rayzor

jersey/pants combos are, by far, the least of my concerns with this team. if they are losing, it doesn't matter what they wear...it all sucks. if they are winning. who cares what they are wearing? but it's the offseason and we're bored, so here we are...again.

it just seems inevitable that leggette will be a panther.

well, this is a different uniform thread than i've seen before.

Sure why not?

We'll be back to Ian Thomas.

That's one of the signs of the eclipse. I kept my dogs in just in case today.

Washington players get a LOT of love. Lot of hype for them.

One thing about these rankings is who decides them? I mean there's a consensus, but it's just media consensus, right? And by consensus, I mean kind of sort of consensus. Like who decides who the best players are? Who ranks them? Who's ranking do we go by? Is it all some hype machine? (Yes, it is) And when we shout "just draft the BPA" who's list are we using? Who decides who gets picked too early or falls below where they should have gotten drafted? Who decides where they should be drafted?

I think he can get it done, but I doubt it will be quick. I think it will be a slow and agonizing process (I hate that word) and just like the run game with Tampa, we could be a half season in before things start to click at all and we see any progress. I'm just not expecting much the first half because it's a lot of people who have to learn their roles and get comfortable with their place in the big picture. I do think it will start off relatively simple so they just have to learn how to do simple things really well and build from that foundation.

Now I know there are draftniks with connections who are getting fed stuff from insiders, but every bit of information is suspect. It all comes with an agenda and these draftniks are getting played, not that they are all that concerned because it gives them clicks. So I guess it's us who ultimately get played because we dig into this poo take it seriously thinking that we're educated.

True and you can say the same thing about the combine. it's overrated as poo. In all facts of life some people know how to manipulate evaluations of all kinds. I know people who interviewed well who don't know poo and those who interviewed poorly and missed out on jobs that they should have had. I know people who test well and are idiots and people who are brilliant but just suck at taking tests. The only thing that really matters is the tape. You can gauge true performance and true progress if there's several years worth.

Yeah that's the weird thing to me. What can these guys possibly do to raise or lower their "stock"? It's all completely speculative in behalf of the draftniks who all feed off each other's takes.

They go through weird phases like that. You'll see guys like Brock Bowers going in the top 3 one moment And then you've got him available at 33 the next time and then he's back in top 5. I try not to take it as exact players when I mock, even though there's guys I prefer over others. I think it's more about positions that would be available at that moment. But the draft itself in reality is really wonky because there's guys that you and everyone are sure are going to go early who inexplicably fall and then there's others that go much earlier than all the experts go. You never know what really any team has in mind when they go into the draft and you can't predict what they will do when their board changes. Maybe teams see a player fall that they were sure would have gone earlier all of a sudden fall a bit below where you thought they would go and then think maybe other teams passing them by know something you don't so you pass them as well. So many reasons for players falling where you think they shouldn't. We think we know where players should go, but we don't know how individual teams actually perceive players that we mock to them. So basically, as crazy as it is to see Rome there, it's good to see stuff like that happen because it prepares you for the actual craziness of draft day.

Posting videos of his workout?

What is he supposed to be doing?

Not sure it's either. Just a snapshot of his first attempt. I think with some work he could be alright at center. Not someone I would feel comfortable drafting with that intent, though. He'd be a project and that's too early to draft a project.

So? We act like petulant children towards other adults who act like petulant children? Gotcha.

Dookie Dave? I swear this place is getting more juvenile by the day. I hate the part of "adult" culture that normalized this name calling poo.

I think we're due for something unexpectedly good.

Which one was Robert Dinero's fat talentless cousin?

It's kind of funny.. .matt Rhule was the most consistent HC we ever had. The question is how does a team on that kind of rollercoaster ride answer a 2 win season?

Could be. I don't think Ladd is undersized more than Pearsall. Worthy is undersized because he's rail thin, but it's all what you are looking at/for. But honestly I like all these guys so much that it's hard for me to rank any of them. The next dozen or so after those first four I'm going to be excited about. I love Keon and Leggette because they are big beasts who just take the ball. Ladd and Pearsall and AD Mitchell because they got the moves, the routes, the separation, and the hands. Gimme Worthy, gimme Malik Washington, gimme Javin Baker. I'll take them all and finally feel good watching receivers again.

He even managed to make a chicken salad sandwich out of a chicken poo situation Fitts left with Burns.

I know there are questions. I just don't think that they are enough to skip over. Ladd has had some health issues. You take him in the 2nd anyway. Leggette is raw and improven, you take him anyways. The talent is just too strong and it's unlikely that we will run into a class with this much talent and potential anytime soon. You swing when you have opportunities like this because they don't come around very often. One of our greatest needs coincide with the greatest depth we've seen at WR in who knows how long. We'd be foolish to come up with reasons for not swinging. But this whole draft class is just so talented and deep I some areas that ther will be nonWR talent falling that we should also grab. Whatever the case, however it falls, we should still walk away with at least 2 WRs. Not necessarily in the 2nd round, but if a 2nd run starts at the end of the 1st round, we'd better be ready to swing and then take advantage of the other talent that falls through later.