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Interesting how he met with Rhule 1-on-1, and THEN had his key meeting with Fits and Tepper.

Sounds like they just liked Coral as a person a bit better.

Poor Matt

If you think they are good, you take them and let them battle it out with Corral.

If you take out 2012 what is it? Also, those stats are kinda BS since hitting on QB will greatly skew things. From foootballoutsiders: So clearly, the Seahawks are just vastly more skilled than other teams at drafting over the last ten years, right? As much as I would like to believe that, there is a reason the p-value is only a little under 0.05 when you don't attempt to neutralize unusual outliers. The fact that the p-value drops so much when those outliers are neutralized likely means that those outliers have a lot of luck in them. But even then, how could the Seahawks get the top two drafts of the decade, back-to-back, without that being evidence of incredible skill in drafting (rather than just good skill and a heavy dose of luck)? Well, when you have a skewed distribution, there is usually a reason why, and that reason is right in front of us. When we use CarAV as our measurement of value, it inherently means that the best players have more upside than the worst players have downside. If you get a Russell Wilson or a Tom Brady, their value is massive due to positional value, longevity, lower risk of injury (especially in the modern NFL), etc. But if you draft a JaMarcus Russell, there is only so much damage he can do. If the Raiders had been forced to start Russell for every game for a decade, then he might be a Tom Brady-level outlier. Instead, he gets benched and the damage is limited to just wasting a draft pick and having a bad season or two. What this all tells me is that drafting well is a lot of luck, mixed with some skill and an extra layer of a random "jackpot" on top (the one or two later-round picks each draft that become unexpected Hall of Famers). This would explain the data we see (including the outliers) pretty well. The Seahawks are probably pretty good at drafting, but also had some crazy luck in hitting three jackpots in a row (Wilson, Wagner, and Richard Sherman). What this should tell NFL teams is that you need to roll the dice as many times as you can (trading down for additional value whenever possible), get the best GM you can possibly find, and get the top coaches in the league to develop the talent you draft

This is dumb and I hope he doesn’t really believe it. Drafting is a crap shoot. It’s been studied and proven. Developing players sounds great, but the cba reduced practices means that is very very hard unless the player really wants it and works on his own. Players can’t really develop without actual game time, and no one really wants to send raw players out there with the game on the line unless they have to (see Rivera and Bradberry). It’s very hard for a player to get better when they haven’t played a real snap in 2,3, however many years.

It worked once. One magic draft. Their drafting has been mostly terrible since.

Like the Patriots? LA?

I was initially high on corral and then I started learning more about him. The guy is small, his wonderlic score was terrible, and he struggles to make accurate intermediate throws. Not a good combo. He might start this year but he’ll ultimately just contribute to getting us a high pick next year.

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I saw that too. He did that after saying Matt is ‘the future of this team’. Maybe he didn’t think he should say that considering Sam is still here. No idea though.

interesting…. Thats all I got

You know who he is?

Small sample size. Another way to look at this. Over the past 15 years, only eight quarterbacks who weren’t drafted in the top 40 have won more than eight games as a starter for the team that chose them: Wilson (98), Prescott (42), Kirk Cousins (26), Nick Foles (21 in two stints with the Philadelphia Eagles), Trent Edwards (14), Chad Henne (13), Trevor Siemian (13) and Tarvaris Jackson (10).

Howell was championed around here as ‘the guy’ for the past year. Last draft, guys were saying we should pass on a QB and tank for Howell.

No. We need to wait until next year and we might need every available pick to get one.

Ridder goes before Willis and Howell…lol

Lol…some of these guys may end up being UDFAs

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At one point Fitt looks over at Rhule a few times and then awkwardly and nervously laughs briefly like he knew Rhule was being strangely quiet.

I remember the last time we drafted a ‘pass pro technician’.

We’re not getting a QB next year worth a damn if we make the wildcard round.

You sure it wasn’t the same stupid bass getting caught over and over again?

RH doesn’t have media. Those were the penny saver Lady, the head of the pta, and HOA president.

The only ‘foundation’ you can build in the nfl is finding a stud QB. Everyone else (coaches and players) have short lives in the league.