Khyber53

Hard to argue against this, but then again, sometimes even the lowliest billionaire can't help but look enviously, perhaps slavishly at the biggest ones.

This is a major, major issue, an unintended one, that the league and NFLPA has to deal with. If not, some day you'll see a QB taking 60% of a team's salary cap get matadored by their underpaid linemen to provoke a career ending injury, or worse yet, a Teddy Bridgewater training camp incident done on purpose. Think it won't happen? Remember that the Saints' bountygate issue was just for a couple of thousand dollars to severely injure an opposing player. Imagine if there were millions to be divvied out amongst a team?

Am I wrong, but is this just an incredibly deep and wide draft class this season?

What we need, wherever it is, is a game breaker. The Patrick Mahomes, the Julius Peppers, the Gronkowski, the Mack... someone who can single-handedly affect the outcome of not a single game but multiple ones. Now the hard part... identifying them ahead of time.

And if you got 110% ... which is possible. If you watch his tape, he's incredible. And then when you realize that most of it is against top end, play-off teams, he looks like one of the best players in the draft.

Great write-up OP! Thanks for taking the time to do this for us. I really want us to revamp our defense this year in the draft. And it has to start at DE/Edge, but if Warren is still there at 8 I think we should grab him and not look back. Whoever takes him will have a great weapon and the rest of the teams will suffer for it. I don't want to see Warren on another team in the NFC South. And New Orleans picking right behind us scares me.

I think people see him, see Deon as his coach and think that it's going to happen again. Only better. I'm not sold. The kid very well could be fantastic, but he isn't going to hold up playing both sides in the NFL. Some Sean Peyton-guy is going to make sure that he gets clobbered by a safety every time he goes up for a catch and picked off by a TE rub every time he covers a slot receiver. Or he could revolutionize the whole sport. Big roll of the dice there.

Just stay away from Sanders. Thank God we don't need a QB right now!

Honestly, I'd like to see Eddie come back, he's been more than reliable for us. They all miss kicks now and then and he's been better than most. However, there's probably a top end to pay for a kicker when you're rebuilding a team, so he could quickly get out of our price range. If he goes elsewhere, good luck to him, he did right by us. And some other guy is going to get a shot at one of only 32 spots to do that job there are in the world. Good luck to that guy, too. Edit to add: Wouldn't be the same without JJJ around here. Glad he will stay on, there's going to be a lot of new faces on special teams, we need that veteran presence.

Hurney was an ace at picking first rounders. Later rounds...

Why?

Old hens do cluck.

Delhomme had Mangum and Wiggins, but that was balanced by Smitty and Moose and Proehl, probably our best receiving trio ever. (And if you squint a little bit, you can see Coker, XL and Thielen in those roles now... keep squinting, almost in focus, squint a bit more...) Warren, we're talking about possibly a generational talent at the position. I'd say all the stuff he can do, but here's his highlight reel. You'll see him as a receiver, wildcat QB runner and passer, center, running back and heck I think there's a two minute segment of him running a concessions stand during the two minute warning and getting every order correct. If we don't grab him, then I am sure New Orleans will snag him on the next pick and he's going to be killing us for the next decade.

Look, I agree we desperately need to build that defensive line more than anything else right now. I think we take best DL player available at 8 unless... Tyler Warren, that monstrous, multi-talented TE somehow is still on the table when our pick comes around. Then we sprint to the podium and take him. No questions. Sanders played, well, okayish here, but he's probably Tommy Tremble level of play. Get Warren and let him take over the center of the field and the seams and our entire offense wakes up. XL, Thielen and Coker suddenly have so much more room to work and Bryce gets to offer opposing DCs a pick your poison situation. Literally, he's the only offensive player I'd think of pushing our pick away from the defensive line.

You know, I'm sorry. I don't mean to try and put a stumbling block in front of you brother. I just very, very much believe that We the People, is best served by allowing all of us to be part of the We, and not just a select few.