Proudiddy

Bet steelers take WR.

You talked him up... Cards just took him at 159.

I really hope we take Goodley, Bell, or Worthy with our last picks. Anyone know if we've shown any interest in any of them?

Anyone know why Goodley slipped this far?

Hoping for McBride, Goodley, or Worthy in the 5th.

Yeah, there's a lot of fodder/interviews and such on nfln, and it's like they delay announcing the picks until they're done with those segments, even on the ticker.

Wow... Nfln is dragging their feet then lol.

Where are you seeing the picks that early?

The Falcons are having a great draft.

David "Hold The" Mayo, LB Texas State.

Guy with the worst life in the world: GERRY SANDUSKY, VOICE OF THE BALTIMORE RAVENS.

Not when you have a comment to be made, but don't want the villagers to gather with torches and pitchforks.

No comment.

Allowing each team to announce the pick from their headquarters seemed like a cool idea initially, but man, I can't wait for it to be over. It sucks. Too clunky.

I'm with you on all of that and don't dispute it. Nor would I ever. But apparently, I'm not immune to being sacked into the occasional pissing contest with other fans here about our dissenting opinions... Oh well...

Or that one.

You clearly don't understand it TRG. By saying, I didn't frame it or start it, I am stating you created the argument about me stacking my opinion up against gettleman's resume. Which I didn't. Also, I did reason out why I didn't like the pick (mentioning his drop rate, that he was slow) to which you responded with: bahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa bahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa bahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa bahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaa yore egoz!!! 1 (clearly a post looking for thoughtful discussion). I didn't say anything about his humble beginnings until you trolled me with that post. But you're right... I'm tired of debating it... I'll see you in the next thread I disagree with something in, bringing another well-deliberated and thoughtful response like the one quoted above.

I wanted speed, Red. And admittedly, I likely got sucked into some trolling from the gettleman circle jerk initially, where every move is fuging einstien-esque, and went too far in my stated opinion of the pick. I don't love it, but we'll see what happens. I'll be much happier with it if we draft a speed guy today. I'm just not a big fan of filling your WR corps with gigantic, long-striding (slow), inconsistent-catching receivers. Hopefully KB will be a year better and more reliable, and hopefully a lot of Funchesses issues were because he had another reciever throwing to him, but I was never blown away watching him. The ability to separate is my biggest concern. But again, with already having Ginn, if we can take another speed guy today, I would feel a lot better about things.

TRG, this is the post that ignited the "ego" and "random Internet guy v Gettleman," poo that you kicked up this morning. I didn't start that and I didn't frame it. You did. And this post was in response to me simply saying I hated the pick, mentioned funchess'drop rate, and that I thought he was slow. I then responded to this troll-worthy post with "and he was a P.E. coach," to demonstrate he is human as well. So, for all your, "don't make dumb arguments," talk, this quoted post bodes well for that. Glad you've had a change of heart since last night.

Thing is, I'm not doing any of those things but simply disagreeing with individual moves that are made. I also have said I loved signing Ginn, Tillman, Oher, Martin, Colman, etc. That's where perception comes in. My opposition on this board is turning this into a Proudiddy v Gettleman argument. I have no ego, at least not enough of one to stack myself up against him lol. I'm saying I don't like this, I would've done it this way, and people are perceiving that to mean, "look at my Internet track record where my job isn't on the line! Trust me, my Madden online franchise is a 25x champion!" I'm not the one framing it that way. Like I said, when someone (not you) can't win an argument, they reach for the furthest, most extreme thing to discredit the other. So, if me saying "that's the wrong move" can't be disproven at this moment, what better way to dump on it then to say, "he's an NFL gm and you're not. Shut up and watch." Okay... Bye bye dialogue! I have said I disagree with certain moves, and have loved others, with my biggest gripe being that WR has widely been ignored while other strengths have been addressed and addressed again. I'm watching and say what I think... That's all.

Also, apologies for formatting and typo errors, I'm on my phone.

Scot, as you like to say, "you're smarter than that." You know I meant censor in a metaphorical sense. If a while crowd of people go out of their way to smother any dissenting opinions until there are none, that is censorship lol. As far as shaq, cool... Then I'm wrong. I still would've liked to go about things differently.

