ESPN’s Matt Miller: “There's a lot of like for C.J. Stroud there, but Bryce won the entire organization over.”

[frankw]

26 minutes ago, ncfan said:

And back before March those same people you are referring to claimed Tepper Loved Will Levis as well.

 

And I don’t think it’s even as close between the 2 prospects. 
 

Smitty said on his podcast a few weeks back that he heard teams at the pro days talking how Bryce Processes thing in a whole completely high level than Stroud.

Daniel Jeremiah on his national media call said after talking to all the teams across the league.  There is a clear cut QB1 in this draft.

Bryce was always the favorite and the top QB in this draft.  But all the armchair scouts and GMs immediately pointed that we’d take the 2nd guy assuming Reich wouldn’t take a QB under 6’3.   And the same armchair GMs got to wrapped up in a 10 second handshake they saw on TV.

 

The Levis stuff was last year well before draft season officially got underway.

Daniel Jeremiah also had Sam Darnold as his #1 QB in 2018. Let's not go overboard putting stock into these "analysts" opinions.

At this point with the way people are speaking about CJ Stroud's IQ it will be a miracle if he can even find his way to the draft on Thursday amirite? Some of ya'll here really need that kid to be awful. You better hope he is.

All I care about is if our staff is fully sold on Bryce Young and since that's the case then let's get to it.

Edited April 23, 2023 by frankw

[ForJimmy]

4 minutes ago, therealmjl said:

Ugh thanks a lot Tepper for making us trade up and take the best quarterback in the draft.

Field turf!1!1!1!1!!!!!

 

ROCK HILL!!!!!111!!!!!!1!1!!!!

I mean Young is the most commonly ranked top QB in this draft, but there is no way our staff liked him best without Tepper making them!

[pantherclaw]

1 hour ago, Pup McBarky said:

So, they're smart enough to walk away if Tepper is overstepping his bounds, but stupid enough to "overlook" the on-the-field concerns...where, you know, their very fates will be determined?

Makes perfect sense.

Yet you typed it out in belief that these professionals would overlook anything. 

So you're imply stupidity,  and spreading stupidity at the same time. 

Congratulations! 

[ECHornet]

24 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

100%

 

anyone that says otherwise is fooling themselves 

This is fun

[rayzor]

26 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

100%

 

anyone that says otherwise is fooling themselves 

Because it's impossible that everyone else on the staff also believe he's the best choice. 

[mrcompletely11]

Just now, rayzor said:

Because it's impossible that everyone else on the staff also believe he's the best choice. 

when the owner travels with you to pro days and the owners wife is giving hugs to prospect it may influence things a tad dontyathink? 

[stan786]

Just now, mrcompletely11 said:

when the owner travels with you to pro days and the owners wife is giving hugs to prospect it may influence things a tad dontyathink? 

[FuFuLamePoo]

Bryce might just be the best QB in this draft, idk

[stan786]

Fitts been drooling over Bryce since before the combine, he’s always had the final say. If you need to blame anyone for converting Reich blame him.

[JawnyBlaze]

3 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

when the owner travels with you to pro days and the owners wife is giving hugs to prospect it may influence things a tad dontyathink? 

I think Mrs. Tepper hugging Young has been obscenely over exaggerated here. Jfc that doesn’t mean that she or her husband prefer Young at all, much less enough to try to influence his football guys to take him. Maybe she just got the impression he’s a hugger. Maybe they had just finished some deep insightful conversation and it seemed appropriate. Maybe she felt like since he looks like a little kid she should hug him like a little kid.  This is a case of Occams Razor, if they take Young, it’s because the consensus among the football people was that he gives us the best chance to win. 

[WUnderhill]

14 minutes ago, jayboogieman said:

There were posts a couple weeks ago about the team wanting to hint/leak who the pick is so fans would be on board and not boo at the draft party. So, if that was true, it makes sense more and more info is finding its way into the media.

They’re probably reading this board like “Jfc, how much clearer can we make it? Alright let’s leak to another reporter I guess.”

[TheCasillas]

Amazing how in a time of excitement and promise…. People still choose to be miserable. 
 

keep pounding on the huddle has turned into keep pouting 

[rayzor]

3 minutes ago, mrcompletely11 said:

when the owner travels with you to pro days and the owners wife is giving hugs to prospect it may influence things a tad dontyathink? 

Or they all liked him or grew to like him. 

Blame it in whatever you want, but really when all the smoke clears it's going to be clear that when they moved to #1, there was only one QB they were completely interested in. Before that there were two, but only one they thought they had a chance at. 

This was Young's gig the moment they moved to 1. They may have looked at and dug into abd were impressed by others, but Young has stayed at the forefront for the organization. 

[stan786]

I just hope the people who’ve been adamant they’ll be happy with any QB can actually be happy with Bryce.

Got a lot of fun ahead of us, time to start buying in if you haven’t gotten there yet.