Earl Thomas

[Greenstealth]

I can't wait to watch nate allen and chung run into each other while graham laughs at them from the bench.

[ReidsArmy]

I would've loved to be in the Eagles draft room right when they traded up. Reid, Banner, and Lurie, all staring at Thomas, JPP, and Graham. Would kill to know what that conversation was.

[Franks N Beans]

Earl Thomas = Chuck Norris

Haha. No shit. Talk about beating a dead horse.

Reports are surfacing that after the game he walked on water and also found a cure for cancer.

This pick will forever haunt us. What a huge miss.

[Greenstealth]

It wouldn't have bothered me

I would've loved to be in the Eagles draft room right when they traded up. Reid, Banner, and Lurie, all staring at Thomas, JPP, and Graham. Would kill to know what that conversation was.

But they had a huge void to fill and while they already had some decent depth at de and they decided to ignore a rare situation where need and best player available was the same thing. Graham had respectable rookie numbers, blew up his knee, watched babin light it up and play selfishly and now he can't play in the new scheme. Total waste of a pick. I'm almost thankful thomas didn't get drafted by the dream team. Nnamdi and drc would have certainly stunted his growth as a player, couple that with the prospects of castillo/bowles bringing him up... Its scary what kind of crazy shit was going on. I know the dream team was a year later, close enough

[Melchior]

That pick had Reid written all over it. Banner would rather pay a safety than a pass rusher any day. Reid was obsessed with pass rushers.

[ReidsArmy]

I hope there is some sort of interview years from now, or a reporter brings it up one day to one of those 3. Who pulled the trigger on the Graham and was Thomas even considered.

[jrachiever]

Earl Thomas would have been another Nate Allen here. In the post-Dawkins and post-Jim Johnson era not a single drafted defensive player has been an above average NFL starter for even a single full season. It's hard to believe that it's because they've managed to pick ALL the wrong guys for the last 5 years. No leadership on the defense, terrible coaching and just a generally toxic environment at the end of the FF era can turn anyone into a B,C or J.