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Well, I mean XPs went from 19 yards to 32 yards. Still a high percentage kick, but not the total gimme it used to be. It used to be 99% plus. Since the change, it's hovering in the 93-94% range.

Misperception. FG make percentage has been trending upward despite the distances also trending upward. https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/NFL/kicking.htm

I get that Skye is intriguing because of his huge leg, but the guy has always been wildly inconsistent. I just don't see that getting any better.

Yeah, I was definitely expecting to add a kicker at least as a UDFA and the way we were picking up late round picks a draft pick wouldn't have been surprising, especially since we spent one on a long snapper.

That was one pre-draft hype train that baffled me. There were a lot of Panthers fans wanting him.

Yeah, Nagy is basically looking like Gase 2.0 IMO.

He got injured. He actually came into camp already injured and it got worse leading to surgery. That lingering knee injury probably played a significant role in him going undrafted.

My favorite two QB prospects in this draft were Fields and Wilson and both ended up landing in awful spots. We'll see how that pans out. I don't think Nagy will get a chance to fully ruin Fields though. If he doesn't get his poo together he's probably gonna get fired.

I have about three acres I have to mow currently with another couple in pastureland. I'm gonna expand the pastureland to get down to around an acre or so that I have to mow.

I just hope that when we're looking at the last few spots, particularly at WR, DB, and LB that special teams ability weighs heavily. I'd like to see us largely move past the days of retaining "core special teamers". Ideally those special teamers should largely be developmental guys. I'd like to see us stop burning valuable roster spots on guys like Karl Hankton and Colin Jones if we can.

I have to think that we believe that Tremble will develop into more than just a blocker. He has the physical talent. Maybe we deemed him misused at ND? I don't know.

I very well might be and he may pan out. But one thing I'm definitely not wrong about is that he is definitely not "basically a rookie". If you're buying that line you'll buy oceanfront property in Nebraska.

It was their last veteran resort. I'm starting to think this staff is afraid of rookie QBs.

Let what go? Hilarious mental gymanstics to justify overlooking three years of some of the worst QB play in the NFL over that timespan? What is Rhule supposed to say? "Yeah, we know the guy has sucked. We're hoping he doesn't suck for US."

While we're throwing shade at people who hold a different opinion, what's the logic behind "Sam Darnold is basically a rookie?"

Speaking of divas... you made an alt account to post this? LOL!

The only guy that really makes since here is Trey Lance and if we were hoping for him then we did a VERY good job of keeping that one quiet. Despite him being a hot mock draft item for us awhile, there was no substantiated rumors of us having the slightest interest in him but that doesn't necessarily mean for sure that we didn't. Fields was there. He and Lance were the only two of the top QB prospects who had any chance of being there. Lawrence/Wilson going #1/#2 was a given and had been for awhile.

90s Cowboys you say? We need more

Yeah, I don't really understand the Mac Jones talk. The word immediately out of Senior Bowl week was that Rhule and company liked Jones but not in the 1st round or certainly at least not at #8. Moving on from a physically limited QB in Teddy to draft Mac Jones at #8 would've been nothing short of baffling.

Understood. But the future draft pick evaluation pretty much was. It's always been roughly one round less, regardless of what spin teams want to put on it. COVID has kinda become a catch all excuse for explaining business decisions. You can go into a lot of evaluation detail or you can just blame COVID. Hell, I'd just blame COVID too. A lot simpler that way and if anyone questions it just call them a COVID denier and mock them. It's lazy, but it's a win/win.

Yeah, we know it was a different year for talent rvakuation. What does any of this have to do with the reality that it has always been standard practice to evaluate future draft picks as roughly one round lesser value?

My point was that you can't really blame COVID for something that has pretty much always been. Yeah, it was a weird evaluation year but next year's picks are pretty much always devalued by a round. Partly because you can't use them now and partly because you can't quantify exactly what pick you're talking about. It could be one of the first picks in that round or one of the last or anything in between. The safe bet in valuation is to just assume it'll be one of the last.

Valuing next year's picks as a round later than this year's picks has been fairly standard process for pretty much the entire common draft era and it makes sense. Next year's pick isn't going to do anything for you this year. Meanwhile, you might just get your ass fired.

I thought it was a dumb pick but whatever. This dude seems awesome.

I liked him decently too. I never bought into the 2nd round hype I saw on him, but I thought he'd likely go as high as possibly the late 3rd and definitely by the 5th. I actually like Moses more than Jabril Cox (who also went quite a bit later than most pundits thought). Obviously NFL talent evaluators thought differently and it's not like they watch any shortage of Bama tape.