Lakin: Cardinals get a contributor

It's important to preface any draft commentary with the admission that there at least existed the possibility of doubt and/or disagreement. I only wish our national counterparts would do the same, as I often expect any draft transaction that ends with the magic words "made by Belichick" is sure to garner acclaim, just as the opposite would most certainly be the case if a pick was "made by Davis." This is not to say the use of said stereotypes is not overwhelming plausible; rather that such an overly subjective process needn't the presence of "established truths," or it runs the risk of becoming anything but seminal. OK then, before I talk about how I liked the Cardinals first round pick, I must first mention that I would not have felt the same had they traded out instead of bringing in Dan Williams. Williams, as it turns out, was the defensive equivalent of Beanie Wells is this year's draft - an immediate contributor at a position of immediate need and the Cardinals didn't even need to concern themselves with the possibility of adding picks and moving down, unlike the team two spots before.

Like the Cardinals, New England had the opportunity to snag a top 10 talent to augment the Patriots aging and ailing receiving corp. Unlike Rod Graves, Bill Belichick couldn't resist the intellectual currency that comes with evading the "safe bet" in turn for turning that pick into several lesser ones. I, for one, am glad that insatiable urge of contrarianism was not the pervading sentiment in Tempe. Humility, after all, is more advantageous than hubris in such cases, and in the case of the last two Cardinals drafts, Rod Graves was smart enough not to outsmart himself.

I like the pick.