LinvilleGorge

All the speculation was that Reich was not gonna be high on Young. He had always valued prototypical stature and arm strength. Maybe he just took the job as a retirement check or maybe he thought he would be able to influence the pick. But he really never seemed like his heart was in it here and he was just going through the motions and was likely relieved when Tepper fired him.

If she was pushing for Stroud then hell, let's get Nicole more involved. Team Nicole! LOL!

Including DJ in the trade package for a QB was idiotic. Yeah, let's mortgage the future on a QB and trade our only proven NFL WR in the process. Brilliant.

Bryce as this nearly universal #1 QB thing is one of the most baffling draft stories I've ever seen. Top prospects (especially QBs) are usually nitpicked to death leading up to the draft to the point of it getting absurd sometimes. Remember Cam's "fake smile"? LOL! But with Bryce you had a prospect that had just about every physical red flag you could imagine and everyone just glossed over it and came up with every reason under the sun why that wouldn't matter for this one unique prospect. It was absolutely baffling to watch play out.

Exactly. RAS is just part of the evaluation puzzle. But we've consistently acted like it's some kind of draft cheat sheet during the Tepper era. It's a cheat sheet alright. Cheat sheet to being the cellar dweller of the league. And then the one time we broke ranks from that approach, we mortgages the franchise to trade up for a QB who had to have an RAS pretty close to

I hope next year's QB class is better than expected. We gonna be picking early. Like first out of the gate early.

I hope the Pats start Milton this year. Any QB they play is fuged. That is the least talented offense in the league by a considerable margin.

Trash throw.

Interviews are super important, especially the whiteboard work.

Richardson was my 1a and Stroud was my 1b, not being privvy to interviews. I could've easily been swayed to Stroud through the interview process. I just had a LOT of physical talent/durability concerns with Bryce. The dude proved physically tough last year. I still have some long term durability concerns but the physical talent short coming have taken center stage far and above any disability concerns.

Edited thread title for accuracy. There's no indication that Legette was carried off the field.

It's like we never evolved with the game since the franchise was founded. We have consistently way over invested in RBs and off the ball LBs like it's still the '90s.

RB is the cherry on top of the sundae and we got super excited to get a [bruised up] cherry to put on top of our steaming pile of dog poo.

Picking a RB coming off an ACL in the second round for a team that needs practically everything was such a head scratching luxury pick.

I thought somebody would take a chance on his raw talent I the late 2nd or 3rd. But in terms of his college production and age, honestly 4th seems fair.

I wanted McConkey but had a feeling that Coleman would be the pick. I was hoping all the Legette talk was a smokescreen. I didn't see him as a 1st or high 2nd round pick at all.

14 attempts and only 3 incompletions. That's pretty good. Oh wait...

What happened to Matthews? I really liked him in the draft and he had a promising start in Philly then just fell off the map after two or three seasons.

Good hemp flower whether it's CBD or CBG is indistinguishable from THC flower in look, taste, smell, etc. One just gets you high and the others don't.

That list is trash. Baker is way over ranked and Johnny Football not even in the list? GTFO...

Smitty has made numerous statements in retirement leading me to believe that he regrets a lot of that stuff and wishes he had been a better mentor and teammate. Having a gigantic chip on your shoulder as a player comes with positives and negatives. The positives were all the highlights on the field. The negatives were being an overall bad teammate. He was so competitive that he basically saw the other receivers in the locker room as opponents. They were competing with him for targets and he treated them accordingly. I honestly think that Moose who mentored him was the only fellow receiver he ever saw differently.

I'm not surprised. Smitty was high on the Mingo pick and he's said that the way we used him last year minimized his strengths and basically forced him to play to his weaknesses. I don't see how it can possibly be seen as a negative for him to be working with the Panthers' GOAT WR.

We're the new Browns. Minus the generational fandom from being around for 80 years.

I hate interviewers like that who are just trying to make people look bad for clicks. I mean, Legette could probably dribble that dude's head off the sidewalk like a basketball and there ain't a damn thing he could do about it. So maybe think about that before doing that disrespectful poo.

McConkey was my preference too. Especially after he ran better than I expected. Especially after watching guys like Kupp and Nacua come in and immediately light up the league. IMO, he's of that type of mold but faster. He could be a star.