Tank Plummets to Mid-to-Late 3rd Round

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Wow. Tank falls to Kansas City (one of my 3 least favorite teams) at pick #83. He also took some (IMHO, overly harsh) hits about his character from the ESPN crew. The spitting incident in Hattiesburg cost him more than a meaningless ejection from a blowout game.

The Browns and the 49ers made dumb moves to sacrifice likely high #1s in the next draft for late 1s this year. It was Christmas morning for Dallas and New England. On the local front, I am very pleased with what the Panthers did. Lots of value. I was hoping for Kevin Kolb, but he didn’t fly under the radar at all.

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17 Responses to Tank Plummets to Mid-to-Late 3rd Round

  1. bTHEredterror 04/28/2007 at 11:17 PM #

    As a lifelong Eagles fan, I sincerely wish Kevin Kolb was a Panther, too.

  2. Texpack 04/29/2007 at 7:20 AM #

    I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by Kevin Kolb. The lack of discipline under CTC cost some individuals as well as the team. You could tell that Tank was one of the “bad character guys” ESPN had a script ready for.

  3. VaWolf82 04/29/2007 at 8:08 AM #

    The lack of discipline under CTC cost some individuals as well as the team.

    Who? Philip Rivers, Mario Williams, Manny Lawson, Oliver Hoyte, Jon McCargo? Tank’s incident may have been blown out of proportion, but he has no one to blame but himself.

  4. GrandWolf 04/29/2007 at 8:21 AM #

    Whatever. I wish Tank well. If the guy goes into the NFL and works, plays like we know he can, then KC got a gift. I will be pulling for him.

  5. TNCSU 04/29/2007 at 8:45 AM #

    I don’t think it was just that incident. Putting a “T T” or “72” design on your helmet with award stickers while your team is on an 0-7 slide says that he was more worried about himself being recognized than how the team is playing — kinda reminds me of the guy who celebrates after tackling the DB who just intercepted a pass. I’m sure Tank is a team player – don’t know, never met him, but I’m sure alot of Head Coaches and GM’s thought he had some serious question marks.

  6. Dogbreath 04/29/2007 at 9:26 AM #

    FREE TT

  7. choppack1 04/29/2007 at 10:22 AM #

    TN – The Chiefs met w/ him at length and they obviously don’t think this is an unsalvageable problem child. As for the helmet designs, IMHO, this is part of a culture that Chuck cultivated – I don’t see it as a knock on him personally.

    I do know that he cared enough about his strength and conditioning to have the most reps in the 225 benchpress. I think a lot of scouts realize that this indicates he can work hard and can be a good team-mate – he just needs focus and positive attention.

    If there’s one thing I’ll miss from the Amato era it’s the workout warriors he produced. Most our guys busted their tail in the gym – and they were rewarded well for it.

  8. choppack1 04/29/2007 at 10:48 AM #

    On media bias front – here in Winston, our local paper leading up to the draft had stories on the draft aspirations of Jesse Holly of UNC-Ch and Gaddis of WF, in their draft preview, they made a fleeting mention of Tank and how he his draft status was being hurt due to possible character issues. At least today you found out that he was the only Big 4 player selected yesterday. The same story mentions local players who hope to be drafted and leaves out Leroy Harris and AJ Davis.

    On NFL fans who go to these draft events – In general, do these guys ever cheer anything? I swear, these guys to these events to boo.

  9. choppack1 04/29/2007 at 10:54 AM #

    AJ Davis – who wasn’t mentioned in any of these articles, was just drafted by the Detroit Lions.

  10. choppack1 04/29/2007 at 10:58 AM #

    Some more specifics on Bill Cole’s – a UNC-Ch man – article.

    He mentions – Jon Abbate WF, Jesse Holley and Kareen Taylor from UNC-Ch. John Talley from Duke and a Duke transfer – Ben Patrick – he leaves out Gaddis. I’m glad we have updates on Holley and Taylor though…

  11. McPete 04/29/2007 at 11:09 AM #

    AJ Davis to the Lions. Let’s see, that makes 8 defensive players from the ’05 team in the NFL. and a 7-5 record to show for it. sad, very sad.

  12. xphoenix87 04/29/2007 at 11:23 AM #

    I wouldn’t call Cleveland’s deal a dumb move. You’ve got to pull the trigger when you have a chance to land a franchise quarterback you thought about with the 3rd pick. Great trade by Dallas though, they got the most benefit from Quinn’s huge drop.

  13. bTHEredterror 04/29/2007 at 3:25 PM #

    I agree Xphoenix, nobody comin out next year can help Cleveland this year. And while I’m not sold on Quinn just yet, I think he’s better than any QB coming out next year. But Crennel and company are walking the plank, and if Quinn shows some promise this year,

    Texpack-I saw Kolb play against Miami’s stout D and was thoroughly impressed. He is a good player and while he didn’t have eye-dropping numbers vs the ‘Canes, it showed he can manage his team under duresse.

    My dismay is that Philly is set at QB, unless Donovan (with probably 5 good years left in him) is having some issues in rehab they are trying to cover up. I am primarily disappointed because Robert Meachem was sitting there for us in the first, and we traded out of the pick, and even more pissed we helped a division rival in the process. To me, that was an unusually bad decision from a staff that has proven itself in the draft. I have to trust them, but I hope you understand my disappointment was that Philly picked Kevin higher than PHILLY should have.

    I think Miami had their eyes on him, based on the fact they reached, IMO, for Beck shortly after we picked Kolb.

  14. Texpack 04/29/2007 at 4:45 PM #

    The lack of discipline under CTC cost some individuals as well as the team.

    Who? Philip Rivers, Mario Williams, Manny Lawson, Oliver Hoyte, Jon McCargo? Tank’s incident may have been blown out of proportion, but he has no one to blame but himself.

    TA McClendon?

  15. SuperStuff 04/29/2007 at 6:28 PM #

    Having three guys drafted after playing on a team with as many losses as we had this year is not bad guys. We’ll have a few more drafted next year in my opinion.

  16. brickman 04/29/2007 at 7:24 PM #

    just goes to show what we had even when we had pr it was a big big big let down even gator bowl year should have been better number one def in acc come on you guys chuck was not ahead coach

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