draft analysis

These teams in the middle of the draft are very hard to figure out. The teams that pick before the middle part of the first round are generally so bad that any one great player will have a big impact.

The teams in the later part of the first round are generally one player away from either bring great, or maintaining their greatness.

The Houston Texans, who went 8-8 in 2008, and had the 15th overall pick in the first round, were in a very unique position.

A lot of the glamour, high impact players had already been selected, and at 8-8 this team isn't good enough for one player to tip the scales, so the Texans have to be very smart in their selections and look to find more pieces for which they can build around.

After finishing the 2008 regular season 8-8, some say unfairly since they had to spend a week in London, England, the saint approached the 2009 draft without a glaring need on either side of the ball.

That is a good thing since due to their dealing; they had just four draft picks in this draft.

The Washington Redskins are always kind of hard to figure out. It seems the philosophy of the team changes on owner Daniel Snyder's whim.

One year they claim the virtues of the NFL draft, and the next they trade away multiple picks.

To say the Broncos are a mess might be a little too easy. This is a team looking for a new identity. After 13 seasons under head coach Mike Shanahan, this team is looking to begin anew with Coach Josh McDaniels.

Now the New Coach will try to install some of the New England Patriots system to the Broncos.

It seems pretty clear now that Buffalo Bills GM Russ Brandon had a plan heading into this past off season.

Some many think his signing of wide receiver Terrell Owens was a publicity stunt; however it now seems that it was just a part of an overall plan to rebuild this team on the fly.

The San Francisco 49ers draft looked a lot better in April then it does in August. Of course now we have the Michael Crabtree holdout to help make a better analysis but overall the Niners had a pretty average draft.

In this reality this is still a team trying to recover for a first overall pick that has not worked out yet.

After struggling through a Brett Farve melodrama before the start of the 2008 season, the Green Bay Packers were officially turned over to QB Aaron Rodgers.

Then the Packers wound up a disappointing 6-10 record finishing third in the NFC North.

Since this team came into existence they have proven themselves to be rather agile draft day experts. In the first draft they drafted two pieces of a core that took the team to the AFC championship game.

It should not surprise anyone that the Raiders are one of only five NFL teams that do not employ a GM. The Bengals, Cowboys, Patriots, and Redskins are the others.

Of these five teams we can only call on e of them (Patriots) successful.