LinvilleGorge

It was their last veteran resort. I'm starting to think this staff is afraid of rookie QBs.

Let what go? Hilarious mental gymanstics to justify overlooking three years of some of the worst QB play in the NFL over that timespan? What is Rhule supposed to say? "Yeah, we know the guy has sucked. We're hoping he doesn't suck for US."

While we're throwing shade at people who hold a different opinion, what's the logic behind "Sam Darnold is basically a rookie?"

Speaking of divas... you made an alt account to post this? LOL!

The only guy that really makes since here is Trey Lance and if we were hoping for him then we did a VERY good job of keeping that one quiet. Despite him being a hot mock draft item for us awhile, there was no substantiated rumors of us having the slightest interest in him but that doesn't necessarily mean for sure that we didn't. Fields was there. He and Lance were the only two of the top QB prospects who had any chance of being there. Lawrence/Wilson going #1/#2 was a given and had been for awhile.

90s Cowboys you say? We need more

Yeah, I don't really understand the Mac Jones talk. The word immediately out of Senior Bowl week was that Rhule and company liked Jones but not in the 1st round or certainly at least not at #8. Moving on from a physically limited QB in Teddy to draft Mac Jones at #8 would've been nothing short of baffling.

Understood. But the future draft pick evaluation pretty much was. It's always been roughly one round less, regardless of what spin teams want to put on it. COVID has kinda become a catch all excuse for explaining business decisions. You can go into a lot of evaluation detail or you can just blame COVID. Hell, I'd just blame COVID too. A lot simpler that way and if anyone questions it just call them a COVID denier and mock them. It's lazy, but it's a win/win.

Yeah, we know it was a different year for talent rvakuation. What does any of this have to do with the reality that it has always been standard practice to evaluate future draft picks as roughly one round lesser value?

My point was that you can't really blame COVID for something that has pretty much always been. Yeah, it was a weird evaluation year but next year's picks are pretty much always devalued by a round. Partly because you can't use them now and partly because you can't quantify exactly what pick you're talking about. It could be one of the first picks in that round or one of the last or anything in between. The safe bet in valuation is to just assume it'll be one of the last.

Valuing next year's picks as a round later than this year's picks has been fairly standard process for pretty much the entire common draft era and it makes sense. Next year's pick isn't going to do anything for you this year. Meanwhile, you might just get your ass fired.

I thought it was a dumb pick but whatever. This dude seems awesome.

I liked him decently too. I never bought into the 2nd round hype I saw on him, but I thought he'd likely go as high as possibly the late 3rd and definitely by the 5th. I actually like Moses more than Jabril Cox (who also went quite a bit later than most pundits thought). Obviously NFL talent evaluators thought differently and it's not like they watch any shortage of Bama tape.

I was surprised we didn't take a LB in the mid to late rounds. Didn't expect one in the first three rounds but expected one at some point, especially with 11 picks made.

We were 5-11 this year. Shouldn't be a whole lot set in stone.

Rhule has already said they see Keith Taylor as a CB. I was excited about the Kenny Robinson pick last year but him not making the final roster at first says we're not at all high on him since we were willing to potentially lose him... and neither was anyone else since no one picked him up. Hopefully he's improved immensely, but unless he has he's not gonna be the answer.

Holy poo, that dude is a UNIT. Look at those damn arms. Shredded and bigger than that defenders legs.

Very well could've been. I get our busts mixed up sometimes. One is about the same as the other I guess.

Sounds kinda like a boom or bust pick. That's fine in the 7th.

Devin Funchess

So... sounds like we DRAFTED a mediocre long snapper. Oh wee mayne. Oh well, it's a 6th round pick, but still. Oh wee mayne.

I said it at the beginning of the week. What we saw last season wasn't Phil Snow's defense. It was just the defense that Phil Snow was running given what he had to work with in the secondary.

Probably my favorite pick of the draft so far. Loved this kid at the Senior Bowl. Ideal slot WR prospect.

Interesting. He looked abysmal at the Senior Bowl. Large, superbly powerful, but completely and utterly unathletic. Obviously we saw something to work with though.

Bradberry was consistently underrated on a national level because A) we weren't a very good team in a small market and B) he didn't make many plays on the ball. But, the dude could flat out cover. INTs are icing on the cake IMO. I'll take excellent coverage all day everyday, especially from a late round pick.