Dallas Draft Board leaked (giant picks ranked)

Al Davis is known as grading players more based upon height/weightworkout #s rather than game film. Davis has traditionally drafted players that had amazing measurables, but who many teams would have graded lower based on actuall game play. While it can be argued that having the best athletic abilities gives a player the most potential upside, I’d venture there is a reason football teams aren’t consistently drafting track stars and body builders. While those athletes would have amazing measurables they don’t have a knowledge and feel for the game and they lack valuable learning experience placing them far behind the curve of players who ave been preparing to play football practically their entire life. If you look at what Jerry Reese did this year it has the look of a traditional Al Davis draft. The top three picks have ideal height/weight protypical size and work out #s, but are questionable based on actuall game play and experience. Linval Joseph was described as having the game film of a 4th round grade player, but whose workout #s and size would drive him up boards. JPP has been descrived as a raw impressive athlete who doesn’t even understand basic football schemes. Chad Jones a physically imposing safety with limited football experience. When asked what Reese liked most about JPP the first words out of his mouth were something like “He’s long” when it came time to talk about Joseph it was “He’s massive.” So do I hate the Raiders? no. I’m annoyed we drafted the way Al Davis traditionally does. Oddly enough this year the Raiders took McClain who grades out much higher based on game film than he does based on measurables. The Raiders actually have a chance of getting better. They have some good players on that roster and could play some good defense. Now that tey are finally giving up on the Russel project their chances improve drastically.

Just that Reese was compared to a Hall of Famer, how is that not a compliment?

Davis may be past his prime now, but he still has the bust in Canton.

Al Davis = visionary, leader, great talent evaluator, innovator.

I’m not going to lie and say I think the Raiders have drafted well since 2002, but the single big mistake he made was drafting JaMarcus Russell. A guy that didn’t have great measureables, over a guy with great combine numbers Calvin Johnson.

So its funny that Reese is being compared to Davis as drafting on measureables this year.

I don’t particularly like the selection of JPP. I thought that getting Bulaga to play RT was a slam dunk, a chance to really super charge the OL. But I give Reese credit, because getting a RT in round 1 is like just making contact. He’s trying to get a difference maker.