Predict the top 10 picks in the NFL Draft

posted by BR1986FB

First he throws beer at a fan and now this? Sensitive much?

Video shows Panthers owner David Tepper entering a Charlotte area restaurant after he saw a sign out front that said “Let The Coach & GM Pick This Year” 😳

🎥: @WBTV_News

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— The Sporting News (@sportingnews) April 26, 2024

Tepper is the gift that keeps on giving. I mean, if he was the owner of a team I cheered for, I wouldn't think this, but as someone who DGAF about the Panthers, he's great. An incompetent dude who also is super thin-skinned and super proficient at self-humiliation due to how his thin skins causes him to lash out like a little bitch? HELL YEAH!!!

And after Dan Snyder got the boot, we need Tepper to take his place as the biggest little bitch owner in the sport. Hopefully he takes a page out of Snyder's book and snaps up major Carolina media outlets so he can dictate how his team is covered.

posted by Heretic

And Love was younger than 24. And the Packer GM wasn't stupid enough to "justify" the pick by saying that it's actually a good thing if he's on the bench for 4-5 years because that means they have an abundance of riches at the QB position.

Like, PROTIP dude...if your early first round draft pick is riding the pine 4-5 years in at the age of 29, odds are you'll be unemployed unless you have the magic combination that Minnesota didn't possess that magically turns Cousins from FANTASY NUMBERS, DOOD! into an actual consistent winner.

Other than the fact that the Falcons just signed him, should Cousins really be surprised they did this? He's not exactly a spring chicken.

posted by BR1986FB

Other than the fact that the Falcons just signed him, should Cousins really be surprised they did this? He's not exactly a spring chicken.

I think he should be and stand by it was a stupid pick. They’ve addressed numerous offensive positions in the first round the last three years with Robinson, London, and Pitts. They could have addressed their miserable defense with whatever player they felt was the best. And they had to have known going in that was a possible scenario with all the QBs, WRs, Alt slated to be picked ahead of them. 

Instead it’s “let’s get this guy we’re going to need him in 2-4 years when he’ll be 27.” 

I understand following the Green Bay model but can we see more than one year of them and Love being successful before we mimic it? 

posted by BR1986FB

Other than the fact that the Falcons just signed him, should Cousins really be surprised they did this? He's not exactly a spring chicken.

True, but I think if you're a veteran QB who has a history of being a starter who at least puts up numbers going to a new team, you probably want the team to address needs that will help you to have success in the first round. Not snag your potential replacement. If I'm Cousins, that kind of feels like, "You're good enough to tread water, but we're actually gonna work to build for this guy. Have fun!"

Jets have to draft a WR today. A trade up into the 2nd would be nice.

posted by justincredible

Jets have to draft a WR today. A trade up into the 2nd would be nice.

Ok, a trade up to the first pick in the 3rd for a WR. 

Joe Douglas has been trading back over and over like a dork, finally drafts the QB I was hoping he would in Jordan Travis.

Jets drafted a CB from the CFL. I didn't know that was a thing.

As someone who’s gotten a lot of draft feedback from Twitter the last couple days, anyone or any team can be good or bad or a winner or loser depending on where you look. 

posted by friendfromlowry

As someone who’s gotten a lot of draft feedback from Twitter the last couple days, anyone or any team can be good or bad or a winner or loser depending on where you look. 

Only pick the Browns had that I was pretty pleased with was the guard from Michigan. 

Wasn't really invested in this years draft as a) the Browns (again) didn't have a 1st rounder and b) outside of LB and maybe RB, the roster really didn't have any holes to fill. One could argue WR but I think they will address that next year. The guys they drafted this year likely won't see the field in 2024 and are more "futures."

posted by friendfromlowry

As someone who’s gotten a lot of draft feedback from Twitter the last couple days, anyone or any team can be good or bad or a winner or loser depending on where you look. 

Pretty much, but I can't say I'm surprised.

When it comes to draft "analysis", you have a lot of different people giving opinions that all come down to:

1. Positions of need for a team, usually. Which is usually pretty easy to determine, although some people probably have different ideas as to what need is most needed.

2. Who they consider to be the best players at that position. Pick that guy, you get an A. Pick another guy, you get a lower grade.

3. Over-reaching to get a pick, where it might be a position of need, but there wasn't necessarily the talent available to pick a guy there with your early pick.

Which all leads to a situation where some picks are roundly praised or mocked (for the latter, Atlanta with Penix due to how they just spent a lot of money on a QB, so it wasn't a "top 10 pick position of need" OR Denver with Nix because QBs had gone off the market right and left and he was considered an overreach even if that was a position of need), but with the majority of them, different people have different views.

Mainly because it's all a crap-shoot based on some combination of their previous play in college, their combine numbers, how they responded to the weird and invasive questions random personnel throw at them in interviews just to test their reactions and so on. With that all potentially being filtered through random bullshit, such as how reports got leaked last year about how Stroud was a dummy, which played a role in Young going before him.

Does anyone ever do draft grades three or five years later?