{"id":1402,"date":"2009-03-30T20:20:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T01:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/30\/mock-draft-take-4\/"},"modified":"2011-01-30T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T15:11:17","slug":"mock-draft-take-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/30\/mock-draft-take-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock Draft Take 4."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please say it isn\u2019t true.  Could the Falcons possibly be looking to go with a TE with their first round pick?  Half of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/football\/nfl\/2009-mock-draft.htm\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/football\/nfl\/2009-mock-draft.htm', 'usatoday.com');\" target=\"new\">usatoday.com<\/a> panel (4 out of 8 pundits) thinks this is a likely scenario.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Jim Corbett \u2013 Brandon Pettigrew, TE, Oklahoma State<\/li>\n<li>Nate Davis \u2013 Brian Cushing, LB, Southern California Derek Harper \u2013 Brandon Pettigrew, TE, Oklahoma State<\/li>\n<li>Sean Leahy \u2013 Brandon Pettigrew, TE, Oklahoma State<\/li>\n<li>Matt Pitzer \u2013 Evander Hood, DT, Missouri<\/li>\n<li>Rob Rang \u2013 Michael Johnson, DE, Georgia Tech<\/li>\n<li>Larry Weisman \u2013 Louis Delmas, S, W. Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Scott Zucker \u2013 Brandon Pettigrew, TE, Oklahoma State<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Early on in my off season reports I did list a decent dump off safety net type TE as a need, but good grief, we do not need to revisit the Reeves era of taking a TE (or two) early and often.<\/p>\n<p>Up until this report, I felt certain the Falcons were going to go defense with their first couple of picks, but now I am getting worried.  Where there\u2019s smoke, there is fire.  Looks like the coals are smoldering.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please say it isn\u2019t true. Could the Falcons possibly be looking to go with a TE with their first round pick? Half of the usatoday.com panel (4 out of 8 pundits) thinks this is a likely scenario. Jim Corbett \u2013 Brandon Pettigrew, TE, Oklahoma State Nate Davis \u2013 Brian Cushing, LB, Southern California Derek Harper &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/03\/30\/mock-draft-take-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mock Draft Take 4.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,29],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}