Pick 78 - Spencer Long - G - Nebraska

[ICantGoAnother20yrsOfCrap]

I don't know, this kinda feels like the fatboy pick. I know they're very different but just don't like this one for some reason.

[Dirtbag59]

Originally Posted by ICantGoAnother20yrsOfCrap

I don't know, this kinda feels like the fatboy pick. I know they're very different but just don't like this one for some reason.

Might not be too far off lol

Tarik El-Bashir ‏
@TarikCSN
Gruden on Moses and Long: "They're big, yeah. They're big."

[ICantGoAnother20yrsOfCrap]

Originally Posted by Dirtbag59

Might not be too far off lol

Yeah so we go from a focus on smaller (regardless of talent/potentia/ability/red flags) to a focus on bigger (regardless of talent/potential/ability/redflags).

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by ICantGoAnother20yrsOfCrap

Yeah so we go from a focus on smaller (regardless of talent/potentia/ability/red flags) to a focus on bigger (regardless of talent/potential/ability/redflags).

This is just plain false.

BTW, some of your posts are so extremely negative as to be ridiculous. For example, I don't understand how you could compare one of our draftees to Fat Albert.

Perhaps your current environment is to blame. Get out of Philly before you start booing Santa Claus.

[Irrefutable]

SIAP

Long might play center

[WillH]

Originally Posted by ICantGoAnother20yrsOfCrap

Yeah so we go from a focus on smaller (regardless of talent/potentia/ability/red flags) to a focus on bigger (regardless of talent/potential/ability/redflags).

That's not what it sounds like. Gruden:

“They’re big, but it’s not necessarily big that we’re looking for. Size is important. They have some big defensive linemen nowadays, and we want to protect our quarterback the best way we can. But also we want to be athletic and get out and run the football. We’ve been a very successful zone-running team here with athletic offensive linemen. But there’s going to come a time we’re going to have to throw the ball, and we’ll need some size in there, and these guys will compete.”

NFL draft 2014: Washington Redskins add depth, address roster needs in second and third rounds - The Washington Post

[Kope]

Originally Posted by ICantGoAnother20yrsOfCrap

I don't know, this kinda feels like the fatboy pick. I know they're very different but just don't like this one for some reason.

Long is a walk on and team captain at Nebraska. All of that speaks to the opposite of the fatboy pick, for me at least. This is the pick I like the most for the day.

[Irrefutable]

Originally Posted by Kope

Long is a walk on and team captain at Nebraska. All of that speaks to the opposite of the fatboy pick, for me at least. This is the pick I like the most for the day.

he also did 28 BP reps, the only thing that bothers me is no one had rated a 3rd round pick. Did the Redskins think another team was about to take him ?

[KI Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by Irrefutable

he also did 28 BP reps, the only thing that bothers me is no one had rated a 3rd round pick. Did the Redskins think another team was about to take him ?

I forget whether it was McShay or Kiper, but one of them said on the ESPN broadcast that he had Long rated #25 overall (First Rounder) until he got hurt.

I suspect that the Skins are following their draft board (which is what Bruce said they would do) without worrying about in-draft strategy. You may have noticed how quickly the Skins made their picks. Maybe the players they drafted were simply at the top of the Skins' draft board at the time they were picked.

Personally I couldn't care less where others have players rated as long as we get players who can help us get better and deeper. This pick reminds me that Russ Grimm was a third round pick. I lived in Pittsburgh at the time of the 1981 draft and I thought that Russ was the best college center I had ever seen when he was at Pitt. Also in 1981, the Skins signed the great Joe Jacoby as an UDFA. So, we'll see what we have in Long when he gets here.