LinvilleGorge

Trade finalized just before happy hour... ironically, I found out standing at the bar at Ass Clown Brewing in Cornelius when it scrolled across the ESPN ticker. Now let's hope that isn't prophetic and we don't turn out to be ass clowns in this deal.

That's what I'd be saying if I was them too. But would it be shocking to find out that we were bidding against ourselves... again? Honestly, no. That's what ended up coming out after we traded for Darnold too. We were pretty much the only team seriously trying to trade for him. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. End up with a stud QB on a rookie contract with this pick and no one cares. It will have been worth it.

You can always try THC-0. Buckle up if you do.

A lot of Hurney's success with 1st rounders was aided by others' mistakes. Had Brian Burns not been available he was gonna take Greg Little at #16.

I didn't really become a Panthers fan until we drafted Peppers 2nd overall in '02 but I bet there was a lot of hollering to take Joey Harrington.

They know it's a loophole. Basically selling an intoxicating substance using the hemp loophole. Since the D8 is derived through legal hemp it's technically still legal or at least not outright illegal. It's very much a gray area. fug the government and their stance on cannabis, period. They'll rubber stamp ever increasingly potent opioids in the midst of an outright opioid epidemic killing god only knows how many people and then have the balls to call cannabis dangerous. It's a fuging joke.

Now go watch Josh Allen's games at Wyoming and try to convince yourself that guy will develop into an MVP caliber NFL QB. Honestly, Richardson's college tape looks significantly better against far superior college competition.

In hindsight, sure. But there were a lot of folks around the league back in 2011 who preferred Blaine Gabbert as a prospect.

I'm good with Young, Stroud, or AR. There's no perfect prospect among them and I can understand the arguments for/against all three of them. I just wish I knew who our guy was so I could work on falling in love and convincing myself why the other two are gonna bust.

I'm as intrigued by AR as I have been by any QB prospect since Cam. If he has what it takes between the ears he could be a significantly more athletic Josh Allen. But he could also be Akili Smith.

Some folks really struggle when they encounter differing opinions. I just don't know why those folks gravitate to places on the internet that literally only exist for sharing opinions.

If AR interviewed well and scored well on the S2 I'd struggle to restrain myself from writing his name on the card. His entire draft evaluation comes down to things that we have minimal to no insight into.

These lists don't make a bit of damn sense.

I guess Vegas was excluded from consideration?

No. The NFL wants to keep as much intrigue as possible. It very well may leak from credible sources (and those sources will he trashed by the factions that don't want that guy or really want someone else) but there will definitely be no announcement.

Sometimes this fanbase embarrasses me.

Edge rushers and TEs are the strength of this draft class on paper. It'd be pretty sweet to come out of day two with one of each.

QB at #1, BPA the rest of the way.

It's always interesting the players you come after and the players you defend. There's definitely commonalities.

You seem bothered.

Yeah, no doubt Cam was a much better college player.

This. I think a lot of people have forgotten because of how good he turned out to be right away that Cam was considered a project too.

Yeah, we've talked about this quite a bit. For a #1 overall pick, we're actually a really good situation. Very experienced, offensive minded coaching staff. Good OL. Good vet RB. Solid vet receiving TE. Good vet slot receiver. Yeah, the WR corps is the weak link of the offense on paper but still... compared to the situation a #1 overall pick typically walks into this is a damn good one.

I honestly wasn't super high on Lawrence either. Don't get me wrong, I thought he was a good prospect and a worthy #1 overall pick but I didn't get the hype about him being the generational type prospect that he was touted to be by most of the media. He impressed me in the 2nd half against the Chargers in the playoffs this year. After having quite possibly the worst half I've ever seen a QB play in the 1st half (and honestly that's not an exaggeration) he bounced back big time in the 2nd half and led the Jags to (an admittedly undeserved) win. That game showed me the guy is gonna make it.

Just seems like a guy with his measurables should've been dominating against Old Dominion competition. He really only had one good game against decent competition when he caught 6 passes for 83 yards against UVA. He caught 1 pass for 3 yards against Liberty. 2 for 12 against VT. 0 catches against ECU. 3 for 19 against Wake. His best games were both in '21. 9 catches for 102 yards and a TD against Florida International and 9 catches for 119 yards against Western Kentucky. But... FIU had the 126th (out of 130) ranked defense in the country. WKU wasn't much better at #92.