LinvilleGorge

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.

I hope this dwarf can ball.

You gotta give up on Matt Corral and Kyle Trask, man. The NFL has.

ripp stanning for Richardson lets me know that I should be grateful we aren't picking him. But if Pete Carroll gets ahold of him... look out.

Yeah, it's just forced comps for clicks. I mean think back to 2011. Who in the world are you comparing Cam Newton to? There just wasn't a comp.

The win is to just accept he's not gonna be the pick. Honestly, if I was making the pick it's Richardson if I think he has it between the ears. You can't coach his physical tools. But I'm not gonna derail every thread with poo posts about Richardson because I'm butt hurt. I'm just gonna hope that when it's all said and done we make the right pick.

The more I think about it the more I honestly think this decision likely came down to Young vs. Richardson. Elite mental processing vs. elite physical skill set.

With the Stroud contingent hanging their hat so hard on that particular measurable I expected a lot more significant gap than that.

Honestly, I think so. We don't want a situation like when the Eagles drafted McNabb. That's just a bad look for the franchise. You don't wanna throw a draft party in your stadium to welcome in your new franchise QB and then have that happen.

When we made the trade I honestly think we didn't know exactly who we were gonna pick we had just done enough homework on the QB class to feel confident that we were going to be comfortable going to #1 to get one of them. IMO, Dalton was brought in primarily to be a vet mentor and a bridge starter if need be. I believe Richardson was a lot more in the mix than a lot of folks think. Very possibly more so than Stroud.

All by design IMO. With them throwing a big draft night party at BOA they don't want this to be a shocker. They want a celebration, not a bunch of folks disappointed by the pick. The NFL doesn't want them outright saying who it's gonna be to keep up the suspense for draft night but the Panthers don't wasn't a bunch of folks in the stands expecting the pick to be one guy and then it's someone else.

Pretty much. I said long ago that ultimately I'll be fine with Young, Stroud, or Richardson. I can definitely understand the arguments for and against all three. So whoever our staff and brass likes best, let's go.