March 23Mar 23 2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:The most sure thing would be McNeil-Warren or Sadiq and I think theyd take one of them if that is how the board looks.Jacas and Howell should be targets but youre right in that the eagles may not have a 1st round value on them. We have seen them show interest in Concepcion but I hope they dont value him at 23 either. Id have no problem with Howell at 23. If he was just a little bit longer or taller, hed be in the discussion somewhere around pick 10.Howell is super explosive, dude just pops, but that arm length is definitely going to scare people off. Arm length isn't everything, but it does matter and teams value it.I like TJ Parker too. Not as explosive as Howell, but he's been productive except 2025 and this time last year was considered a top 5 pick.I'd have Howell ranked over Mesidore. As much of a concern as short arms are, taking a 25 year old in the first round is insane. If course the dude looked good in 2025, he's 3 years older than everyone else. Imagine TJ Parker or Howell in 3 years, those are the projections we should be making. Not how they are now.I wonder what the Eagles will have higher on the priority list in the draft: TE or Safety. There will be a lot of value there in rounds 2-4 and they may be forced to choose.
March 23Mar 23 4 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:Howell is super explosive, dude just pops, but that arm length is definitely going to scare people off. Arm length isn't everything, but it does matter and teams value it.I like TJ Parker too. Not as explosive as Howell, but he's been productive except 2025 and this time last year was considered a top 5 pick.I'd have Howell ranked over Mesidore. As much of a concern as short arms are, taking a 25 year old in the first round is insane. If course the dude looked good in 2025, he's 3 years older than everyone else. Imagine TJ Parker or Howell in 3 years, those are the projections we should be making. Not how they are now.I wonder what the Eagles will have higher on the priority list in the draft: TE or Safety. There will be a lot of value there in rounds 2-4 and they may be forced to choose.I do agree you can be fine at safety with a guy as low as Taaffe or Wisnewski go. Which may be 3rd or 4th round Im guessing. BUT, theres a large dropoff from a guy like McNeil-Warren or Theineman to those guys. You go from a star safety, to a guy who is just going to adequately be another Reed Blankenship.At TE, Sadiq is a freak, but if youre looking at taking a Stowers, vs Delp, vs Klare vs Royer theyre all very similar though with the latter 3 all being better blockers than Stowers who should go the earliest of all. Its almost preferential to take one of the other 3. And then, even the next tier is pretty solid. Theres a dropoff, but you might be just fine with an Endries, or Raridon.Id take the safety in round 1 and get one of the 2nd or 3rd round TEs.
March 23Mar 23 1 minute ago, HazletonEagle said:Im seeing Dallas is looking to the trade market for a veteran LB. I get that maybe they dont want to rely on a rookie but I feel a trade this year, with this LB draft is idiotic. This LB draft is nearly as crazy insanely deep as this WR draft. Its unbelievable. And Dallas is good at drafting LBs. They should just draft 1, or a few. Theyre bound to hit. A blind man can draft a good LB in this class.1 minute ago, vikas83 said:Yeah, but if they rebuild, they won't lead the A block on First Take every morning. And that's the goal - attention. That's why he drags everything out, so that Stephen A. Smith keeps talking about him.Rebuilding is boring. Winning is somewhat boring (Seattle getting no coverage). But constant chaos = constant attention.So I have a very contrarian opinion on Jerry Jones that generally lands at the same spot where everyone else is right now. Jerry Jones is basically following the same trajectory as Al Davis. All people really see now is the old, wrinkled, demented sack of attention and control starved owner who will not step aside and generates humiliatingly irrational decisions. In their day, when the both actually had all their faculties, they were NFL and franchise transforming owners who were...we often forget...far more "football guys" than almost any other owners in the history of the league. They never stepped away from total control as they aged and became extremely erratic and irrational with their decisions, which completely lacked forethought or planning. Jerry Jones has a reasonable eye for football talent in the draft. I don't think anyone would call the Cowboys a bad drafting team. But he's either too stubborn or too clueless, or both, to accept the twilight of a roster and reload accordingly without hunting for attention and big names to prove a point.
March 23Mar 23 2 minutes ago, BigEFly said:Welll..... he doesnt seem to have an OL build at all. And that 40 is too slow for TE.
March 23Mar 23 4 hours ago, DEagle7 said:DeVonta averaging $25M is an absurd steal compared to that. Unfortunately, I said a week or two ago, he and his agents are likely going to want a new contract with numbers like that coming out + whatever Pickens ends up getting.
March 23Mar 23 6 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:Welll..... he doesnt seem to have an OL build at all. And that 40 is too slow for TE. He's 20. That leaves time to change the build, but not a ton. I don't think 6'7.5" 295 passes the sniff test. 6'6"+ 295lb OT's are not that much of a rarity....and NONE of them look even close to that spindly. He looks like he's 270 max.
