20 hours ago, Alphagrand said:

I think his syntax was wrong. I think what he was saying one of their faults is NOT (as in it's not one of their faults) and that they ARE direct and honest with their players.

His answer was too locked in on the report and ignored the actual question about what Hurts' standing is.

I wonder if this entire exercise is to kind of light a fire under Jalen's backside.

19 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

I'm sure whoever Howie picks, he'll frame it as BPA. But in terms of hard lessons learned:

Derek Barnett -> weighing production far ahead of traits

Jalen Reagor -> weighing traits far ahead of production

Marcus Smith -> picking for need, being passive vs trading up

Andre Dillard -> caveat emptor on some falling players

Sidney Jones -> caveat emptor taking the injury discount

Danny Watkins -> making sure guys like football and will older players look as good at the next level

Barnett had an elite 3-cone but was otherwise not physically gifted. I am not sure how TJ Watt was overlooked until pick 30. The thing with Reagor is that he had this reputation as being a speedy deep threat WR. His athletic testing just showed a slightly above average 40 time. He had really bad agility testing. This was ultimately his biggest issue. He could not move suddenly enough to get open in the NFL. I agree on Marcus Smith but they also missed on the evaluation at the position. Kyle Van Noy was the better prospect. I think where Dillard went wrong is that they didn't heavily scout him. They had him rated high but had spent limited time with him. I agree on Sidney Jones. Danny Watkins was a miss of an evaluation too. He wasn't good at football. He was an older college player that looked dominant against younger players. His athletic testing wasn't great. I think the liking football part was not the reason he failed. He failed because he had mediocre traits.

1 hour ago, JamesK said:

No doubt she was told to resign. If she didn't, she would have gotten fired.

36 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

people were saying that Jones pick was such a steal

57 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

I'm sure whoever Howie picks, he'll frame it as BPA. But in terms of hard lessons learned:

Derek Barnett -> weighing production far ahead of traits

Jalen Reagor -> weighing traits far ahead of production

Marcus Smith -> picking for need, being passive vs trading up

Andre Dillard -> caveat emptor on some falling players

Sidney Jones -> caveat emptor taking the injury discount

Danny Watkins -> making sure guys like football and will older players look as good at the next level

Watkins was the easiest bust projection ever. Never ever ever draft a guy who’ll still be 30 on his rookie deal. You need younger players who are moldable. A 26 year old is more or less set mentally

44 minutes ago, Mike030270 said:

people were saying that Jones pick was such a steal

I fell for it

12 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

Not a great showing from Lomu. Waist bending and turning rather than sliding.

Brugler dropped his mock draft today

1 Kadyn Proctor OT

2 Malachi Fields WR (gross)

3a Max Klare TE

3b Zakee Wheatley S

4a Logan Jones C

4b Carson Beck QB

5 Logan Fano G

6 Domani Jackson CB

Here’s something that’s bothered me for awhile: yet again there are only about 15 players in this draft worthy of first round grades as per consensus grading systems. A little lower than last year, while the typical draft is in that 15-20 range. I do not remember a draft where there was anything close to 30 first round grades

Philosophically speaking, Why does this make sense to everyone else? It means every single year a huge amount of 2nd round graded players are going in the first. Shouldn’t it be slightly expanded/adjusted if it continually comes short this consistently?

22 hours ago, UK Eagle said:

Billy Corgan would disagree. He made some waves last month suggesting rock music had been purposely dialled down from the late 90s onwards, ebing replaced by rap and pop.

https://guitar.com/news/music-news/billy-corgan-rock-purposely-dialled-down-in-culture

The timeline does correlate but mentioning the CIA is kind of dumb.

No he doesn’t disagree. This is essentially what I’m saying. Labels and ‘radio’ began slowly losing their true influence when CD’s hit the market. Once the pirating golden days hit, they completely lost it and pivoted to a more gullible and controllable product. Rock is probably in the best place it’s been since the early 70’s.

The majority is typically silent…as he said the biggest ticket is still rock (and its sphere). There’s always going to be a brain dead portion of the population feeding the machine money though. Look at Disney through the same lense.

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Brugler dropped his mock draft today

1 Kadyn Proctor OT

2 Malachi Fields WR (gross)

3a Max Klare TE

3b Zakee Wheatley S

4a Logan Jones C

4b Carson Beck QB

5 Logan Fano G

6 Domani Jackson CB

He had us taking Mike Green last year.

13 minutes ago, just relax said:

Not a great showing from Lomu. Waist bending and turning rather than sliding.

Mello put him in the blender, had to call in the cavalry with TE chips (even then he was knocking Lomu's hands away and crossing his face). Rough outing.

That black helmet with the spear through the logo is a pretty sharp look.

17 minutes ago, just relax said:

Not a great showing from Lomu. Waist bending and turning rather than sliding.

