1st Pick, decided today: The Dolphins select (and have already signed) OT Jake Long from Michigan.

I love Draft Day.

heres hoping lions don't go for another WR and maybe try to build their O line or atleast a quality RB

i thought jones was fine, martz was the problem

The packers could use a young corner or maybe another pass rusher to go along with KGB and Aaron Kampman. Perhaps a solid FB to help out Ryan Grant, although Brandon Jackson did pretty decent. I'm sure really what they need aside from younger corners.

Steelers need everything to go right this draft.

Long is now the highest paid offensive lineman in the league

I'm looking forward to draft day also. I have a commitment at noon so Goodell wins points from me moving the draft to 3 pm.

I am pissed that the draft starts @ 3, that's when I have to work.

Gay. Colorado vs Detroit is on at 3. and I have work at 4. I can't follow both at work.

Honestly....aside from the top ten picks I think the draft sucks balls.

They get way too long to make a decision and the whole process ends up being way to long.

In the NBA you get like a minute or something, so much better.

i want the lions to get stewart but its possible carolina may take them at 13

I would say something like how they need to have enough time to make sure they get the right player, but damn man, they had the entire offseason to get shit figured out. I think 5 minutes is the most clock time they should get, maybe longer for the first round.

Most of them just wait around for trades or work out trades at the last minute because of a team the drafts surprisingly.

Anyway my schedule got switched up and I have to go @ 3 pm. Sucks. By this time we would be in the top 15 by now.

Uh...Al Davis...

We don't need another running back.

uh wtf am i missing something
did lions trade 15th pick to kansas

edit ok im ok with that get mendenhall there's no defensive difference makers in the first round

GOSDER CHERILUS??

i hope they dont try to put him at left tackle

Whoa, good call on that one.

Not bad Green Bay. A bit questionable but not too bad.

Keith Rivers what what for who dey!

questionable WR tho...

Rashard Mendenhall...what the fuck. There are so many things Pittsburgh needs in this draft. RB is not one of them. Yeah, he was a value pick at that position, and he was the best player on the board. He and Willie Parker will make a nice 1-2 split. But we don't need him. The Steelers needed linemen (plural.), a receiver, a corner, and a d-lineman. And we went with RB. Now we have to settle for a 3rd or 4th round o-lineman and a 5th or 6th round corner. The d-lineman I'm not as worried about, since they only need one for depth, but I don't think they should have put off drafting positions they need for a good player at a position they have filled quite adequately.

That being said, Limas Sweed was an absolute steal in the 2nd round.

Steelers took Dixon, that's surprising. I love Dixon, he's my boy, but why Pittsburgh? They don't need a QB, they have Ben and Batch.

Would much rather have seen him in Seattle backing up Hasselback.

Skins took 2 wideouts plus a tight end in the 2nd and Colt Brennan. 6000 yds and 70 passing tds ftw .

That's a bit weird to me, too. Perhaps they're looking for additional depth, but I don't see why they took him other than the fact that Batch is getting up there in years, but that's acceptable for a backup QB. Dixon doesn't seem like the "convert this guy to RB/WR" type player, either, which just adds to the mystery. I can see him coming in on a few gadget plays, with the Steelers using him like they used Kordell Stewart before he was a starter. He's a good value for where they got him, just not particularly anyone they need. It just seems like a weird pick, because with his injury he won't really be able to push Batch out of the primary backup role until he's almost ready to be a free agent. I definitely would have rather seen them take a D-lineman, since their entire D-line, while good, is filled with players over 30. If they stay injury free, then it's not a big deal, but they showed last year that Keisel is not able to be replaced by their current backups.

They did address other needs, though. I feel they should have invested another pick in the offensive line, but by the time their first round selection rolled around all the sure-fire starter linemen were gone anyway. Still, it'd be nice to see them take more than one developmental talent. I think they're hoping too much that signing Justin Hartwig will shore up the line by replacing their biggest weakness last year at center. If Kendall Simmons or Willie Colon can slide to guard on the left side to play in Faneca's place, putting Max Starks back at RT, and Simmons performs better than he did last year, they could have an adequate enough makeshift line to avoid having Roethlisberger scramble as much, but no matter what their short-yardage rushing attack is in trouble ever since Bettis and Jeff Hartings retired. It just feels like re-arranging deck chairs to me,

Limas Sweed may be one of the draft's biggest steals, since he was projected to go in the first round before the Steelers picked and ended up falling to them in the 2nd round. He's a big, tall, speedy receiver with good hands that the Steelers have been missing ever since Plaxico Burress left to play for the Giants. It's good to see they addressed this need, as beyond Hines Ward and Santonio Holmes none of the Steelers receivers were that talented last year, leading to a lot of double coverage on either or both of those receivers causing little dump passes to tight ends. Sometimes that worked out great because Heath Miller and Matt Speath are such beasts in the short-yardage passing game, and sometimes they even break out for big gains, but it was no way to gain big yards and once teams started figuring out that nifty 3 TE package Pittsburgh ran the TE threat was taken away on the goal-line.

It's troublesome that they didn't address needs in the defense, though. They drafted three defensive players, two linebackers and a safety, when they needed a corner and a d-lineman. Safety is arguably Pittsburgh's deepest position, which brings to question why they would draft another one, unless they're planning on cutting Anthony Smith after the Patriots embarrassed him all game last year. The lack of drafting a corner isn't as big of a deal; it just means that they'll have to find cap room to re-sign Bryant McFadden next year, but the lack of a d-lineman in the draft was troublesome.

Did the Steelers get Mendenhall? If so, FUCK...god damnt.

And why would the Bengals not pick Dasean Jackson and Limas Sweed over whatever poe-dunk no named player they got some some smaller school....fucking boggles my mind.

Yes. And the answer is because the Bengals haven't had their shit together since 2005.