I love T-mac but where is the impact from this year's draft?

[micnificent28]

I have nothing bad at all to say about the T-mac pick.. I think we did the right thing there. But looking at our rivals to night and the significant contributions they are getting from their rookie class.. I'm pissed honestly. And it's not just from high end picks.. the fail-cons went aggressive and took 2 first round pass rushers in a deep pass rushing class it's paying off..

Now I can say it probably wasn't in our ability to take another player in the first round.. but in the second round I don't want to hear we couldn't have gotten a better edge.. book isn't written on nic and I don't think he's bad or anything just hasn't made an impact. Xavier Watts falcons second round sealed the game with an int. These young players are transforming their defense.

what really pissed me off was in the 4th round with nic Scott penciled in as our starting free safety we passed on Billy Bowman Jr a ball hawk who feel because of poor run support but had like 12 ints in college for a 3rd string RB Trevor Etienne.. in the 4th Bowman starting for the falcons and had a game changing int and a near second one. Even if you had to have ettiene nobody penciled him in in the 4th.

And we knew we needed a safety because 4 picks later.. we grab ta-da... Latham Ransom..

Edited 2 hours ago by micnificent28

[Jaxel]

Our rookie DE had a sack.

[micnificent28]

Just now, Jaxel said:

Our rookie DE had a sack.

The 3rd rounder which is good.. I am okay with that.. but it was more a coverage sack.

[flagfootballcoach28]

Falcons did really well in the draft. Plus they signed Devine Deablo at MLB who we should’ve went after. Nic Scourton looks non existent out there. I’m afraid he’s too small for a DT and too slow/non twitchy for an edge. 

[LinvilleGorge]

7 minutes ago, micnificent28 said:

I have nothing bad at all to say about the T-mac pick.. I think we did the right thing there. But looking at our rivals to night and the significant contributions they are getting from their rookie class.. I'm pissed honestly. And it's not just from high end picks.. the fail-cons went aggressive and took 2 first round pass rushers in a deep pass rushing class it's paying off..

Now I can say it probably wasn't in our ability to take another player in the first round.. but in the second round I don't want to hear we couldn't have gotten a better edge.. book isn't written on nic and I don't think he's bad or anything just hasn't made an impact. Xavier Watts falcons second round sealed the game with an int. These young players are transforming their defense.

what really pissed me off was in the 4th round with nic Scott penciled in as our starting free safety we passed on Billy Bowman Jr a ball hawk who feel because of poor run support but had like 12 ints in college for a 3rd string RB Trevor Etienne.. in the 4th Bowman starting for the falcons and had a game changing int and a near second one. Even if you had to have ettiene nobody penciled him in in the 4th.

And we knew we needed a safety because 4 picks later.. we grab ta-da... Latham Ransom..

I wanted Watts bad.

 

 

[Jon Snow]

Do you really have to ask that question?

[Castavar]

We just suck at drafting and have had the worst GMs and scouts in the NFL for a while now

Here are some easy decisions we could have made that were even OBVIOUS at the time that would have helped our team get some impact players throughout the last few years.

1. Payton Wilson > Trevin Wallace - like seriously, who tf even knew who Trevin Wallace even was?

2. McConkey > Leggette - this was such an obvious choice

3. Trey Smith > a fuggin long snapper - nothing else to say

4. CJ Stroud > Bryce - SHOULD have been an easy decision as soon as we traded a king's ransom. 

5. Zach Frazier > Jonathan Brooks - Like WTF are we drafting an INJURED RB in the 2nd round when we already have Chuba. We've been avoiding drafting a center for how long now for some reason even though we've needed one ever since Kalil retired.

These aren't "hindsight is 20-20" either, these are picks the majority of the huddle wanted at the time of our selection that were available. Instead we continue to draft players who just has high RAS scores with no regard to their actual film or stats in college. If you wonder why we continue to field the worst roster in the league, this is why. 

 

 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Castavar

[Dave Gettleman's Shorts]

I'm more worried about Last Year's draft

[jopie87]

These two are going to hurt like an mf-er for a LONG time.
2. McConkey > Leggette - this was such an obvious choice
4. CJ Stroud > Bryce - SHOULD have been an easy decision as soon as we traded a king's ransom. 

[tukafan21]

4 minutes ago, jopie87 said:

These two are going to hurt like an mf-er for a LONG time.
2. McConkey > Leggette - this was such an obvious choice
4. CJ Stroud > Bryce - SHOULD have been an easy decision as soon as we traded a king's ransom. 

The 2nd one of course, but as I've said a bunch of times today already, if we drafted Ladd, we wouldn't have taken another WR in the 1st this year.

And sure, Ladd is absurdly better than XL, but T-Mac is going to be that much better than Ladd that it will work out better for us in the long run.

Now, some bizzaro universe where we drafted both Ladd and T-Mac, good lord that combo would be crazy, I could probably play QB there and throw for 200+ yards a game.

[jopie87]

1 minute ago, tukafan21 said:

The 2nd one of course, but as I've said a bunch of times today already, if we drafted Ladd, we wouldn't have taken another WR in the 1st this year.

And sure, Ladd is absurdly better than XL, but T-Mac is going to be that much better than Ladd that it will work out better for us in the long run.

Now, some bizzaro universe where we drafted both Ladd and T-Mac, good lord that combo would be crazy, I could probably play QB there and throw for 200+ yards a game.

100% agree. If the choice is XL+TMAC or Ladd and No TMAC, I want the option with T-MAC.
But my goodness if they still double dipped and got Ladd last year and TMAC this year, that is a duo you could build around for a decade.

[tukafan21]

3 minutes ago, jopie87 said:

100% agree. If the choice is XL+TMAC or Ladd and No TMAC, I want the option with T-MAC.
But my goodness if they still double dipped and got Ladd last year and TMAC this year, that is a duo you could build around for a decade.

They really would have been a perfect pairing of WRs as they're both so good, yet complete opposite types of players.  But with all our holes on defense, if Ladd showed the same potential had we drafted him, no way they could have justified going WR again, even I might have been against it (okay, we all know that's not true, I'd still haver taken my guy, but I'd at least have admitted it wasn't smart).

 

 

[Castavar]

9 minutes ago, tukafan21 said:

The 2nd one of course, but as I've said a bunch of times today already, if we drafted Ladd, we wouldn't have taken another WR in the 1st this year.

And sure, Ladd is absurdly better than XL, but T-Mac is going to be that much better than Ladd that it will work out better for us in the long run.

Now, some bizzaro universe where we drafted both Ladd and T-Mac, good lord that combo would be crazy, I could probably play QB there and throw for 200+ yards a game.

Ok cool, then we get Jalon Walker or Mykel Williams. 

Having an elite WR is cool if you have a decent QB to get him the ball. Hell, the Vikings have THE best WR in the league and still can't do sh*t because McCarthy is trash. And there's no guarantee we don't draft Tet even had we drafted Ladd. Either way, that combo of Ladd + Tet or Walker would have changed the trajectory of this team. But no, we not only trade up for Legette, but chose the wrong WR. Where have I've heard this before?

[toldozer]

I'm more concerned with last years draft