6th Round Draft Choice: Will Davis - DE - Illinois - 6′2″ 261 lbs.
And the Arizona Cardinals take yet another defensive player again, in the 6th round. Ok, we can hear the coaching staff loud and clear on this, we couldn’t get the stop on that last drive of the super bowl. You have one camp that says, “Defense Wins Championships”, you have another camp that says, “Special Teams Win Championships”. Whatever, all I know is we came up about a hair short of taking home the Lombardi Trophy and it’s because the D didn’t get the stops at the end of the game.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, it all starts in the trenches my fellow football fans. You either protect the quarterback or you get to the quarterback. So here we have Will Davis, and I hope he can bring some heat on opposing QB’s this season. The Cardinals finished up tied for 14th in the league for team sacks, but they only had a paltry 31 sacks total. That is not good enough for a defense in my opinion, it’s real simple, they just aren’t putting enough pressure on the QB. OK, we have that out of the way. I see Will Davis as something of a tweener just like our second round draft pick, Cody Brown. Not quite big enough for true defensive end but a little more bulk than a typical linebacker.
The 2009 NFL Draft has come and gone and since I have only put up this blog after the fact. Oh well, better late than never. Besides, there’s still a lot of thing to cover for the draft anyway.