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Ok.....Just Hear Me Out on This One.

I have March Madness.  Except my version does not involve basketball.  Mine involves that time of the year where there is no football, no baseball, and my BlueJackets suck right now.  So my full attention is focused on the NFL draft.

Everyone and there next door neighbor has there theory on who is doing what and has some source that heard this rumor from a note written on the bathroom wall of a truck stop in Lincoln, Nebraska.

In the last several weeks we have the Cleveland Browns drafting in round one Eric Berry, Sam Bradford, Colt McCoy, Tim Tebow, Joe Haden & God knows who else.

However.....what if we chose to draft another offensive lineman?

WTF?!?!? You say...

Let me ask you this: How did we win the last 4 games of 2009? 

RUNNING THE BALL.

How sweet would our starting O-Line look with this blocking for Delhomme and Harrison:

LT Joe Thomas   LG Eric Steinbach  C  Alex Mack  RG  TBD   RT  Tony Pashos


And right now you may be saying, "But our defense sucks ass!!"

However if we can CONSISTENTLY run the ball, we run down the clock, and we keep the opponents offense off the field. 

How great was it to watch Harrison and Cribbs slash through our opponents defense and the end of last season.  Lets expand with that because we know it can work, and probably even better with another stud lineman.

And it gets better! We could trade down (YES AGAIN FOR THE 2ND YEAR IN A ROW), pick the player that we want and get another draft pick or two in return!

CHRISTMAS IN APRIL!!!!!!!

So lets change that RG TBD and slide Pashos one spot to the left and insert at Right Tackle one of the following:

Anthony Davis Rutgers

Russell Okung Oklahoma State

Bryan Bulaga Iowa

Mike Iupati Boise State

I think we all get caught up in getting the "pretty" pick when drafting in...well....the first two rounds.  We want to see our team draft a guy who's gonna throw for 20 td's, or rush for 1400 yds, or have 1200 yds receiving there rookie year.

We all hated Mangina for trading down and picking a center last year.  But once Mack started to catch on late in the year, we all got to see how productive our run game could be.

I'm not saying this is what the franchise should do.  But with all the talk of getting a position player in round one, I thought I could bring into light picking an lineman as well.  Because without them, it could be another long season.

Normally I am against rape, but that Michicant player totally deserved it.

    
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