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Ahh, you might wanna edit that before it's too late.

Well Bucky Brooks used to be a scout and he says that if Matt Corral gets into the right system, he will "pop at the next level." J.T. O'Sullivan as well as Chris Simms are not scouts, but they have been QBs in the NFL and know more than you or I (and probably even some scouts) about the position, and they also speak highly of Corral's traits. Furthermore, you can poo poo every blogger, ex-coach or GM, scout and plenty of others who know the position if you want, but I know that these people know more than you do about the position. Basically, you're talking out the side of your neck.

I don't know of any scout that has said that. He could be a good value pick on day 3, but he isn't sniffing day 1. He is largely immobile, has concerning problems with pressure, doesn't see ancillary defenders any where near a pro level, and takes some unnecessary risks with the ball.

That's a pretty delusional thing to say considering that plenty of scouts have said that he has elite traits. Moreover, he's played against more NFL-level competition over his career than any of them. I guess you know more than the scouts...

Nobody's saying that, but he doesn't need taxpayers--poor or otherwise--to pay a dime for the construction of his headquarters. Oh, that's right, why should he dig deeper into his pockets when he can just dig into everyone else's to help bankroll his business?

I told him earlier that Corral and Johnny Football are as different as night and day. I don't know how anyone would come up with that assessment after researching Corral even a little. Manziel and Corral come from different worlds. Corral might even need to lighten up a little.

Are you referring to 2019 and 2020? You do realize that he improved just about all aspects of his game every season, especially this past season, including making proper reads. Not to say he was perfect, because he has a little gunslinger in him, but he's smart and coachable.

Mayfield has not been good. Trading anything of significance for him (especially without them paying a good part of his contract) would be going on Darnold bad. The QBs in the draft may ultimately be better than Mayfield. He's a backup level talent. He's thrown more INTs than any QB since he's been in the league (including Darnold). He's another Cleveland Browns' bust.

Sounds to me that people are trying to ding him for his depression. That's your choice, but I'm not going to do it. I see progress and growth.

What about alcohol? He drank. How many college kids drink? He actually stopped abusing it, much like many, when he realized that it may have been causing him some problems. He actually abstained during his senior year in solidarity with Lane Kiffin. This is a nonstarter.

He didn't have the same time to prepare as the others. He was rusty. Even still, he wasn't bad. Let s get serious; am I going to let a pro day outweigh actual game days--the tape? I will compare his body of work favorably to any QB coming out of this class. It's pretty good, shows marked progress of Corral notwithstanding coaching changes, and highlights superior competition.

I like that he worked on his issues and pretty much showed notable progress despite having to change coaches and systems. I also liked the fact that he competed in the SEC. It's a rough conference.

Corral doesn't see himself as an entitled star. Read the article I posted above. They are different as night and day.

That's pretty much it as I can see. Now of course he has had depression (maybe all stemming from that, IDK), but are we really going to hold that against him? I mean, I guess someone might, but I won't. https://www.google.com/amp/s/sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/matt-corral-opens-up-on-battle-with-depression-sugar-bowl-injury-as-he-aims-to-be-qb-1-this-draft-020308363.html

It all stemmed from a fight he got into with Wayne Gretzky's kid. He made some comments about the rich being entitled and receiving special treatment. This is a short read: https://www.nfldraftdiamonds.com/2021/10/matt-corral-7/

I would assume the latter. People are holding exploits against him committed while in high school.

He played legit competition at Ole Miss. He's the only QB out of the top guys that I personally want in the first round (though admittedly pick 6 might be a stretch). I said as much months ago now. He's enigmatic as opposed to the others, so at least I can dream he'll be a franchise-level QB one day as opposed to JAG or a bust like I see some of the others becoming.

Not exactly sure why you'd wait until the first three are gone. They're certainly not going by pick 6. The goal is to try and trade back and still get your guy.

Me too, but I'll be highly surprised if we do draft him at 6. He's raw as hell, and I just don't see any good coming from it. He needs time to learn, point blank and period.

That's about the size of it. You're not going to be a legit team in the NFL by drafting inferior players at a needed position to the detriment of superior players at a not-so-needed position. If players are close, perhaps you have decisions to make; if players aren't close, it would behoove you to draft the obviously more talented guy and work things out.

Good. We have the technology to make the game better, and we need to implement it sooner rather than later so that all the kinks can be worked out for the betterment of the product going well into the 21st century.

That's fair. But we saw glimpses of at least two quality starters in Horn and BC. I haven't mentioned the upside of Tremble, Hubbard or Marshall. Part of not seeing results was just bad luck, and part of it was just coaching. But it's all about perspective. Drafting is about projections. Most of our players had at least decent projections, and I light of the state of the team right now, I'm certainly not going to give up on them so soon. I've heard something to the effect that if you get one or two starters out of a draft that you've done pretty well. I think at the end of the day, we'll have more than that out of 2021's draft. We're just going to have to be patient.

Well that's kind of the point. The only way things will change is if regular people stop playing the game of politics as manipulated by plutocrats at the behest of the oligarchs. Honestly, most of the people in Congress need to be fired. Without the support of Congress, the ultra-rich's schemes would be laid out for what they are and put to an end. The only way that's going to happen is if the proletariat changes its mind--get something on its mind other than the divisive politics of the 20th century, and elects new people with new ideas that actually work for the people as opposed to the ultra rich.

Maybe I'll give him some motivation... Tepper should pay for his own fu<king facility. It's not like he doesn't have the money to do it. But, alas, it's the American way. Mis-leadership that the dumb and woefully ignorant keep putting into office are plutocrats who do the bidding of the oligarchs because it keeps these plutocrats in office. They do the bidding of the super rich (in hopes of becoming oligarchs themselves), and give the proletariat rhetoric steeped in divisive--sometimes racist--language that bespeaks of all these supposedly cultural and ideological differences that they prop up in order to ensure that the populace falls in line and keeps lining their pockets. We see it with subsidies to Big Petro, Big Pharma, and many other industries. Dumb Americans in South Carolina indirectly support all kinds of gross giveaways to big business like Exxon, Monsanto, Haliburton and Amazon (to name a very slight few), yet decry David Tepper and the NFL for doing the same thing. This nation is run by hypocrites, yet stupid people continue to put them in office over and over and over again, because they can't see beyond a purposefully-fueled culture war that is a tool of manipulation to keep lining the pockets of the rich to the detriment of the average person. Sure, Tepper strongarming Rock Hill is a problem, but he's just playing in a bigger game. The rules are the bigger issue, and until people wake up and stop playing the games of the Republicans and Democrats, this is how things are going to be.