And with the 48th pick in the 2008 Arrowhead Pride Community Mock Draft, the Atlanta Falcons select:

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Chris with the pick:

With CB DeAngelo Hall now an Oakland Raider, it makes a lot of sense for the Falcons to use their third pick of the second round on a solid cornerback. The current bunch of CBs and DBs on the Falcons are extremely young, meaning a player like Reggie Smith could step in immediately amidst the current competition.

A first-team All-Big 12 selection, this is about the time in the draft that most have Smith going. A good value for the Falcons third pick of the second round.

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And with the 46th pick in the 2008 Arrowhead Pride Community Mock Draft, the Arizona Cardinals select:

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jimme with the pick:

He is the BPA at this time, and I'm not overly impressed with the Cards LBers. Lofton should be able to play inside in the Cards hybrid defense, both in the 4-3 and 3-4.  read more »

This is the first in what should be an occasional feature at Field Gulls. On slower weeks I'm not going to make sense of minutiae, or pretend that every pen that falls in the Seahawks front office makes a thunderclap. This last week, though, was packed full, and the seeds it sowed will define future seasons.

Before I get into all this, let me throw out a few baseline beliefs:

• It is very hard to know the actual quality of a head coach.
• From that, it is exceedingly HARDER to predict the quality of an inexperienced head coach.

It was Green's 78-yard run in 2002 that gave the Browns their only post season appearance since their return. Sometimes in life you need more than an initial chance to reach your full potential. For various reasons, some incomprehendable in an individuals background; there's an underlying reason for why things do not workout. Some have faith that 'everything happens for a reason'.  read more »

Round 1
(001) 1 Miami Dolphins
(002) 2 St. Louis Rams
(003) 3 Atlanta Falcons
(004) 4 Oakland Raiders
(005) 5 Kansas City Chiefs
(006) 6 New York Jets
(007) 7 New England Patriots (from San Francisco 49ers)
(008) 8 Baltimore Ravens
(009) 9 Cincinnati Bengals
(010) 10 New Orleans Saints
(011) 11 Buffalo Bills
(012) 12 Denver Broncos
(013) 13 Carolina Panthers
(014) 14 Chicago Bears
(015) 15 Detroit Lions
(016) 16 Arizona Cardinals
(017) 17 Minnesota Vikings
(018) 18 Houston Texans
(019) 19 Philadelphia Eagles
(020) 20 Tampba Bay Buccaneers
(021) 21 Washington Redskins
(022) 22 Dallas Cowboys (from Cleveland Browns)
(023) 23 Pittsburgh Steelers
(024) 24 Tennessee Titans  read more »

Sometimes when I tell people I fear I'll never see the Vikings win a Super Bowl, they try to assure me that I will. I'm young, and there are a lot of years left--chances are they'll win a title sometime. But "Why?" I say. The Cubs haven't won a championship in 100 years--I'm sure some Cubs fans in the last century were assured by friends that the odds are they'll see a Cub World Series win, but most assuredly some of those Cubs fans are now dead.  read more »

And with the 53rd pick in the 2008 Arrowhead Pride Community Mock Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers select:

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cgolden with the pick:  read more »

And with the 43rd pick in the 2008 Arrowhead Pride Community Mock Draft, the Carolina Panthers select:

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stag with the pick:  read more »