Malazan

Why does Frank always have to hurt us so? I thought we had something..

Some guys are better suited to mock drafts than real ones.

Eh, I think 8 players in a draft is the absolute max of players that you can really draft and develop in a single year. Otherwise, every team would be punching as many lottery tickets as they can. There's a limit.

It's pretty clear that Douglas collected more picks than he intended to use (ie he was going to move up at some point), but this feels like money burning a hole in his pocket

Eagles are going to be bad until they dump that idiot of a GM

Why would they ask "challenging questions" at the draft?

I suspect that even if teams don't need it, the NFL tells them to take the full time.

Zach Wilson seems like a major tool to me, but you never want to see a player's career end like that.

I'd say drafting half a Jamal Adams is easily the craziest.

Weren't they making an aggressive push for a QB like 5 minutes ago?

I'd bet more on it being Shefter being disgruntled that there was that 49ers story and his name wasn't on it so...

He Hate Me?

I'll take that bet. Regardless of circumstances, Darnold was the worst QB in the NFL. I watched their games (and enjoyed it greatly) last season and when he had no pressure on him he seemed confused about who actually played for his team, took a long time to process the field, making sill mental errors like running out of bounds behind the line (multiple times) and was not in command of the offense at all. The *SAME* problems he had in college. I'm not sure why a guy who had problems in college, continued those problems in the pros is suddenly going to turn it around because he gets the 'good' coaching. On top of that, it's exceedingly rare that a clear top 10 bust (let's say 20th and below for 3 years running) leaves the team that drafted them and then goes on to success elsewhere. There's a reason for that. Most of his "he's gonna turn it around" hype seems to be from people who are carrying over that Darnold was a highly touted prospect in the draft and haven't watched him in the last two years. Gase is a control freak buffoon who only ever had success when he was getting Manning coffee, but Darnold was awful. Their offense performed better with the animated corpse of a disinterested Joe Flacco. Both gase and Darnold can be bad at the same time.

Jordan Palmer also said Sam Darnold was going to be great.

The Pats are apparently leaning heavily on Matt Patricia to run their draft. I'll just leave it at that.

or Beane is calling around asking about a trade up to: 1. Gather intelligence on the cost of moving up 2. Throw up a smokescreen

This had nothing to do with outsmarting "Math". This was a data problem. Garbage data in then garbage data out. The "Math" didn't have all the information which is really hard to do. Many people understood that Allen's situation was not going to 'look good' by the the standard data used for evaluation. The data collection method was flawed (and is impossible to get 'right).

Sigh

quantity of posts is worth some of the best posters moving on

trading up to 2nd isn't feasible so I'm pretty meh on the wet dreams that posters on here have.

If I'm channeling my inner Beane than I wouldn't tell you yahoos anything that is true about what I'd do in the draft

Is this...sarcasm?

Has he considered idolizing Alex Smith?

I see the OP is salty that people don't recognize his genius in the thread about taking a RB in the 1st being a bad idea so apparently had to make his own thread

Such incredible insight here...