s, u saw how affective he was in his 1st 2 games, so basiclly all we need is a cb and wr cause jenkins is gargabe i like him but hes bad man
I don’t think we should look for a safety yet, we already have Decoud in place and we have yet seen anything from Willy Mo when he replaces Erik Coleman. We need upgrade at our outside lb for a replacement for Mike Peterson and IDK but I’ll put it out possibly replace Stephen with Spencer Adkins with his dynamic speed on passing downs. Now the obvious, we need a corner. It seems impossible to get Joe Haden since he is too much of a reach and if we can’t find our corner this year we should try to make a run on Ras-i Dowlings who has great size and speed.
look both sides of the ball could have played better…..mr. 1td catch this season should have done alot better than he did it like he gave up, the o line was beat up turner went down ryan went down, the D….god…jerry went down which hurt alot….anderson didnt do that many good things this year “same as always” big A was handed 2 people on almost every play of the game all year long…the rest of the D line just didnt do that much to help out and it put alot on the LB’s and DB, LB’s did a great job this year they where all over the place…just need to hold on to the people when they hit them and would have been better….DB gave up alot yards but that also is on the line just as much… when you have 7 to 10 sec to look over the whole place then your going to find somebody open. i say hell with it find a guy who is 340+lbs stick him in there with jerry and watch them kill that other teams O line…find a WR in the draft there is a few that are 6′3 220lbs that are fast this year…get another strong smart and fast LB to help out loften and perterson, and use the rest in a rotation to help keep people fresh and rested so both lines are not slap ready to pass out by tha 4th qtr
we need a 320 lb def lineman
but most off all we need a wideout who has 4.3 speed we have never had one and the teams that do put up the points jenkins over paid , booker cant out run me and im 38 ,douglas coming off surgey, erics too small we need size on def and speed on offen I with the birds do or die but FINN AND BOOKER
Jbone come on man, a red zone threat. Ever heard of Tony Gonzalez? I think are first round pick should focus on pass rush. I know our corners struggled last year, but Chris Owens, Brent Grimes, Chris Houston and Chevis Jackson have a lot of potential. Hopefully there new position coach will be able to help with there development. Abe is getting older and Jamal Anderson hasn’t lived up to his first round pick status, so a pass rush would be helpful. Also some other target areas would be upgrading OLB, RB, OL and picking up a new TE for #88 to groom….
yeap we need to up our defence but i’d draft a good corner in the 1st round to replace CH23 or Tye Hill. maybe both. i have faith in Owens and Grimes. and with williams back in the mix next season. someone who can cover tall recievers.
2nd round) pass rush was bad. we ranked last in sacks. but we have heaps of D-line Men. I’d probably start Abraham and Sidbury. get someone to replace Anderson and have him as a reserve for Abrham and Sidbury.
3rd round and 4th round) WR/RB .. well we need someone that can make plays on the offense side. RBs.. when Michael Turner went down. we never
produced the yards. though i’d get someone to maybe replace Norwood. Snelling can play FB/HB
well what ya think?
i say we draft Devin McCourty, CB, Rutgers he is tall and fast and has been very impressive at the senior bowl. he is like rogers-cromartie from arizona we need to get him !!!!!!!!!!!!!
no he isnt je is 511
Anybody else like what Dexter Mcluster could do for us? He is the fastest guy off the edge in the draft, yes faster than Spiller. The best thing is that he will probably still be available in the 2-3 rounds because of his size. Lets trade down for 2 #2 picks. imagine 2 second round picks, 2 third round picks, 2 fourth and 2 fifth. Thats at least 4 starters out of rounds 2-3.
We have to be really smart with our first pick, because we do not have a 2nd round pick this year. I am gonna stand by getting a stud DE with our first round pick. I think Abe, Sidburry, Beirmann, and Chauncey Davis are really gonna be the foundation. Anderson hasn’t been able to produce, even with his size. Our pick should be someone like, Derrick Morgan from GT, Everest Griffen from USC, or even converting Sergio Kinidle from Texas into a DE. It work for his former teammate Brian Orakpo in Washington. If we can try and move up to the 2nd round that is where we could address our WR or RB needs, there will be alot of talent left there. rounds three and four should go to OLB, CB, and OL.
okay first round should be a pass rushing DE. Sidbury is good. Abraham is only getting older and Anderson is a bust.
DE !
also consider a Wide Reciever or a Running Back who can return kicks. imagine getting good field position of most kick returns and some punt returns ! yeap !