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From: mikegrossoaks@netzero.net
To: LouPickney@gmail.com
Date: Apr 20, 2006 8:28 AM
Subject: 2006 mock draft - kitty kats

I hope the Lions get Michael Huff but I have a funny feeling its not going to happen. If he's not there I hope they take Winston Justice as they need offensive line help. In addition It would be great to see them get Huff and the offensive tackle from Miami in the second round. I would also like the third round to be an offensive lineman too! Joey didn't have happy feet for nothing. Hopefully the young receivers have learned how to hold on to the football by now. I would also consider Jason Allen from Tennesse in the late first early second if I didn't get Huff.

Lou: I'd say that's it's 50/50 at best that Huff falls to Detroit. #5 would be kind of high to take him (and Green Bay likely is going to get either A.J. Hawk or, if he falls, Mario Williams); San Francisco at #6 is a risk to take him. You should be safe with Oakland at #7 (see Raiders fans, you spoke out earlier about their corner stability, and I remembered), and at #8 Buffalo could take Huff, but they also have needs at DT and OT that could be filled with guys worthy of going at that spot (Halogi Ngata if it's D-Line, or the fast-rising Winston Justice if they go offensive tackle.) One thing Detroit has going for it is that it doesn't seem likely that the teams directly below it (Cardinals, Rams or Browns) would trade up to get Huff. Though if any team is going to do that, I'd think it would be the Rams, and there's always the risk of Baltimore trying to leapfrog them from the #13 spot. What you also have to hope is that Huff falls to Detroit... and the Lions actually take him. Don't presume that's a given, even though it seems to make the most sense on the surface.

From: Charles Lane, Jr.
To: LouPickney@gmail.com
Date: Apr 21, 2006 6:52 AM
Subject: Sending you some info

I found this interesting on the Cowboys web site. Mickey Spagnola wrote down a couple quotes from Jerry Jones on the upcomming NFL draft.

* And finally, if you still need a clue as to just where the Cowboys might be looking in the first round, listen to these two Jones statements: "Free agency has helped our offense appreciably" and followed soon thereafter by "Can help ourselves defensively in the draft." Hmmmm.

Lou: The Cowboys, in recent years, have been pretty straightforward about what they plan to do in the draft. With the exception of the Julius Jones draft, it's been pretty easy to peg them ahead of time (i.e. Roy Williams, the DE/OLB and 3-4 DE combo with the two picks last year, etc.) Normally I'm even more cynical about tips or hints going into a draft than I am about things in life in general, since it's in a team's best interest to put misinformation out there about their plans and throw off what other teams might do to potentially one-up them, but the Cowboys have tended to wear their plans on their sleeve. You'll notice that now, for the first time in a long time, I have the Cowboys taking a defensive player (Donte Whitner, S, Ohio State.) Am I being hoodwinked by Jerry Jones? Maybe so, but perhaps the Cowboys will go for a young WR in round two or three.

From: Jay Smith
To: LouPickney@gmail.com
Date: Apr 21, 2006 4:41 PM
Subject: Trade Kellen Winslow! That's right trade Kellen

You might think I am crazy! After all I am a browns fan but a bigger broncos fan living in Cleveland. Here is my scenario.

Cleveland moves up to the 5th overall selection and gets either AJ Hawk or Mario Williams. They also get GB 2nd this year and next year. (Total draft value is 2225 pts) this is assuming that GB has a great year wins the Super Bowl and then gets the last pick in each round.

GB gets-12th overall, where they can still draft for defense and maybe get a better value pick? Or add a running back for the future and they can justify it. They obtain Kellen who has a ton of potential but has to stay off motorcycles, I think he has done irreppable damage to his status here in Cleveland. He has upside but has yet to show it. You can't bank on potential only results and he has none to date. GB would also get the 4th rd selection 110 overall from Cleveland. (Total draft value for GB is 2674 pts) based on where Kellen went in the draft in 04.

While the trade looks great for GB, Cleveland gains as well. They get 1 of the 2 best plays on defense in the draft. They unload a potential cancer and it cannot come back to haunt us unless we are both in the Super Bowl. Cleveland can still get a Mercedes Lewis or Leonard Pope with a 2nd round as well as get another defensive specialist with the additional 2nd round. The only gamble is that GB becomes better then 8-8 team next year. By this they lose out on the difference in trade vaules(450 pts.) GB finished under .500 and it works in the browns favor for that draft pick.

Just throwing it out there, let's see if this sticks!

Lou: That's an imaginative idea. However, I don't think there's any way that Green Bay would go for that trade. The Packers are rebuilding, and with so many holes I don't think that an oft-injured tight end is going to meet the needs of the team. Green Bay can add a blue-chip DE or OLB at #5, then come back in round two and get a solid CB. The Packers already have Bubba Franks at TE. It's not as if Antonio Gates is being floated out there to them... And what's more, if Green Bay wanted a tight end, they could just take Vernon Davis at #5 and keep the two second rounders.

Maybe you could pull that trade off in Madden 2007, but I don't think there's any way that would happen in real life.

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