The Carolina Panthers gambled by not taking Otah at the #13 spot. Instead reaching (in my opinion) for Jonathan Stewart of Oregon at Running Back. They then traded with Philly to move in to the #19 spot to grab Jeff Otah.
Otah was expected to go in the #12-20 range. He slid a touch further than expected. I really expected the Bears to grab him at #14 when he was there.
Congrats to Otah.
He couldn’t play at Pitt but it looks like he will get a shot in the pros!!!
Just think if Pitt had a real QB in 2007, they would have went 9-3 and went to a bowl game!!
I’m sure Dave is going to offer Anthony a job as QB coach!
AND FOR THE LAST TIME, WE COULDN’T KEEP FLACCO AND PALKO! If Flacco didn’t get to start, he was going to transfer, it would have been nice to keep him, but would couldn’t and not lost Palko. I hope he has a nice career.
And seeing “morelli” and “drafted” in the same sentence made me laugh my ass off. I needed a good laugh today…
Not a single State Penn or WVU player drafted in the first two rounds…i can’t believe it…especially when they both tell us how great their programs are…unbelievable…
Much success to him and the rest of the boys today.
I’ve noticed a lot of Wannstedt-bashing on boards for NFL teams (dammit, that’s our job!). They’re calling him a poor evaluator of talent and the like for starting Palko and not giving Flacco a chance to win the job.
Just for fun I tried Googling:
second quarterback five touchdown passes against notre dame
…and guess what, Joe Flacco’s name didn’t come up. I wonder who these NFL guys would have started in 2005 if they had to make the call.
Maybe Michigan should have started Brady all 4 years so they could have 4 back to back national championships. Its all sooooo easy to see now…
I can’t believe Slaton got picked at the end of the third round! Although i’m glad that everyone sees how awful that WR from WVU is.
Morelli still waiting by phone… And if that moron can graduate from State Penn it shows how worthless that degree really is…
Must you always throw personal insults!
Did you ever play competitive sports?
Baltimore Ravens
Picks: QB Joe Flacco, RB Ray Rice, LB Tavares Gooden, S Tom Zbikowski, G Oniel Cousins, WR Marcus Smith, OT David Hale, S Haruki Nakamura, WR Justin Harper, RB Allen Patrick
Positives: Rice, Gooden and Zbikowski
Negatives: Flacco
Bottom line: C. There’s a lot of excitement about Flacco, who has a cannon arm. But look at the history of the league: QBs who are taller than 6-5 generally aren’t very good. They can’t move fast enough to avoid hits. Flacco lumbers when he moves and he’s making a big jump from Delaware. Good luck. Rice is a very good backup to Willis McGahee, and Gooden is a much better player than he showed at Miami.
PS. It is well known how “intelligent” Morelli is. I’m not reporting new news here….just tying it to how worthless a State Penn degree is.
I post on this site with various handles to add some humor, yes, I am a Pitt grad, and you, on a few occasions have hurled implied insults my way.
My problem is that you constantly hammer others with personal insults. If Anthony would have went to Pitt your view would have been much different.
Remember, Pitt recruited Anthony and really put the press on him to become a Panther, if Morelli would have went to Pitt and picked up a diploma … just trying to say, don’t hammer without thinking it through.
Go to a game and support your team, during games over the football season you outpost everyone two-fold.
PS. My wife is a Penn State grad and she is the COO of fortune 1000 company; and yes we both miss the Pitt-PSU football series.
Take care Stuart, one day you will realize there is more to life than Pitt football and basketball and calling other people stupid.
I stand by what i said above 100%. For you to assume any of that is inuslting is not my problem. I support Pitt athletics both financially and by attending SOME games. I apologize if this isn’t good enough for you that i don’t attend EVERY game for reasons that are none of your business. I could care less about your occupation, your wifes occupation, or your dogs occupation – its not WHO said something, its WHAT they said that matters. A two year old makes more sense than some posters. What i said in my original post was about the revisionist history of the “great flacco” – go ahead and refute what i said, not attack who said it – as i did in my post. And if i said something moronic, go ahead and show my why, and call me a moron. I’ll defend what i said.
And FCS stop reading what i write if it bothers you so much. You tell us you’re inteligent – why is it so hard for you to skip my posts (or even stop counting them)?
That’s his ’07 Mock Draft. Always useful to see how accurate these things aren’t. While I think Brohm will be a better pro than Ryan, he certainly wasn’t the #1 pick.
Fitzgerald did the same thing after his two year stint at Pitt.
Besides, we got Shariff Harris to fill in. 😉
Shady at pick # 5