***Official All-Time Draft Q/A thread***

Yes, I think when it's all said and done, he will be remembered as one of the best MLBs. I don't think this is a reach.

But why would you?

 

I'd have no problem doing it as long as the same number of picks were traded (2 for 2, etc.) I wouldn't be a fan of trading players once they were selected though.

 

i think ray lewis is better, but Urlacher is 2nd

 

Id guess hes talking about one of the two positions you already drafted...if not than theres one other player I am thinking of, but I do not think hed be a worth a top 5...whatever, enough with the speculation

 

I agree 100%. Keep this like a Yahoo fantasy draft.

 

Urlacher may not even be the 3rd best Bears middle linebacker of all time.
1. Butkus
2. Singletary
and then you can argue Bill George (Butkus' predecessor) or Urlacher for the third spot.

 

Lambert and Ray Lewis were both certainly better than Urlacher. You can argue that Harry Carson and Ray Nitschke will also be better than Urlacher at the end of his career.

 

I have question was Jim Brown really a FB or was he just a big RB that ran over people like Bo Jackson, Bettis or Means, just wondering how liberal the draft is on positions like FB, or if we take two RBs and have the big guy labeled FB

 

He was a fullback. Back when he played, fullbacks carried the ball often. In fact, the only time in his career in which he didn't lead the NFL in rushing, another fullback led the league (Jim Taylor).
Brown was 6'2", 230.
When he retired the Browns new leading rusher was a 6'0, 200 pound halfback by the name of Leroy Kelly, who also was inducted into the HOF.

Brown was a fullback and Kelly was a halfback, but they were both running backs.

Brown was not like today's fullbacks who mostly just block.


Whoever took Jim Brown can draft a halfback.

I think if you draft two fullbacks it would be silly.

 

Thanks for clearing things up, I had just never heard of him as a FB, I wasnt being a nitpicky ***hole, just confused, no worries on with the draft

 

I didn't find that to be nitpicky. This football position stuff tends to get crazy after awhile because players don't play concrete positions like in baseball.
Like in baseball left fielders always played left field- the position hasn't changed.
But look at the changes in the NFL through the years. At one time the QB position didn't really even exist.
Fullbacks rarely carry the ball anymore.
Now we have H-Backs.
There are no more middle guards (that was a position in the old 5-2 alignments which basically the entire league ran in the '50s). Bill George, who I mentioned earlier tonight, was an All-Pro middle guard and became the first middle linebacker after he dropped off the line when the Bears moved to a 4-3.

 

Ganooch only has an hour left... IMO he should take a QB if we have to make it with that pick since there really aren't many mind-boggling players left at this point.

 

I'm surprised no one has taken Emmit Smith yet... NFL Leading rusher?

 

Thanks for giving everyone the heads up. I think we have all researched it for ourselves. I believe that Payton was much more dominant in his time then Smith.

 

I was just saying i was surprised... i wasn't saying anyone had done anything wrong. Chill out man

 

I would not agree with that. There are still top level Hall of Famers and of course, lower level HOFers, along with dynamic, active players.

The draft has also moved quickly enough that Ganooch should have till tomorrow because if everyone took the full 6 hours to pick, we would not have made it to Ganooch till Monday or Tuesday I suppose.

There is still a guy out there who I considered at 5 and that player is not a quarterback, so if it came down to us picking for Ganooch I wouldn't vote for a QB.

 

Ganooch chose Earl Campbell...JG is on the clock, followed by MSU