In The 2011 NFL Draft The Philadephia Eagles Select...

[Diomedes]

who is "we" and who is this sob story kid you're talking about?

[Rome]

Mark Herzlich

Played for Boston College.  Dude was the Big East Defensive Player of the Year before he got the cancer and would have likely been a top 10 pick in the draft if he hadn't gotten sick.

If you watched 10 minutes of the draft yesterday you couldn't miss the story because ESPN kept re-running the piece again and again.

[Rome]

zesty draft, Flyers sucked ass today.  Rome, get all messed up and punch someone in the face for me at the show.

i got there late and only caught the last couple of songs.  rockabilly is awesome and those guys do it like no one else.

MA!

[Diomedes]

I didn't watch ten seconds of it.  Obviously, I made the right choice.

[Rome]

you missed the chevy commercial featuring the goo goo dolls song, iris, then.

they played it roughly ninety gazillion times over the three days.  good times.

[Diomedes]

don't know that tune..unless they are covering the Breeders..


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szu_bHULdq4

[QB Eagles]

Obviously I'm biased but we couldn't have used a 7th round pick on the local kid who was a likely top-15 pick before missing a year due to cancer (and coming back and playing a full season last year)??

I'm sure someone will take a flyer on signing him once the lockout is lifted. But you saw guys with much more minor medical issues tumble precipitously throughout the draft. Teams are (correctly) judging the guy based on his last season, not based on what he was before the cancer. It would be a good story, but the reality is that after the positive press dies down, you've got a LB with a foot-long titanium rod in his leg on your team.

[PhillyandBCEagles]

Mark Herzlich

Played for Boston College.  Dude was the Big East Defensive Player of the Year before he got the cancer and would have likely been a top 10 pick in the draft if he hadn't gotten sick.

If you watched 10 minutes of the draft yesterday you couldn't miss the story because ESPN kept re-running the piece again and again.

Correction--ACC Defensive POY!  Also a local kid (from Wayne, went to Conestoga)

Obviously I'm biased but we couldn't have used a 7th round pick on the local kid who was a likely top-15 pick before missing a year due to cancer (and coming back and playing a full season last year)??

I'm sure someone will take a flyer on signing him once the lockout is lifted. But you saw guys with much more minor medical issues tumble precipitously throughout the draft. Teams are (correctly) judging the guy based on his last season, not based on what he was before the cancer. It would be a good story, but the reality is that after the positive press dies down, you've got a LB with a foot-long titanium rod in his leg on your team.

I completely understand--just think he'd have been worth a late-round pick based on his upside.  Herzlich only had about a year between the end of his cancer treatments and the beginning of the season--different sport obviously but I was reading that Jon Lester said he didn't even get close to full strength until about 2 years after his treatments ended.  If there's even a 10% chance he turns into the player he was before the illness it's worth using a late pick to lock his rights up, IMO (plus you can always stash him on IR for a year, which I think will end up being the case wherever he goes).

And the titanium rod thing could be a positive, like a bionic LB or something...

[PhillyandBCEagles]

you missed the chevy commercial featuring the goo goo dolls song, iris, then.

they played it roughly ninety gazillion times over the three days.  good times.

This makes me happy I am in Afghanistan and was unable to watch

[Drunkmasterflex]

Ray Didinger brought up a good point on CSN about the linemen they drafted he was saying they are smaller than what Reid normally drafts and that these picks have Howard Mudd's stamp all over them.

[MURP]

I met Herzlich back in Feb.  I am completely shocked he was not drafted.  He is a big powerfully dude who is very impressive in person as far as attitude and comes off as a very determined individual who isnt ever going to quit.    That leg must be in awful shape.   Still, i expect him to be playing somewhere.  There are plenty of undrafted players who have gone on to be good in the NFL.  

[Munson]

I hope they UDFA Pat Devlin....he can't drink more than Andy Hall

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Did anyone ever find out why the Eagles and Pats swapped picks in the 6th? That was weird.

[General_Failure]

Because they wanted to continue their streak of consecutive years with a trade.

[Rome]

Watch the Pats pick gurn into another All Pro.

WATCH!