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Ok.....so I would expect the next pick to be a "huh?" offensive pick.

Just now, mrcompletely11 said:

their accents are killing me lol

Them funny sounding foreigners. Sound so dumb...right?

Oof

I love this.

Run game will not be a liability anymore after this off-season.

Well the drama is over.

Good.  Enjoy Cleveland

What a massive human being

The lack of interest he is receiving matches the lack of interest he had in any team.

11 minutes ago, TD alt said:

Didn't know anything about the guy? Are you kidding me?

Go Dawgs!

Yeah....too much stuff going on for me to really educate myself this year.

Also not a GA fan. I don't hate them, I just don't pay attention  to them.

Don't want to jinx it, but he reminds me of Chris Harris.

Could just be wishful thinking. I hope not though.

The guy is a beast of a hitter and what we have desperately needed against the run.

Lol a "huh?" pick followed by a "hell yeah!!!!!" pick

I'll take it

I don't know anything about this guy. They had to have had him high in their board for some reason.

No opinion yet other than to say "huh?"

Steelers and Tomlin makes it perfectly clear that they didnt need him as much as Sanders needed them or any place.

sanders problem likely is that he gave off the appearance as entitled. He was shooting for supremely confident like his dad, but it comes across as cocky as entitled and you don't want that for the leader of your team.

He's going to have to work his ass off to prove he deserves a shot as starter in a situation where he can't depend on daddy.

Sorry. Stupid idea .....for us.

Epically stupid.

9 hours ago, SteveSmithTD89 said:

In no particular order:

Deone Walker - DT Kentucky 

Quincy Riley - CB Louisville 

Jalen Royals - WR Utah State

Billy Bowman Jr - S Oklahoma 

Danny Stutsman - LB Oklahoma 

Andres Borregales - K Miami 

Cam Skattebo - RB Arizona State 

Drew Kendall - C Boston College

 

I like this list.

I would add Chris Paul to it

I have no idea who that seth rollins chump is, but he seems like someone who should get a kick in his nads every time he opens his mouth.

I was watching the reactions of different people to the pic on YouTube this morning and Mike McCarthy said that there are two types of receivers: Framers and Pluckers. Framers have to frame the ball up to catch it sbd pluckers just pluck the ball out of the air no matter where it is and TMac is obviously a plucker, which is kind of fun to watch but almost boring  because he just makes it look effortless.

What got me was there was some DB also on the show that said "DBs love Framers" .

I know people will talk about his level of competition in college vs what he will face in the pros (which can be said for any player coming into the pros from college....it's a silly argument).

But it's obvious that TMac was THE focal point of their offense. It was obvious to people watching, but also obvious to teams they were playing. Teams they faced KNEW that they were going to be going to TMac early and often and that they had to put most of their efforts into stopping him, so they did and they couldn't.

Not only could they not stop him, he made it look easy and effortless. He absolutely dominated and there is no question about that.

If you have a player, let's say a WR, that has been playing against defenders who might not be the best out there, what do you want to see them do? Struggle? Have to fight hard to keep it competitive? Or do you want him to make it look effortless and make it look like a man playing against  children?

I was/am still in shock a bit because 1) it's obvious that the biggest need we had was defense even though WR was still a huge nerd and 2) I really believed that it was going to be defense. There was no doubt in my mind that we would be going defense and there was nothing leaking out of pantherland from usual media sources or from the few remaining people/connections I had come to rely on that indicated they were seriously considering TMac.

This tells me 2 things.

1) they are doing better about keeping their intentions quiet and misleading the NFL community (this is good)

2) they went by their board exclusively and didn't draft based on need, but by BPA using their own standards and metrics and weren't swayed by what all the draft pundits were saying (this also is good).

I will get more comfortable with the pick, and so will 99% of the rest of you. For the remainder 1%....they just need to eat more fiber.

This makes me feel better. Still wanted defense. And I'm still in shock, but this helps right here...

I seriously am having  trouble getting excited about him.

Oh well.

solid, but not sexy?

22 minutes ago, PanthersATL said:

IIRC: this is the first draft in a while that we've had as many picks as we have.  WIll be fun to watch

despite what i said about the top of this draft, i think we can get a lot of good players in this draft. this will be a good draft for filling out the roster with good players, not for drafting all-pro players.

i mean outside of hunter, is there anyone in this draft that teams are going nuts over? 

most other years would Ward have been the top pick? probably not. 

i think that there will be some really good starters in the first round this year, but i don't know that anyone is looking at this class going "all pro player, right there"

that's probably the root of some of it. people looking to get into the 1st round are probably the most desperate of the desperate grasping at straw instead of studs hoping that they can get a position of need filled. i mean that's usually the case, but i think usually it would have been harder to try and trade into the top ten. just doesn't feel like this draft has much to offer at the top of it. like most of the top 10 would have been middle to late first rounders other years. 

it's just not an exciting class. i'm probably looking at it wrong, but that's just what my really uninterested and uneducated eyes are seeing.

close. i'm on the toilet. 

nice guess, though.

this draft definitely has a weird vibe to it. the fact that there hasn't been any trades this past week or so has me feeling like we're going to be seeing a lot of stuff going on.

another thing is that player valuations are all over the place. aside from maybe a couple, there's not a lot of continuity and consensus regarding player rankings. i think we'll see a lot of surprise picks.