With the 30th Pick in the 2010 Stampede Blue Community Mock Draft, the Minnesota Vikings select...

by mgrex03 on Mar 30, 2010 6:00 PM EDT in Community Mock Draft

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Maurkice Pouncey, G/C - Florida

Pick made by Dclark#44:

For the record, I think the Vikings would be fools to not at least try for one of the top 2 qb's in this year's draft. Farve or no Favre, they won't make the playoffs unless they address their biggest need. Their time is now, and Tarvaris Jackson and Sage Rosenfels should NOT be given keys to this Ferrari. A developmental project at qb is not the answer, either. The bust rate for 2nd round qb's is too high to gamble. Barring a qb, their second option should be to trade a first round pick for a 60 gallon drum of Stick'em and the gorrilla glue recipe... All Day, that's for you!

The Vikings really struggled to run the football last year. While center John Sullivan is still raw, right guard Anthony Herrera struggled in that department. Maurkice Pouncey coincidentally can play both positions. He'll be a great upgrade for Minnesota's interior. Pouncey can immediately bump Herrara and next year can challenge Sullivan for the right to snap to Tarvaris "Goal Line Jump Pass" Jackson.

If Pouncey is taken #30 by the Vikings, he would be the 1st G taken in the first round by the Vikings since 1998, when they selected Randall McDaniel #19 overall. He would also be the first Interior Lineman from Florida taken in the 1st round ever. That's very surprising to me. The last OL taken in the 1st round from Florida was in 2001 (Kenyatta Walker).

Pouncey's Scouting Report from Mocking the Draft

The Colts, and yours truly, 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	Earl Thomas	S	Texas	2ndBlueGeneration
8	Oakland	Bruce Campbell	OT	Maryland	LovinBlue
9	Buffalo	Bryan Bulaga	OT	Iowa	Cassieper
10	Jacksonville	Rolando McClain	LB	Alabama	peytonsthebest
11	Denver	Derrick Morgan	DE	Georgia Tech	JPBarnett
12	Miami	Dez Bryant	WR	Oklahoma St.	fpacheco
13	San Francisco	Joe Haden	CB	Florida	BlueVol03
14	Seattle	Charles Brown	OT	USC	shake n bake
15	N.Y. Giants	C.J. Spiller	RB	Clemson	gizzardfanny
16	Tennessee	Jason Pierre-Paul	DE	South Florida	Addai Another Day
17	San Francisco	Mike Iupati	G	Idaho	BlueVol03
18	Pittsburgh	Kyle Wilson	CB	Boise St.	LV Steelers Fan
19	Atlanta	Brandon Graham	DE	Michigan	fiftycal2004
20	Houston	Dan Williams	DT	Tennessee	Aerostar193
21	Cincinnati	Sean Weatherspoon	OLB	Missouri	FineClub
22	New England	Jared Odrick	DE	Penn State	skywalker
23	Green Bay	Trent Williams	OT	Oklahoma	bracketismyboy
24	Philadelphia	Jerry Hughes	OLB	TCU	TehRhino
25	Baltimore	Jermaine Gresham	TE	Oklahoma	SupermanWearsBobSander'sPJs
26	Arizona	Sergio Kindle	DE/OLB	Texas	NYKings
27	Dallas	Anthony Davis	OT	Rutgers	SupermanWearsBobSander'sPJs
28	San Diego	Ryan Mathews	RB	Fresno State	chad72
29	N.Y. Jets	Golden Tate	WR	Notre Dame	diagenesis
30	Minnesota	Maurkice Pouncey	G/C	Florida	DClark#44
31	Indianapolis				mgrex03
32	New Orleans				palco

Poll

What do you think about pick #30?

Correct Pick. Helps bolster an OL in desparate need of help.

39 votes

OK pick, but other areas could have been addressed first

35 votes

Right Position, Wrong Player

2 votes

Wrong pick. Other areas definitely need help before the OL.

29 votes

I really wanted him on the Colts!

51 votes

156 votes | Poll has closed

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hey Mgrex I am not home tonight and got class tomorrow morning so...

could I give you the pick tonight so you can move on and get you the the reasoning later on wed afternoon?

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by TheAngelsColts on Mar 30, 2010 6:13 PM EDT reply actions

That's good with me

Actually, I’d appreciate that. I know you’ll get back to me.

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by mgrex03 on Mar 30, 2010 6:53 PM EDT up reply actions

My pick has been made. (I am loving this for the Bucs so far).

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by TheAngelsColts on Mar 30, 2010 9:53 PM EDT up reply actions

hmm Price or McCourty to Indy

I know which one I’d go with, but it’s close enough I’m not sure which mgrex would take. I was expecting Minny to take one of them so I’d know the Colts pick for sure.

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by shake n bake on Mar 30, 2010 6:21 PM EDT reply actions

I know and im good with the pick. I see why he made it.

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by TheAngelsColts on Mar 30, 2010 6:22 PM EDT up reply actions

My guess:

Price

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by peytonsthebest on Mar 30, 2010 6:27 PM EDT up reply actions

I like Price personally

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by TheAngelsColts on Mar 30, 2010 6:31 PM EDT up reply actions

guess

you’ll just have to wait and see! =)

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by coltsfan723 on Mar 30, 2010 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions

In all honesty

I was going to pick Golden Tate. If he’s there at 31, I really think the Colts will draft him, based on past history.

