Brian Orakpo = Beast

[SC Skins Fan]

Originally Posted by Lotus

In retrospect that is the part that I don't get. If we had planned to play Rak at LB, then we took care of LB in the first round, why draft more?

I am not defending the position necessarily, but DB's and LB's can play on special teams whereas OL cannot. I guess they were putting a higher priority on getting guys who could potentially play teams.

Because I wanted to be able to attack Cerrato in context, I went back and looked at the offensive lineman that he passed on in the draft (and this does not include those who were not available because of the Jason Taylor trade).

Kevin Barnes - passed on Jonathan Luigs, T.J. Lang, Rich Ohrnberger, Seth Olsen (all 4th round picks)

Cody Glenn - passed on Fenuki Tupou, Jamon Meredith, Duke Robinson, Herman Johnson, Andrew Gardner

Robert Hensen - passed on Matt Slauson, Paul Fanaika

At the time I wanted Meredith, but he has since been released by Green Bay (a team with serious OL needs) and not sure if he has seen any time in Buffalo. Duke Robinson has not played in any games. Herman Johnson has not appeared in any games. Gardner has not appeared in any games. Which is not to say that the Redskins might not be able to use a few of those guys, or that they would not be better than Mike Williams, but I think the indictment of Cerrato is more a long-term neglect of the Oline rather than anything specific to drafting the two linebackers this year.

It only gets bad if you go back and look at all the offensive linemen that would have been available had the Redskins not traded a 2nd round pick for Jason Taylor. But I like to take comfort by reminding myself that Cerrato would have drafted a linebacker (Sintim?) in the 2nd anyway.