Khyber53

That kid can become a monster. Just needs a lot of polish. It takes more than "Hulk Smash" to win in the big league. Of course, being able to Hulk Smash-it will really help!

After everything looked like we were just passing on adding to the line (those first and second round picks just flew by) they did pick up a haul of warm bodies to throw in there. There could be some promise and I'm beginning to think Christensen could be steal and our answer at LT. Some folks point at size and arm length but the guy measures out a lot like Jordan Gross. If he plays like Jordan, then it will be the steal of the entire draft. What's the chance of that happening, though, right? Jeremy Chinn turned out to be the steal of last year's draft, so maybe the third round is our magic round. Overall, we have options and some youth in the mix for the offensive line. Hope we can get five guys who can gel and give us at least a bit more stability.

They really moved the chess pieces around a lot. Do they have a real plan or are they just playing crazy and hoping something sticks? I don't understand their picks last night but it's not like they called me ahead of time and laid out their strategy. Maybe they grabbed some unsung heroes, maybe they missed some better choices. Just going to wait and see how it plays out on the field. I remember back in the day going "Jake Who?" when this unknown Cajun guy was trotted out just before halftime of a losing game. I hope I can be just as pleasantly surprised by this season as I was by that one.

No, I don't think that is going to happen at all. We're in that "everyone's lawyered up and building cases" part of the ordeal. Until it goes to court, and it might not for a long time (good lawyers keep filing extension after extension), no one is going to want to touch him, in a literal or figurative sense. The sheer number of accusations is just overwhelming. Is he guilty or not? I have no idea and no one outside of the individual situations knows it. Billionaires with tons of advisors and legal councils of their own probably aren't going to extend an offer of any sorts for the time being. Many will watch the ownership of the Texans with more than just a bit of entertainment in their eyes. Remember, we (and even millionaire QBs) aren't anything other than game pieces. Watson is just basically a Pokemon card, a rare one, but nothing more than a piece of paper to them if his perceived value is threatened.

I can't agree with you and I can't disagree with you. Outside looking in you have to say we passed on some names that should have gotten attention. Inside looking out maybe they got players that were way, way, way undervalued. We have a ton of late round picks, picks of people generally that aren't going to make it to the field and possibly not to the final roster. On the other hand, they could be saying it's time to say goodbye to any third or fourth year players that are just living on the special teams squad and bringing in new, cheaper, blood. We've got to trust in the process, I know. We've got to post better than 5-11, though, this too I know.

Honestly, I don't know exactly what to think of the picks. There was a lot of talent coming off the board as we traded back and back and back. Yes, we picked up more picks, but all would be for apparently lesser quality players. I just look at the three players and wonder if they didn't lose some people off of their draft boards before we made these picks. If not, then our scouts are either doing a massive job of finding diamonds or we've got some odd ways at looking at potential. Taking a WR from LSU just seems like a Brady luxury pick when we have such needs on the line. Maybe we're looking at long term cost savings because after next year Robby is going to be even more expensive. Who knows? Out of all the tackles that went off the boards after we traded down, this was the OT we went with? It's a bit of a head scratcher but maybe there's some skills there that outweigh the measurables. Tommy Tremble... gotta love the name. But beyond that he's a who? guy to pick at this stage. I'm giving the picks an optimistic but shaky B.

After innumerable trade downs and seeing a lot of familiar names fly off the list to other teams, we grabbed three guys to be on the team. Who was passed over no longer really matters. Whether they were the best players that could have been picked doesn't matter anymore. They are all Panthers from here on, and I'm going to cheer for them. Here's hoping that they all become stars in their own rights.

So, we grab a guy out of LSU that Joe Brady is familiar with. A guy that has injury problems, including foot stress fracture issue that may or may not have come back up again in his final season. We play the Greg Olsen waiting game with a WR's foot while we could have picked literally any other position where there was more need? I guess, if anything, he'll have a lot in common with the walking wounded free agents we picked up this offseason while they are hanging out in the trainers' room.

Exactly! And we grab a guy with stress fracture problems in his foot. Because, yanno, that worked out well with Greg Olsen.

Yeah and most of the prior year's roster went to Washington or Buffalo. Two teams that went to the playoffs. Rivera was done here, it was obvious and his OC and DC were terrible. Just not sure we don't have the same thing all over again, but with a set of college coaches.

Honestly, WTF? We have two 1,000 yard receivers, one of the best receiving RBs to ever play the game and an intriguing prospect at TE. If we can't get the ball to one of those guys it's because SOMEONE IS BREAKING THROUGH OUR LINE AND KILLING OUR fuging QB!!!! AGAIN!!!!

They coached up 5-11.

I'm became less and less enamored of Brady as last season went on. I think a lot of teams looking for a HC had the same problem with him. And don't get me started on Snow and the batch of old ladies he threw out there on the field last year. I've been hoping that it was just them having to work with the leftovers of the previous regime, but there's a nagging feeling that we've got a coaching group that is in way over their heads. And I am worried we may have a GM who had Peter Principled his way to his eventual level of incompetence while he was still with the Seahawks. Tonight has not inspired any confidence in me. But like I said when we decided to throw Rivera on the funeral pyre... there's a chance the next coaching group could be even worse.

It might set an NFL record.

Just two more picks between us and either disappointment or bewilderment.

No matter who I thought we'd take in the second, nowhere did I see us trading down, trading down again and probably looking for another trading partner. Marty Hurney spiked their water bottles with LSD, didn't he?

How deep of a sleeper is he? We're not making any serious picks until Monday.

I think Rhule left his draft board in the back seat of an Uber last night and we're just trading back and back and back until they can remember who that driver was and get the list back. Or he's laughing his ass off at the guaranteed money while talking with Baylor about getting the band back together.

The guys we will picking up in the draft this year:

He'd have had him at Temple but they couldn't clear the visa requirements. At Baylor, he couldn't climb over the border wall.

The person with the most draft picks left over at the end does NOT win.

Entire first and second were stacked, too by definition then. Talk about performance anxiety!

Screw it, now that guy is going to the Saints. We just traded for a fifth in 2017, a seventh this year and two supplemental draft pick opportunities later this summer. Are they smoking crack in there?

Oh fug, I was just typing something and that happened. WTF????

We're going to take a tight end from the Antwerp/Brussels School of Art and Design, Guy Fleuwoven.