OLB with the 8th pick?

Ah I read it wrong, my bad.

 

Team sacks help to put context to a specific players performance. Yes Houston had a good year but do you think he would have been as effective if he wasn't the fifth defender that a team had to stop.

Here is your basic blocking scheme when you play the Raiders:
TE/Tackle: Chip and block Wimbley
G: Block Scott
C/G: Double Seymore
G/T: Block Kelly
TE: Block Shaughnessy

Houston was on a team that required the players on the DLine to be 2x and one LB that needed to be chipped. That only takes up 6 out of 8 blockers alone with only a four man rush. Add in blitzers and you give Houston a lot of plays where he is singled or unopposed to the QB. The team Houston is on does have a significant amount to do with his success. I can guarantee you that he would not have had so many sacks add he gone #2 overall to the Bucs

 

Nah. He couldn't even get into the Pro Bowl a lot of times because of the player/coach votes. He is nowhere near a HOF player. He was a good player with good longevity, but there are a lot of players like that in the past 10 or so years.

 

It takes VOTES to get into the HOF.

He didn't get votes while in the league, and he won't get them when he's out of it.

By non-Titans fans, he will be nearly forgotten in 5 years.

Wycheck is in the same boat.

 

Houston has DE-like speed? LOL!

For a slow DE yes...but that matters not.

Would you take Robert Mathis at #8 if he was in this draft? Mathis was a too small excellent pass rusher who, like Von Miller, no one thought he could play 4-3 DE due to his size and he was a one trick pony transitioning him to LB. However, he has been an elite pass rusher since coming into the league and a mistake most GM's would like to have back. Von Miller might be the most explosive pass rusher in the draft. Is he a Mathis type? That's up to you to decide, but I pose the question. Would you draft Mathis at #8 even though we don't have a perceived need at DE?

And frankly, a lot of this speculation is a bit pointless when we don't have a DC. For all we know we could bring in a 3-4 DC and switch philosophy...

Bulluck was an excellent player for us but he has zero chance of getting into the HOF. Guys like Harrison and Ray Lewis are the type of guys who will make it. Brooks will too because he was arguably the best OLB of his time. Bulluck was not. He had a very nice career and was a big part of our D, but that's about it. Same way our previous LT won't go either despite playing at a near Pro Bowl level for most of his career.

Gut