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Remember how Howie brayed and hawed over his great 2012 draft
The last two drafts are on Howie. Kendrick and Cox are all Howie's.
John Erlichman, one of President Richard Nixon's closest aides, has admitted America's "War on Drugs" was a hoax designed to vilify and disrupt "the antiwar left and black people" when it was launched in 1971.
The maiden selection of Roseman's inaugural draft was Michigan defensive end Brandon Graham. Roseman, head coach Andy Reid and the rest of the Eagles' personnel department were so smitten with Graham's potential as a game-changing pass rusher that they traded up for him.
Sticking with defensive ends, Roseman spent his third-round pick last year on a previously unknown defensive end from Washington named Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, whom the Eagles envisioned as a high-motor pass rusher who could make some noise up the middle of an offensive line. Te'o-Nesheim began training camp working with the first-team nickel defense as a defensive tackle, but his impact during his rookie season was minimal.
"Someone asked me a couple days ago, just a friend in the league, they said, 'Do you guys change the way you deal with late draft picks? Do you let this guy do them or that guy do them?'" said Roseman." And I said, 'Man, that's like my favorite round. I love it.'
"Because what we find is that we have a lot of guys with (fourth- or fifth-round grades) that are still available and it's before the feeding frenzy of undrafted free agents."
Read the whole thing. The horseshit flows so effortlessly from Roseman's mouth. His take on Trevard Lindley is right up there with his assessment of Jaiqwaun Jarrett.
Roseman said learning to play as a 3-4 end is a difficult transition for Fletcher Cox, the 12th overall pick in the 2012 draft, who left college a year early and won't turn 23 until Dec. 13. "When you've been doing something your whole life, and you're playing in a certain scheme your whole life, and now you have to transition, it takes time to do that effectively," Roseman said. "He's got tremendous passion for the game of football, he's got tremendous ability, he's an incredibly explosive player in terms of power and athletic ability . . . It doesn't come automatically for players in the National Football League. You see that all around the league; guys aren't just coming off from college and just dominating over [their first] 20 games, but you see enough flashes to know what kind of a player he can be."
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