…..I loved the Levy pick and yes he will only get better……We could maybe get a 4th or 5th for sims…..Id take that though ta this point….This staff proved they could draft well and any extra picks we can get would be great.

…..I agree with secondary upgrade…..I however think you could have the best corners in the league and if you dont get a pass rush they are no good……You need to havea rush to hav ea good secondary……Thats why I say dline is more important….however if we could get mays from usc or berry for ten id take that.

I did not like the pick at the time and still think we were likely to get him later in the draft, but he has been very good and is getting better.
I am not so sure about trading Ernie. I think the return will not be worth what he could possibly do if he is healthy. I would give him another year.

He has stuggled somewhat and Levy has been strong, but I’d be more inclined to trade Sims in a year or two after we are sure that Levy’s form is consistent.

I think the D-line needs help before the secondary. Everything starts up front. Get a good pass rush, DBs look better. Its too hard to go the other way. Even the best corners cant cover for as long as it takes our line to get to the QB.

I don’t know why, I just don’t see what everyone else seems to. Honestly, he seems average at best. I haven’t seen anything from him that would warrant replacing a current starter with him. I don’t know where Sims’ contract status lies currently, but I’m sure he doesn’t have more than a year or two left. Let Levy play when someone is injured (often) and let Sims ride his contract out.

Depth has never hurt a team. Ever. Regardless of how disenfranchised people are with Ernie Sims, he’s better than Levy, and better than whatever schmuck we’d pick up to back him up, I’d wager.

Also, throw me in with the d-line before secondary group. It’s (I thought, anyways) common knowledge that a good pass rush is far more disruptive to a QB than a good secondary. If that QB only has a few moments to throw, rather than the 10 seconds they currently get, they will never make it through their progression to find the open man.

That said, I think we still absolutely need an upgrade at the corner position. Draftwise, we are going to either get Berry or Suh (or so I think) with our first pick, and either one is going to be phenomenal. Think about having potentially the best safety tandem in the NFL. That makes me salivate nearly as much as having a house of spears demolishing Cutler and Co. every year.

I’m already itching for the draft… I’m a junkie.

The corners can’t cover double and triple moves against good receivers…almost impossible. The D-ends can beat the tackle but not get to the qb when he steps up in the pocket.

You have to have a strong push in the middle to prevent the qb from stepping up too far, which allows the D-ends to sack and the corners to cover. Jared Allen should be buying the Williams’ matching cars for his huge numbers this year. You can’t step up into the pocket against the vikes because there is usually a very small and jumbled interior pocket to step into.

I guarantee you that Stafford’s accuracy will go up by 10% when our guards can hold off the interior rush and give him a real pocket to throw from. That’s the impact that good OG’s have on a game, yet they are overlooked way too often. Of course, our previous management never valued our OG’s, so we let guys like Jeff Hartings and Damien Woody go. Uugh.

The draft HAS to address OL and DT with picks 1 & 2. A corner with the 3rd round, and then try to get a sleeper WR or OG’s in the later rounds. The problem with that is that it won’t address our needs to add depth needed for special teams. Hopefully there will be a season in 2011 so that we can round out our team!

Well, i agree with you and everyone else on here about Levy.
No one really knew who he was, so i think most of us was skeptical about him.
He is definitely the man for the job though.
As far as trading Sims, at first, i was all about that too and hopefully getting some good draft picks, but then i thought, who do we have coming off of the bench is Peterson or Levy gets injured? Or should i say, WHEN they get injured.
Sims would be a great guy to come off of the bench, and if we did trade him, we would just have to draft another LB to replace him if we want to do it right.
As far as the secondary goes, they still need some work, but they really werent that bad. You have to consider that Palmer had tons of time to pass. If we had a decent pass rush, he would have made some bad throws and threw a few more INTs.
We need a DT!

I say, do what we have to do, trade up or whatever to get Suh.
Suh and Hill would be a great combination.
Get rid of Jackson. He didnt really do to much anyway.

If we cant get Suh, i dont know much about McCoy, but I think he would be the next DT available. I would love to get Berry as our Safety, but i think DT is a more pressing need at this time.

we could draft Tebow just to piss Jacksonville off.
They REALLY want him.
We take him and make them give us 3 picks for him.
I love extortion!