Awwww one fan of an irrelevant franchise went to another board for another irrelevant franchise to complain that Chiefs fans were mean to him for having an awful football take....... that’s adorable. [Reply]
Come back MikeVike. We’re not done clowning on you.
For the record, Hughes likely had a compression fracture in a cervical vertebrae, probably like C5-6. Sounds scary but most patients have good recoveries.
It's a pick swap our 6th for their 7th right? Ours will be the back of round 6, theirs will be in the first 10 in round 7, this is literally getting Hughes for free. If he works out, great. If not, it cost nothing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chargem:
It's a pick swap our 6th for their 7th right? Ours will be the back of round 6, theirs will be in the first 10 in round 7, this is literally getting Hughes for free. If he works out, great. If not, it cost nothing.
Not according to MikeVike. We got fleeced in his world. If you don't agree you are a meanie and he will tell everyone about it over on the OrangeMane.
Everyone else agrees with you though. It's a low round flyer on a guy who has first round talent, even if he has has yet to live up to that. He pans out, it's a steal. If he doesn't we lose essentially nothing. [Reply]
Originally Posted by tredadda:
Not according to MikeVike. We got fleeced in his world. If you don't agree you are a meanie and he will tell everyone about it over on the OrangeMane.
Everyone else agrees with you though. It's a low round flyer on a guy who has first round talent, even if he has has yet to live up to that. He pans out, it's a steal. If he doesn't we lose essentially nothing.
You're such a bully. Why can't you just agree with TykeBike so he doesn't get such hurt feelings? [Reply]
Is that guy really trying to act like going from the 7th to the 6th is significant value?
It's next to nothing.
Any possible injury settlement is of much more value. I'm not sure that settlement will be very significant since a case can be made that it happened under the vikings. I'm not sure how that works. [Reply]
Meh. I mean it's little draft capital given up so whatever but man... as much as I liked Hughes coming out he's just not that same player, and that neck injury looms like a dark cloud over his career going forward. Any next hit could be it, or worse.
I guess you kind of hope you can squeeze a season of high-level slot play out of him and dump him for what amounts to minimal investment. [Reply]
Originally Posted by kccrow:
I guess you kind of hope you can squeeze a season of high-level slot play out of him and dump him for what amounts to minimal investment.
But we gave up about the equivalent of a 7th round pick. If Hughes does play at anything close to "high-level," aren't we getting more out of that pick than we really could expect otherwise? [Reply]
Originally Posted by RedinTexas:
But we gave up about the equivalent of a 7th round pick. If Hughes does play at anything close to "high-level," aren't we getting more out of that pick than we really could expect otherwise?
Yes, but it's not about return on minimal investment as I tried to state.
We could also watch the kid stretchered off the field needing hope to ever walk again on any tackle. Taking that chance has me thinking it might not have been the best idea.
It's not that he just cracked the vertebrae and it healed, but that more neck injuries followed last year which shut him down. It points to the reality that everything isn't quite right there. I'm concerned about it. Quite frankly, I'm more surprised that Hughes didn't retire because of it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by kccrow:
I'm concerned about it.
Not long ago, we spent our 6th round pick on Khalil McKenzie whom we drafted as a defensive tackle with the plan to convert him into an offensive guard.
And giving up a 7th for Hughes 'concerns' you?
The Israeli/Palestinian conflict concerns me. Covid variants concern me. Mahomes not staying in a protective bubble concerns me. Taking a flier on a guy in exchange for a 7th round pick should not concern any of us.
Unless you'd like your pick of these success stories?
2020 | Pick No. 237 | BoPete Keyes | CB | Tulane
2019 | Pick No. 216 | Nick Allegretti | OL | Illinois