Comments on: 2003-2004 Draft’s Have Crippled the Birds http://pcpsports.com/2008/11/19/2003-2004-drafts-have-crippled-the-birds/ There's more than one side to every sports story...what's yours? Fri, 27 Jan 2012 07:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Joey Murphy http://pcpsports.com/2008/11/19/2003-2004-drafts-have-crippled-the-birds/#comment-1108 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:17:03 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=2691#comment-1108 Those drafts were definitely bad. Firedforwinning.com had the same story yesterday too. From 2002 to 2007, Reid botched things bad.

]]> By: Michael Gill http://pcpsports.com/2008/11/19/2003-2004-drafts-have-crippled-the-birds/#comment-1106 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:32:34 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=2691#comment-1106 They tired to get Thomas and Runyans replacment…Winston Justice. Another failure.

]]> By: Michael DeLuca http://pcpsports.com/2008/11/19/2003-2004-drafts-have-crippled-the-birds/#comment-1105 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:07:34 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=2691#comment-1105 Agreed. Again, the 2003 draft was brutal. I was also surprised that we didn’t get any real help on the offensive line in this past draft. With Thomas and Runyan getting up there in age, we will need to find their eventual replacements and the depth would have certainly helped. I’m not a huge fan of Herremans either, so I woulnd’t have minded seeing him replaced.

]]> By: Michael Gill http://pcpsports.com/2008/11/19/2003-2004-drafts-have-crippled-the-birds/#comment-1104 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:37:31 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=2691#comment-1104 I agree that Andrews is a stud and they are missing him big time. But As I mentioned, this year the team is a mess, mainly b/c they have 1 guy from those drafts playing this season – Andrews is not. If he was playing as you said they might be 7-3 and this article would not be written. But he is not there, they are 5-41 and 1 guy is helping this team from 03-04. Maybe if they added another guy from 2003 or 2004 Andrews absence wouldnt hurt as much.

]]> By: Michael DeLuca http://pcpsports.com/2008/11/19/2003-2004-drafts-have-crippled-the-birds/#comment-1103 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:23:13 +0000 http://pcpsports.wordpress.com/?p=2691#comment-1103 The 2003 draft was atrocious. I’d call the 2004 draft a success on the drafting of Andrews alone. Can’t call it a bad pick because he’s injured currently and the depression hasn’t affected us on the field (unless you want to get into the deeper issue of whether more training camp conditioning could have prevented the injury.)

When healthy, Andrews may be the most dominating run blocking offensive linemen in the entire league. He is the key component missing from this offense currently. It’s become obvious in recent weeks that our biggest deficiency is in short yardage (3rd and 1, 4th and 1) situations. I honestly feel this team would have at least two more wins and a 7-3 record if Andrews were healthy.

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