BrisbanePanther

Plus Houston still has Cleveland's #1 next year so it was house money.

Wow Houston! Stroud AND Anderson?!?!? Again, it was hard to imagine that a defensive head coach who was a LB from Alabama was going to miss the defensive LB from Alabama!

Thanks, but I kinda cheated. I'm American but moved out here years ago. @Aussie Tank however, is legit "True Blue" Aussie. There's others around though. It did my heart good to someone on a skateboard wearing a Cam jersey in here a while back. The Aussie NFL Fans Facebook group gets a lot of traffic too.

Yep, would book that flight from Australia. Only one layover to Charlotte too--easy.

This is always fun. Mine can't believe the stuff from even the 90s...but I'm sometimes shocked...mine knew what a cassette tape was for, and that blew my mind. Want more hilarity? Try explaining Y2K to a preteen.

This would be why the company was basically doing a media blitz about the scores. Stroud wasn't the only one to have value drop right before our eyes. The company was doing all it can to save their value proposition.

It'd be interesting to know if a team ever wanted to trade down so much that they had to sweeten offers (not sure what that would look like) to entice teams to trade up...maybe it's never happened before.

Yep, I seem to remember Sam Bradford having that huge contract in place before he was even drafted. The weird thing is the NFL wants suspense and ratings leading to the first pick...which is often the least suspenseful. The gamesmanship starts at pick 2.

So one of the biggest skilled QBs ever is picking who would be one of the smallest ever? I'd imagine, though, that some contrarians would say he didn't endorse AR because he wouldn't want to be "replaced" in Panther lore, much like Shaq seemed to be with Dwight Howard with the whole "new-Superman-in-Orlando" thing. EDIT: Happened already!

And proud of it!

Great Brissie cartoon!

Yep, and he'd literally be the only NFC QB worth watching other than Dak and Hurts. If Young is drafted I would expect Carolina to actually be on TV the maximum number of times, and a lot of 4pm starts on Fox. If Stroud ends up on an AFC South team, NBC would want that game on SNF. Relevance. We might have to get used to it again, except this time it won't be "yeah, but" like it was with Cam.

Well, they're actually trying to increase their chance of landing him without paying the price of draft picks...so he is paying the price instead. It's actually a pretty disgusting display of how teams overvalue draft capital too. Reminds me of the fact that in modern economic philosophy, a "good" economy actually requires a certain number of people to be out of work...like there is such a thing as too much employment, so some people's livelihoods have to be sacrificed for the economy to "work". Sorry if that edged towards Tinderbox territory.

Must have been an interview with the Reverse Bryce, Ecyrb, because I didn't pick that up at all in the Clark interview. On the contrary, he sees football as "his thing" indeed, and his family picked up on that at an early age (his dad said "at 4 months") and focused on putting him in position to succeed.

The NFL needs him to succeed. Steph changed basketball from a tall person's game to an any person's game--that's huge for marketability and significantly expands your future player pool. Bryce can be the same for the NFL, especially in an era of youth football numbers declining, more people worried about life-changing injuries, player retiring in their 20s and early 30s. They will probably institute rule changes over time to support him to--just like the NBA basically did for Steph (even though they'll never admit as much).

His size was indeed a concern, but it was frame not height (like Bryce). He was thin as a rail and was actually looking like a bust early on due to injuries. The fact that it was the Warriors who drafted also lent itself to the sense that he was no good since they were a putrid franchise at the time too (like Carolina), so of course "they'd" pick a bust.

Ha yeah, I've always wondered what we're realistically expecting out of these reports. If someone definitively says something is happening and we don't like it (or it ends up not being that way), we say they don't know anything; if they say "think" we take that as code for also not knowing anything. Hilarious. FWIW, he covered his bases here--one "think" and one definitive...which one is right?

This is that Voltron lion-looking helmet that Bosa wears...but Kittle also wears it, maybe because TEs also have blocking duties.

One other thing that will be interesting is how defenses will attack him. Because of both his height and stature, I think the refs will be flag-happy. If "central casting" height defenders use good technique and lower to tackle, the chance is high that they'll be flagged for unnecessary roughness because their hits will look helmet-to-helmet. In the flip side, because he's lower to the ground, trying to tackle him low could be seen as too close to his knees--another flag. And because he's so light, hits that might seem normal for most will look unnecessary to the refs. Before long, defenders may be afraid to hit him until they figure out a way to do so without being flagged. By then, I think he will take less severe hits to avoid all doubt.

Different sport but Zion is one the (if not THE) biggest dude on the court...when he plays, except almost he never plays because he stays hurt even in a non-contact sport. I guess I've still yet to see the injuries that small Bryce would get that big Cam wouldn't. I suppose he could get the wind knocked out of him more, but I don't see how he could have more concussion, knee injuries, shoulder injuries etc because he's small. I'm also not a sports physician, so there's that.

Yet their coach is a defensive guy and their GM might be also (coming from NE). If there was a concern about his size they'd know first because they'd know how they'd gameplan against him, and if he will be knocked out by NFL defenses. They're also the team that preferred Brock Osweiler because of his size too...maybe they've learned their lesson as a franchise. Ironically Bill O'Brien preferred Osweiler...and later coached Young. Would be interesting to hear his opinion.

I'm more in the Young camp but only slightly, and I can admit that what Stroud has done with this is significant. Especially when you read in his story that he spent a lot of time only being coached by YouTube.

Just wanted to note that all the comments on Lamar not having an agent (and the impact) should be balanced by Tunsil also not having an agent (and the lack of impact).

Well, we almost won the division this past season soo...I think it's definitely possible.