Pick #104: Alterraun Verner, CB, UCLA

I didn't say being smart means a person can play football. I said that being smart provides no evidence that you CAN'T be a good football player.

 

Maybe he can be our modern day, Darryll Lewis

 

at the time thats what the team decided, your not going to have every player always contribute to your team, its just how it goes. They know better then I, so why am I the one to judge them?

 

A good decision does not always lead to good results. A good decision is based on making a sound choice based on available evidence. Now, we can debate whether that happened on some of the Titans picks, but I remember a lot of people thinking we got great value with Woolfolk. It didn't work out, but he had a lot of upside. Henry was a high risk. I thought we took him too high at the time, but the coaches are paid to do this sort of thing. I don't know if they made the best decision or not. I know it didn't work out for them.

Even the best teams have this happen. The Patriots and Colts miss out on plenty of guys. The Colts have drafted a RB early in like three drafts (until this one). Their run game was pretty bad last season, even still.

Some of you guys need to realize that the Titans have professional scouts that are paid to help them make these decisions. This is a hobby for you. Your expertise doesn't compare to theirs. They have resources that go way beyond looking at stats and reading draft websites. That doesn't mean they always get it right. But I think most teams make pretty good decisions. Some are a bit better than others, and that's big. Some have too much ownership influence, and you see those teams suffer perennialy for it. Let the FO do their job. We can about the results later. ing about them now is a bit silly.

 

I think our strategy in this draft changed because of pressure from Bud Adams who wants to win now and wants players who can contribute asap not guys who need 2-3 years to get good. Instead of our normal course of action that is to draft the best athlete and hope we can coach him up we got the best football players and in this case we were spot on with our pick.

This guy is a good athlete, maybe not a great athlete but he knows how to play. If teams drafted only on the basis of how good a guy was in college he would have been a late 1st or early 2nd rd pick. He was as solid as can be for the Bruins. He has great ball skills and instincts and is a great tackler ideal for playing cover 2 schemes.

I think he can start for us right away.

We always draft guys with the best 40 time but in this case we drafted the right guy.

 

The word "adequate" doesn't belong in his strengths paragraph. In other words; he sucks.

 

He took Harpers number

...hopefully he doesn't play like him, unless its his 2003 season.

 

This guy better be a stud. We gave away two more then serviceable players so we could draft him.

 

I was talkin to him on Twitter and this was his response.