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By far.

Refs been letting them play all night and now they've gone whistle crazy with three ticky tack fouls on Carolina in the last minute. Just stay consistent. You've already set the tone, stick with it.

Yes. Period. It'd probably be more like Burns plus #9 and probably a 2nd.

The NFL is gonna have to force him to sell which should've already happened. He's done waaaaaaay more to get forced out than JR did.

Time for another one, boys. I've been preparing my body.

It might be obvious to you now, but would it be obvious to you as a 20 year old borderline superhuman athlete?

That was both very funny and very tacky, especially from a guy who has significantly underperformed his draft promise.

It's lazy in terms of their really being nothing to discuss then. If we're just trusting the staff then what's to discuss?

Especially since we're not involved early. Would I want to get in a bidding war for Carr with the bidding starting at $35M per year? No. But if we wait a bit and he comes to talk to us and the number comes down to more like $25M per year over day three years? Hmmm... that becomes a very different scenario.

The big difference for me with Carr is that this is a guy who has actually played at a high level for the majority of his career. He isn't a guy who looked decent in spot duty for an all-time great offensive coach like Teddy. He isn't a guy who played terribly but showed elite physical tools like Darnold. He isn't a guy who had one decent season but then failed to build on that like Mayfield. Carr is definitely a different type of veteran QB than we've been dealing with in recent years. Honestly, I'd still prefer draft but I wouldn't mind Carr.

A lot of folks are anti-Carr from the PTSD of watching the Panthers make bad acquisitions of veteran QBs and fail miserably. Hell, I fully admit that I'd rather draft a QB for this very reason myself. But if the opposite were true and we'd been swinging and missing on QBs in the draft for years then these same folks would likely be clamoring for Derek Carr.

Cognitive tests are likely always going to be like forecasting though. You're chasing an imperfect goal. No test is ever likely to be a great capture of intelligence or cognition. A test measures your ability to perform well on that test. Trying to extrapolate those results beyond that is likely always going to be a dicey proposition.

I've said it about Sam Darnold. He seems like a smart guy but he just doesn't operate like a QB. He can't kickdown into instinct mode. Everything has to be read and react once the ball is snapped. You have to be able to turn off your conscious brain. You just don't have time to think. If you're thinking you're going to be too slow. It's probably why a lot of teams back in the day actually downgraded QBs if they scored TOO high on the Wonderlic. They probably worried about a really intelligent guy being able to revert to instinct mode. A really intelligent person is probably going to find it harder to turn off that thinking mode. Just my theory.

Fitterer definitely spoke glowingly about Ian Thomas and his 20mph GPS speed and thought he was getting a steal of a deal with that "mid-level" contract. Scot just suffers from massive PTSD from Hurney that leads to defending anything and everything any other GM does. LOL!

I don't understand that comparison at all. Ridder would significantly outperform Hooker in any measurable. I think Hooker is basically a poor man's Geno Smith.

It's not out of the question that he still has connections within the UGA program somewhere. Hopefully he does because Washington would make for an intriguing potential 2nd round target.

I'm personally hoping Levis blows it up leading up to the draft and goes really high to someone not us.

What connections are those? UNC or Tennessee doesn't have a draftable TE in this year's draft. Anyone he coached at UGA is long gone and it's a completely new coaching staff from when he was there nearly a decade ago. With that said, Darnell Washington is my Anthony Richardson of TEs this year. Super intriguing talent.

I have no idea what happened to Ebron in the NFL. Dude was a beast in college. It'd be one thing if he just didn't translate in that he wasn't able to get open, etc. But it was like he just forgot how to play football on the NFL despite his athleticism clearly translating.

Me as an NFL GM when Daniel Jones comes talking about $45M per year

They very well might.

Daniel Jones is a marginal starter/good backup level QB. In retrospect, the Giants really screwed up not picking up his 5th year option because now they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Grossly overpay a marginal QB or... or what? Ultimately, I think he's franchised. But if I was them I'd probably punt his ass and go get Carr.

Oh, for sure. Competence and experience doesn't automatically guarantee success. You can still swing and whiff. Bill Belichick has had no shortage of bad draft picks.

I'm super intrigued by Richardson but he's definitely boom or bust. No doubt about that. I'll be excited as hell if we draft him because that means that our very qualified and experienced coaching staff (whew, that's a relief) believes in him and their ability to develop him. I won't throw a fit if we don't draft him because then the opposite would be true and I do trust this staff to make this call more so than any staff we've ever had.

Just think about the level of stud you gotta be to wear #15 at UF. Speaking of which... how in the fug is #15 at UF not retired??? We all mock The Golden Calf of Bristol in the NFL but nobody should be wearing that jersey at Florida.