Time to Look Back at the Rick Smith Drafts

[barrett]

Originally Posted by Nconroe

It would be nice to have Williams and Barwin back wouldn't it, in hindsight.

Hard to find good pass rushers. they seem to be best weapon against the can't touch a WR rules.

I was really loud on this site about keeping Mario. He always got a bum rap from fans because he is only a great pass rusher when he should be an all-time great with his physical gifts. He already has 88.5 sacks in his career and has now put up 3 straight double digit sack seasons. Barring an injury this will be his 7th year starting all 16 games out of 9.

I am %100 sure that we would all take that career out of Clowney at this point.

Barwin was another guy we let walk. Instead of those two and maybe not being able to afford Schaub and Joseph, we spent two 1sts and one 2nd on Reed, Mercilous, and Clowney.

Imagine a front 7 with JJ, Mario, and Barwin. We'd knock down half of all passes at the LOS while picking up a sack on about every 4th drop back. Fitzy might win a super bowl with that team. We just did a pathetic job evaluating our own talent.