tukafan21

Eh, not so much, it's not like some random stranger on the street was able to get it from them, that would be concerning. Do you lock your computer at home when you go to the kitchen to get a snack or go to the bathroom? Of course not. This is no different, unless this kid had done something in the past to make his dad think he'd do something like this, he'd have had no reason to think he needs to lock his computer/phone/etc in his own home if he was just in another room.

Maybe in a year or two, but for this year, T-Mac needs to almost exclusively line up on the outside. Yes, T-Mac very much excels in that power slot role, and it would be smart for us to use him that way. But right now we basically have T-Mac and a whole bunch of guys who are probably best suited to line up out of the slot. We need to develop XL and Coker more so they can slide our there when T-Mac slides into the slot for a snap.

I actually put my phone on airplane mode around the 5th pick. While I know my friends, if we took T-Mac, they'd have let me have the moment and would have kept quiet. But if they saw we took someone else on Twitter before it was shown, I don't think they'd have been able to hold back from sending some half cryptic text. In the end, I was right, if they did see it beforehand, nobody texted me, but I'm still glad I did it as it gave me a moment that I'll kinda never forget. And I say kinda, because while I won't forget Thursday night, in a way, I kinda blacked out for the next hour, at one point I looked up and saw they were on like the 12th or 13th pick at that point, I had zero idea what had gone on, my head was still spinning.

You're the first person I've seen mention them say they were excited when Graham got taken, they actually said something like "we thought it meant we'd get our guy" So everyone who was saying things about how it sounded like we wanted Graham but when he was taken, T-Mac was the pick, I'm not so sure, it might have been T-Mac the whole time and they were afraid off him going there at 5 since the Browns need WRs and that's what they really meant in that press conference.

Been forgetting to ask this too...... Did anyone else who was watching the draft on NFL Network have a real strong feeling that we took T-Mac in the 30 seconds leading up to our pick when the analysts were getting their last words in? Those guys know the picks by then, even if the truck hasn't told them in their ear, they see it on Twitter and/or hear it from their sources as they're constantly still trying to get the most up to date information second by second. The first guy to talk first said how we had a horrible defense and that's where he would go, but then when Eisen said something like "so sounds like you're predicting defense" he quickly started talking about how we still need weapons for Bryce and could see us go offense as well. But it was the second guy who was talking about how he thought we'd take defense in the past tense. He even said something like "I thought they were going to go defense and Walker was going to be the guy I'd have taken." Now maybe it was just me hoping we'd take my guy, but just the way he said it, it very much sounded like he knew we took an offensive player, it was the toughest 30 seconds of my life to not get too excited since, well, you know.

I was 100% ready for us to not take T-Mac the last few weeks as all the smoke was that we were going defense, just as I was probably expecting to see us trade back than use the pick as well. But if we traded back and the team that took our pick then used to to take T-Mac, I'd have been legitimately devastated, I'd rather have seen us just pass on him than do that, it would have hurt.

lol, not sure which I like more, the Cowboys part or the Shedeur part

Thielen is Bryce's favorite target, but not because he's the only one who creates separation, but because he's the only one he can actually rely on to catch the freaking ball when he throws it to him. XL had terrible drops last year, Coker was still an UDFA and is raw and learning the game, our best TE was another raw rookie with potential but still not there yet, and our #1 going into the season decided a month in that he was going to become a huge head case and end up on like 18 different teams by the end of the year because of it. So who else do you think he was going to throw the ball to? All that's also ignoring the dumb statement that T-Mac can't get open, keep telling yourself that, because at least that way you'll just be THAT much happier when the season comes around and T-Mac is putting up video game like stats.

It won't be to eliminate Bryce's tunnel vision, but unless we're legitimate playoff contenders at the deadline, I'd be shocked if Thielen isn't traded during the season. I can't see any way he is a Panther next season, he either retires or signs with a contender for one final shot at a ring. So if that's the case, we're not legit playoff contenders, and he's playing well, I do think some contending team that could use a steady WR will give us like a 4th for him at the deadline hoping it will be the last piece to the SB puzzle they need. Keep Thielen around through camp and the early season to help the young guys get up to speed, then if we can get a 4th for a guy who won't be back next year you jump all over it and then go out and sign whoever the best vet FA on the market is to replace Thielen's mentorship in the WR if needed (maybe Renfrow after he doesn't make the final 53 in the end?)

