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Wildly inaccurate, especially in today's NFL. The nickel D is the defacto base defense in the modern NFL. Oftentimes in a nickel formation their is no "middle" LB. Even in a 4-3 formation you have over and under formations with the LBs shaded toward one side or the other. In a 3-4 alignment, there are two MLBs. Who's your Mike? It's all about the checking the OL protections.

The only reason he has less risk is because there's less investment. There's a higher likelihood of a high draft pick working out versus a former high draft pick bust. The successful bust reclamation projects are few and far between indeed.

Evans? No. The guy is a legit top 5 NFL WR talent. Godwin? Well, the guy had one elite year. That was with Jameis Winston.

Carr was just the first name that popped in my head. Did Jamarcus Russell go into any better of a situation? The Lane Kiffen era of the late Al Davis reign was a poo show for the ages. Did Blake Bottles go into any better situation? How about Trubisky playing for Adam Gase Jr.? How about Baker Mayfield who has had four head coaches in three seasons? If you're a top pick, odds are you're walking into a poo show and they're hoping you're a big part of what's going to turn that poo show around. You either become a part of the turnaround or you become a part of the ongoing poo show.

Sure. It's better to have longer arms. If an edge rusher has longer arms than the OT he can better keep them from engaging him, but none of that comes in into play unless the OT has the feet to stay with him to begin with. It's kinda like how yeah, ideally you'd have a WR who was 6'2"+ and 210+ but would you pass up a Smitty because he didn't check those boxes? Some teams would. Those teams are dumb IMO. Prototypes exist for a reason, but you gotta evaluate each individual prospect IMO.

It's important, but I'll take great feet with mediocre arm length all day everyday over 35" arms and mediocre feet. If you don't have the feet to stay in front of a guy two inches of arm isn't going to help you.

David Carr

Quite a bit. If it didn't there would be no reason to call out the mike.

That's my issue. Yeah, I think he'll improve but there's a massive gap between what he's been and where he needs to get. I just don't see it happening.

If we've done our homework on Fields and we don't like him then it is what it is. Then again, we did our homework on Teddy Bridgewater and Sam Darnold too, so... oh wee mayne.

Ironically, Humphries hasn't done much of anything away from Jameis. Howard was putting up similar numbers with Brady before getting hurt. Godwin had an elite year with Jameis in '19. He was having a decent year with Brady but his numbers were down pretty big. Meanwhile, Robby Anderson just had his career high yardage with Teddy Bridgewater. Jameis Winston is basically a big time QB but with a big time turnover problem to match. Darnold hasn't shown he can put up numbers like Jameis and his TD:INT ratio is even worse.

Picking up the 5th year option prior to the draft would just be dumb. Keep your options open. Darnold is insurance in case QB at #8 doesn't work out and honestly, I doubt it will and that's why the trade was made.

What top 3 draft pick ever goes into a good situation? It's always an uphill battle. The good ones find a way.

It's possible, but so far Darnold has basically been Kyle Boller 2.0.

#1 on the list... I desperately want the stat to be dumb because I desperately want Darnold to be the answer. Let's be real, we'd be laughing our asses off if we still had a healthy Cam (or any good QB for that matter) and a desperate flailing division rival made this trade and hitched their wagon to Sam Darnold and for good reason.

Matt Ryan was kind of the opposite story as a prospect. Jones has been surrounded by the finest supporting cast in college football. Matt Ryan pretty much single handedly made those BC teams relevant. His supporting cast sucked.

It's about defensive alignments and blocking assignments. The "mike" isn't always the MLB given the defense's alignment on a particular play.

One of those garbage guys was a starting WR for us last year and will be again this year. He's pretty good too.

Really interesting prospect. Off the ball LB with ideal edge rusher length. His evaluations are probably all over the board across the league. He's one of those guys who could end up going a lot higher than most think because it's easy to see how a team could have him valued pretty highly. Other teams are going to be nervous about his height and the relative lack of comps for off the ball LBs.

Yep. Elite talents with no significant question marks will still go high, but other guys? Yeah, I could see some teams questioning their love and dedication to the game. I don't necessarily think that's fair, but I think it's reality.

Crazier things have happened. A lot of people have seemingly forgotten about the off-field concerns.

Sucks but absolutely unsurprising. Great player and seems like a great guy but his injury list is a mile long.

I think Darnold was simply our best bad option. We wanted Watson. Obviously that didn't work out in large part due to reasons that couldn't have been predicted. We talked to the Dolphins about going up to #3. Understandably, we weren't willing to pay that price. We made a significant trade offer for a proven QB in Stafford. We obviously took a look at the draft board and anticipated the guy(s) we liked at QB likely wouldn't be available where we were selecting. At best, Darnold was our fifth option. It is what it is. At least we don't have all that much invested in him all things considered given typical investments at the QB position and we've shown the willingness not to stick with our previous mistakes (see Bridgewater, Teddy).

IMO, your mindset is the same one the decision makers have and -again, IMO - it's a dangerous one. Trying to be the best bad team you can be right now can prevent making the moves you need to make to be the best team you can be for the next decade. I'm not big on Lance. But if Fields is there at #8 he should absolutely be the pick IMO. Fields is the type of QB that would go #1 overall most years. This is just an insane QB class and it baffles me how many people seem blind to that and it's exactly why I was so pissed about that late season WFT win.

I'm already signed up for it and deposit paid. It's supposed to be available here mid-late this year. It's a great thing for internet access to rural areas, but I am a bit concerned about the impact of thousands of low orbit satellites. Space junk is going to become an ever increasing problem.