MHS831

He said that he wanted to tell his side. However, if you are interviewing a player involved in this horrible event sitting on his couch before the draft, the issue is character. His agent on the couch was not there for cosmetics--he knows he has a delicate situation and did not want his client to be compromised by a reporter--but the risk of his character being damaged was real and the comment Shocker makes is a fair one. However, I can say that any comment he makes could probably be used against him--so any good lawyer would advise him to not discuss the victims. You have to imagine the tape being played in court--"I feel so badly for the people who died." The jury could equate that with guilt or responsibility--I have not been keeping up with the details, so I am just speculating.

The talk was Atlanta at #8, but I imagine there was more press than here about this situation there.

We'll aim better next time.

The more I read this thread, the more I think, 39 has to be for a CB. Serviceable edge players could be there at 93. Do not put it past Fitmagic to move back in round 2 and up in round 3--he is crazy that way.

I really like Trice.

Brents visited nearly every NFL team---Not sure about the others. He is tall-they like that.

They say he should be ready to go by August, but those Achilles injuries take a year to fully recover.

Ok, read it. Here is what I know, which is very generic and limited--anxious to read people with more knowledge. The 3-4 will feature a lot of zone in cover 2 and 4. I think zone suits Henderson, but Taylor's cushion last year would have been a par 4 on a golf course. That is all.

Now you are talkin!!! A good thread topic--have not read your points yet, but this needs to be discussed in depth. Nice thinking.

I am getting mixed signals--here at work, they tell me to start doing it. They say, "those fries are still done, MHS." stuff like that. Hurts my feelings.

If I am Houston, and I don't love Stroud, I am taking Will Anderson because he seems like a great player AND a great person. Saw some interviews and I think he is great. Houston still has the #12 pick and enough draft capital to move back up. At 12, I feel a QB will fall to them, if they are willing to take Levis. If they want AR, I am guessing the Cardinals might want to move back again, assuming the Colts traded up with them-Houston could move back up to #4 and get AR. In other words, the Texans are sitting in a good place right now if they are not in love with Stroud.

I expect there to be so much trading in the top 10, it is difficult to know what team will be picking at what spot.

This thread has nearly reached 18 pages.

My policy? Never have a running back on a second contract. I can say that I literally have never had a running back on a second contract in my life, so there's that. treat RBs like college players--4 years and you are done. I can't find the stats, but if you look at the data, second contracts hardly ever pay out in the NFL for RBs.

I need to pay better attention. I tried doing my job today, and it looks like I missed something. Oh well, the light will reach me soon enough. At least I still have an account. My problem is, I don't pay much attention to the names unless they are the old timers--

Here is how I see it: Tier 1: OLB/Edge I just don't see Haynes, Barno, or YGM as being good enough to play opposite Burns. I have this at Tier 1 because we need a starter or rotational guy day 1, imo. By the way, if NT is a bigger problem than I realized, I could see us taking Mazi Smith at 39 if there. Tier 2: CB, G. I think CB is a bigger problem than we are acknowledging. DJax has a torn Achilles, Horn has been a bit fragile, and Henderson and Taylor were posterized by Evans and I can't forget it. The draft is pretty deep at CB as well--gotta fish while the fishing is good. I think they may want to pull Christensen out as a swing T and find a starting LG--Cade was not bad last year--As for a backup C, we have Mays and McCown. Tier 3: WR, TE, FS: The reason I have WR so low is that I do not see the need big enough for us to bypass an edge in round 2. After that, we have a full roster of smallish slots--which is what this draft is all about. TE? I would have had this #1, but we signed Hurst and have Tremble and Thomas---not great, but not our biggest need either.

but y'all count A.M. too.

There was a point when Fitterer was talking about Young as if "this is what we will do." Instead of "this is what we would do..." His verbs were not really speculative (modal) and they were in the future tense. They really weren't said with "if" to demonstrate a conditional situation. So he was either careless with his verbiage or his grammar ain't none two good. Yes, I am digging through the trash to find evidence.

Stop it.

I have seen him mocked in the first...but usually day 2...think Anquan Bolden potential (and body style). I also like Scott a lot--smaller and can be a special teams ace.

My opinion? Forget going after WR in this draft--JSN might be a second rounder in other years. I think we are not going to do much more at WR. The draft is deep at Edge, CB, and TE. We have needs at those positions. I think we might grab an Edge and CB---maybe or maybe not a TE--and we will grab an OL.

It is fun for the offseason, but I would not take stock tips from these guys. They have nothing else to do, they have inside info, and they are still a bunch of idiots. Of course, there are people on the Huddle who definitively know everything, so we should just listen to them. I am still torn, I get the risk, but Young is the best QB. You can't NOT pick him because he might get hurt. They all might get hurt and they all might suck.

And if you are worried about contact, who gets hit more often than a WR or a RB with violent collisions? Wes Welker had a great career and he was 5'9" 185. Darren Sproles, a RB, was 5' 6" and 190. DeShaun Jackson was 5' 10", 175. These players were hit repeatedly by NFL players going full speed--Safeties, Linebackers, defensive linemen--and they had long careers. I get the risk, I really do--but if you build an OL and teach the QB to get the ball out quickly on most occasions--and you teach him to slide and get out of bounds--you can minimize hits to the QB. And that should be the rule for all QBs--because they all get hit. Think about it--if Cam Newton were in this draft, you would want him because you fear injury to Young. Cam played about 8 years at a high level. Another thing about injury--when I hurt my shoulder in college and had to have surgery, the surgeon explained that my rotator cuff was not at the same angle as some other players, making me susceptible to injury. In other words, I had no natural support for the shoulder when facing direct contact. It was genetic, and my father had the same problem at South Carolina. Some of this is genetics.

Yes, it can't be 55% one way 45% the other, it has to be all in or all out. It is a tough decision, and to really think it through means considering the possibilities from both perspectives. And it surely should not be personal--nobody knows how good Young will be, or Stroud.