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Originally Posted by El Gonso
Duracell you're 100% right, it's extremely difficult for a team to have four solid corners, definitely easier said than done. They're not cheap if they're good, and they can get kind of diva on you (case in point: Samuel/Brown today). My point was more saying that every team essentially always has a need at corner.
With receivers you can get away with project-type players at #4 on the depth chart pretty easily, and you can use them for situational stuff and all that. Even if they suck they still occupy a defender, and the offense can go to another option or whatever. But the #4 corner is one injury away from a lot of playing time and can expect to get targeted like nobody's business. Then a lot of the time you wind up bringing up a safety or dropping a pass-rushing end into coverage and really everything turns to suck. That 4th guy needs to understand coverages and the zone schemes and all that well.
So, even if the Eagles were to get AwesomeO (or draft a CB high), keeping Asante is LDO, along with Brown and Hobbs as well (I don't see anything wrong with a Hobbs type at #4). Brown can bitch all he likes but the Eagles made a good decision extending his contract and should be able to reap the benefits of it now. I hope Philly doesn't budge.
Even if we don't move either of the corners (which I hope we don't), and assuming we don't get Nnamdi, I think there's a very good chance we take a corner in the first round. Both Brown and Asante are getting up there in years, Hobbs is on a one year contract, and Joselio didn't exactly meet expectations last year. I don't know though; there's a lot of directions we could go in (and it obviously depends on what picks we end up having).
Regarding McNabb, I really don't want to see him go for anything less than the #33. (I don't want him to go at all, but if we get good value for him I think the move makes sense.) I wouldn't be happy just getting #39 from Oakland. We'll see what happens.