a. Our beat up, decimated O- line still managed to help Freddie to a 1000 yard season. I believe our injury free O-line this year will hold up. We're rebuilding and I'm sure we'll shore up the line soon enough.
b. We knew exactly want we wanted from the start. Some of the mocks had us taking spiller at 9. Nevergiveup told us that if the top two tackles weren't available, we were going to draft Spiller. Now Buddy has said that he's not a fan of moving around in the draft and that the number one pick has to be able to come in and perform straight away. So outside the top two OT's, I don't believe we saw anyone that could come in and start straight away.
c. You can't blame a guy for trying. Here, despite what Buddy said later, I do believe we tried to go after Tebow. Nevergiveup said that we will be drafting a QB in round two. I believe we realized that Denver was making an aggressive push to get Tebow in the first and we tried to trade back into round 1. Didn't happen. The one top round QB (outside of Bradford) we thought coachable with tons of upside was gone. So we sat back, waited for our picks and picked the guys we rated highest on our draft board at the time. We knew who we wanted at those picks. We got them. Only time will tell if we made the right decisions. But you can't really fault a guy for going in with a clear game plan and executing it.
Except for secondary, we had needs at almost every other position. There is no way 9 picks will solve all our woes. We will build strong and we will build right.