You're right, scot, we all have been wrong at some point. I've said in this very thread that I have been wrong, and will be wrong again. But I've been right more often than not, if we want to consider predictions made here on the huddle. I'm not saying I'm an NFL talent evaluator, but that's where that is a ridiculous argument to be made as well... Anytime someone says, "I don't agree with this pick, I think player X was better," they are immediately met with, "well he's an NFL Gm with 208 years of talent evaluation experience, you're Internet nobody." okay... So why are we even here discussing it then? You're saying one thing, but doing another. I didn't compare myself or my resume to gettleman, nor would I. TRG did. That's the problem we're running into here. Everyone IS free to agree or disagree with the picks, signings, lack of signings, etc, but the moment someone steps outside of the box and says "I would've done this," they get hit with a nuke, "well you're not in the front office. Let's all worship at the altar of gettleman." That isn't inviting discussion or differing opinions. And so, here I bring it full circle... That whole thing about everyone getting it wrong sometimes... So do NFL front offices. So has Gettleman. So, it's possible that the people saying they disagree with moves may be right. That's the funny thing about the draft and what you just stated... How is disagreeing at this point, wrong? No one knows until these guys play games. Once they do, whoever is right can say, "I told you so," but until then, yes, there is a suffocating circle jerk attempting to shutdown anything that doesn't jibe with their way of thinking. Contrary to popular opinion, I don't hate gettleman. In fact, it's in my interest for him to do an awesome job because my team's success depends on it. But, as a fan, I disagree with his approach. Do you want to talk about who has been wrong, or made a dumb argument? Let's talk about his approach to the WR corps and OL last season. Would you like to dissect that? I don't feel like digging it up, but I can't count how many idiots had a wet dream on this very forum when we signed Cotchery. I reminded them he was a situational WR that was best working out of the slot, and greatly relied on talent around him to open things up for him, and that was how he got 10 tds in the season before. That was shot down. Gettleman was a genius, well simply plug him in and he'll give us the same production. How did that work out? Same with avant. The OL? We don't have to go through the details. I complained from the offseason on that the lack of speed and talent at WR would kill our offense and would make things very hard for cam. That's exactly what happened. Our offense is what held up back, almost knocked out of the playoffs, and ended our season in Seattle... I understand gettleman can't magically snap his fingers and fill in all those holes we had in one single swoop... But I knew it was a weakness and voiced that. It was never appropriately addressed and it remained a problem that plagued our season. I wasn't wrong about that, but those on the other side of the argument refused to accept that, as illogical as it was, and then eventually, because of that denial, turned around and blamed Cam for all of our issues, lol. So, it's a never ending cycle... My hope was that we would address those issues so we won't go through that again. As random Internet fan guy, just like everyone else here, I felt those needs were best addressed in other ways. Gettleman made his moves, and we'll see what happens,but until then no one knows who is right or wrong. And if I'm wrong, I'll be eating my crow and cheering like everyone else. I don't give a poo as long as my team is winning. But, in that same vein, that crowd that convinced themselves gettleman tricked the entire league by gutting our receiving corps and then assembling the slowest unit around that caused so many of our struggles have an awfully short memory... It's a two-way Street. Front offices aren't immune from criticism and mistakes either.

Possible. I was just watching nfln and they have a reporter in New Orleans and they said there was an audible groan everytime a TE was picked... I consider Funchess a TE, so it may have been they were targeting him.

Your opinion matters too. I'm not saying it for my sake. I'm saying the gettleman fan club is quickly approaching Stalin-esque levels of censorship. I'm not getting into this to start the day off, TRG. I thought there were better ways to acquire a receiving talent. We're not privy to all the info nfl front offices are, but it appears we took shaq earlier than he could've been had, then traded several picks to move up and take funchess. I wanted speed and sure hands. That can still be had, but the black and white of it is, I didn't like the way we went about it and who we took in this moment... They both could be great players. But this board is here to discuss agreement, disagreement, etc. I want our team to win Superbowls. If gettleman's picks do that, then he is the greatest man that ever lived... Regardless, we have the ability to agree, disagree, and discuss. You're right, who cares what I say, you say, or anyone on this board says... Oh well, who wants discussion? Unless we live in gettleman's buttcrack, we have no right to speak.