45catfan

I've been pimping this guy all offseason. I honestly didn't think he'd last to #6.

Pierre Strong at #149 (covered up). I'd be happy with this draft.

Heck, I'd take a 6th just to get his butt and his bloated salary outta here.

Could of figured that about Becton. I don't get the infatuation with over-sized/overweight linemen. Like the kid out of Minnesota, Faalele, dude will be a huge bust. Yeah he's a monster, but he won't last in the League.

^This is how I would feel about passing up on one of the big 3 OTs.

Cole Kelley-Southeastern Louisiana. Strictly as a backup unless PJ Walker has become the new Brenstin Bersin. Guy has good measurables, but is raw coming form a smaller school.

I'm still dumbfounded who called the shots during the 2020 draft. Either Hurney had a mic drop draft on his way out or Rhule had a horseshoe up the wazzoo with the ol' beginners luck.

I was going to put o-3, but I remembered which team I was thinking of. If there is a way to screw it up, we certainly will try. Therefore, I put 4-6. At #6 it will be hard to completely screw up the pick, but I'm sure Rhule will have to be talked off the ledge from making such a selection.

Yet somehow, an Ivy League QB has managed to carve out a respectable career in the NFL. Point being, he has lingered around when he probably shouldn't have. I think his football IQ has kept him around longer than his athletic ability.

I think GPA would be the best indicator. If you aren't willing to put in the study time during college, you probably aren't going to put in the study time in the League, especially when you are already under contract making bank. Granted some banking more so that others.

So you might as well just look at their GPA?

Eh, you still need to know the ratio of book smarts to practical (street) smarts. What was Luke's wonderlic? Dude, could analyze and diagnose things better than many coaches. Chances are it wasn't under a 20.

And the NFL is doing away with this metric? It's not an end all, be all, but it's a useful metric in evaluating a player. Like KB for example, a 7 wonderlic shows that a player values that Krispy Creme donuts over fulling a multi-million dollar contract probably didn't do too well in math.

I haven't worked from home, oh, ever....and I could have old you that. Not mocking you at all, just merely saying the Panthers' ruse of loving a QB in this draft has been about as believable as Putin saying he wasn't going to invade Ukraine as few months ago. I'll eat a heaping plate of hot, steaming crow with a dallop of flaming poo on top if we take a QB at #6.

Cool. I just don't see them essentially 'bullpinning' a dude for down the road. They could get a starting RT in the 2nd or 3rd round. They have so many holes currently that drafting a dude to move to another position in 2-3 years doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. That said, if they are a BPA club and an OT is at the top of their board at #5, then that may be the pick regardless of other needs.

Yup,he began at RT because they wanted to bring him along slowly. Gross was always going to be moved to the left side and he also wasn't the 5th pick. The Giants also have a decent LT where we didn't. I'm not sure if you were being snarky or not, but your post kinda fell flat as the parallels actually didn't match up.

You typically don't draft RTs in the top 5...just saying.

Steelers are said to be sniffing around at the Giants #7 pick. You almost have to assume a QB. Willis or Pickett? I think the Pickett love is smoke and it's Willis. Pickett may even be there at #20, Willis won't be, and Atlanta (#8) seems curious about Willis, not Pickett.

Rumors are the Steelers are talking to the Giants about #7. Why #7 and not #6? I think everyone in the League knows our QB interest in the draft at #6 is 100% smoke. Rhule+rookie QB=canned...everyone knows this. However, the Falcons' interest in Willis at #8 seems legit, so that's why they are poking around at #7 pick.

Walker going #1 overall would almost assure us an OT. Texans or Jets taking any other position besides OT means at least one falls to us. I'm hoping the rumors that the Giants are infatuated with Cross are true. While he has the biggest upside, he's still the rawest of the big 3 and thus the most room to bust of the OTs. Neal has the highest floor, but also the lowest ceiling. Ickey falls in the middle of the three. He's got some growing to do and thus hasn't hit his ceiling, but his tape shows that he's at least solid day 1 starter at LT.

I've been saying this for...um, MONTHS now. Even if they have the DL guy rated higher than Ekwonu or Cross, they know we are hard up for LT so it makes no sense for them to wait until #7 knowing we are going to take either of those guys. They take the LT (even if their board isn't stacked as such) and come back to the DL knowing he'll still be there.

In name only for Paradis because his play was marginal, but yeah, that would have been super cool.

What is so impressive is not only Ickey's on the field play, but the guy obviously has his head screwed on correctly. Tremendous individual and I really hope we draft this young man!

Wait until after the draft. Starting Sam as QB1 is our bluff. We have to make Cleveland believe it. If we wait long enough, the more they are apt to buy into the bluff. Again, we don't HAVE TO get rid of Sam, we just badly want to...or at least be relegated to QB2.

Better selection of craft beer at the stadium? Guys, I'm trying here....