Official NFL Draft Thread (Draft Bobby Carpenter)

[Mac]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

Goto clevelandbrowns.com and look at Dawg Talk and goto free agents, there is bound to be a list somewhere in there.

 

[RuanuLaw]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

We don't need Law. We got Baxter and Bodden. Good enough.

 

[gizman]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

We don't need Law. We got Baxter and Bodden. Good enough.

Agreed. Bodden is proving to be a star in this league and now we have him tied down for several seasons. Baxter is a stud who should have a huge season next year.

I like our secondary. Especially Brodney Pool. He is going to be a difference maker for us on defense.

 

[DawgOnKing]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

We don't need Law. We got Baxter and Bodden. Good enough.

Well said. This was just discussed not to long ago on here I think. We are locked down on the corners with Bax and Bod. Still have Brodney, Cutch, Crocker, Jones, and Russel in the defensive backfield as well. I don't see why we target and DB's via free agency or draft.

 

[gizman]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

We're great at defending the pass... it's our rush defense that needs tweaked the most. And we don't put enough pressure on the quarterback. That is why we need a stellar linebacker either through draft or free agency. I think Phil will surely get it done. I would like to see a big name... not some guy who has potential, or did well a few years back. I want someone who can perform right now and be a total impact player for us on defense.

 

[Mac]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

When it comes to defense, we arent great at anything.

Baxter just had a serious injury, Bodden isn't proven, our safties are still a weakness.

 

[RuanuLaw]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

The only way we sign Law is if Baxter moves to Safety.

 

[Mac]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

Law isnt coming here...he is too old.

 

[cdt]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

I wanted Michael Boulware so bad last April

 

[RuanuLaw]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

I wanted Michael Boulware so bad last April

Wasn't he damaged goods? Cause as far as I know, he wasn't what he used to be.

 

[Mac]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

Michael is the S for the Seahawks, Peter is the LB for the Ravens, which is who you are thinking of RLaw. He had an injury problem and nobody really knew what to do with him so he ended up re upping with the Rats.

 

[cdt]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

Michael is his younger brother. He was a rookie this season for the Seahawks. He played Linebacker for the Florida State Seminoles and moved to Safety in the NFL. He's damn good too, had a pick on Roethlisberger in the SB.

 

[gizman]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

I know this is the "Draft Bobby Carpenter" thread, but we've mentioned Kudla's name in here, so we might as well mention it again.

Kudla eyes record

OSU defensive end Mike Kudla has focused mostly on improving his agility since the season ended, but he still could threaten the unofficial bench-press record at the NFL Combine.

Kulda has done 52 repetitions with 225 pounds, well above the all-time mark of 45. But the Buckeyes curtail their weight-lifting during the season, and the Medina native hasn't maxed out since July.

"I had five months to get there before," he said. "Here, I'm just looking at six weeks.

"I've been doing a lot of speed stuff. If I break it, I break it."

The 6-foot-3, 265-pound Kudla was recruited as a linebacker. And although he's put on 35 pounds since arriving at OSU, he said his 40 times have remained under 4.6 seconds.

Source: http://www.daytondailynews.com/sports/content/sports/osu/daily/0214mangold2.html

 

[gizman]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

Can one of the MOD's just change the name of this thread to something like THe Official NFL Draft Thread or whatever. We have kinda moved away from Bobby C a little bit.

NFL COMBINE
Small-town boy dreams of big city
Monday, February 27, 2006
Mary Kay Cabot
Plain Dealer Reporter

Indianapolis- The Browns know they probably won't get a Hawk in the draft, but they could land a Hawkeye.

While top-ranked OSU linebacker A.J. Hawk is expected to go in the top 5, the Browns could get the next best thing - Iowa linebacker Chad Greenway, widely regarded as the second-best linebacker avail- able.

Several mock drafts, including ESPN's Mel Kiper Jr. and Scouts Inc., predict the Browns will select Greenway with the No. 12 pick.

"He's a super kid," said Browns General Manager Phil Savage Sunday. "He was a real leader at Iowa and [coach] Kirk Ferentz liked him a lot. I think both Greenway and his teammate Abdul Hodge will be starters in the NFL."

The Browns were not among the 20 or so teams that interviewed Greenway at the NFL Combine, but Savage said nothing should be read into that. He said the Browns did not interview No. 1 pick Braylon Edwards or third-round pick Charlie Frye at the Combine last year.

Besides, the Browns have the inside track on Greenway from Ferentz, one of Savage's best friends from their days together in Cleveland.

Ferentz has had nothing but rave reviews for Greenway ever since he plucked him off a farm in tiny Mount Vernon, S.D., population 400.

"He's an unbridled colt, full of energy and enthusiasm," Ferentz said in a press conference last season.

"He's a great player," said Hodge on Sunday at the Combine. "He's athletic. He's very versatile. He can make plays all over the field, in the run game or the pass game."

Greenway (6-2½, 242) has been compared to Chicago Bears five-time Pro Bowler Brian Urlacher because of his sub-4.6 speed and high motor on the field. In 2005, Greenway tied for fourth in the nation with 156 tackles, including 95 solo. He also had two sacks.

