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I mean… that was nice.

A few coaches seem to be on board with Nick Saban being the commissioner of college football.

I had to look this one up. For 2024 and 25 this bowl is using the old conferences for their tie in’s. So technically BYU is Big 12 and Colorado is PAC 12. It’s weird.

Going to be interesting to see what Sanders does with Kaidon Salter next year. The year before last he had Liberty in a NY6 bowl. Assuming he beats out Lewis.

I will say we are 100% in agreement with Hunter. I’m still not even sure he’s a WR. You mentioned the size. It screams CB but maybe that’s just me.

There’s the obvious guys like Hunter and T-Mac who everyone likes. They are safe picks. I’m not exactly sure how safe Hunter is though because I feel like he’ll be a DB. T-Mac, he reminds me of Michael Pittman. Just a safe WR who catches the ball when it’s thrown to him. Under the radar picks? Emeka Egbuka. If you want to go deeper than that, Tez Johnson. If you want a favorite player in the draft, Tyler Warren.

It 100% was, he ran a 3.97 at his pro day. In reference to pass uses of shuttle times. This article details how Edelman’s shuttle got him drafted in the first place. A guy who was completely off the radar in college got drafted simply because of his elite shuttle time. Ladd’s definitely played a role in his draft stock boost. Additionally, saying a receiver is or isn’t good because of their QB play is such a lazy argument. McConkey is elite at creating separation. Just a few weeks ago PFF had him as their leader in created separation for the week. Does he have prior injury concerns, sure. But there’s a difference between drafting a wide receiver with an injury history verses signing a wide receiver with an injury history. The main difference being the money. https://fantasyindex.com/2024/05/21/factoid/quick-receivers

Oh 100%, I don’t even know why we still do the 40.

The shuttle is becoming the new 40. Everyone wants to see it because it really separates those high twitch athletes from the “just fast” athletes. Ladd’s shuttle is what boosted his draft stock.

Let’s be real though, having two of the top three picks and not making the playoffs isn’t exactly a glowing endorsement of Sanders head coaching skills. Carolina fans questioned Mack Brown’s coaching skills after he wasn’t able to win an ACC championship with Trubisky or Maye. Sanders will get the same treatment if his team consistently comes up short. And for what it’s worth I like Deion. All the videos I’ve seen show that he develops kids to succeed beyond football. I just question his overall ability to coach a complete football team. As an All-Pro HOF DB, you’d think he could field a competent defense.

Do we suck… maybe. But not tonight.

Pats definitely make the most sense from a money standpoint. My sleeper teams for Higgins would be the Commanders and Packers. Both have a ton of cap space and not a whole lot of holes to plug in free agency. Both could use one more game changer on offense to get them over the hump.

Personal opinion but I think he’d be a #1 on 70% of the teams in the NFL. I just think he’ll get Aiyuk money which doesn’t make sense for us right now. If we decide to beef up the interior through free agency with one of Milton Williams or Osa Odighizuwa then getting a WR on a rookie contract makes much more sense. For what it’s worth I project Williams at $20M APY and Odighizuwa at $25M APY. Both would probably be a better investment than Higgins at $30M APY.

Injuries are the only thing that would keep me away from him. We don’t need an Aiyuk situation. But there’s no denying Higgins is a #1 in this league.

Wrong thread but still relevant.

Big issue with Higgins is the injuries over the past two years. He hasn’t been able to stay healthy, he was dealing with an ankle/knee injury heading into todays game. But those saying he isn’t a #1 are dead wrong. He’s missed 5 games but his projections over 16 games are 100 receptions, 1,248 yards, and 15 TD’s. Literally, the only WR putting up better numbers than Higgins on a per game basis is his running mate, Chase. You just have to ask yourself, is a guy who has missed 10 games over the past two years worth $30M a year.

Oh for sure. With Rod it’s never the defenses fault. I think someone posted this in Reddit a while back. Rod with the forwards. Rod with the defense.

Been MIA for a bit but just a few things. - The stars need to be better defensively. Svechnikov, Aho, and Jarvis need to really hone in on the defensive side. It almost feels like they’ve given up on Rod’s system from a defensive stand point. If those three aren’t better defensively then this team won’t go anywhere. - Ghost and Walker need to be split up. I’d rather see Orlov and Chatfield be average than Ghost and Walker be putrid. In fact, rearrange the defense. Slavin - Walker Orlov - Burns Ghost - Chatfield Let Walker be a little more offensive and let Slavin shelter him. Orlov will shelter Burns and Chatfield will shelter Ghost. Everyone gets a shelter buddy.

Proud Coker dynasty owner. Sleeper app loves this guy, he’s got his own fanbase called the cokeheads.

If we had the luxury of drafting a tight end I’d trade down and take Tyler Warren. I think he’s going to be elite. Just too many holes to plug on defense right now.

To be fair, the Dolphins are getting elite production from Jonnu Smith for pennies.

Personal opinion but I think Canales moves XL around too much. He’s been pretty damn good when he’s operating as the X and just galloping down the field. He seems to struggle a little more when playing the Y or Z. His route running and overall concept of NFL defenses doesn’t seem to quite be there when he’s playing off the LOS. His route running isn’t exactly graceful and you’ll sometimes see him carry his route too far specially against zone defense when he’s playing inside. As an X he’s really good though, especially against cover 0. Watching the Chiefs/Steelers game yesterday I couldn’t help but think that we should be using XL the way the Steelers use Pickens and they should be using Pickens the way we use XL.

For sure, I just think it takes an elite QB to get the ball to his weapons if the OL play is bottom 5 bad. Obviously Stroud isn’t there yet which is why I brought up Burrow. He’s the only QB in the NFL putting up elite numbers with a bottom 5 OL. There’s a level guys have to get to before they can do what Burrow is doing and Stroud’s not there yet but he could eventually be there. Right now Stroud is a good QB when he’s put in a position with a good OL and an average QB when he has bad OL play. I don’t think he’s regressed, the situation is just different. You just hope he doesn’t pick up bad habits. As for Young, next year is the deciding year. Canales is setting him up to succeed by putting him in good situations (sans Dallas game) but since he was the number one pick we should definitely want more than a system QB. Purdy proved you can get one of those with the last pick in the draft. I will say that since the Munich game Young has a TD/TO ratio of 10/4 which translates to a 28/11 ratio over a full 17 game season. Stroud was at a projected ratio of 29/7 over a full 17 game season last year. So not a huge gap between the two if things remained constant.

Stroud is going through what Young went through last year due to having arguably the worst OL in football; though Stroud is performing better than Young did with a porous OL. Maybe you can attribute that to better weapons or better coaching, regardless, neither is a finished project and comparing them now is shortsighted. This does make a good case for Joe Burrow being MVP if he can somehow get the Bengals in the playoffs. The numbers he’s putting up with a bottom 5 OL is insane. Yeah, he has elite weapons but you still need to be able to get the ball to them. Burrow has shown the ability do that regardless of how bad his OL, Strouds not quite there yet. FWIW, Lamar or Allen probably win MVP but Burrow should be in the conversation if the Bengals sneak into the playoffs.