Originally Posted by Stro39:
As a Jets fan VERY happy with our draft. Having a competent GM makes a world of difference.
At one stage some of our fanship desperately wanted Tyler Linderbaum with one of our top 10 picks (!!). I think the Ravens have missed a trick with their first rounders, Linderbaum in particular is a waste of a pick for me given positional value and his measurables.
Chiefs have done well out of this draft but they've been drafting great for a number of years now.
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
What's your take on Zach Wilson?
Despite his poor stats I'm honestly happy with him. He has elite tools in terms of his arm and has shown clear improvement in navigating the pocket this season and in overall accuracy.
Last week's game was the first game I've seen in many a year where our QB actually elevated the players around him. We have an O line like Swiss cheese and Wilson's ability to escape and throw under pressure was very good. Admittedly it was only for a half but he was super for that half.
The GM has done a great job with putting the players around him to help him grow.
He still has flaws in his game, in his poor first half he was still not seeing open recievers, and he was still poor connecting on screen passes (this was what he was like last year) but after that second half and some other flashes I've seen from him last year, I'm as hopeful as I was since before Chad Pennington did his shoulder almost two decades ago and then turned into a duck chucker post surgery. [Reply]
I thought Wilson looked good in his first game back.
It'll be interesting to see how he does as the season goes on, because he has a nice group of weapons with Wilson, Davis, Moore, Hall, and Carter. [Reply]
Originally Posted by staylor26:
I thought Wilson looked good in his first game back.
It'll be interesting to see how he does as the season goes on, because he has a nice group of weapons with Wilson, Davis, Moore, Hall, and Carter.
That he does. He still struggles to throw to his right in the flat/behind line of scrimmage on screens. Some screen passes you would be able to be more accurate with. Its so odd for a guy who is pinpoint accurate with much more difficult throws down the field. [Reply]
Originally Posted by JPH83:
I guess hindsight's 20-20. As great as McDuffie looks I don't think anyone here was clamouring for us trading up for a CB in the 1st round. Veach obviously WAS thinking the same as everyone in terms of focusing on defence.
The one pick I'd have back is the Cook one. I get it, Spags like 3 safeties, but nobody's convincing me there aren't a dozen guys that came after that they'd not want instead and who wouldn't be making more of an impact. Including Raimann and Lucas.
In Veach's defence, it's hard to have seen the collapse in OBJ's form I guess but man having a solid RT would feel good right now.
Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla:
What's with all the Raimann love?
Just really liked him in the draft and I think they've got a load of value with the pick. He's looks pretty technically decent given how little time he's had at the position and he's an insane mover. But if he was part of the Colts team yesterday it looks like their OL got smashed, so early days.
I'm also not going to pretend he would have been a pick I was looking at as I really didn't care about drafting another OT particularly early, it's only with Brown's play this year that i'm concentrating on "what ifs". Mostly I was looking at projects in the later rounds. [Reply]
Originally Posted by JPH83:
Just really liked him in the draft and I think they've got a load of value with the pick. He's looks pretty technically decent given how little time he's had at the position and he's an insane mover. But if he was part of the Colts team yesterday it looks like their OL got smashed, so early days.
I'm also not going to pretend he would have been a pick I was looking at as I really didn't care about drafting another OT particularly early, it's only with Brown's play this year that i'm concentrating on "what ifs". Mostly I was looking at projects in the later rounds.
Yeah, both Raimann AND Pryor looked like shit yesterday.
But then again, I'm betting the beer vendors were tripping over their own feet last night. Pretty garbage effort by everyone involved in that one... [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
Yeah, both Raimann AND Pryor looked like shit yesterday.
But then again, I'm betting the beer vendors were tripping over their own feet last night. Pretty garbage effort by everyone involved in that one...
I really don't think you watched Raimann hard enough in that game my dude. Raimann played quite well for a rookie in his first real start. He was technically and assignment-sound. Where he's lacking, and he can't fix it right now, is in strength and we all knew that coming in. He had a hard time anchoring against power but he still kept guys riding the arc. He had a couple of bad snaps, especially the one where he got thrown to the turf like a ragdoll, but other than that he was solid. I wish we had a rookie looking like he did. Instead, we have a 5th-year pro that wants a record contract looking worse.
Pryor now... that dude was hot garbage on more than a few plays. So was their right guard. [Reply]