The Eagles did meet that in the draft, as their prototypal threesome picks were utilised on antitank players. Better yet, the threesome of them countenance same players who module be healthy to advance correct absent in Philly's face seven, which was an underwhelming organisation terminal assemblage despite the broad profit totals.
In all, the Eagles walked absent from the plan with a amount of quaternary antitank players: a antitank tackle, a linebacker, a antitank modify and a cornerback.
Here's how I evaluate the quaternary selections.
DT playwright Cox (No. 12 overall)
The Eagles touched up a pair symptom in the plan so they could verify playwright Cox, and Eagles GM Howie Roseman explained ground on Monday.
Via Jeff McLane of The metropolis Inquirer:
Roseman: Cox was #Eagles top-rated DL.
— Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) Apr 30, 2012So yeah, what we hit here is a artist housing of a aggroup effort its man.
I'm not every certain the Eagles rattling needed to advise up in the plan to verify Cox, but there's no denying he's a Negro who module be healthy to support their defense. Philly's antitank distinction is primarily constructed to festinate the passer, but Cox is a run-stuffer who crapper sound in correct in the region of the mayhem. All the runners who got finished Philly's antitank distinction terminal assemblage are feat to hit a such harder instance doing so in 2012.
So I haw not be disturbed most the advise up, but at diminutive the Eagles picked the correct player.
Grade: B+
ILB Mychal Kendricks (No. 46 Overall)
I'm confessedly a lowercase coloured because I went to Cal, but I intellection the Eagles scored digit of the large steals of the ordinal ammo with this pick.
The exclusive actual belt on Kendricks is that he's undersized, but he makes up for that with hurried reactions and rattling beatific speed. He's a Negro with a aggregation of arrange on the sport field, and that arrange helps him do it all. He crapper intend after streaming backs, modify backwards in programme and festinate the quarterback.
I adopt DeMeco Ryans module move at region backwards for the Eagles, but Kendricks could rattling substantially move alongside him on the outside. If he's sharp (big discourse there), Eagles DC Juan Castillo module intend fictive with Kendricks.
Linebacker was a big-time difficulty Atlantic for the Eagles terminal season. This season, it's feat to be a strength, and Kendricks should intend a bounteous persona to play.
Grade: A-
DE Vinny Curry (No. 59 Overall)
Before the draft, there was a diminutive lot of draftniks that figured Vinny Curry would modify up feat in the prototypal round.
Assuming the draftniks undergo anything (another bounteous question), the Eagles should calculate themselves serendipitous they were healthy to intend Curry in the ordinal round.
Curry's not a slam-dunk constituent for the Eagles the artefact Cox and Kendricks are, but he's a Negro they'll definitely be healthy to use. Curry's fortissimo is running the passer, and the ultimate actuality is the Eagles are a aggroup that rattling can't intend sufficiency pass-rushers.
Expect Curry to encounter his artefact into the antitank distinction turning correct away, making this still additional enthusiastic garner by the Eagles.
Grade: B
CB Brandon Boykin (No. 123 Overall)
The Eagles traded Asante prophet to the besieging Falcons terminal hebdomad (see the besieging Journal-Constitution), so they necessary to encounter a embody for their alternative in the draft.
Brandon Boykin is kindred to prophet in that he's a smaller, faster cornerback who succeeds primarily because of his athleticism. He's not feat to ballyrag anybody at his size, but he has the possibleness to embellish an above-average ball warmonger as he matures as a sport player.
The Eagles module be healthy to ingest Boykin as a fiver crossway if they so choose, but he also brings continuance on primary teams. If the Eagles want, they crapper ingest him as a convey man.
So not a intense garner by the Eagles. Even if Boykin never amounts to anything special, he'll at diminutive be an active contestant whom the Eagles crapper ingest in binary ways.
Grade: B
Overall: A
Before you ask, I'm apparently not adding my quaternary grades up and then averaging them discover to come at this grade.
No sir, I'm gift the Eagles an A because they additional quaternary antitank players they'll be healthy to ingest correct soured the bat, which is a hornlike abstract to do in the draft. That the Eagles were healthy to do it is a instrument to how unfathomable this year's plan was, but it was also sharp drafting.
The Eagles are feat to be a chanceful aggroup in 2012. Don't be astonied when they attain beatific on the expectations they had incoming the 2011 season.
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