There are so many errors in that post I don’t know where to start… but I’ll just dive in and see what happens.

Fetal position? Nope. They asked multiple questions in that press conference about the LBs. They asked about Brooks. They asked about Morgan. They asked about Arnoux’s injury too I believe. Just because they didn’t get an answer that makes you happy doesn’t mean they just spinelessly refused to ask any questions about the “awesome wisdom of Peyton”.

Battle for a starting gig? Nope. He was battling for playing time. That’s all he was billed as, a player who could get some field time and help out. YOU wanted him to battle for a starting gig, Peyton made no such suggestion.

What in the heck does a draft choice have to do with whether he is content right now? Good night man get real! You don’t draft people in the fourth round expecting them to come in and be a superstar in their rookie year. Colston was a once-a-decade miracle, that doesn’t happen like falling off a log. And you definitely don’t draft somebody in those rounds in expectation he’ll be filling in for an injured player later in the year. They drafted Arnoux to contribute this year if they were lucky and worst to worst hopefully to get another young player who in future years could eventually replace an incumbent starter when they retired. With the exception of punters and kickers, anybody in the 4th round or later is expected to be nothing more than a camp body until proven otherwise. Of course you always hope for more, but you *_never*_ count on it… if you have any sense at all, at least.

Only five picks to begin with? Oops again. Try four.

Superfluous selection? Au contraire. Whether or not our current LBs are good enough for the present, they aren’t going to be around forever. You must try to stock up on the players who will be key cogs in 2011 or 2012 or so, and the only way to do that is to take a wild guess on both who needs to be replaced first and who will be able to replace them.

A RB that can convert 3rd and inches? You know, I wasn’t particularly happy to see them unceremoniously dump Karney and pick up Evans but the problem wasn’t just our RBs last year. The problem was also the line not opening up enough holes, the FB not getting enough of a pop on the LBs shooting gaps, the refs failing to call offsides at times, Deuce being injured, Bush being injured, and more. But even if the ONLY problem we’d had last year was the lack of some unstoppable boulder of a RB who could get those last few inches for us, what on earth makes you so sure you’re going to find one of them in the 4th round? Have you forgotten so quickly how the PT cruiser made the team in the first place? He beat out a 4th round draft pick in Antonio Pittman, a “bruiser” that everybody “knew” was Deuce’s future replacement someday… oops…

And if you’re going to draft a punter in the 4th, it likely wouldn’t have been Morstead. It would have been Kevin Huber, who was pretty universally considered the best punter available in the draft and who hadn’t been picked by Cincinnati yet. And even if he had drafted Morstead in the fourth, he still wouldn’t have had “two picks” to “blow”. Trading up involved 2010’s 5th rounder and this years 7th.

As for Graham Harrell, I’m sorry, but I just really couldn’t care less if you paid me. I see you have a man-crush the size of Jupiter on him but get over it already. He’s not available. He’s not going to be available. Get over it and start worrying about who you want him to pick up next year so you can give yourself another aneurysm when he fails to listen to your advice then as well.

But aside from the 100% error rate, you were absolutely correct in everything else you wrote.

He was also content with the secondary last year when D’Angelo Hall became available. He said after losing Porter, and Gay to injury last year that he was satisfied with the group we had. I’m starting to wonder about his judgment!