"I like to think I play similarly to the way Brian Urlacher plays," Greenway said. "I'm obviously not to his level at this point, but I got a lot of his film this summer. I wanted to learn from the best and he's one of the best of the best."

Greenway described his strengths as his athleticism and his size. "I can really play any linebacker position even though I did play the weak side in college," he said. "But I have the ability to play the strong side and mike and also play the 3-4, something I plan to show this weekend."

He said he didn't have a lot of opportunities to rush the passer because the Hawkeyes didn't blitz much. "But I think I have the ability to do that and when I did get that opportunity in college, I was pretty successful," he said. "I think I'd be a great fit, especially as an outside rusher, but I also have the physical capability of being an inside rusher, too. I definitely could help a team and strengthen their blitz package."

Greenway entertained the media Sunday with his description of small-town farm life in South Dakota. He came from a graduating class of 29 at Mount Vernon High and had to combine with another school to field a football team. Still, they played in a 9-on-9 program, where the offense utilized two backs, a flanker and two tight ends as tackles. The defense featured a 4-2 front with two corners and a safety.

Greenway played quarterback and free safety - and also returned kicks and punts. Iowa became the only Division I school to offer him a scholarship and when Ferentz sized up his then 205-pound frame, he switched him to linebacker.

"I was open to anything," Greenway said. "But I never played 11-on-11 football until I got to Iowa."

He was a quick study and could be the second linebacker off the board behind Hawk. "I think the Browns need linebackers," he said.

http://www.cleveland.com/browns/pla...sports/1141032696207320.xml&coll=2&thispage=2

Small-town Greenway makes it big
By Jeff Walcoff, Staff Writer
February 26, 2006

INDIANAPOLIS-To linebacker Chad Greenway, even the 30,000-student University of Iowa campus must have been culture shock. Coming out of Mount Vernon, South Dakota (pop. 477), anything seems large.

Growing up, he helped his parents take care of their farm, which includes 15 stock cows, 4,000 pigs, and about 1,200 to 1,500 acres of corn and beans.

"Kids from South Dakota are the same as kids everywhere," Greenway said. "We also dream of playing professional sports, especially professional football. Growing up in a very athletic family, I always dreamt about and idolized the people in this situation that I'm in right now.

"Being here (at the NFL Scouting Combine) is almost surreal and it's also a lot of fun."

His high school graduating class included 29 people. His 45-man football team was made up of his school and another put together.

His team was so small it even played in a nine-a-side football conference. He was recruited mostly by Division II schools, but he did garner interest from Iowa and chose the bright lights of the Big Ten.

"It wasn't really that different," Greenway said of the nine-man game. "Its just football as we knew it in South Dakota. If you grew up playing 11-man football, you thought that was normal...To us it was normal playing nine-man."

The odds continued to stack against him when, in 2002, he tore his ACL during spring practice of his redshirt freshman season at Iowa. Miraculously, he returned to the field four months after surgery (kids, don't try that at home) and played the remainder of the season.

His sophomore year, he became a starter and was named second team All-Big Ten. He earned first team all-conference honors among talented competition during his junior and senior seasons.

He earned all three of these accolades despite never leading his team in tackles. That honor each year went to teammate Abdul Hodge. The senior linebacker also is a projected first-day draft pick.

"I joke with him sometimes," Hodge said. "Actually, he was leading (in tackles) this year up until the last game and I passed him up. I give him (trouble) every now and then, but it's all in good fun."

With outstanding athleticism and instincts, Greenway is being called one of the most complete and versatile linebackers in this year's draft. He is expected to be picked in the middle of the first round and could go to the Browns at No. 12.

He is well aware of the Browns' need.

"I think there are quite a few teams in this draft who need some linebackers," he said. "I think the Browns need linebackers and there are some others out there who are going to draft defense and may address that by drafting linebackers as well."

He said he'd most likely play outside linebacker in a 3-4 defense, but admits he doesn't have much experience rushing the passer because Iowa isn't much of a blitzing team.

"I think I have that ability to (blitz)," he said. "When I did get that opportunity in college I was pretty successful. I think I'd be a great fit, especially as an outside rusher, but I also have the physical capability of being an inside rusher too. I definitely could help a team and strengthen their blitz package."

Poised to be drafted in April, now, when Greenway travels home he's something of a local celebrity. But then again, you probably don't need to be an All-American football player to garner attention in Mount Vernon.

But he said, all in all things aren't that different. He still goes home and helps out on the farm whenever he can.

"You're just Chad Greenway who grew up right down the road a couple miles (away)," he said. "So it's fun to go back home and see everybody and to know that they're on my side and cheering for me.

"It's not as if there's a parade every time I go home. It's just Mount Vernon. How exciting can 400 people be?"

http://www.clevelandbrowns.com/news_room/news/arts/5156.0.html

 

[RuanuLaw]

Re: Draft Bobby Carpenter

Sorry Gizman, but I cant do that cause a thread with that title already exists, alive and well I might add. So next time just post your articles about FA in there:
http://www.realcavsfans.com/showthread.php?t=2897