I don't think I've ever heard..

[Ivan The Awesome]

in previous years, so much buzz about lower draft picks and people that were literally picked up off the street. Luvu, Nixon, Robinson, Shi Smith, etc. I know it's just practice but seeing and hearing these guys make noise is already a great start by Fitterer. Makes me feel good to have this guy because this means he's going to find talent in every single round or at least have a higher hit rate in each round. 

..just need Darnold to be good. 

[mav1234]

I'm trying to temper my expectations since it is just preseason, but it does look far more promising than past regimes.  

Crazy to think we might get better production out of the 7th we got for Little than we ever did from him...

[BudFox]

Analytics!  j/k... but maybe not.  Football (and sports in general) can be very subjective in evaluations.  So maybe there's a better analysis model in place other than Hurney flipping through an Athlon Sports magazine.

[Mr. Scot]

14 minutes ago, mav1234 said:

I'm trying to temper my expectations since it is just preseason, but it does look far more promising than past regimes.  

Crazy to think we might get better production out of the 7th we got for Little than we ever did from him...

I try to go into every season as even keeled as possible.

That's honestly easier to do this year because there's a boatload of things that we just don't know.

[Tbe]

The draft is a crapshoot. Our success (if it turns out that way) will prob have as much to do with the volume of picks we had as it does our ability to evaluate.

Hurn always put his eggs in 3-4 picks. Not great odds of success.

[cookinbrak]

I know it was against backups, but Luvu was tearing it up last week.

 

[NAS]

Days of draft picks looking like busts a week into the camp are hopefully behind us.  Good riddance to Hurney and Gettleman

[Pejorative Miscreant]

We have definitely seen more initial splash from last year's class and (at least early on) there seems to be some noise coming from this one.  I dont want to proclaim the last two draft classes elite or great as time will prove that out but it is refreshing that these guys seem to be competing and for the most part look like they are worthy of their picks.  

[kungfoodude]

32 minutes ago, Ivan The Awesome said:

in previous years, so much buzz about lower draft picks and people that were literally picked up off the street. Luvu, Nixon, Robinson, Shi Smith, etc. I know it's just practice but seeing and hearing these guys make noise is already a great start by Fitterer. Makes me feel good to have this guy because this means he's going to find talent in every single round or at least have a higher hit rate in each round. 

..just need Darnold to be good. 

Beware any hype that isn't generated from regular season games.

We will know how these dumpster dives and late round selections look towards the end of the year.

[TheRumGone]

I think the hype comes from Rhule. He is a big time talker. Like way more so than the average coach imo.
 

I do think this draft has a lot of potential to be great but we have no idea really.

[onmyown]

58 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I try to go into every season as even keeled as possible.

That's honestly easier to do this year because there's a boatload of things that we just don't know.

This is the first time I honestly feel the exact same going into this season as I did last season. There we so many unknowns last year and now again so many unknowns. Ya really just go into it not knowing wtf to expect or is going to happen.

With Rivera and Fox and Hurney you just kinda knew you were most likely going to be mediocre unless you were mediocre the last 3-4 seasons and lightning was about to strike again.