I have to admit (and Yoop will shred me for this post, but oh well - I'm used to it...) that the farther away from the draft we get, the less I like this draft.

It's really not that I don't like the players they got. Far from it. And yeah, I know, you can't have a high (day 1 or 2) pick at 5 different positions when you only have three high picks.

But going into the draft, I saw the biggest areas where they need immediate help (i.e., not three years down the road) if they're going to have chance to compete for a Super Bowl in 2025 as 1) DT, 2) DB, 3) Edge. As much as I harp on upgrades for the OL, those were still the bigger issues for this draft.

I look at the team now - this minute - and frankly, I see the same two top needs. In general, I don't see where they really improved the defense. They might have helped edge rusher - I know everyone is all excited about Sorrell, and Oliver has folks seeing KGB part II (and he very well might be)... but you need rush up the middle to succeed. And I don't know where that comes from with this defense, this year. Clark isn't getting any younger (and he hasn't had much rush for a while now anyway), and don't try to tell me that a 6th round pick is going to plug in day 1 and be B.J. Raji. Heck, even Raji wasn't exactly Raji until year 2...

So for as much as I loved the OT pick, and as much as I think the second WR is probably going to light it up - as far as the 'gadget' plays go, he'll probably be a better Reed... I don't know, man. I just don't know. Note: for all the greatness of Favre and Rodgers, the only time either of those two teams won a Super Bowl, they had a top-2 in the league type of defense. The teams that win Super Bowls these days aren't doing it by scoring 50 per game.

I really feel like this was a big 'best player left' type of draft - I think all three of those picks were the leftovers when all the guys they really wanted were gone. And that's unfortunate. I'm afraid that in 5 years, we'll be wishing they'd traded up for Harmon.

Hope I am, and I would be very glad to be, wrong...