Each of those OL vs DL videos I posted, I think were bad for the OL.

Of the three I posted Mauigoa fared best vs Howell. But I still give the edge to Howell on most of those plays.

And Mauigoa is the highest rated OT.

The other guys were downright bad in their matchups. Like, they'll lose you games in the NFL bad.

12 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

Fano 👎. Completely outclassed.

19 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Brugler dropped his mock draft today

1 Kadyn Proctor OT

2 Malachi Fields WR (gross)

3a Max Klare TE

3b Zakee Wheatley S

4a Logan Jones C

4b Carson Beck QB

5 Logan Fano G

6 Domani Jackson CB

You sure Fano is round 5 is the OL and not his brother the edge rusher?

Proctor and Beck are bad picks.

The rest is good. Fields is definitely not gross.

2 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Each of those OL vs DL videos I posted, I think were bad for the OL.

Of the three I posted Mauigoa fared best vs Howell. But I still give the edge to Howell on most of those plays.

And Mauigoa is the highest rated OT.

The other guys were downright bad in their matchups. Like, they'll lose you games in the NFL bad.

Totally agree. Thanks for posting.

4 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

That black helmet with the spear through the logo is a pretty sharp look.

It's also stupid. It's like they still want the aesthetic of Redskins with the name of Commanders. There's nothing "Commanderish" about an arrow piercing its target. They should have changed the name of the team to something in the same realm of Redskins. Commanders is such a stupid Fing name.

4 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Each of those OL vs DL videos I posted, I think were bad for the OL.

Of the three I posted Mauigoa fared best vs Howell. But I still give the edge to Howell on most of those plays.

And Mauigoa is the highest rated OT.

The other guys were downright bad in their matchups. Like, they'll lose you games in the NFL bad.

I heard that Iheanarchor did OK versus Bailey, but that might be more of an indictment of where Bailey placed (as Max is most definitely a WIP).

I reiterate this OT class sucks. Guys like Freeling, Proctor, and Iheanachor have potential, but also bust risk. Do you really want to use your first rounder on that? I mean, if they did I wouldn't hate it, but I think they should be doing everything they can to get Jordyn Tyson. He's very good and he'll be in range because of his injury history. He's a top 12 talent.

And if you think Brown will be gone by next season then you'll have two 1st rounders next year to address OT and all the ammo you need to move up in next year's draft for your OT of the future. Or for a QB if Hurts is gone(who could net you even more picks in a trade).

20 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Here’s something that’s bothered me for awhile: yet again there are only about 15 players in this draft worthy of first round grades as per consensus grading systems. A little lower than last year, while the typical draft is in that 15-20 range. I do not remember a draft where there was anything close to 30 first round grades

Philosophically speaking, Why does this make sense to everyone else? It means every single year a huge amount of 2nd round graded players are going in the first. Shouldn’t it be slightly expanded/adjusted if it continually comes short this consistently?

Gil Brandt used to say every draft had about 15 true first round talents, then there wasn't much difference between 16-50. It's a matter of talent meeting need at that point and which prospect fits your scheme best. A lot of shrewd GMs trade back for more picks, but you have to have a willing trade partner to do that.

Howie sitting at #23 could also package up #68 to try to get into that #15 range. I can see him doing that if there's an OL prospect they really like still available.

16 minutes ago, Aerolithe_Lion said:

Here’s something that’s bothered me for awhile: yet again there are only about 15 players in this draft worthy of first round grades as per consensus grading systems. A little lower than last year, while the typical draft is in that 15-20 range. I do not remember a draft where there was anything close to 30 first round grades

Philosophically speaking, Why does this make sense to everyone else? It means every single year a huge amount of 2nd round graded players are going in the first. Shouldn’t it be slightly expanded/adjusted if it continually comes short this consistently?

My hope is that someone Houston really wants falls to 23 and they give us 28 and 38 for 23 and 54.

2nd option would be 33 and 44 from the Jets to move back into 1st round to get Ty Simpson for picks 23 and 68

1 hour ago, UK Eagle said:

Oasis are funny one. Kind of bland and a Beatles/Bolan rip off, but their first 2 albums are very good and their impact on music for a period of time was large (outside of America) - but everything after Be Here Now is meh and gets worse as records go on. There is plenty to argue that they are more worthy than Joan Jett (as an example) having sold 100m records worldwide and their recent tour (expensive nostalgia ripoff ) made large amounts of money ($400m revenue) in part to pay off Noel's latest divorce.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame haven't had any credibility in a very long time. They've been tossing artists like The Jackson Five, Johnny Cash, and Dolly Parton in there for decades. Very, very minimal impact to the rock genre from any of those artists (could MAYBE argue for Cash).

They just induct artists from different genres to try to bring attention to it. I'm pretty sure country, R&B, soul, etc. all have their own HOF.