With the 6th Pick in the 2010 Stampede Blue Community Mock Draft, the Seattle Seahawks select...

by mgrex03 on Mar 17, 2010 10:00 AM EDT in Community Mock Draft Comment 8 comments

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Gerald McCoy, DT - Oklahoma

Pick made by shake n bake:

While the Seahawks have serious needs at QB and LT, Seattle should have no problem getting a quality LT prospect at the #14 pick and McCoy is the clear best player on the board at a position where they could use an upgrade. McCoy also addresses the Seahawks other top 3 need, though a bit unconventionally. The Seahawks leading sacker was 33 year old Patrick Kerney with just 5. Seattle needs a better pass rush. Most attempts to address this are with a DE, but McCoy is the best pass rushing DT in the class.

How will he impact the Seahawks in 2010?

Pairing McCoy with Brandon Mebane (5.5 sacks in 2008) inside in passing situations could bring some serious heat along the shortest route to the QB. McCoy would fight Mebane for a starting spot, rotate heavily if he lost, and likely pair with Mebane in passing situations.

If McCoy is taken #6 by the Seahawks, it would be the first DT taken in the first round by the Seahawks since 2004, when they drafted Marcus Tubbs #23 overall. He will also be the first DT from Oklahama drafted in the first round since Tommie Harris was drafted #14 overall by the Bears in 2004.

McCoy's Scouting Report from Mocking the Draft

The Browns, and 2ndBlueGeneration, are on the clock...

Pos	Team	Player	Pos	School	Drafter
1	St. Louis	Jimmy Clausen	QB	Notre Dame	TouchdownColts
2	Detroit	Russell Okung	OT	Oklahoma St.	coltsfan723
3	Tampa Bay	Ndamukong Suh	DT	Nebraska	TheAngelsColts
4	Washington	Sam Bradford	QB	Oklahoma	Colts Homer
5	Kansas City	Eric Berry	S	Tennessee	sanders_fan89
6	Seattle	Gerald McCoy	DT	Oklahoma	shake n bake
7	Cleveland				2ndBlueGeneration
8	Oakland				LovinBlue
9	Buffalo				Cassieper
10	Jacksonville				peytonsthebest
11	Denver				JPBarnett
12	Miami				fpacheco
13	San Francisco				BlueVol03
14	Seattle				shake n bake
15	N.Y. Giants				gizzardfanny
16	Tennessee				Addai Another Day
17	San Francisco				BlueVol03
18	Pittsburgh				LV Steelers Fan
19	Atlanta				fiftycal2004
20	Houston				Aerostar193
21	Cincinnati				FineClub
22	New England				skywalker
23	Green Bay				bracketismyboy
24	Philadelphia				TehRhino
25	Baltimore				SupermanWearsBobSander'sPJs
26	Arizona				NYKings
27	Dallas				jules62
28	San Diego				chad72
29	N.Y. Jets				diagenesis
30	Minnesota				DClark#44
31	Indianapolis				mgrex03
32	New Orleans				palco

Poll

What's your take on draft pick #6?

Correct pick. Great value at #6.

78 votes

Good pick, but could have gone with other position of need

28 votes

Wrong pick in this spot, as others were better.

17 votes

How can a player this good fall to Pete Carroll?

29 votes

152 votes | Poll has closed

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I don’t blame you for the pick shake, you were in a tough spot. Realistically, if this scenario were to play out “in real life,” I’d be trading back if I were the Seahawks.

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by KingRichard on Mar 17, 2010 10:38 AM EDT reply actions

Idk if I would.

I personally would want to stick with QB and LT in the first, however if those top to are gone I can see they going BPA because of the players.

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by TheAngelsColts on Mar 17, 2010 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions

It's great value, but it would have been nice to address one of the bigger needs

ideally someone would pay out the nose to get McCoy in this spot, making it easier for me to address QB, LT and DE all early.

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by shake n bake on Mar 17, 2010 10:58 AM EDT up reply actions

Another variable not mentioned

is Pete Carroll’s re-entry into the professional world. He probably can’t really go “wrong” this early in the draft, but what tendencies might he bring from U$c? What lessons did he learn from his first pass through the pro world?

I have no answers, just something to consider.

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Mar 17, 2010 11:13 AM EDT reply actions

I think I could see this.

Question, though: You think Bulaga or Williams would be a reach this high?

That’s not to imply that McCoy’s not the BPA; I agree that he is. I’m just pondering variables. Okung would’ve been the real no-brainer, no question pick in the first 6, but he’s already gone. I’m going back and forth with myself on whether Bulaga or Williams would be proper value this high or not.

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by E.M.H. on Mar 17, 2010 11:15 AM EDT reply actions

No it is possible and wouldn't be a reach however with the value,

that will still be available at LT at pick 14 you can go BPA since you are not getting that QB. I would not say taking Bulaga would be a reach.

Co-Leader of the annual 7 round live mock draft at MtD

by TheAngelsColts on Mar 17, 2010 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions

Oh, that's right. I keep forgetting they have two first round picks

I was pondering who’d be available in the second round – Safford is showing on the CBS big board, and so’s a fellow named Vladimir Ducasse, who I’ve never heard of before, but Seattle wouldn’t have to wait that long. I need to remember that. One if not both of the two I mentioned might fall to them anyway, and there’s still Davis and Brown available.

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"How can a pickup truck contain enough mass to unfold into a towering machine? I say if Ringling Brothers can get 15 clowns into a Volkswagen, anything is possible."

Roger Ebert, Transformers review.

by E.M.H. on Mar 17, 2010 11:26 AM EDT up reply actions