Gettlemania holding a pre draft presser tomorrow

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

10 years college scout, 15 years pro will give you that.

CB battle should be fun in training camp/pre season.

I really like him, he is very intelligent, his accent is awesome, and he seems like a very personal guy.

I look forward to meeting him at TC this year.

[rayzor]

He also said the DB group is deep and the OL group is deep. Apparently we won't take anyone until the fourth round.

well...not one of those three anyway.

[CatMan72]

He also used to work in some place called "New Yaaaak", not sure where that is? LOL

[rayzor]

He also praised Don Gregory and the scouting staff, said Hurney assembled a really good staff here and said he wasn't kidding when he said he had hit the lottery getting this job. Use the example of our late round picks as evidence of how good our scouting staff is.

Said we used 28 of the 30 slots for visits, saved 2 for any last minute visits as a result of late breaking medical or other information. He said the visits were distributed among the prospects they are looking at in each round.

hurney did rebuild the scouting department after the 2011 draft. i remember him saying in a radio interview that pretty much everyone except gregory had been replaced. i think the group did a good job last year. should be even better this year.

[CatMan72]

He was asked about his inclination to trade up/down, sounded like he planned to stay put.

He said he's not going to talk himself out of drafting a good player for the sake of trading down to get more picks, said he'd rather have a dollar than 3 dimes which I thought was a great analogy.

[Creep59]

He complimented Marty Hurney - said he had assembled an excellent scouting staff.

[CatMan72]

He also re-emphasized his philosophy that the big guys allow you to win, used the example of the NYG acquiring Baas at center when O'Hare went down, said Baas's strength against the NT on the slew of 3-4 teams there were scheduled to face was huge during their SB run.

[Growl]

Starting to think that barring a blue chipper falling, the pick is either Austin, Hopkins.

[SOJA]

Starting to think that barring a blue chipper falling, the pick is either Austin, Hopkins.

I'm going to amend it and say that Cyprien is also in play, but I definitely agree with Austin and Hopkins.

[C47]

I think they're going WR, not sure which one though. I could see Austin, Patterson, Hopkins and if they traded down possibly Hunter/Allen. His comment about the DL and OL being really deep leads me to believe he wants to hit on a position that isn't so deep early and get one of the second tier DTS....

[rayzor]

doesn't seem like he's bothered with wonderlic scores.

i'm sure he had all of them before we worked out with the guys with the low ones, like austin, patterson, allen, and hunter.

[rayzor]

Technically, Gettleman said CB is deep, not S. We wouldn't have met with Cyprien (3x), Elam, Duke and Vaccaro.

i'm thinking cyprien and a WR in the first couple rounds.

[C47]

Technically, Gettleman said CB is deep, not S. We wouldn't have met with Cyprien (3x), Elam, Duke and Vaccaro.

If it's not a WR in the first Cyprien is the other guy I see most likely....

[C47]

i'm thinking cyprien and a WR in the first couple rounds.

We could do a lot worse than Cyprien than Hunter/Woods/Rogers than Spence in the fourth.....