45catfan

For early money on a rookie deal? Yes. For a second or third contract? No.

Listed at 5'9"...you know that's a stretch. Dude is a baller though, no question. Maybe a Ricky Manning Junior type.

As one draft site ranks Indiana players (overall): Mendoza-QB #1 Ponds-CB #42 Sarratt- WR #59 Smith-OT #72 Kamara-Edge #91 Farrell-S #104 Cooer Jr.-WR #105 Moore- S #151 Fisher-LB #154 Hemby-RB #159 Benson-OT #160 Daley-Edge #162 Nowakowski-TE #164 Coogan-C #204

Yup, a lot of these guys came from JMU which just made the jump to FBS just a few years ago. I'm a production guy myself. Fug the RAS over production. Cignetti gets it. Just because you have the fastest 40 time or can bench 400 pounds, that doesn't always translate to the football field.

Day 3 as well as both safeties, a couple of their OL, too. Don't expect a repeat, this team was built for this run...very heavy upperclassmen I would be glad to draft either of those safeties.

You don't say?

Anyone who thought Manning, Sellers and, honestly, Moore coming out this year was just a pipe dream. You are right some of these guys will go back , but some are COMPLETELY fine being QB3, QB4 and even QB5 in this draft for '27. Is it better to give up a few million dollars in the short term or make millions more over the long term? If Joe Shmoe on the internet can figure this out, then certainly paid professional consultants can.

Some guys could go back, BUT outside out Lagway and Sellers, this is a solid crop. Please see my previous post about guys smartening up to being a top 5 pick. Is it better to be a top 5 pick or top 15 pick? Think real hard about this. Actually it shouldn't be all that hard. Mark my words, the 2027 QB draft will be EPIC! Why? Dudes will be fighting for QB 3-4-5. They are not dumb jocks anymore. With agents and financial advisors, they realize going to a sh1t franchise ruins your career faster than going to a middling team. Please bookmark this post.

Understand, these guys aren't idiots. Is It better to be the #13 overall pick of or the #1 overall pick? Think real hard about this and get back to me. I'm not trying to be being a smart@ss, but a realist.

Otten is definitely an option for a young, cheaper pick up. I've always been a Goedert fan. That's the big splash guy in FA if we go that route. Several medium tier guys, but still better than our TE room. Hooper, Fant, Likely, Waller etc... It's a pretty good FA group. That's why I'm against grasping for a project guy like like Sadiq mid round one. You take a Loveland or Warren with that pick like last draft...proven TEs ready for the next level.

How about let's stop focusing on which of these two was the bigger mistake, just they are mistakes. Focus on the future. Hopefully 2026 will be the last season with Bryce Young as our "Franchise QB".

Yup and we went 0-1, which was the likely outcome all along. Even if we did win somehow, we lost two O-linemen, Horn and would have got smoked on the road. This was clearly not our year. Ask Harbaugh, Tomlin and McDermott about just making the playoffs without advancing or advancing far enough. This is a win or go home tournament, clearly not for teams that could barley win back-back games the entire season or a for a squad that can't seem to put games away convincingly. We were dangling by a thread all season long, obviously not a recipe for a SB run.

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PLEASE no Sadiq. We have much bigger fish to fry than a Swole Bones or Ian Thomas carbon copy. He's an athlete playing TE. We unmistakable TE playing TE. Hit up FA for TE.

Dude, really? A 8-9 team was going to win the Super Bowl? If we were the Seahawks or Patriots, I would get it. All we did was weaken our roster for next season on what was CLEARLY a futile effort in the playoffs.

Exactly. It was an impatient hedge fund billionaire wanting immediate results even though the average NFL fan realized that '23 QB class was questionable at best. Even if there was a voice inside the building that cautioned against the move up and/or waiting for a much better QB class the following spring, it's not like Tepper would have listened.

Bingo! Will history repeat itself or will we dip our toes in the QB rich 2027 draft class?

Neither, if we would have waited another year like I wanted we could have had our choice of 6 franchise QBs.

Remember how we fired a coach for continuously taking us to the playoffs, but falling short of the Super Bowl? No? Me either.

For people that use the straw man of our OL sucking for Bryce's woes, he's #18 in sacks of 24 QBs that played in 14 or more games. Herbert got sacked TWICE as much--54 to 27 sacks. Bryce average 1.5 sacks a game. So if 1 or 2 sacks a game is messing him up, He needs to go talk to the guys getting sacked nearly 4 times a game.

So let's add this up, Ickey out for a year+, Horn suffered another concussion (remember Luke?) and our RG who was rushed back from injury sustains another significant one. Yay, pointless playoff game! Anyone who was high enough to think this team had ANY sort of shot to put a run together needs to go to NA.

Yes. I'm more intrigued by Lomu. As I stated earlier, he's not a plug and play guy year 1, but I think he can be a franchise LT with a year of development.

I guess I'm in Seattle's corner now. I can't stand any of the other teams remaining. Dang, why couldn't the Bills have won?

As it stands now, yes, a couple OTs are slotted in the early 20's on multiple BBs.