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Sorry, we can’t accept #4 when Person or one of the others said that Morgan was on the say no to the Rams Herschel Walker level deal team. He and Fitterer tried to extend Burns. We waited too long so he asked for $30M which basically cost us 2 1sts we could have used in the Bryce trade up and not given away the 2024 1st overall pick, Moore and this year’s 2nd. Morgan does not get credit for botching the Rams offer. All he’s done so far is spend a lot on FAs. Let’s let him actually have a solid draft first because the 2024 draft was pretty much a bust. We spent a 1st and 4th this year on the same positions we took 1st and 2nd last year.

No need to keep rehashing it but it wasn’t understandable because of the 2025 RB class. It makes no sense to take an injury risk that likely wasn’t going to have any impact in 2024 in the 2nd when you could have a healthy Johnathan Brooks in 2025 with a later pick. Getting re-injured was just the icing on top of the bad value pick.

Yeah, very few hits but it never feels like we get the top ones. Coker was and he did well. Outside of the kicker, seems like no one we got has any chance. Just looking at best available on a draft tracker and George is 93 out of 105 and no one else made the top 105 post draft. I know it’s not a be all end all but it still feels like we aren’t even trying hard.

I liked it better than the past few years, so that’s good. It has way more potential but it could be really bad, really quick. The edges and TMac have to be good. If not, there’s very little left. The draft has potential to be solid if we solve the edge issue or TMac becomes Evans. I just wish we spent a 2026 7th to jump a few picks and get a potential Moton replacement. I think that would have really helped.

Uh duh, Star dropped due to medical worries as well. This isn’t revisionist anything. Were you in the draft day threads back then? He was a day 2 talent that dropped because of medical concerns. If you want to be factually correct, many of us were saying to grab him in the 6th because we had 3 6ths and it was worth the risk. Smith played his entire last year at Tennessee and we all agreed that an NFL team could manage his condition better than Tennessee and it was worth the risk to draft him. The NFL clearly didn’t stop him from participating at the combine. Here’s his combine page: https://www.nfl.com/prospects/trey-smith/3200534d-4976-4701-9935-2cd0c0d35dd1 if you want to read it. You can try and defend it like no team was willing to risk it but KC obviously did and we were all vindicated. It was absolutely worth it over a long snapper that never made the roster and an overweight guard that never played and was absolutely atrocious in the Senior Bowl. Heck, just look at what we did the next year. We took a Tennessee guard in the 6th. Pretty clear our own guys realized a mistake was made. Anyway, maybe some others revised their stories but I’ve been posting here for a long time and follow the draft process every year. I’m sure it would be tough to search but I’m sure there are plenty of people in here that remember the truth and that we weren’t revising anything. Smiths medical history was well known and sorry, he should have been our pick and it was 100% worth the risk.

So true. Our drafts have been A+ since 2017. We just bitch and moan about nothing. Honestly, had we sniped Williams this round, I’d be pretty happy. We need TMac to be a legit stud like Mike Evans and we need the edge guys to perform. If one happens, a late round diamond can still make it ok. If neither happens, we suck. If both happen, we might win the division.

OL drop a lot. Day 3 is ideal place to find diamonds in the rough. What sucks is that we’ve barely used late picks on OL. It’s why we have to spend $180M for guards and a center along with pick 6 overall to go with a RT that Gettleman selected. Trey Smith was a travesty especially when most of us in here wanted us to overdraft at OL. It’s not shocking that KC took Smith and that the Bills and Eagles took OTs right before us. We probably came into round 6 with a let’s get a return man and be happy with it. Actual, quality GMs/teams always draft well and draft value when it’s there.

Typical Panthers. Take special teamers over OL/CB, need positions. LS over Trey Smith, returner over TBD. Eagles did us dirty. Williams was the guy I really wanted in the 6th and we missed by one pick.

The top teams seem to have dominated just picking solid prospects while poo teams reached.

fuging a. Eagles get him and he’ll be a stud in a few years. I hate when we don’t jump in late rounds for obvious guys. Do we not learn that OL is fantastic value on day 3. Sucks we have a big need at RT when Moton is gone. OT going left and right and we just sit on our hands.

Be happy with either. Cam Williams, especially. This is the perfect spot to groom a replacement to Moton. He’s got the physical tools and his surgery may be why he’s fallen.

They do. The past 8 drafts including this one have been filled with every other team knowing our picks ahead of time and PR like this trying to explain reaches/bad picks. The Rams are the same team that offered us 2 1sts and a 2nd for Burns. I hope McMillan works out but a rumor about the Rams is just to make us feel better and has 0 impact on whether or not we made a good pick.

Huh? We didn’t take a WR at 8 to light a fire under anyone’s butt. McMillan was drafted to be WR1, it’s up to XL if he wants to be WR2 or WR3 with Coker or off the team like Mingo. Unless McMillan sucks, XL has already been put in the back seat. It just means that our 1st and 2nd round picks in Dan’s first draft were again, terrible picks.

Do you have faith in any WR we’ve drafted since Moore? I’m not a fan of our WR selections since Moore. It’s been lots of mediocre day 1/day 2 guys. McMillan just fits those guys. It’s just weird with weak armed QB that we wouldn’t go for small quick guys who can get lots of separation.

That’s done to get more hits.