March 23Mar 23 10 minutes ago, eagle45 said:So I have a very contrarian opinion on Jerry Jones that generally lands at the same spot where everyone else is right now.Jerry Jones is basically following the same trajectory as Al Davis. All people really see now is the old, wrinkled, demented sack of attention and control starved owner who will not step aside and generates humiliatingly irrational decisions.In their day, when the both actually had all their faculties, they were NFL and franchise transforming owners who were...we often forget...far more "football guys" than almost any other owners in the history of the league. They never stepped away from total control as they aged and became extremely erratic and irrational with their decisions, which completely lacked forethought or planning.Jerry Jones has a reasonable eye for football talent in the draft. I don't think anyone would call the Cowboys a bad drafting team. But he's either too stubborn or too clueless, or both, to accept the twilight of a roster and reload accordingly without hunting for attention and big names to prove a point.I've made the Al Davis comparison myself, but I think that's actually unfair to Davis. Al was a coach and a great talent evaluator for a long time. Jerry, on the other hand, never coached and really wasn't an excellent GM at drafting until his son and others got involved. Remember, Jerry wanted to draft Johnny Football in 2014, but his son got him to draft Zack Martin instead. https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/article19838268.htmlThat was evident in 2014 NFL Draft when the Cowboys selected guard Zack Martin in the first round over former Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel, a Jones favorite. Vice president Stephen Jones, along with coach Jason Garrett and chief scout Will McClay, overruled the elder Jones.Read more at: https://www.star-telegram.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/article19838268.html#storylink=cpyAnd if we're being honest, the drafting has fallen off a cliff since 2022. Mazi Smith was a complete bust in 2023, and the only player from that draft that is any good (Overshown) can't stay healthy. Guyton was a project coming out in 2024 that they drafted to be a day 1 starter at LT. 2025 the book is still out.
March 23Mar 23 3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:DeVonta averaging $25M is an absurd steal compared to that.Unfortunately, I said a week or two ago, he and his agents are likely going to want a new contract with numbers like that coming out + whatever Pickens ends up getting.His 2027 comp of $22mm just became fully guaranteed, so hopefully that buys us some time. Whenever AJ is moved (this offseason or next), I expect them to extend Smitty at the same time.
March 23Mar 23 5 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:DeVonta averaging $25M is an absurd steal compared to that.Unfortunately, I said a week or two ago, he and his agents are likely going to want a new contract with numbers like that coming out + whatever Pickens ends up getting.Hot take: I'd rather trade Devonta than pay him 35m per season. I think people will see when AJ is gone, whether it's this year or next year, that Devonta isn't a true #1. He's a route running master and a technician, but he's not overly big, he's not an incredible athlete. He does a lot for his size, but I think his production actually drops, not increases, when teams don't have to worry about another #1 on the other side and can focus entirely on covering Devonta. He's not in that Chase, Jefferson, JSN tier. He just isn't. And it would be bad business to pay him as such.
March 23Mar 23 Just now, vikas83 said:His 2027 comp of $22mm just became fully guaranteed, so hopefully that buys us some time. Whenever AJ is moved (this offseason or next), I expect them to extend Smitty at the same time.Yea, I figured next offseason would be when he/his agents start to press the issue, even though Eagles might have to be paying Mitchell/Cooper at the same time. I can't imagine any scenario they pay Smith with Brown on the roster.
March 23Mar 23 It's fascinating to read in the same topic fans complain Howie lets talent go in free agency instead of paying them, and also talk about trading away some of our best players rather than pay them.
March 23Mar 23 13 minutes ago, eagle45 said:He's 20. That leaves time to change the build, but not a ton.I don't think 6'7.5" 295 passes the sniff test. 6'6"+ 295lb OT's are not that much of a rarity....and NONE of them look even close to that spindly. He looks like he's 270 max.Yeah this isn't a build that is going to change in to OT build in time. Its the wrong bone structure. His legs are long and thin. He wont have an anchor.
March 23Mar 23 I don't think there's a lot of consternation in here about the guys Howie let go. There was some minor about Blankenship because he got paid under projected value, but other than that everyone here was cool with Dean, Phillips, etc leaving town.
March 23Mar 23 15 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:Hot take: I'd rather trade Devonta than pay him 35m per season. I think people will see when AJ is gone, whether it's this year or next year, that Devonta isn't a true #1. He's a route running master and a technician, but he's not overly big, he's not an incredible athlete. He does a lot for his size, but I think his production actually drops, not increases, when teams don't have to worry about another #1 on the other side and can focus entirely on covering Devonta. He's not in that Chase, Jefferson, JSN tier. He just isn't. And it would be bad business to pay him as such.It'd be a good idea to let him have a proof it year when AJ is gone before spending big money on him. Giving him a mega contract and then his production does drop would suck
March 23Mar 23 2 minutes ago, Sack that QB said:I'd bet the Eagles would have very few, if any, players with first round grades at 23. It's why Howie likes to move around in the draft. I don't think he'll be cool taking a guy with a 2nd round grade at 23. So he'll either try to move up and get one or move down if none are remaining at 23.I think the problem with this draft is everyone in the latter part of the draft is likely to have the same take. There are no QBs to drive down better players. I don't know that there's a team in front of us that has an incentive to trade down for additional picks. I also don't think there's going to be a player that falls that another team is going to want to trade up for given the board. 59 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:Howie generally keeps it 23 and under for the first few rounds. So Im thinking round 4 at the earliest. Even then, not thrilled with a 25 year old draft pick.I would hope not but they like Senior Bowl players and it's a position where they have a need and that they value.
March 23Mar 23 22 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:That's the biggest fluff contract I can remember in quite a awhile
March 23Mar 23 58 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:Welll..... he doesnt seem to have an OL build at all. And that 40 is too slow for TE. Is it that hard to get fat?
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March 23Mar 23 36 minutes ago, NOTW said:It's fascinating to read in the same topic fans complain Howie lets talent go in free agency instead of paying them, and also talk about trading away some of our best players rather than pay them.
March 23Mar 23 My biggest concern this year is forcing an OL pick in the 1st. We need to invest at least 1 of our 1st 3 picks there, but I just hate the value at 23.
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