3 minutes ago, Pariah said:

 

Maybe he'll get drafted by a team that is stable enough to let him watch & learn for a year or three. Kinda like Aaron Rodgers all those years ago.

 

OMG, I just realized he's going to drop down to the Cowboys.

 

And start dipping his nachos in his coffee....

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Holy Carp! Jags trading picks away twice! Not sure how I feel about that. Gotta see the full haul.

 

Jacksonville racking up the picks with two consecutive trade-downs.

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2 minutes ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said:

 

Crossing my fingers for Myles Murphy for you.

Well let's see...left to pick in the first round, Bengals, Saints, Eagles, and Chiefs, unless there are more trades.  Of those, ONLY the Saints might draft a QB in round 1.

Hmm, 6'5" OT I've never heard of. Ok, that's... good?

5 minutes ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said:

Hmm, 6'5" OT I've never heard of. Ok, that's... good?

 

No. No, it's not.

 

Jaguars left tackle Cam Robinson is facing a multigame suspension for violating the NFL's performance-enhancing drug policy. sources told ESPN today, and he had the sixth-worst pass block win rate for an offensive tackle last year. Right tackle Jawaan Taylor left in free agency. Harrison is versatile enough to step into the left tackle spot until Robinson returns to the lineup and then push Walker Little for the starting right tackle job. -- Muench

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Oh yeah, the Saints went for Carr...and didn't pick a QB.  So Levis falls to round 2, looks like.

 

And the long night's journey to the dawn is going to be over soon....

Sensible pick for the Jags and Myles Murphy falls to the Bengals.  These are not awful picks.  I don't understand.  It's the Jags.  And the Bengals.

The real winner of the draft tonight.....

 

The Georgia Bulldogs.

 

EDIT:  I suppose there may be significant logistical issues waiting so long, but having the draft held in the Super Bowl champ's city is working out very nicely.  

5 minutes ago, unclevlad said:

 

 

EDIT:  I suppose there may be significant logistical issues waiting so long, but having the draft held in the Super Bowl champ's city is working out very nicely.  

 

OMG, I hope the Cowboys never win....

And the Chiefs close the night by drafting a guy out of Kansas State, and the crowd goes nuts.

2 minutes ago, archer said:

 

OMG, I hope the Cowboys never win....

 

That goes without saying.

2 minutes ago, Pariah said:

And the Chiefs close the night by drafting a guy out of Kansas State, and the crowd goes nuts.

 

The Chiefs are in Missouri, tho.  Yeah, someone really needs to tell the city to change its name, it's confusing.

 

HOWEVER, the kid apparently is a native of KC, MO, so...ok.  Even the end of the first round is still, IIRC, fully guaranteed, and quite good, money.

4 minutes ago, unclevlad said:

 

That goes without saying.

 

 

You've never sat in the Wal-Mart parking lot across the street from the Cowboys' stadium on game day for six hours waiting for your daughter to get off work because they start blocking traffic into the area around the stadium once the game starts. (And that's after close to an hour in traffic getting to the store parking lot.)

 

No, it doesn't go without saying.  

 

I don't know how people who live in that residential area (which starts a block away from the stadium) deal with it.

They probably charge fans a hundred bucks to park in their driveway.

 

I know that's what I would do in that situation.

The dust has finally settled. I got confused last night, but here's the upshot. 

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The Jacksonville Jaguars traded their No. 24 overall pick to the New York Giants for the Nos. 25, 160 and 240. They then traded the No. 25 overall pick to the Buffalo Bills for the No. 27 and No. 130. And with the No. 27 pick, the Jaguars selected OT Anton Harrison from Oklahoma. They will pick 11 more times on Day 2. 

 

That sounds pretty good, especially with a much-needed OT selection. (It wasn't much needed until Cam got a suspension for PED use, but I digress.) Day 2 should be very exciting. 

 

In other news, Levis didn't get picked! That was not predicted. 

Yes, the Chiefs are in Missouri--but this area is full of graduates of Kansas University, Kansas State, University of Missouri, and has a lot of Nebraska fans, too.  Draft picks from *any* of those schools will pretty much be fan favorites immediately.

12 hours ago, unclevlad said:

On the Cards...I'm not following things closely at all;  I don't have it on TV.  I'd rather wait til the end of the round and have the time to look things over....

 

Starlord:  I refuse to ignore the character concerns, because they've proven to be overriding too often.  "The best ability is availability" isn't a proper characterization, IMO, but it's true that if you take yourself off the field, it doesn't matter how good you are.

 

Article about the Jackson contract...

https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/04/27/lamar-jackson-contract-guarantees-self-negotiated-deal

 

It can go either way - there have been 'character-concern' guys who then busted, but there have also been examples like Warren Sapp and Laremy Tunsil.  Both became dominant players.

Seattle seems to pay a lot of attention to the character stuff, though they will give a promising athlete a chance if their own investigations into the issues suggest they can be managed.

On 4/22/2023 at 8:43 PM, unclevlad said:

Oh my.  I didn't see this before.

 

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-suspends-five-players-including-four-lions-for-violating-gambling-policy

 

2 were technical.  The league rules say NO betting from any NFL-affiliated facility, including practice facilities.  The other 3...for the entire season...were betting on NFL games, per NYT.  

 

Blowing basically any control off sports betting has opened the doors, and there are going to be downsides.  How much this will be, kinda remains to be seen.  It's not clear it's a real institutional problem.  YET.  But the potential for something Really Ugly is there.

Funny, I remember in the old Colloseum days the Lions were always the safe bet.

 

The NFL practically owes its existence to organized gambling which they dared not acknowledge while it was a.) illegal, and b.) controlled by organized crime. They attempted to half-heartedly keep the players away from it because in those days it was impossible for any athlete to play with two broken kneecaps.

 

There is no bottle. The Genie was always there. Only now he dresses like a respectable businessman and not like a gangster.

On 4/27/2023 at 9:56 PM, unclevlad said:

The Chiefs are in Missouri, tho.  Yeah, someone really needs to tell the city to change its name, it's confusing.

 

Only half of the city is in Missouri, though. The other half is in, you guessed it, Kansas.

The Bills have drafted a couple Gators including the delightfully named O'Cyrus Torrence. This has made Mom very happy. 

 

The Jags have taken one Gator so far. But they also took a RB named Tank. So we got that going for us. 

Random comment from the Book of Face:

 

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The NFL Draft is too long, If I wanted to watch 32 picks in three hrs.....

I would just watch Dak Prescott play QB

 

It felt like there was a lot of pick trading this year. But they set a record for trading picks so maybe that’s why.