I’ll also be disappointed if we don’t try to package some of these late picks to trade up in rounds 2-4 (round 1 will be too costly).

We now have 9 picks (with 2 in the 5th, 2 in the 7th), no way 9 rookies make this team. I think 6 picks would be optimum.

we return 44 of our 53 man roster. Plus add Mendy & Robo who were on IR, practice squad players Mundy, Harrison, Legursky, and possible re-signers Batch, Fox.

That brings the grand total to 51 (if both Batch, Fox re-sign) not including bubble players like Capizzi (who could finally prove he belongs this year), Paxon, Parquet.

It’s a simple numbers game. This draft should be quality over quanity. I hope we trade some of those lower picks to move up in rounds 2-4 or trade them for higher picks next year.

This is honestly a travesty. A rip off of epic proportions.

You’re telling me Donte Stallworth, a injury prone drunk ass pedestrian murderer gets New England a 3 spot?

I am going to use some verbal freedom here and say Fuck the Patriots and their consistent heaping quantities of draft picks. Fuck them getting multiple high round picks every year nomatter what. Fuck them getting a great first rounder even after they cheat.

I hate them and they stank like the foulest Detroit football dookie. I wish nothing less than full obliteration by the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Except for Asante Samuel none of the 3rd round comp picks were for anybody remotely good.

In fact, the only two I really feel right about are the two 4th rounders in a row for Whales Vagina. I can dig that. But honestly all the third rounders are garbage. The Bengals especially. They had nobody good to lose. Its bull.

Pardon my rant but this is some jive turkey

Can’t trade comp picks so no matter what we will be selecting 169 overall. Our other 5th (pick 168) can be moved to try to move up, but here is where I see a problem. Moving up in the first is way too much and in the second will cost us our 3rd. When it was lookinglike a 3rd round comp would come, moving up in the 2nd (common in the Colbert Era) would have been very likely, now, I would prefer we move down to pick up an extra 2nd adn 3rd or 2nd and 4th for our 1st. I think we could greatly benefit from that unless one of hte big OT’s is available. Trading for another second (midround maybe or for both the patriots seconds) we cuold pick up Darius Butler (CB/KR UCONN) Eric Wood (C/Louisville) and maybe a flyer on a guy like Illinois tackle Xavier Fulton. I am really high on that guy. Blocked for Mendy and play LT for Illinois, but the fastest 10yd dash (the real important measurement for OL In my opinion) of any tackle/guard. Move this guy to guard and I think we actually replace Faceca.

Basically on the NFL.com page that semi explains how they judge what pick they give out, they said this at the end of the paragraph:
“Not every free agent lost or signed by a club is covered by this formula”

So what formula did they f’ing use for Faneca. Maybe he was TOO good, and we shoulda got like a 2nd rounder. But they dont give out 2nd rounders, so they had to just give us something else!

Does the NFL look at the player lost or the player lost minus the player gained? Do they look at performance before the player’s departure only, or do they look at performance subsequent to that departure. Faneca was more valuable to his team than the Pat’s Randall Gay was to his, but they both are 5th round comps—which makes no sense. However, if Randall Gay was not “offset” by a free agent brought in, while Faneca was “offset” by Mewelde Moore, who put up some good numbers for the Steelers and was available for the full season, then perhaps there is a logic here. Also, as someone pointed out earlier, Faneca gave up a bunch of sacks in NY, which could have hurt the comp picture. Obviously, I don’t like the results and would like more transparency on the calculation, but this may not be a clear mistake or jobbing of the Steelers as we fans think it is. One thing we know, given how quiet the Steelers are acting during this offseason, there can be no doubt that the team will likely obtain multiple 4th or 5th round picks for the loss of McFadden and Washington (Anthony Smith or Marvell Smith don’t count because they were released, right?) assuming those two play at least as well in ’09 as in ’08.

I don’t know the formula for calculating comp picks but would it be safe to say Moore coming this way from the Vikes had some impact on that? Or would Vikes get a pick separately? Formula please…we have wonderlic tests on here someone get the formula!!

Is the fact that perhaps since Waltzing Mewelde Love Boat Moore outperformed his expectations this has boofed our pickage?

And perhaps since LaMarr Woodley replaced Clark Haggans so well, they just decided not to really count Clark that much.

faneca is 1 of the top OL in the NFL. How dare they mock a great former Steelers player.

Regardless of what formula was used, this is how free agency worked out last year: We lost a Pro Bowl guard who played every snap; a guy who would have been a backup linebacker; and a clipboard holding QB who never saw the field. We gained a valuable RB who started a few games and contributed significant yards, and a valuable special teams player and backup linebacker. The net difference between free agents lost and signed does not add up to a third-rounder. We had this discussion about a month ago on another thread and I thought we would get a fourth-rounder so this doesn’t totally surprise me. There is a compensatory pick guru who predicted a third-rounder and is apparently flummoxed about the situation, but a fifth-rounder is not really unfair, just not the bonanza we thought it would be. Look at it this way: If we had only lost Faneca, and not signed any free agents, we would have got a third-rounder; if we had just lost Haggans and not signed any free agents, we would have got a seventh-rounder. But since we signed Moore, I think the NFL split the difference, keeping in mind that the other FA we signed (Fox) contributed more than Haggans and that St. Pierre did not play a down.