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He does but how this has dragged on wasn't on him. That was just the Packers and Jets haggling over the details that everyone pretty much knew was eventually going to get done so there wasn't a lot of urgency to get it done until we were staring down the barrel of draft day. Tepper has to be pissed about the timing though. This week was supposed to be all about his team and now the Rodgers news is gonna suck a lot of air out of the room with a team in the biggest media market in the country making a trade for a future first ballot HOF QB.

Yeah, that's pretty much how this whole draft prospect evaluation process as a fan goes.

I've made the statement that I get the impression that he's cocky implying that I think there's a good chance that he won't.

Marketer. All I care about is are you gonna put in the work required? That's it for me. That's the line between cocky and confident. If you realize that you have to work your ass off to achieve greatness there's humility in that realization even if you're brash and hold in your outward persona.

Because we're talking about them as prospects. None of them have played an NFL game yet. Should we just not talk about prospects at all?

The only way it makes sense is if you're a really good contender level type team and you think you're an elite talent at RB away from a SB run. Meaning you're holding that pick because you either landed it in a prior trade or your QB was hurt all year or something along those lines.

Maye is talented as hell. I want to see how he operates next year. When the staff asked him to dial back the aggressiveness with his running I thought it clipped his wings a little bit and messed with his mojo. Yeah, he's gotta cut out the highlight reel helicoptering dives but you also have to trust the kid to pick his moments. He has to show growth in his game and decision making in that regard and the staff has to trust him a bit more. One of the reasons why I was so high on Howell and still am is that he was always able to adapt and just roll with whatever the coaches wanted him to do. Nothing seemed to effect his game and headspace. Receivers dropping balls, OL can't lay a hand on a pass rusher, coaches calling idiotic plays, coaches not wanting him to run at all early in his career then basically treating him like The Golden Calf of Bristol in his final year because him running was the only way they could move the ball... it just didn't matter. He just kept his head down and focused on the things he could control. Maye seemed rattled at times late in the season last year. I want to see growth out of him there. I think part of it was the expectations of the fast start, part of it was the coaches trying to reel him in and make him play the way they wanted him to play, and part of it was a lot of tension on the coaching staff. The relationship between Mack Brown and the OC was kinda falling apart. So, basically we'll see. Honestly though, if he was available in this draft I'd take him #1 overall.

Oher was pretty damn good for us before that concussion derailed his career. Not Jordan Gross but plenty competent.

Our new franchise QB getting ready for his dress rehearsal

Shaq is already starting to quietly talk retirement and Luvu is going into a contract season. You don't spend draft picks with only their rookie season in mind.

When people start hyper focusing on Williams as an NFL prospect they're gonna realize he holds onto the ball foooreeeerever. I'm not sold on him translating to the NFL if he can't speed up his processing.

Performing live at BOA for the draft party... If you know you know.

He looks like he's on HGH for sure. That looks like HGH gut.

I think there's a good chance that we end up trading down... from #39. I don't see a wheeler and dealer like Fitts just sitting on his hands from #39 to #94. Wouldn't surprise me to see us do something to get an extra day three pick or too as well. There's just two sections of the draft when there's gonna be a lot of picks made without us. Fitts is gonna wanna be in the action.

Yep. Draft 'em, let someone else pay them their second contract. IMO you should be drafting a mid-late round RV at least every other season. It's a churn and burn position. If you have an elite athlete kid who wants to play football, make sure he isn't playing RB.

Nah, it's awesome. Drafting a RB in the top 10 is a colossal mistake.

There's a difference between cocky and confident. The difference IMO is the realization that you still gonna have to work your ass off and put you all into it to be great. The cocky guys think they're just too damn good to possibly fail.

I get Josh Rosen vibes. Dude comes across super cocky. Not "I can be great if I work my ass off and put everything I have into this" confident. More like "I'm just too damn good to possibly fail and this is gonna be easy" cocky.

No lies detected. Pretty much echoes my concerns.

We've made the moves to potentially do it. I thought we were gonna sign a safety but I expected a FS type. That's still low key one of our bigger roster holes. I see folks talking about WR, CB, EDGE, etc. but FS isn't far behind IMO.

Just saying. Him and Von Bell are basically redundant. Don't be shocked if it happens. Like Fitts said, you can't re-sign everybody.

Probably about the same at OSU. I still think they lose to UGA and I doubt Young would've played any better than Stroud in that game. Not sure how Stroud would've cared at Bama. OSU had the better offensive talent this year, both receiving and on the OL.

Wait... what? Yeah Bama was down last year but "down" for Bama is still a top 5 roster.

Oh god, I forget he was screaming about wanting Carson Strong with a top 10 pick. Richardson's camp should send him a cease and desist for the jinx job of being ripp's QB of choice.

I don't see us drafting at #39 and then sitting patiently until while 54 picks get made before we're back on the clock. A potential trade down from #39 makes sense. Seeing Jeremy Chinn moved wouldn't shock me. I hope we don't do it but we sure have made moves to make it possible.