Version 2024 - PATRICK MAHOMES & THE HUNT FOR THE THREEPEAT
Let's ****ing do this.
Originally Posted by : Rules for once the draft begins:
No spoiled picks in this thread, all weekend. This means that as tweets are leaking picks a few minutes before the selection is announced live, you don't post it in this thread (ex: embedded tweets), reference it in this thread (ex: Joe Slapdick says it's So and So to Green Bay) or hint at it (ex: "it's a RB!").
Don't be a dick.
Otherwise, have fun, talk shit, freak out and lose your goddamned minds. It's Draft Weekend. The hot takes in these threads are so funny. I'll also be starting player threads for each of our picks as they are made, with videos and notable stats/takes in the OP. These separate threads will be made as soon as the news breaks, outside of this thread. I will link the threads below. Pure knee-jerk gold to reference in the future.
I get people like Suamatia but dude is so god damn raw, I heard someone say if he went in the first he'd be the rawest biggest project player maybe ever taken in round 1, that's a bit insane. [Reply]
Originally Posted by jdubya:
Actually Raiders drafted BPA at 13. Normally they reach unsuccessfully for a need. Surprised Bowers was still on the board
Taking Brock Bowers when the history of TE's drafted that high is really questionable...he doesn't have off the charts measurables...and they literally just drafted Michael Mayer. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mecca:
The player I think would really make an impact and help this team be even better is T'Vondre Sweat, a young nose with actual explosion, those guys are rare.
Love the player, but I wonder if Britt Reid and Rashee Rice make the Chiefs pass.
That wouldn’t be a great look.
I don’t think the Chiefs should make decisions that way necessarily, but be ready for some negative press.
The only way we look back on that Atlanta pick and think they made the right call is if Penix becomes a top 10 quarterback.
That outcome would make it forgivable and dare I say smart - but it won't change the fact that having a $45m backup next year or a 25-year old second-year #8 overall pick on the bench is bad resource management in real time. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Woogieman:
Do you think either could be a solid, full time starter by late November? Or do we need to dust off D Smith for one more year?
Originally Posted by staylor26:
So take Rattler on day 2. You don't pay a QB top money, then turn around and draft an old prospect at 8 too.
I'm certainly not advocating for the Penix pick, but I think the age thing matters a lot less for the QB position than almost any other. A QB can play well into their mid thirties if not to 40. I still think it's a dumb pick, just not for age concerns.
I also wouldn't care about a RB's age, because I probably won't pay their second contract anyway.
Picking Penix (I don’t like the pick personally) wouldn’t be thought of as an all time dumb decision.
Signing Counsins isn’t a dumb decision.
It’s the two moves TOGETHER that are dumb. You have an aging, expensive QB with a prime draft pick. That’s the time to take a player to build around that expensive QB you just signed.
If you want Penix, you always knew he’d be there. Don’t sign Cousins. Just pick Penix and use the cap space to build around him. [Reply]
Originally Posted by smithandrew051:
Picking Penix (I don’t like the pick personally) wouldn’t be thought of as an all time dumb decision.
Signing Counsins isn’t a dumb decision.
It’s the two moves TOGETHER that are dumb. You have an aging, expensive QB with a prime draft pick. That’s the time to take a player to build around that expensive QB you just signed.
If you want Penix, you always knew he’d be there. Don’t sign Cousins. Just pick Penix and use the cap space to build around him.
The video of the owner looking pissed at the GM certainly didn't help either. [Reply]
