Mr. Scot

Fair point.

When you play for a head coach who kinda likes great athletes, that sort of thing could be a bit of an issue.

I'm still trying to figure out what exactly "a GM" looked at that made him think this guy was worth trading up for. That Bills war room video says it all.

Who let you in?

Staying healthy isn't his biggest issue. Watched him an awful lot last year, and what I learned was that if nobody's running straight at him, he has no idea what to do. It's basically like the old joke about a karate guy not knowing how to react if someone doesn't attack him the way they do in class.

Kuechly retired prior to free agency so unless he's clairvoyant, not likely.

Rhule referred to his time in New York as basically being his "junior and senior years". They've pretty much confirmed that they're going to treat him like a rookie, and I think that's the right approach. One good part of that though is that unlike a typical rookie, he won't have to get adjusted to the speed of the game.

To give you some context, there were some big fans of Justin Fields on here who, prior to the draft, had talked themselves into believing that Sam Darnold was only picked up as an insurance policy just in case we couldn't get somebody better. The way the draft went down didn't exactly meet their expectations.

Thanks. Our friend Sizzlebuzz isn't going to be real happy to hear the Tepper thing though.

I'm guessing you really are new. For those of us who have been here a while, this is familiar

Ouch. But apparently he throws the ball really well

The current regime's "entire body of work" consists of one free agency period and a draft. We have no idea what their on-field product looks like yet.

From what I've read, it seems to be the same dynamic that existed between Richardson and Marty. Loyalty. That, plus apparently Roseman doesn't mind letting Lurie make draft picks for him.

I'm predictable

I actually hope Drew Brees is very happy with his retirement. I know I am

I was wondering if we had any connections with Leno here, so I looked it up. The Bears OL coach during his rookie year was current Panthers line coach Pat Meyer.

Out of curiosity, who did you plagiarize that analysis from?

Kind of an interesting tidbit here in McLane's article... Roseman is known for going rogue on draft day. The scouts and the personnel people will have the next guy up on their draft board ready to go, and he'll just suddenly pick somebody else. (speculation is that it's actually owner Jeffrey Lurie making those picks and Roseman is covering for him, but nobody can say for sure) As you can imagine, this frustrates the hell out of the scouting staff and it's been cited as the cause for some of the team's worst picks in recent years. One of those cases happened last year. The scouts had a particular player pulled up as the next guy on their draft board, but Roseman shooed it away and "went big" as McLane puts it, by choosing quarterback Jalen Hurts instead. So who did the Eagles scouts have teed up on the board? Southern Illinois DB Jeremy Chinn. (thanks, Howie)

Or the subtle nuances of poop

Understood.

Have heard some folks say Doug Pederson deserves the lion's share of the credit for that, but he and Lurie didn't see eye to eye. I've said before that Howie Roseman is the Eagles version of Marty Hurney, but unlike what happened to us, it doesn't look like anything is going to save Eagles fans from his being the "GM for life" that Richardson wanted Marty to be. Eagles beat writer Jeff McLane put together a "deep dive' article about him a while back.

Just so I'm clear, what's your opinion of Marty Hurney again?

Switched to BLESTO back in 2014. We still have a BLESTO scout on staff. If I recall correctly, BLESTO is the service that's used by the majority of NFL teams. There's an article discussing the differences between BLESTO and National Scouting here.