# 2011 NFL Draft **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 9, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786 "2011-04-09T17:34:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/261 "2011-04-29T01:12:31Z")
Wouldn’t Detroit just shit themselves to get Fairly? Him and Suh on a D-Line?? Yikes! (Unless I’m wrong and Suh is a nose tackle…anyone wanna shine some light?) ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/262 "2011-04-29T01:14:56Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Is Houston becoming a 3-4? Surprised to see after all the D-line hype that Aldon Smith and JJ Watt are the top DL picks. > > Er, aside from Dareus. > > I think Watt is gonna be a good one. They added Wade Phillips…so yeah, 3-4. Wonder if they view Williams as a Ware type player. Incidentally, Smith is a OLB not a DE. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/263 "2011-04-29T01:16:45Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Wouldn’t Detroit just shit themselves to get Fairly? > > Him and Suh on a D-Line?? Yikes! > (Unless I’m wrong and Suh is a nose tackle…anyone wanna shine some light?) Huh? Suh is a 3 technique under tackle. Corey Williams is the nose tackle and he’s a very good one. There’s no chance the Lions take Fairley, he plays the same position as Suh and neither is big enough to move over. ---
**Author:** ![DxZero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@DxZero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DxZero)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/264 "2011-04-29T01:17:48Z")
Ooof…Vikings ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/265 "2011-04-29T01:17:55Z")
Ahahahahaha That was stupid ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/266 "2011-04-29T01:17:56Z")
Holy Wow on the Ponder pick! ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/267 "2011-04-29T01:18:03Z")
lol ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/268 "2011-04-29T01:18:06Z")
Matt Williamson on Football Today is going to be patting himself on the back for that Ponder call, he loves Ponder as a fit in the Vikes West Coast scheme. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/269 "2011-04-29T01:20:05Z")
OK, so now the 49ers are going to have to start thinking about getting Harbaugh’s guy soon. Unless it’s Ricky Stanzi, then they could probably wait until #45. (I WANT KAEPERNICK!) ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/270 "2011-04-29T01:20:31Z")
Why would you spend 1st round money on a 4th round guy? ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/271 "2011-04-29T01:21:33Z")
Quinn for the Lions maybe? Bowers? ETA: WOW. What are they doing?!?!?! Are they going to play a 5-2 defense? ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/272 "2011-04-29T01:22:21Z")
Yep, Fairley and Suh together. They may not be a prototypical match for 1 and 3, but they’re both so massively strong and talented that I don’t think that’s going to be a problem. Plus they could just adopt a 1 gap system and rape everything. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/273 "2011-04-29T01:22:31Z")
Wow…two points to me on that one ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/274 "2011-04-29T01:23:37Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Yep, Fairley and Suh together. > > They may not be a prototypical match for 1 and 3, but they’re both so massively strong and talented that I don’t think that’s going to be a problem. > > Plus they could just adopt a 1 gap system and rape everything. Some people have speculated that Fairley could slim down and play End, that I would get behind. BTW, anyone getting a Matt Millen feeling here? Are the Lions gonna take another 3 technique in the first round next year too? ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/275 "2011-04-29T01:25:21Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > ETA: WOW. What are they doing?!?!?! Are they going to play a 5-2 defense? Having to stop Peterson twice a year they probably need to. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/276 "2011-04-29T01:25:47Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Some people have speculated that Fairley could slim down and play End, that I would get behind… That’s kinda what I said earlier about Fairley; in a 3-4 scheme, he’d make a scary end/tackle hybrid. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/277 "2011-04-29T01:25:55Z")
Well, now when one gets suspended for unnecessary roughness they can just stick the other one in. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/278 "2011-04-29T01:27:22Z")
Wow! the Rams ened up with a lot more options here then I would have guessed. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/279 "2011-04-29T01:27:32Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Some people have speculated that Fairley could slim down and play End, that I would get behind. > > BTW, anyone getting a Matt Millen feeling here? Are the Lions gonna take another 3 technique in the first round next year too? Well, they made the right call with Calvin Johnson, as much as everyone made fun of them. I think it’s gonna be a Suh/Fairley DT front and they’ll just say fuck conventional wisdom and have those two penetrating all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786/280 "2011-04-29T01:27:48Z")
Quinn to the Rams. My dream of Liuget slipping is still alive! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2011-nfl-draft/577786.md?page=15)