I love Mezzskin's analogy to starting pitching... especially in a Gibbs coached team. Everything the offense will do will start with the o-line. Solid depth is an absolute requirement.
O-linemen are also more likely to respond to grooming than d-linemen (especially DE's... our greatest need). With a d-lineman, what you see in the senior year usually corelates well with rookie performance, and it generally does not get better the following seasons. This means that if all that are left in the draft are second tier d-linemen, that's what you've got. With o-linemen, however, you may well find gems that will pay off in the future (our old hogs bear that out).
All the carping about not grabbing the best available DE in the draft is just that... carping. Grabbing the best availible players, who happened to be o-linemen was a shrewd, small gamble.
How would you grade this years draft
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I like both days, With what we had to work with. Taylor was, In my opinion, the best player in the draft, in a position we needed serious help with. Chris 
ey is gonna be big in the H-back. If you go back to Gibbs era of the Hogs and look at the kind of rotation they had going than we do need more depth at o-line so I thought the second day was ok too. I would've like a late round d-lineman like Hilton but I ain't gonnna knock Ol'Joe for bringin in some pigs up front
ey is gonna be big in the H-back. If you go back to Gibbs era of the Hogs and look at the kind of rotation they had going than we do need more depth at o-line so I thought the second day was ok too. I would've like a late round d-lineman like Hilton but I ain't gonnna knock Ol'Joe for bringin in some pigs up front"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "
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- General George Patton