PleaseCutStewart

I swear if I see one more idiot that posts something like this and doesn't check what year I joined this forum... He literally averaged less than 3.5 ypc the year I created this profile and had some really bad fumbles that cost us games. Yet... this organization thought it was a better idea to keep giving him the rock than give CMC more touches his rookie year. Pretty sure everyone on this forum with half a brain cell knew he was washed... Sorry, everyone except you. You said we need (what I presume to be) an elite TE if you want us taking Warren at eight to address "Bryce's glaring needs". We just invested about 150 million in the oline and he had one of the best olines last year. It isn't really realistic we keep spending every dollar we have and every high draft pick we have on offense while our defense continues to set records for futility. If we trade down and take Warren in the 20s, I can live with it. Using a top 8 pick on a guy I have a late 1st round grade on while doubly not drafting at a position of need is the kind of crap I expect our front office to do sadly. And you say Kelce, Olsen, and Witten aren't getting open on athleticism yet fail to mention that all 3 of them are/were elite route runners t. Warren's route running is not great (as of right now) and is something he is going to have to work a ton on. Those 3 dudes also got drafted nowhere near #8, which really argues my point of you can find good tight ends in later rounds. This draft is very deep at tight end. At the end of the day, I think Warren is closer in current ability to tight ends along the line of Kincaid, LaPorta, Freiermuth, Hunter Henry, etc. than he is Bowers, Pitts (up this high because of freakish athleticism), and Tony Gonzalez. Those 3 justifiably should have been top 10 picks in the draft.

I want us to come out with the same energy in the first period as game 1. We completely outmatched them that period and the Devils may have had 1 scoring chance the entire period

At some point, we need to stop saying "if only we had X player for Bryce Young". We drafted him number 1 overall - he shouldn't need a top 10 player at every position on offense. If he does, then he isn't the guy And if we are convinced for some reason we do need a tight end for Bryce, I want one that can stretch the field vertically down the seam. That is definitely not Warren

Loveland's draft stock got hurt by the terrible QB room for Michigan last year. He looked really good with a QB that knew how to throw the ball forward the previous season.

Most of Taylor, Arroyo, Ferguson, and Helm are all TEs that should be there in the 3rd/4th that can be solid NFLers IMO. Sure, they aren't as good as Warren/Loveland and most of them are subpar run blockers, but I would much rather have our top pick for defense (whoever we feel that is) over a TE. If Bowers was in this draft, I would have been all over it at 8. There just aren't many TE prospects like Bowers that warrant being picked in the top 10 - last one I can think of is Tony Gonzalez (Kyle Pitts managed to get there because of his freakish athleticism)

I don't care about offensive production for a team that literally only threw to him and the running back. I care about what I see on film: Dude cannot separate on his own against talented LBs/S and had to be schemed open; his route running is below average; while pretty athletic, he doesn't have elite athleticism or speed; his blocking form has quite a few red flags (dude should be a dominant run blocker for his size). He was talented enough to get open in college against a slower LB/S; that won't be the case in the NFL. Not to mention, the dude pretty much was nonexistent until this year for Penn St. If I am drafting a TE in the top 10, choosing a 5th year senior that didn't do anything until his last season should be pretty alarming. Not saying he is going to be a bad player - I think he will be a solid short/intermediate possession TE in the NFL. I just don't understand the logic of taking him top 10

Yeah, it's weird all of the love Tyler Warren is getting. Dude is nowhere near as talented as Bowers, Pitts, or Hockenson were in college. Nothing on his tapes screams "wow". He is a late 1st round talent at best and we would be stupid to draft him at 8 Edit: Not to mention this draft class is deep at TE. Honestly, I don't see much separating Warren from Loveland

As good as stank, chatty, and hall were, I thought ghostbear had a hell of a game also. Truly dominant 1st 2 periods. Let off the pedal a bit in the 3rd, but still an all around good showing defensively

1 down, 15 to go

Even more, manages to get 2 of his guys injured

Big save Freddie

Rumor is Dallas wants to reverse the trade. Sorry, no taksies baksies

I can't handle all of this - I got to watch mikko look like ass game 1 against Colorado and now we got 2 goals from Stank

Lol, mikko could use a few lessons from Stank to not be ass in the playoffs

Good period. Defense has been great so far

Like the pace so far - we will tire them out if it keeps up like this

I'll go with Blake netting our first playoff goal

I would love to see Svech show up for the playoffs with the terrible regular season he had. Hopefully Freddie can play as well as he did last year in the playoffs

Pumped to see Dallas get poo on by Colorado. The sad thing is.. I actually liked Dallas and rooting for them. I just can't now as long as that POS rantanen is on their team. I hope Dallas gets swept

Yeah, I honestly think when something like this happens (reckless driving that leads to death or serious injury), the person should lose their license for life; I don't care if you are 18 or 60. If they are then caught driving afterwards, mandatory jail time. I don't think throwing the book at someone (i.e., many years in jail) for a first time offense for something like this is the answer. However, driving, like many things, is a privilege and it should 100% be lost when anybody does something stupid like this.

While it's awful he ended his life, I'm glad he didn't end up killing anybody else driving his car. Very scary he shot himself while he was still driving the car and I'm glad he didn't hit another car after he did it. Not sure what is up with all of these SEC players and driving insanely high speeds in cars. I feel like Georgia has about 5 arrests/year with dudes driving over 100 on a highway

Well, if they get their shitty games out of the way now and play like Rockstars in the playoffs, I guess that will work

I like your thinking - I'm all for Campbell also

I hope your right

I listened to the 3rd period in the radio - how cool were the fights?