[If Hardy is a bust...]

Hardy is taller than all of the Big 10 CBs he faced, so he better come down with those passes.

 

However, his ability to be effective outside of the endzone is a much bigger question mark.

 

The issues I noted above are real and his production outside of the endzone will be further limited by the typical rookie WRs difficulty in adapting to the Pro game.

 

Hardy's speed is more staraight line and he hasn't converted it well to getting off the jamb and running sharp patterns.

 

Your problem is for your point of reference is that you are using Justin King as an example of a good CB -- not quite what hardy will be seeing on Sundays - which is why he will have trouble adjusting in 2008

Hardy will be taller than all of the CB's he'll face in the NFL as well. And with a 37" VJ...

 

Read the negatives on Hardy on NFL.com sometime. All of the knocks on him, i.e. needs to add upper-body strength to beat the jam (he out-benched Devin Thomas BTW while none of the other top guys would do it, and if Lee Evans at 5'10" and 197# could learn to beat the jam...), running better routes, and blocking, are all things thatmost rookies struggle with, but which can be fixed/coached-up. His size/speed (and he was among the top performers in the agility drills) however cannot be taught.

[This Off-season]

Kirk Chambers is an undrafted free agent who spends his time as a revolving door at LT.

 

Look at his play in 2007 and how Edwards was running for his life.

 

 

Why they could not have drafted someone in the middle rounds who they could have groomed at LT highlights the continuing short sightedness of this front office as it relates to the OL. Even if they had drafted a bona fide G they could have moved Butler to LT in an emergency.

 

Taking a project in the 7th round who may be ready in 2010 does not deal with the problem in 2008.

Long-time lurker, first-time poster.

 

First of all, not too many teams have an excellent backup LT, and it's usually game over if a starting LT goes down. Second of all, how many games did you see Kirk Chambers play? He came in for Jason Peters about a 1/3 of the way into the Giants game and surrendered 1 sack and no QB hurries to Umenyiora, who had 13 sacks on the season. Then he started the following weekend and went against Trent Cole, who had 12.5 sacks, and didn't give up a sack or QB hurry. Hardly a lot of playing time, I would say, but enough to say he wasn't a total basket case considering he didn't get undressed by 2 of the better RDE's in the game. Third of all, the Bills drafted Demetrius Bell to develop at LT. Sure it's not "the middle rounds," but the kid looks like a worthwhile developmental prospect and has more raw tools than you'd find in a mid-round LT.