All I can say to this is LOL. It really deserves nary a response. Yup lets use 20/20 hindsight and cherry pick the entire 2006 draft. Please, these have been very good drafts so far that have helped stock the team with productive talent and depth. What more do you want? A superstar pick every freakin round?
No, just one with the 4th pick of the first round...now that is one I can see you laughing at. As far as hindsight is concerned, that is what these guys get paid for. Predicting who will be a star and using their picks on the best available player at that point in the draft. Obviously, Ferguson wasn't or at least has a long way to go to prove he was.
Actually I was laughing at you saying where and when Mangold should be picked. As if you had a personal phone call into every war room in the country. These guys get paid to draft talent plain and simple we can agree there. 12/14 in 2 years is pretty damn good. I ask again with your hindsight what did you want them to do with the 4th pick. Create some craptastic(for the other team) trade, like trade the #4 to Denver they give us their 1st and second and we get Cutler, Mcneil, Maroney, Mangold and every other stellar pick in the draft. Seriously get over it. Ferguson may not be the next coming of Jonathon Ogden but how can anyone say: 1.) That a team was willing to trade down, 2.) There were offers on the table because as we all know trades can just be made through thin air. 3.) At the time any other pick was worthy of the #4. The draft is not as simple as Madden or going back 2 years to whisper in the GM's ears.
Mangold was going to go at the end of the first round. He might have lasted until very early picks of the second but no longer than that. Ferguson was the right choice. Unless somebody made the Jets a great offer to move up to that spot there was no better way to spend the pick than on a potential franchise LT. The failures in the 2006 draft were confined largely to the 3rd round with Schlegel and Eric Smith. Smith might still prove out though. The 2007 draft on the other hand was a total clusterfuck from start to finish.
Ferguson was the right choice if they thought he would be a dominant left tackle. However, it could end up being a draft should two players bust (Ferguson, Clemens) that many fans will be revisiting the draft and say.. "We should've drafted the potential franchise QB" As of right now though it's too soon to judge the 2006 draft. Ferguson's development will impact the overall grade.
I still only see one potential franchise QB out of that draft and that was the guy picked right in front of the Jets. If Vince Young had fallen to the four then we'd have had a question on our hands. Of course Ferguson was the most likely person to go on the three so the choice would have been Young or Leinart.
I saw this yesterday and laughed. It was a good form tackle too. Hard to believe we drafted this guy in the 3rd round. The one constant...T Bradway was here then and he's still here now.
We drafted the second best white linebacker on a college team in the third round of the NFL draft. God love us.
Anthony Schlegel, assistant strength & condidioning coach impressively body-slaming a 160 lb. poly sci geek. twown, while AJ Hawk was drafted by the Pack with the #5 pick, the Jets to their credit did land D'Brick with the #4 pick in the 2006 draft (and Mangold later in the 1st).