No. SOME people had him ranked lower, but in no world did "a lot of people" have him ranked that low, the overwhelming majority of experts, analysts, whatever you want to call them had him as the #1 or #2 WR in the class depending on if they kept Hunter in that category or not, or at worst maybe 3rd behind Hunter and then like Golden or something.

If I remember correctly, last offseason or possibly the one before, they changed the cutdown rules and instead of gradual steps, you just have to be to the 56 man roster until just after the last preseason game.

I like this post. LOL 72 hours after the pick is made, on the 42nd page of this thread, and just a very simple, "I like this pick"... what a post, love it (and no, this isn't sarcasm, it's just a hilariously awesome post this deep into the thread haha)

I know he's a long shot to make the team anyways, and while I'll understand if he won't want to do it to try and make his own name, but I really hope he wears 87

I'm not dismissing that, but again, that's why Eli had a better career than Rivers, because he put those runs together, even though Rivers was the better player, but that doesn't mean the Giants "clearly won the trade" like you said. Rivers only started 6 more games than Eli and played in 8 more than him, but despite that, Rivers had 17 more wins, 6,400 more yards, 55 more TDs, 35 less INTs, and a 4.5% better completions, while making 8 Pro Bowls to Eli's 4, and all those extra stats came in somehow only a total of 15 more pass attempts in his career than Eli had. The SB's are really the only part of their careers that Eli was better than Rivers, so there's a very real argument to be made that had the Giants not made the trade and just kept Rivers, they very well might have had even more success than they did under Eli, and because of that, I can't say they won the trade itself.

And Eli was 0-4 in his career in the playoffs outside of the two SB seasons. It’s not like Eli was dragging inferior teams to succes, he needed a fully built out team to win those SB’s. If you remove the two SB’s, Rivers was the better QB between them. I’m not taking away from how Eli played in those runs, but I’m not going to say those SB’s couldn’t have happened with Rivers either. Which is why Eli had the better career, but the trade itself was a draw.

Eli had the better career because of the SB’s of course, but the trade itself I think was a draw, they both got HOF QB’s out of it, and so much more goes into winning a SB than only the QB.

At a minimum, he's less a camp body as much as a camp mentor for our crazy young WR room. But if he shows out, I could see him taking Moore's spot on the roster in the end.

I mean, he should have thrown a more accurate pass

Just the ramblings of an Arizona alum and Panthers fan still trying to process that this actually happened and I’m not stuck in the cruelest days long dream of all time LOLOL

He had 2 games last year over 251 yards passing. AFTER the benching he had 5 games of 203 yards or less and only 4 games over 203. Trying to pull out whatever stat they use to call something a "big time throw" as proof that he's proven be belongs in the league as the face of a franchise is so much more of a delusional take than the opposite. He improved his play after the benching, but trying to say anything more than that is the delusional take, sorry but those are the facts.

I'm not sure drafting a project is the way to go, the NFL is in a weird place right now when it comes to QB's. There aren't 32 elite starting caliber QB's at the moment, but there are far more than 32 serviceable QB's right now. The quality level of many backup QB's right now is far higher than it ever used to be. If Bryce proves himself on the field, I'd rather keep using our draft picks on guys who might actually play for us, and then go find a new backup every year or two and bring in either a Flacco type, the aging vet who would be solid in a pinch, or a Jameis, Daniel Jones, Carson Wentz, etc, type who while they've struggled as a starter before, are still going to be better backup QB's than the late round draft pick projects.

Interesting, hadn't heard that before. Wonder if this will change the way they go about things and maybe from now on they won't pass those phone numbers out to each team but will be somewhat handled like a switchboard where only the league has those numbers and they connect the team to the player when it's time to do it.

The stupidity isn't even doing it (which yes, was stupid) but it was then posting the video of you doing it online. It's basically like robbing a bank and then posting a picture of you holding all the cash on twitter afterwards. Both are dumb, but one is many levels of dumber than the other.

Yes... dumb, immature, wrong, a lot of ways to describe this. HOWEVER.... of all people, Shedeur and the Sanders family don't have much of a leg to stand on when it comes to being respectful and going about their business in a humble way and "doing the right thing" I'm not going to say I can excuse this because of who they did it to, but this would be the closest I could ever come to saying they got what they deserved for how they've handled everything about Shedeur since the moment he got to college and leading into draft day.