LinvilleGorge

It's quiet now but there's consensus among the mod team. We've been giving plenty of leeway leading up to the draft but after the draft it's on.

Honestly though, Cam speaking out for Young makes me feel better. I really don't think Cam is the type of guy that would just play ball for the Panthers to endorse the guy they were picking.

A feral cat by the house had a litter of kittens. I found them while I was fencing in our pasture on Saturday. I set up a game cam to keep an eye on them. She moved them yesterday but abandoned one. I waited about six hours. She came back to eat some food I'd left out for her and still left this kitten. Damn it. Now I gotta take it in. So I ran it to the vet to see if anything was obviously wrong with it causing her to abandon it and she said there was nothing obviously wrong. So I'm feeding this thing every two hours and getting it to go to the bathroom and good lord. I'm not even a cat person. I just have a soft spot for animals. I have a Rottweiler and a pit bull who hate cats so I have no idea what I'm gonna do with this thing long-term if it survives. Evidently nearly half of kittens abandoned this young didn't survivor even when being cared for. We'll see. I'll do my best for this little bugger. It cuddles with one of my daughters small stuffies to sleep.

Well, that'll be enough of that. Bye.

Certainly makes the draft more interesting from a pure entertainment perspective. You feel like we could potentially be on the clock at any given moment.

I've been saying for a while that I can't see a wheeler and dealer like Fitts quietly sitting on his hands from #39 all the way to #94. It's just not his nature. He's gonna get antsy. I think he gets back into some day 3 action too. I don't think he's going to let his draft end before day 3 even gets going good.

Yeah, good to hear a guy with Thielen's experience talking up TMJ. Really hoping he makes a leap with better coaching and (hopefully) better QB play along with more opportunity. I honestly think our relatively conservative approach at WR this off-season might signal that they new staff sees significant potential in our current young WRs to develop.

Interesting the Mayer to Dallas call because that's the comp I keep coming up with for Mayer - Jason Witten. You watch those guys play and there's nothing eye popping about them. They check all the boxes physically but there's not a lot of highlight reel plays. They just block effectively, get open, and catch balls. Over and over again.

Seems like a sports book trying to get some late free money with sucker bets.

The Rhule era was clearly the far bigger disaster but Ron sums up his era perfectly. Missed opportunities. We had generational on both sides of the ball and we squandered the fug out of it. If Ron had the balls to not go with the in-house talent at OC when Chud left to coach the Browns things go a lot differently. Gettleman failing miserably to build an OL or receiving corps gets a strong honorable mention.

I've been trying to tell people. It's obvious when folks have only looked at baseline stats and haven't actually watched him play.

This. I loved ESPN back in my younger days. My TV was on with ESPN playing in the background pretty much constantly during my college years. It was basically just SportsCenter and live sports. Then YouTube basically killed SportsCenter and ESPN evolved into live sports and shoes with morons just screaming at each other about things mildly sports related. Hell, half the time you try to watch a live sporting event on ESPN they're trying to do split screen graphics with their announcers or some idiotic stats or something. Yeah, ESPN fuging sucks and the sports world and world at large would be better off if it just died at this point.

Works for me. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then.

I'm just sayin'...

We were originally trying to trade up to #3. We started focusing on #1 because of what it was going to cost us to get to #3.

Oh, we were coming to get a QB come hell or high water. Very likely would've been the same or very close to the same deal.

Poles really should've traded #1 to the Texans then turned around and trading #2 for us. He still ends up at #9 but gets two bounties in the process.

You're gonna be surprised. Rodgers/Jets is gonna be a HUGE topic of conversation this week.

Yeah, that's the first thing that crossed my mind. Sounded like a "underlist this thing and make BANK scheme".

He does but how this has dragged on wasn't on him. That was just the Packers and Jets haggling over the details that everyone pretty much knew was eventually going to get done so there wasn't a lot of urgency to get it done until we were staring down the barrel of draft day. Tepper has to be pissed about the timing though. This week was supposed to be all about his team and now the Rodgers news is gonna suck a lot of air out of the room with a team in the biggest media market in the country making a trade for a future first ballot HOF QB.

Yeah, that's pretty much how this whole draft prospect evaluation process as a fan goes.

I've made the statement that I get the impression that he's cocky implying that I think there's a good chance that he won't.

Marketer. All I care about is are you gonna put in the work required? That's it for me. That's the line between cocky and confident. If you realize that you have to work your ass off to achieve greatness there's humility in that realization even if you're brash and hold in your outward persona.

Because we're talking about them as prospects. None of them have played an NFL game yet. Should we just not talk about prospects at all?

The only way it makes sense is if you're a really good contender level type team and you think you're an elite talent at RB away from a SB run. Meaning you're holding that pick because you either landed it in a prior trade or your QB was hurt all year or something along those lines.