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He really did strike me as a genuinely good, responsible, well-thought out person. Everything I've seen about Bryce says he's one, as well. Honestly, I think we are going to do great with whichever one we choose. I'll cheer for either of them. Happily. And I think we have the coaching staff to keep them as who they are and grow them as players and leaders of not just a team but their community. Character really, really, really counts. And these young men have excellent ones. (From what I have seen at least.)

Worst thing that could happen to WWE was Vince coming back. And it has been a trainwreck since he did. Wow. AEW gets another shot at pushing their way to the top. Good luck to them!

I remember just waiting breathlessly until Thursday nights as a kid to watch Len Dawson and Nic Buonocoti(sp) dissect the games back in the early 80s. That NFL Films footage and the fantastic soundtrack and voiceovers... man it just made the game greater than it was. Hate to see the show has become orphaned again and that it has gotten worse for the wear.

Can't argue with that assessment. A massive bank account does not insure intellect or wisdom. Or a system of ethics...

The mid-card, as with all of the WWE shows, is the strongest part of their presentation. The top end stuff has gotten stale.

It was also a generational change in leadership going from Richardson to Tepper. Old school owner versus the new style of owner. Old money vs new money. And Rivera might be the youngest of the old school coaches out there. How he came up in the business speaking to ownership/management may have been extremely different from the younger generation of coaches making their way in the system today. Now, he's in the coaching chair as another old school-type owner is on the way out and a new school type of owner is on their way in. I think Rivera is referring to the need to be able to speak in a different method than just x's and o's to whoever takes ownership of the team. And I think he's facing the reality that if he doesn't learn the needed language, he's going to go the route of John Fox, Jim Caldwell, Lovie Smith and other relic head coaches that won't grab the head coaching gig again and will be relegated to advisory roles or the C-team on ESPN2 weekends. I like Rivera as a person, I think there's a really first class guy there. As a coach, he's a player's coach who tries to develop hard-nosed, scrappy teams heavy on grit. The teams are throwbacks, as he is at this point, and he's got to find the secret formula to getting someone else to believe in putting the franchise in his hands again. He mirrors Washington's organizations in soooo many ways -- a relic direly needing a total makeover, a record that is meh and one that is starting to billow in the winds of change. Good luck to him, but I think the task before him isn't going to work out in his favor. There's an entire sea change happening to Washington and I don't think he can find the magic.

Especially when you are looking at installing an entirely new system with a new coaching staff and expectations. The system isn't just the QB and the Coach, it's also adjusting everything from line building to comeback drills to rushing formations to even strength and conditioning issues. So many things are having to be built from the ground up here. If you've got a guy who has to have fewer adjustments made on his behalf, that saves bandwidth for the rest of the team building process.

Sure would be a shame to overlook TE in this class...

Just remember that most of this year's picks are tomorrow's rental trash. It's sad, but that's how it works out.

There's so much time between now and the draft, folks have deadlines and word counts to meet to get their checks. We're going to see sooo much speculation and 99% of it really is just that at this point. The other 1% ... probably pure gold, but oh so much harder to smelt away from the impurities.

My only problem with Stroud so far is that his voice reminds me of Kermit the Frog. Of course, the last QB who did that was Patrick Mahomes, so maybe that is a very good thing.

He might be talking his way out of being a top 20 pick. He'd end up on a better team with a better future. He may not be the meat head he appears to be.

I think you've got to take either Young or Stroud at #1. Something tells me that Hooker will be the best of the bunch three years down the road. But if we took him, the fanbase would revolt.

It all seems easy doesn't it? It isn't, though.

Something tells me we're going to see an amazing year out of Jeremy Chinn this season. He's going to be getting a major contract, hope it will be from us.

Isn't it crazy that if the #1 pick in this year's draft comes out and takes the field to play like the last player picked in the previous draft, we'll all be happy as clams??? This is a crazy drug called football.

Let's just get this thing over with... we need to be able to breathe again!

Thanks! That was a really interesting read!

They're putting everything in place here all at once. The plan looks beyond sound and at the edge of spectacular. Can't even imagine how great it could be if it all plays out... I'm wowed.

Young could be so incredibly good, but I just see Robert Griffin III getting killed out there and his career on the field just melting away so quickly. Stroud is bigger, stouter and can make all the throws. Is he mobile enough? Maybe. If not that is his big weakness and we won't really know until his protection breaks down. Both have massive upsides but a single chink in their armors. Third pick would be Hendon. He can do this and he can lead a team. Just that injury is pretty worrisome. He would have had time to heal up, though, as we could run with Dalton for a game or two if needed. Had we stayed at #9 pick I'd have really wanted to see him get snagged by us. As to Richardson and Levis, I agree wholeheartedly with @Mr. Scotthat I really don't like QB candidates that still need to be taught how to play QB. I think both are more hype and hope that reality at this moment.

As much as I think DJ is a great guy, the team made the right decision. DJ wasn't playing up to his contract. Yes, there were QB issues galore and game planning issues, too, but DJ wasn't giving it his all every time he got out on the field. We cleared a big cap headache for the future and secured some defensive building blocks in the same move. I think they made the right decision and DJ will grab some big paychecks and use them to buy heavier coats. Good luck to DJ, though.

Because I didn't say it before and should have, I've always valued what @Verge has to say here. She's right more than most and if she said sources had told her something, then sources definitely told her something.

It can also be a down the line when that rookie contract starts to come up issue. Sure the payments are low now... but the balloon payment could be killer, yanno? Team(s) killer in Watson's case.

You're right on the money here. Cam is far from a cancer. He is, however, one of the most charismatic players ever in the game -- teammates (and fans) love the guy and would follow him anywhere. That's not always easy to deal with if you've got a young QB you are trying to raise up or a coach that isn't much on the personality scale or if you have an entrenched leader already on your team that could get jealous (Steve Smith, Sr. in our own case). He's really best suited for a Taysom Hill role right now as a gadget guy/QB. He can do a lot of damage to opposing teams that way, but you have to keep him on a snap/pitch count. The biggest problem with doing that is Cam himself, he does not want to be on the bench at all and the team around him will begin advocating (or worse) for him to have a bigger role. He's his own best salesman, but he's his own biggest problem. He's not a bad guy, he's one of the best, but he creates a quandary for anyone picking him up right now.

Well, that's a new and interesting take on the situation. Not sure if it really matters, but it certainly could.