3 picks and oh how the 3-4 is shaping up...

[nunusguy]

Originally Posted by painekiller

With all the news of last week and everyone talking about Mario now being a OLB, I had to rethink the draft.

I understand the Watt pick even more now. He will be expected to start right away. But now the 2nd pick Reed become murkier.

The only way this pick jumps off the page is at the time of the draft Mario was a DE. What changed? Was all the predraft info from the team really smoke to cover the move, thus hidding their real needs list? Must have been. But I am still trying to figure out the Reed pick, was he really only a depth pick? That is not how Reggie Herring presented Reed during the draft. They expected him to come in and push for the starting spot. Barwin was going to be the WOLB and Reed the SOLB. Now Mario is the WOLB and Barwin is being moved.

Call me confused, excited to see the new defense but truly confused.

I don't want to call the Texans liers, but I'm really skeptical of their apparent spin which seems to be that their plan all along did not include drafting Aldon Smith with their top pick had he been available because they had decided pre-Draft that Mario was going to be their "focus" WOLB, and Smith was nothing more than a "smokescreen" ? Do you really buy that ?