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Heck, that was just his baby oil and rufees budget.

10 years from now, they are going to be talking about him being the guy of this draft, the undisputed best pick. Just like they did 10 years after Luke was picked. You remember, we picked who? A linebacker at number 9? Who throws away a pick on a linebacker that high? He's not even a pass rusher??? If Dan Morgan has the opportunity and doesn't take Warren with our pick, he's a fool. All the other positional players still available at our current pick (and even some who will be taken before, like QB) are one of a group of folks among the best, part of a cluster, some slightly better than the rest. At TE you have Tyler, very much way out in front for his position group AND way out in front among all the players in the draft. There are no medical dings, no personality dings, no intelligence dings, no coaching dings, no legal dings. Grab the guy and move on. The hard, difficult choices follow in the second and later rounds, save the homework for those picks.

Warren in the first. Rolling ball of Swiss Army Knives.

We're taking Warren in the first. The answer to our passing situation isn't a WR.

I mean, really, yeah. We've got two 1,000 yd rushers on the team, plus re-signed a KR specialist and have a second round pick who will probably be on injured reserve. That's a lot of guys for a 53-man roster right there.

It's Raheem Blackshear.

If he's still there, run to the podium and take Tyler Warren. I've said it before and I'll say it again: this guy is going to be the next best TE to play the game. He would make an immediate impact on our success rate in every single game, every single offensive snap. This is also a deep defensive draft and we can grab some good guys in the second and later rounds. There is also a second wave of free agency yet to come and a third when camp starts to shake itself out. Grab Warren who will be a standout player for years to come, rather than risking it on a DE/Edge that looks and performs like a Brian Burns, potentially dynamic but ultimately just decent.

And another new one:

CBS did a 60 Minutes episode on it a few years back, it was really enlightening.

We need Samoan players. Honestly, the football programs these kids grow up in in American Samoa, led and financed by a number of former NFL players, is just amazing. Really is turning out some of the best prospects from anywhere in the US and it's territories. Generally they are great young men with a lot of knowledge of the game. American Samoa probably produces for pro football players per square mile of any place in the world.

You've hit the nail on the head with this. I always thought Teddy got a raw deal and should have been around for a second season here at the very least. If you keep playing musical chairs when you ought to be playing football, then you're going to lose more and more games as the team goes from being frayed around the edges to just a pile of useless strings. Let's hope we can hold this together for a bit longer and let things gel a bit more. Give Canales a chance to actually create a culture and renew our identity. Edit to add: And if anything was learned from last year it's that good young QBs sometimes take some time to grow into their roles. And maybe some adversity is good for them. Let's keep Bryce upright and on the field.

Bet the over.

Ian Thomas has a very specific talent and anyone who has worked in the corporate world has seen it: He's an unseen survivor -- that lower end management guy who just goes meeting to meeting, coffee mug in hand, takes some notes, says little and hangs on through re-org after re-org, survives every downsizing and somehow just keeps stays on the payroll. Dude certainly hasn't had a Hall of Fame career, but he's hopefully generated a generational changing wealth for his family. Good luck to him in Las Vegas, may he get five more years there.

Oh, yeah, I agree. But really there's been a lot of dead wood further up the roster that has bothered me more. That bottom of the roster, ST-hopeful guys -- yanno, I'm going to pull for them and hope they get a chance to shine if for just a moment and find a bit of immortality, if not worldwide, at least in the towns they'll call home eventually. It's the guys with six figures in their yearly salary that do nothing more than keep the bench from flying up in the air or kinda slow down a pass rusher for a play or two to give a tackle a breather that tick me off. I'm not saying names, but we all know those guys.

Dang, who knew you felt so strongly about this guy?

We need ST'ers, too. We weren't great there either. And rather than wash out the entire bottom half of the roster as might be called for, perhaps it's good to hang on to a few who were ST'ers from last year just to keep lingo continuity going. Here's hoping he was one of the good ones. Best of luck to him.

And no slam on the guy, hope he'll be good for us, just nothing memorable so far.

Who??? I mean, really, who? For the life of me, didn't know he was on the team last year.

I love XL and I think he's going to be great. And yes, he's eccentric to most folks. But I will be danged if I can understand what the heck he said. Of course, you can't help but watch ... and that's probably the secret to the advertising there.

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He doesn't hurt the team at all and adds another veteran presence in the WR room. We needed another guy to help Thielen bring up our next generation of receivers. Hope to see him really have an outstanding year.

Also, he was long and lean, but strength and mass were lacking. Tough to play him at edge like that. He was a tweener betwixt edge and OLB. Just wasn't the right fit for a team in transition, or for a team trying to transition to fit him. Grab draft picks that fit who your team is.

I never understand what the Teppers do, except I understand that it hasn't been working out so far. So, maybe a change is necessary. Here's the deal. I'm saying that if Warren is there at 8, we will take him. Your side of the argument wins if ANYONE else is taken there and Warren is still available. It's a wash if Warren is already gone. Simple. Let's see how it shakes out.

We expected about four or five more per season than we got. Like I said, he was decent but not great like we had hoped.

In all honesty, we needed a replacement for Burns when we drafted Burns. His best move was the Spider-man pose that everyone loved. And beyond that, he proved to be a modestly accomplished edge rusher, modestly. And he couldn't play the run to save his life. Sorry, had to throw that in. Loved the guy, but he just never hit the potential we hoped for. Edit to add: And we changed from a 4-3 to a 3-4 to accommodate him.