XClown1986

CJ took a career LOW number of sacks last year. But the year before he took 53 or something like that. It's the problem I saw with him in college. If he gets hit or thinks he's going to get hit, he sees ghosts. I maintain that the Georgia game was a fluke. Bryce's shortcomings are physical, CJ's are mental. It was like this pre-draft. It continues to be true now.

I think we would have a better chance trading Legette for Michael Mayer. And I would do it.

Remember when we had Cam Newton, Derek Anderson, and Joe Webb? Good times

Yeah I have seen all of the blueprints. I just didn't know if they planned on doing more than the Monroe Freeling video to cover the draft.

Were they doing more than just the Monroe Freeling mini video?

I understand tempering expectations, but there are some issues with his points. Walker was a 3 year starter, but Green Bay let him walk and no other team was quick to snatch him up. That says something. Freeling will compete to start. With Hunter, we rotate our linemen and even 5th round pick Cam Jackson played some meaningful snaps last year. Both Brown III and Wharton have underwhelmed since we picked them up. Hunter is a run plugger that we have needed. Hunter will play early, even if he isn't the "starter." Brazzell was described as one of Canales' favorite prospects in the draft and he has a speed element we have been missing. I think Canales is going to have plays drawn up with Brazzell on the field just out of pure excitement. It will be up to Brazzell to prove he can handle it, though. If he can, he will play. As far as our secondary picks, yeah they have to earn their stripes and Evero tends to lean on veterans. So they might take time, but if they can show they can play, they will see the field. Smith-Wade and Ransom did. Sam Hecht simply has to show he can handle the mental side of the NFL game. If he can, he is in a direct competition with Fortner, who's also relatively young, but also on his 3rd NFL team and doesn't have the power profile of Hecht. I can appreciate that Gantt wants to pour cold water on what was perceived as an impactful draft, but facts are facts.

I've been here since 04, I'll leave when I see fit.

??? Gettleman picked Star, KK, Trai Turner, and James Bradberry also. They turned out alright. He wasn't a great drafter, by any means, but he had more than 2.

I'm complaining about the complaining. It's the same thing all the time, in every thread, the same short jokes, all the time. It's not conversing, it's been reduced to verbal bashing and piling on. Rinse and Repeat. It's like being a bad comedian that keeps repeating their punchline because we aren't all laughing. We heard what you said, but we aren't entertained, so move on to the next.

Why not just say "I don't understand what you are saying because I'm blinded by hatred." That would at least be honest.

Well I'm sure complaining about it will change the fact, so keep at it chief.

No I dislike pointless complaining. The team sees something in Bryce, he's going to play, and that's that. All of your intellectual reasonings as to why that doesn't make sense, don't matter. He's going to play.

Labelling me a stan because I don't care for the pointless whining and complaining is certainly a choice.

The great thing is that the same group of complainers get to keep doing so for at least 2 more years while Bryce goes out and leads the team on Sundays. I, for one, am pumped about that.

If true, this is great news. We must have gotten enough information to know our guy would still be there at 19. Once Proctor went 12 and Ty Simpson went 13, we knew one of Monroe Freeling and Blake Miller would be there. I really think they liked Miller and would have taken him at 19 if the Lions had gone Freeling

If he bet against his own team and threw a game? He's off my draft board. No question. But if he bet on himself and tried to go out and kick ass? Id just level with him and say, dude I love the confidence, that is some Floyd Mayweather type of poo, but you just can't do it.

Even if he can't play in college anymore, which is still under review, someone in the NFL would take him in the supplemental draft or pay him as the highest paid undrafted free agent ever. The kid is too talented. He will get a shot as long as he completes his rehab and abstains from future gambling

Because of a gambling addiction? He's got a mental health issue and he is working it out. That doesn't mean "his career is over"

I think the combine workout reaction is a bit overstated. He needed a different pair of cleats. For whatever reason, the pair he wore kept causing him to slip. If I was his agent, I would have stopped the workout to prevent injury or to get him a new pair of cleats.

There is one thing that stands out about Brazzell that I don't like and don't know if it can be coached, because it seems like he does it reflexively: he jumps to make the catch nearly every time. Even if the ball is at his chest or waist, he jumps. Limits run after catch, exposes him to bigger hits, and lets the defender make a play on the ball before his feet come down. Could be an issue.

He really is the biggest douchebag. Just a long, long history of douchebaggery.

??? Trevin is a lot of things, but slow is not one of them.

I don't think this is a matter of Dan giving "his guy" another shot. I really think it is just a matter of how the board fell. Trevin isn't guaranteed anything.

Except we have him playing safety, so there's that.

It has been cursed by the spirit of Tommy Jone...