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It would be awesome to have Richardson if for no other reason than the AR-15 nickname.

Dude can play. No doubt about it. It comes down to whether or not he can stay healthy at the NFL level. He's the Bryce Young of this year's WRs.

I mean, he's made about $38M so far. Even after Uncle am's generous cut that's far more money than the vast majority of Americans will ever see.

Honestly, I just don't see the Wonderlic being a very good predictor of on the field processing. Yeah, it's a timed test but what's happening on an NFL field is happening MUCH faster than what it replicated in the Wonderlic. I can absolutely see it as being a good indicator of learning the playbook, pre-snap reads, etc. but actual processing speed and ability on the field? I just don't see it. If anything, my gut feel based on absolutely nothing concrete is that the smarter a person is the more likely it is for them to struggle to switch off that consciously thinking portion of their brain to revert to the instinct mode that you have to be able to fall back on once the ball is snapped. It doesn't matter how smart you are and how quick minded you are, if you're trying to consciously think through it and process information after the ball is snapped you're going to be too slow. It has to be instinctual.

Pretty much this. I'm not really sure how proficient it is at predicting NFL success or even judging intelligence as is relevant to the game of football, but it's a piece of information.

Hubert is gonna have to learn how to manage an actual rotation or we're going to be very active in the transfer portal losing guys left and right while trying to scrounge together a roster for as long as he lasts here. When your starting five is playing 35+ minutes it basically only leaves 25 minutes to go around for your entire bench. Guys aren't gonna stand for that in the transfer portal era. If they aren't getting PT they're gonna be gone. You'll never find out what they could've developed into because you never gave them a legit opportunity and now they're gone. Tyler Nickel was the all time leading scorer in VA HS basketball and we couldn't find any minutes for him with our starters building brick houses. Styles flat out admitted he was nervous as hell on the court because he knew any mistake might means he never gets off the bench again. Everyone on the bench was basically on the shortest of leashes but the starters just had carte blanche to do whatever. Go out there and go 3-21 and turn the ball over 6 times while playing matador defense. Keep it up!

This Brown kid reminds me of a guy I got paired up with on the golf course back in CO. Before my daughter was born if I could wrap up work for the day a bit early I'd bang out a round of golf in the afternoon as a solo so I'd get paired up with randos doing the same. This particular guy was huge. Like 6'5" 250 in really good shape huge. Over the round talking I found out he played college football. He went to Brown. He basically said that he knew he was a good athlete but he also knew he definitely had no future in football beyond college. He also knew he was a good student but not necessarily good enough to get into top schools on academics alone. But the combo of football and academics could get him into a school he had no business getting into without football. That's how he ended up at Brown. He said he had zero chance at getting into an Ivy League school without football but at the same time he'd be insane to turn down the chance to get an Ivy League degree to go play football at Northern Colorado or Utah State or some of the other similar scholarship offers he was getting. More kids should think like that. Seems like everyone getting D1 attentions thinks he's gonna go pro. A lot of these guys need to realize it's a means to an end. Sports ain't gonna pay the bills and put food on your table unless you're the elite of the elite.

I hate that Love is entering the portal. But I do think it's the best for him. I honestly figured he'd enter the draft and go G League. He'll get an NIL bag somewhere though. I hope he kills it and has an NBA career. I'll always love that kid for ending K's career properly both in the regular season home closer and the Final Four. Dude was a stud when he was on he just never found consistency and Hubert's contract greenlight just wasn't helping him develop.

8th or 9th on the depth chart might as well not even get a jersey with Hubert's "rotations".

I was open to the possibility of signing Carr as a FA. It's not like I was pounding the table for the guy. Before his release I said there's no way I'd trade for him. If Lamar had been a FA I would've had the same take on him. The situations are not the same.

Lamar Jackson's playoff stats https://www.statmuse.com/nfl/ask/lamar-jackson-playoff-stats#:~:text=Lamar Jackson has a passer,the playoffs in his career.

Hopefully. But I honestly think there's a decent chance he's not even on the roster this year.

Fitts still talks about Henderson as if he's a legit starter. It's weird. The dude has lived in the burn trauma unit his entire career.

EDGE and TE are the two biggest strengths of this class. It'd be pretty sweet to end day two of the draft with one of each.

Bryce Young when he saw they had a scale setup for the pro day

Welp, that'll be enough of that. The trolling ran it's course.

He made a 48 yarder on the previous drive. We get it. You like Young. Hell, I do too. But this agenda driven trolling is just tiresome. You can like your guy without trashing a guy who put up 41 points and came missed FG away against the #1 defense in the country.

Hell, let's not forget that OSU missed a FG as time expired after Stroud got them in FG range. But evidently it's still Stroud's fault?

And OSU's defense gave up 42 in the game you're criticizing Stroud for losing.

I think it's a mistake to judge prospects by team results. I'm pretty sure Mahomes had an overall losing record at Texas Tech. I mean, we can always just draft Stetson Bennett if we're just looking for a winner.

Yep, I remember him raving about Kupp. Called him the best receiver in that draft class. Smitty was right. The NFL was wrong letting him fall to the 3rd. He's raving about Josh Downs this year.

I absolutely would not let a 33 year old stop gap or a injury prone guy on a one year prove it deal do much at all if anything to my draft plans.

I wouldn't hold DJ against him. He was a good receiver for us while we trotted out trash QB after trash QB and then proved to be a pivotal piece of the trade that got us the #1 overall pick. Now he's WR1 for another franchise. Hell, he was right about DJ.

Don't get me wrong. I think he has a good NFL arm, I just don't think he's in that Allen/Mahomes/Herbert leauge. I think he's more like Derek Carr-ish in the arm department which still means borderline top 10 type arm. More than enough.

The difference is clear in the games. I don't really care what they throw at the combine. I mean, Will Grier threw 58mph. Jared Goff threw 58mph. Mahomes only threw 55mph. Cam only threw 56mph. Watch the games and Mahomes and Cam obviously deliver a ball with a lot more velocity during actual football games than Grier and Goff do.