PleaseCutStewart

Yeah, but most of these tight ends 1) Were effective y-tight ends (both blocking and running routes) 2) Had a fully (or mostly fully) developed route tree 3) Had good peripheral stats (YRR, YAC/RAC, Air Yards, etc.) 4) Had low drop percentages And it's hard for players like Kittle, Loveland, and Laporta to get stats when they are playing for run first Big 10 teams. And yes, I know Oregon ran it more than they passed, but those teams were probably like 60-65% run with QBs far worse than Dante Moore

I don't understand where this idea of Smith-Wade being an effective safety came from. I am all for adding a CB in the draft, but I want no part of Smith-Wade being anything more than a depth safety at best if we move him to safety. At the end of the day, Smith-Wade is a JAG, whether its at nickel or safety

I think it's less pushing him out the door and more making sure his knee can hold up and not overpaying him.

Players like Kittle and McBride are exceptions to the rule. And they were drafted very late because of how nonexistent their stats were in college. Big difference between taking a chance on a day 3 pick than a 1st round pick

People keep saying Sadiq wasn't targeted while failing to recognize that he literally had the most targets and receptions for Oregon this year. The guy had a god awful YRR and YAC (like bottom 50% of TEs in college football and worse than many TEs that won't even get drafted) while also having a drop rate north of 10%. His receiving yard total was crap in large part because of his failure to do anything after the catch. From the tape I have seen of him, he only has straight line speed - he is surprisingly way slower than he should be laterally. This is one of the reasons he was primarily used as a seam and screen TE (also solid success with slants) - he just doesn't have a quick break when running a corner, out, or dig route and badly rounds these routes off (this will lead to QBs throwing INTs). I get he had a crazy combine and the dude is a freak athlete, but he has so many red flags, it's hard to keep track of all of them. Just too many unknowns to draft him in the 1st IMO

Likely will have to leapfrog the Vikings for him. But I also wouldn't be shocked if he is taken earlier than that. I feel like his draft stock has soared the most among 1st round picks (outside of Styles)

People are mocking him to us solely because we don't have any good tight ends on our team without recognizing that he does not fit Canales' scheme one bit. We will look at inline tight ends like Delp, Raridon, or Roush most likely if we draft TE. I will be shocked if Sadiq is our pick.

I like Thieneman, but don't think he makes it to 19. I like McDonald's elite run stopping ability, but his lack of pass rush makes it hard to justify taking him with pick 19. Would be all for trading down to like 30 and taking him there

Lol, if we are doing that, we would be very stupid. Sadiq would be the equivalent of drafting somebody like Zachariah Branch (minus his arrest issues from a couple days ago) - a dude with elite level speed that has no route tree. And Branch (prior to the arrest) was a fringe 2nd rounder, likely 3rd rounder. Drafting Sadiq in the 1st round means you think he can flex between inline and slot TE and be great at both. If you don't think he can make it as an inline TE in some capacity (which is what I think), you aren't drafting him in the 1st. I will be extremely shocked if we draft Sadiq. Canales has shown he likes inline tight ends that can block, and I'm confident in saying that is not Sadiq

Lol he sat on the puck for that save

Holy poo balls Freddie. Amazing saves

Ref sounded so sad to say no goal there. Jesus make your allegiance to Ottawa a little more obvious prick

He saved that. fug you cheating ass refs

If we play the same 3rd period as 2nd period, we win. But we still haven't seen our 10 minute spell where we play like poo. Hoping we don't have it today

Much better 2nd period than first. Forwards have done a good job on the back check so far to limit odd man breaks for Ottawa.

I'm pretty confident that won't happen with how lost they look in this game...

Maybe this season will be like the pre-kerr warriors. Just like they fired Mark Jackson despite some success to hire Kerr, we fire Lee and hopefully find a coach that will be successful like Kerr

It's hard to say finishing 9th out of 15 teams in the East is a good season...

We have a game plan. It's literally just chuck threes every possession and hope we hit 40% of them...

Seeing how we have looked against the heat and tonight, even if we still somehow miraculously win, we are just going to get swept by the Pistons

Well, this is a pitiful way to end our season... Still think we desperately need to find a new coach for next year

I don't think he makes it past the Vikings (and honestly could see the Cowboys taking him or a team like the Bears trading up to pick ahead of us). Most I would want to see us trade up (if we really want him) is to 17 and trade 19 and something like a 4th rounder

I don't see him making it as a deep cover safety. He honestly reminds me a lot of Emmanwori and could be great as that short coverage safety with his long arms and ball skills + ability to cover tight ends. Is that a player most teams would like (including us), absolutely. The problem is we have Moehrig for 2 more years and just drafted Ransom last year. Granted, I think McNeil-Warren is much better than Ransom.

It's honestly surprising we don't play single high safety more because it's most common in cover 1 man and cover 3 zone. And we all know we run a poo ton of cover 3 zone. Overall, I thought coverage was pretty good last year except the inside hook routes and seam routes. And I think a big reason those were successful is because we had the shittiest of LBs to play zone defense for us + a nonexistent pass rush. Lloyd & Phillips + draft picks hopefully help to address both of those problems

I think people get too freaked out by age. Many times teams don't resign a good player they draft to a 2nd contract because they are cap strapped. So it shouldn't matter whether they are 26 going for their 2nd contract or 30. If anything, we get to capitalize on their prime years.