Having just looked at the picks behind Sherrod, he wasn't too bad! Outside of a couple QB's, the 2nd round appears to have been empty of impact talent. Lots of no names. I didn't look to see if all of them are still active, but not a lot of recognized names.

So yes, Ted Thompson could have made a better pick. But it would have been a reach.

Originally Posted by: QCHuskerFan 

All you can do is your best evaluation. Ted's pretty good at that. But you can't predict the future.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 

One can't predict the future, obviously. However, one can look back on how things turned out and judge the reality appropriately. In Sherrods case, I label him a bust. We could dive deeper as to the reasoning behind why he turned out to be a bust, but the reality is the guy never looked great, and never made an impact on the team. We all have our own definitions of things, but he's a bust in my opinion. Ultimately, all that matters is the product that marches out on the field each week, and Sherrod offered very little to that product. All the excuses in the world don't change that, and certainly doesn't win games for the Packers.

Originally Posted by: DoddPower 

I should take that back.

You can predict the future to a degree. The sun continues to rise, so you can expect it to rise tomorrow. This team never shows up early in the season, never shows up for a full 60, shits itself regularly and plays down to the competition.

But in drafting a player, you take his past history into account. If Ted was trying to get a deal on a player who fell in the draft because of his injury history, it would be different. That's what he did with Justin Harrell. But with these other guys, Sherrod and Franklin, the whole bunch of guys from Nick Collins to Terrence Murphy to Jmike Finley, those were not forseeable.

So with Harrell and Starks, you could make the case that those were bad picks. If you want to say all these picks were "wasted," I guess you can say that if you want. Like you say, people define words in their own way. For me, wasting a pick is pissing it away by not even trying. Ted doesn't do that.

Originally Posted by: nerdmann 

Having just looked at the picks behind Sherrod, he wasn't too bad! Outside of a couple QB's, the 2nd round appears to have been empty of impact talent. Lots of no names. I didn't look to see if all of them are still active, but not a lot of recognized names.

So yes, Ted Thompson could have made a better pick. But it would have been a reach.

Originally Posted by: QCHuskerFan 

Not too many people are saying he could have made a better pick, just that the results of the pick were a disaster. There is a difference.

Nerd is making it sound like we are bashing Ted for picking him and him being a bust and we aren't. They are two separate things. The pick, which for the most part was a good pick, and the results of the pick, which sucked.

Originally Posted by: sschind 

Not too many people are saying he could have made a better pick, just that the results of the pick were a disaster. There is a difference.

Nerd is making it sound like we are bashing Ted for picking him and him being a bust and we aren't. They are two separate things. The pick, which for the most part was a good pick, and the results of the pick, which sucked.

Originally Posted by: sschind