45catfan

Commies is so fitting of DC right now. They probably just polled the local folks who thought it would be a wonderful name.

Oh man, I sure hope so!!!!

Campen seems like a honest genuinely good dude. I hope he survives the Rhule era.

Explain that to half the Huddle. Draft a QB=Superb Owl!!!

Lol, moving UP for a QB this year! Heck, we could move back and still get one.

CEO, Cheerleader extraordinaire officiate. Yeeeeeaaaaaaaaah Team!

You know crap is getting weird when I pie 4corners.

Ahem, I've been around long enough to still have a TC pic or two on my computer I took back in the day.

We now know why he wears gloves, to keep a grip on the ball. Isn't a NFL ball slightly bigger than a college ball too?

Rhule is finally realizing that ex-Baylor and ex-Temple positional coaches/coordinators might not cut in the NFL. Snow looking like the one exception. I guess survival trumps loyalty at this point in the game for ol' Matty boy.

Even more reason go OT at #6 assuming Neal, Okwonu and Cross aren't all gone. One of these guys at LT, Moton at RT and BC as the swing tackle. Then we can focus on the interior and that is much easier done with later picks or FA.

You'd think he learn his lesson about taking a job with a rookie HC or one on the hot seat. He may be looking for employment next off season too.

Wow, you said the quiet part out loud. How dare are you! People are not actually looking at Willis, but hoping he's Cam 2.0 instead based off the things being posted here about his scrambling abilities. Here's the part of their nostalgia that is lacking in reality: Cam got wore down after 7 years of his body taking a beating at 6'5" and 250 pounds. Willis? He's almost the exact same size as RGIII. How long did that last scrambling around in the NFL?

Didn't he have an injury in his bowl game He's probably not going to risk further injuring or re-injuring it for a meaningless game. He'll probably throw at the Combine and work out at his Pro Day. Those hold more a lot more weight in the evaluation process anyway.

Money speaks volumes my friend. Saying someone will take a hometown discount and them turning down more money elsewhere is easy for you or I to say. The dude actually walking away from more money probably sees it a little differently.

I had to go back all the way to back to 1968 to find a top 10 center and that was #2 overall. A highly touted center usually goes no higher than the mid-teens (still VERY, EXTREMELY rare) and most top centers in a typical class go late round 1 to early round 2.

At #6. Virtually unheard of centers being top 10 picks.

If all 3 OTs are taken, then I'm trading down or taking Linderbaum at a slight reach if unable to move.

So I went back and looked at QBs drafted from '10 to '19 and put them into two categories (the ones that actually were starters for a while) and found 2 was the high water mark for difference making franchise QBs in any one draft. The '10, '13, '14 and '15 drafts netted zero successful franchise QBs. The '12 and '17 drafts netted 2 and only ONE in the years not stated. The last two drafts, while looking promising, are too new to include at this point. The other category was what I deemed 'purgatory' QBs...those that keeps a team competitive, but will not good enough for a post season on a regular basis. The 2012 season was unusual with 4 of them and the '14 season netting 3. All other years were 1 or 2. So as you can see, with most years having roughly 10 QBs drafted, finding a franchise saving QB is MUCH harder than it seems on the surface.

It depends for me. If they turn around a doormat franchise, yeah, I'll be disappointed that we passed on him. But if you take Mac Jones, for instance, he couldn't have replicated what he did in NE here. Heck, he'd been on IR before the midway point of the season in a Panthers uniform.

Fair enough, it seemed like you were on the 'draft a QB no matter what' train. There are some folks here on that train.

And if not, are you going to be livid we passed on a crop of QBs we deemed unworthy to draft?

Yeah, you do your research and don't exactly like what you see and yet you still draft a guy out of desperation hoping this unpolished rock is actually a gem...despite all the research done showing otherwise.

Again, do you even see a Hebert in this draft? I don't. It was a coin flip if the Dolphins were going to take Tua or Herbert. Herbert could have easily been QB2 behind Burrow. If picks 2-4 needed a QB, he could have went higher. Point being, this class is not great and blindly throwing darts at the board hoping you hit a bulls eye is not a strategy...it's desperation.

Very true, but if one isn't there you believe can get the job done, do you still take one and cross your fingers? Let's see in your example..one was a National Champion, the other was a Heisman Trophy winner and Allen had all the traits you wanted in a NFL QB but needed to improve accuracy. No Natty QBs in this draft, no Heisman trophy winners and none that are considered worthy of the #1 overall pick. Heck, I don't even see a Josh Allen in this draft. He'd be QB1 in this class.