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No, so admittedly my comment is not a fully informed one. But had the misfortune of experiencing West Lafayette in the winter many years ago and I’m not a winter person.

Please understand that our head of analytics as of last May is the former head of analytics for PFF. There is probably going to be a lot of praise from PFF for most of our roster moves simply because we're probably using a lot of the very same analytical metrics. And PFF sure is rooting for our success because if we keep going down our flailing path it's really going to devalue PFF's analytical system.

Starts at the 6:15 mark of his latest videos. Exact words were There were high end defensive guys that the team needed. What I thought and what coaches in that draft room thought. "That's not what we talked about a few hours ago."

I take it you've never been to College Station, TX? LOL

I’m rich guys. I did it.

Strongly disliked last year's draft I believe this new approach will field MUCH better results than what we've been getting

Probably 729k reasons https://www.si.com/fannation/name-image-likeness/nil-news/four-of-the-top-five-nil-athletes-within-the-state-of-texas-are-longhorns

No, he says I spoke to the coaches that morning and they went whoa that's not what we talked about earlier. Probably explains all the smokescreens.

Terrific post

Occam’s razor says it has something to do with Purdue being in West Lafayette Indiana whereas A&M isn’t.

He said something about his weight dropping from eating better, are we sure he intentionally gained or lost weight?

"outside" the stadium, no?

besides being closer to home at A&M, was there a reason Scourton left Purdue?

TAMU had such a weird draft. Usually you'd be bragging your ass off about three DL drafted in the top two rounds except that the narrative around all three was about how badly they were misused by TAMU. LOL

Many Panthers fans are already excited about second-round selection Nic Scourton for a variety of reasons including but not limited to: the Panthers needed to recharge the position group, Scourton had a late first-round grade according to many (including the Panthers), and he fit this season's modus operandi of stopping the run now and forever. However, Scourton was seen early on as one of the top-3 EDGE guys in this class but fell due to not having quite the season at Texas A&M as he did prior at Purdue (his sophomore season). It's been revealed since then a few different things that speak to that dip in production... Texas A&M, for one, requires each player on their line to be able to hold two gaps. This also explains why we saw low production across the board from the other two TA&M prospects but were still being heavily touted. Scourton was also said to have bulked up to 280lbs in order to fulfill this role and noticeably suffered from it. He's expected to play this season with Carolina at 255 - 260 which is very different from most situations. In most situations, teams are wanting players to gain 15 - 30. Since Scourton is going to be playing at his Purdue weight, I thought it would make sense to dive more into that tape. Y'all... we might have gotten something special... Let's take a quick peek at the stats before we start drooling over some highlights. First, a summary of the last two seasons for Scourton: Second, the game splits: The first thing that pops up for me is how Scourton's sack numbers were cut in half his senior year. We've already pointed out issues with scheme that impacted the TA&M linemen from racking up numbers, but seeing the game splits it's clear that Scourton didn't exactly feast on inferior competition while at Purdue. He had two two-sack games (vs. Michigan (2023 - 2024 champs), Indiana) and a 10-tackle game (vs. Nebraska). I also see the 2024 games where he went up against two top-10 tackles (Will Campbell from LSU + Armand Membou from Missouri) that I watched leading up to the draft. For those who just want a summary: Scourton looked elite at Purdue and is going to be rotating in often during his rookie campaign. I originally had him penciled in as the second-string, strong-side edge defender behind Clowney but I wouldn't be surprised to see the team have him and Pat Jones II moving around when they rotate in in order to find where Nic looks best. Here's a highlight reel to replace that Cialias you lost in your recliner tonight: For those that want a little more: Below I'll be linking the linking the five games I've mentioned above. If you plan to watch all of them, I highly recommend going in the order listed as that will allow you to see him vs. Campbell and then Membou while dealing with the aforementioned things he dealt with at Texas A&M before seeing him look unstoppable in 2023 when he was allowed to play both at a comfortable weight and in a scheme that didn't require him two cover two gaps nearly every play. vs. Will Campbell (2024) vs. Armand Membou (2024) vs. Nebraska (2023) vs. Michigan (2023) vs. Indiana (2023)

Yea, i honestly think he had almost as much say as Dan. One of the main reasons I think that is Eager has said before he was ever with the Panthers, that you trade away picks for a qb and for any other position you do pick swaps, and that's exactly what we did.

For a LB that is a long career. They take a beating. Shoulders and head. My favorite LB of All Time--Junior Seau--had a 20-year career--the average career for a STARTING MLB is 5.6 years. I really think Shaq is done, but if he can play, it does not mean that he should. Think about Morgan's career--7 seasons. Luke's career--8 seasons. Beason played only 93 games over 10 years--only 5 seasons where he played 15 games or more. The other 5 seasons? No more than 5 games per. So basically, the average starting MLB plays 90 games in his career. Shaq has played 123 games and was pretty injury free until the last 2 seasons (6 games total).

I thought he said other teams thought we were going defense and that's why Dallas thought they were going to get him at 12. He did say they had a bad interview with him

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That's the other sneaky thing we did during the pre draft, There were articles saying that we were the most aggressive team looking to trad back and yet we turned down 2 offers that didn't have us moving down that far, Especially the SF one so much like who are pick would be at 8 but we also had little intention if any really at all of trading down but we didn't want anyone to know we were really high on any player so no one tried to jump ahead of us, If the Niners and Rams knew we were going to draft Tmac they might have tried to jump in front of us for him instead of trading with us for him. By the time they realized he was our guy it was too late. Dan and Dave played the first round super smooth. Nobody knew what we wanted to do and the teams that wanted Tmac paid the price. That's high level draft work there.

Lol odd way to put it

Sure but the frame was frail. I think he got up to 235 and then back to 228ish.

Speaking of not picking up the bonus option... GO GET HIM DAN/BRANDT I WILL MAKE TUKA LOOK MELLOW WITH HOW MUCH I WILL FANBOY THE F OUT

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