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by mgrex03 on Mar 30, 2010 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions

I don't think they've ever stacked a position that seriously though

Reggie Wayne wasn’t an obvious WR pick, but with Jerome Pathon as your #2 WR it shouldn’t have been a shock.

Anthony Gonzalez made sense with Stokely gone and Harrison at 34.

I can’t see a WR pick with Wayne, Gonzalez, Garçon and Collie.

by shake n bake on Mar 30, 2010 7:01 PM EDT up reply actions

He could be used in different roles

He played RB in High School, and learned to play WR at Notre Dame. And he won the Biletnokoff Award last year. He’ll do whatever asked of him, and at a high level.

He could be utilized exclusively on Special Teams for his first 2 years, with some spot roles in the offense, potentially out of the backfield, as well as a spectacular deep threat. Then he could play WR full time.

There’s a reason the Colts have gone Offensive Skill Position in the first round 7/10 times since Polian took over: They think that’s where you get the best bang for the buck.

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by mgrex03 on Mar 30, 2010 7:12 PM EDT up reply actions

but what good is value if you can't get it on the field

as great a prospect I think Tate is I think it’d be a pick comparable to BBS taking Sanchise last year.

by shake n bake on Mar 30, 2010 7:19 PM EDT up reply actions

He'd be on the field more than Sanchez would have been

Field position is magnified in the Playoffs, and has directly helped the Colts lose each of the past 2 seasons. Tate definitely solves that problem, especially if he only has to focus on that.

Look what Hester could do when that was all he was doing. All the Colts would need is a 5-7 yard improvement. I think it is worth a first rounder to accomplish that.

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by mgrex03 on Mar 30, 2010 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions

returners have such a short shelf life though

and in some cases it seems to come from the teams’ system and other personnel. Look at Hester recently. He hasn’t been the most successful Bears returner for two years now.

by shake n bake on Mar 30, 2010 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions

They have a short shelf life

when they are asked to do more things than just return.

Hester became worse at returning the more he did on offense. The Colts are working in a relatively short time frame here (~5 years) to win more Super Bowls. I’ll take as many specialty players as it takes, especially if they are really good at it.

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by mgrex03 on Mar 30, 2010 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions

Heh.

That was funny.

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by Cassieper on Mar 30, 2010 8:45 PM EDT up reply actions

Really?

I don’t see it. You don’t pick someone at 31 who won’t have much of a chance to be on the field.

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by Cassieper on Mar 30, 2010 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions

especially in a draft as deep as this one.. if solid options at DT or OL weren’t available for the taking I could see polian looking at tate.. however, wayne and clark are both over thirty… collie/garcon are both late round fliers that panned out as a WR2/WR3.. gonzo coming off injury… the fact it usually takes WR two or three years to learn the offense… maybe polian would pull the trigger on tate… i still look for the TE gresham to be drafted if available…

by ColtfaninPitts on Mar 30, 2010 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Well,

We did take Reggie at 30, and he caught all of 27 balls that year.

Personally, if Tate is ready enough (within our system) to contribute, I have a hard time believing that we won’t be able to find a role for him.

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by linkish on Mar 31, 2010 2:33 AM EDT up reply actions

Lets wait for Julio Jones with the next Colts first round WR.

by Ty46 on Mar 31, 2010 2:55 AM EDT up reply actions

It depends on several things

Are you making a pick that the fans think that the Colts need the most or are you making a pick that Bill Polian thinks that the Colts need the most? Bill Polian never thinks we need a DT in round one but fans continue to be enamored with the big fat DT.

Having said that, this is my two cents – As far as the DT position is concerned, our rotation currently is a bunch of tweeners that can get pushed around after AJ, Muir & Moala (who still is a big IF right now). The reason we almost lost to the Pats and lost to the Saints (two pass oriented quality offenses) is due to lack of pass rush down the middle, no one sniffed Brady or Brees, we have 2 NTs playing NT & UT, if we played the Chargers, chances are we lose against a pass oriented offense than a run oriented offense last year, yeah it sounds crazy but the situational numbers speak loud and clear. No wonder the best kept secret the entire year was “you will have better success throwing against the Colts if you can hold Freeney and get away with it rather than trying to punch it in for short yardage”. The Titans tried when Vince came back, the Ravens tried, the Broncos tried, even the Saints tried, and all of them failed for the most part to punch it in against AJ & Muir from short yardage failing on several third and fourth downs. But then the smart ones that had 3 quality WRs at their disposal ran quick slants, quick outs and took advantage of Lacey and Jennings for the most part to get TD passes (Kenny Britt, Brandon Marshall, Jeremy Shockey, can give several examples but you get it).

So, no matter who you have in that secondary, if you cannot be in the QB’s face with some pass rush in the middle, you are toast in this pass oriented league. Thus, Price would be my choice. There will be enough zone corners in Chris Cook or Spievey etc. in later rounds to snag and Price, unlike Moala who played in 4-3 and 3-4 alignments, has played in a 4-3 UT position for the majority of his playing career. Look at the Giants and their D-line rotation in SB XLII, it was not just 1 or 2 players, the depth in their rotation was what wore the Patriots O-line down.

Hence Price would be my choice :-).

by chad72 on Mar 30, 2010 7:28 PM EDT up reply actions