They took him because the Eagles deal is to keep rotating in quality D line and wearing down the offense. It's the strength of their team, and after watching them dominate my Chiefs, I would say it worked very well.
You can afford to do that when you have QB and RB and WR and DB positions solidified. The Giants stacking elite edge on top of elite edge on top of elite edge while having gaping holes at several other positions makes little sense to me.
Yeah, not ideal. At least part of that is realignment. 5 of those picks came from new conference members (3 from Texas and 2 from Oregon). But even before that they were getting over 20 picks in the first round.
I wouldn’t want to do it now, but I can see it. I think there were things before the draft got started, and then it’s a chance to hang out, drink, be entertained by certain fan bases (i.e. the ones that melt down when their tram’s pick is announced), and see the new face of the franchise.
As poor as a roster as they have, they have to find a strength somewhere, that will be on the D line. I would guess they did not love any of the QB's in this draft and are figuring that the talent in that position will be better in the 2026 draft. You can get great value drafting RB and WR's later in the draft, but they had to find a strength somewhere and that is now the D line.
It’s just a big party. That scene in Green Bay when the kid was walking up to the stage was electric. Would be cool to be there if you were a Packer fan.
Yup. The worst was Klatt getting on his Colorado homer soapbox defending Sanders. You would have thought he was his agent.
Bingo on the first paragraph. It’s not that 26 players were from the SEC/B10. It’s that those 26 players were from 13 schools.
The Saints may be playing chess while I was playing Checkers if they can snag him in the 2nd round.
Talent wins games, the idea that "hard work beats talent when the talent does not work hard" sounds nice, but the more talent you have on the roster, the better the team. Go back and look at the recruiting of the teams in the championship game year after year, and then match them up with where they ranked in recruiting and it's the same teams at the top. We all love the Purdy story, and EIU has had quite a few, low ranked players that have made millions in the NFL, but that is because they were missed on by the rankings, many were injured or just did not get seen and were therefore missed by the ranking services. It's not a perfect system, but they are right most of the time.
The NFL PR department is just the best. They take an event that at most should be only for the hard core fans, and have turned it into must see TV for many. Had over 100,000 people show up for an event to watch kids walk out onto a stage. Moving the draft from city to city just shows everyone how much further along the NFL PR is compared to every other sport.
Since they weren't going to get Ward I think they should've traded down and stocked up on more picks to use for positions of actual need.
Stop having alternative opinions about NFL Draft picks which are just a gigantic crap shoot at best anyways!
