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I'm not completely sold on Walker but if I'm forced to pick between Stewart and Walker I'm taking Walker all day everyday.

5 is more than Stewart had his entire career. LOL The thing the vast majority of 1st round busts have in common is that they have all the traits for a pro player.

Two (2) sacks in SEC play in three seasons. He had a whole half a sack in SEC play this season.

If you just saw the stat line with no accompanying Combine workout numbers you'd assume this was a guy who was a long shot to get a UDFA camp invite who should probably be spending plenty of time updating his non-football resume.

Imagine spending a top 10 pick on an EDGE with this stat line... This guy has workout warrior written all over him.

Graham, T-Mac, Walker, Warren, or trade down.

We've been doing it for YEARS. I remember all the smoke around guys like Shaq and Vernon Butler because so many of us myself included were like why the fug would we be making these picks at positions where we're strongest when we have such obvious holes and these guys aren't even great prospects?

We're pretty slick at the poker table. LOL

We'll pretty much know who the pick is going to be. We've been telegraphing the fug out of our 1st round picks for years.

I don't think we can afford to fire Hubert right now after the Belichick deal. I think Bubba's seat is red hot though. If this Belichick thing turns into a circus and Hubert keeps putting trash on the hardwood that dude is GONE.

Oh, that AD cares a LOT right now. He just inked Hubert to a big extension, had to sit on that news for months because we sucked and he had to wait until we could string together a couple of wins against bad teams to publicly announce it, everyone knows Hubert should either be fired or be on the hottest of seats and instead he's tied the program at the hip to this guy for the foreseeable future. Bubba Cunningham REALLY needed this team in the tourney to try to sell some type of "win".

Hell, I'm sitting here saying we didn't deserve to be in the tournament and sneaking in as the last team in like landing a fat girl at last call with our AD as the chair of the selection committee is just the absolute worst of optics. What shocks me is how many UNC fans seems thrilled. Thrilled with a play in game to be an 11 seed. WTF??? We've gone from playing for titles and expecting 1 or 2 seeds to just being thrilled to be a footnote.

I could've sworn you were a Wake fan. My bad.

Wake has made what, like three NCAA tourneys in the last 20 years? I think they have one tourney win in the past two decades. You'd think their fans would just go hide somewhere instead of talking about anybody else. LOL

Oh good lord, UNC AD Bubba Cunningham was the chair of the selection committee and we get in as what they admit was the last team in when most assumed we were out after he gives our coach who should probably be fired a 5 year extension? Jesus, this is such a bad look. I didn't want us to get a bid already and now the optica of this? Fug...

Surely to God we wouldn't accept a fuging NIT bid. Hell, even Wake Forest finally developed a little pride and declined an NIT bid. LOL! We might not win the NIT but we kept Wake out of the dance.

Well, UNC is in a play in game to be a #11 seed. Somehow that feels way more embarrassing than just being left out.

I figured he must've lit them up back in '22 when he had over 1200 yards and 11 TDs. Nope. A combined 39 carries for 136 yards for a 3.5ypc average and 0 TDs in his two games against Dallas.

Not surprised. Everyone is running the same ISO dribble ball bullshit. It's the way the elite recruits want to play because that's NBA ball. IMO the ticket to consistent success in this environment is to forget about the elite recruits. Let someone else buy them. Focus on good recruits who buy into a system, probably don't have legit NBA hopes, and want to maximize their NIL earnings knowing that a future in the NBA is probably not in the cards. Gobble up as many of those guys as you can and play team ball.

Somewhat? LOL To be fair, I think any QB worth drafting has somewhat of a big ego but you have to find a way to walk the tightrope between confident and cocky. Confidence is good. Cocky will get you exposed.

Good chance the Giants aren't high on Sanders. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of NFL talent evaluators aren't nearly as high on Shedeur as the media hype beasts. If his name was Shedeur Johnson instead of Shedeur Sanders I'm not sure he'd be a 1st rounder.

Not exactly. Shula simply didn't change how he helped the OL. He very consistently adjusted for struggling protection by keeping in additional blockers and continued to run the same slow developing downfield routes. Wade Phillips countered this with blue dog blitzing where if the guy you're assigned to cover stays in to block, you blitz to negate the extra blocker so that you still create one on one opportunities for your pass rushers. Shula was seemingly oblivious to the reality that he could also counter pressure by dialing up quicker developing routes.

He's really unfairly maligned because of that game. He was a serviceable RT who just could not handle elite speed rushers one on one. The Falcons did us a massive favor denying us a perfect regular season in exposing that reality. Unfortunately, Rivera and Shula must have just through that Vic Beasley absolutely eating Remmers' lunch was a fluke and that he'd surely be able to handle Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware. That game was probably 70% about Wade Phillips taking Rivera and Shula to school and the majority of the remaining 30% was the refs absolutely refusing to throw any flags on the numerous blatant targeting hits by the Broncos.

Jack up threes, drive and flail and try to get to the FT line. That's basically the whole sport now.

Well, to be fair, outside of a handful of seasons we've generally sucked at the OL anyway so when you suck it's pretty dumb to return your starting lineup. We just finally had a decent OL so there's no pressing need for change.