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He’s either whiffed completely or is doing some 5G level thinking. Is this OT even a top ten talent? If so, start him at guard (2023) and then move him to RT in 2024 and cut Moton? We have too many other needs to be doing this at 9.

Mocks generate clicks and ad revenue during the slow part of the offseason, up until draft day. Would love to see the social media ‘engagement’ stats and resulting revenue; probably an r squared > .90.

So simple yet, so profound.

I keep pumping Arrrrrnold as a candidate but, no takers…

Yeah, that’s what Watson said…

Hooker’s good. Who doesn’t love a good Hooker?

Tire kicking free agents. It’s a thing…

We're fans. We want to think that players love us and our city as much as we think we love them. When they won't sign for a hometown discount, they're dirty money chasing whores. /s

“One ring to rule them all… “

FIFY

Career seppuku is an awful thing to behold…

Ikwonu, Horn, Brown, DJ, Burns, CMC. Trade ups of multiple first round drafts picks will cost you the 2024 and 2025 versions of the this list. No thank you. You do you.

Your opinion is noted.

True. The reciprocal may also be true where with Reich’s staff, drafting Richardson, Hooker, McKee or Tune without trading up may produce very acceptable long term results without losing all the trade up draft picks. We fans are understandable anxious to see immediate results after the buildup of expectations for Reich and his staff. Maybe, just maybe, Reich, Tepper, Fitt are playing long ball, and willing to draft BPA at nine and then develop a later round QB prospect. Not a popular opinion on this board and likely to cause many heads to explode, if true. YMMV.

So, you would have been a ‘no retreads’ with Delhomme?

Is there a performance guarantee or warranty that comes with the mega pick trade up?

I see what you did there…

Arrrrnold is available, I hear…

Because he has an idiot for an agent…

I guess the label ‘retread’ now covers every QB changing teams that didn’t take their previous team to the SB. A one word rejoinder to the ‘No retreads’ crowd: Delhomme.

Preach!

I like your thinking but there is a 50/50 probability that it resets the market lower, as more teams tap out on the mega bucks for possibly damaged goods. My SWAG is that there is a large and growing contingent of GM’s looking at the Watson deal, 2022 results and are horrified. ”There but for the grace of God go I.”

This. After the underwear Olympics, there are no surprises on ‘measurables’ but, the interview process to understand what goes on inside the head and heart of draft candidate is a very inexact science. How do you score and grade the ‘intangibles’ that often define the difference between Delhomme and Darnold? You could do an entire thread on intangibles and still struggle to define what characteristics equate to long term out performance. And for those who reject going with a retread, I have a one word refutation: Delhomme.