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  1. You'd be lucky to find a single player who gets picked in the 7th at a Local Pro Day. For example, Malcolm Epps is the 32nd ranked TE on DraftCountdown. Not remotely similar to a Top 30 visit.
  2. Age 28, 21 starts in 65 games. Probably a solid backup Center option behind McGovern.
  3. Not going to cut it. Teams like Minnesota who have not one, but two picks before ours this year alone at 11 and 23 need to get there for a QB. A number of teams who pick WAY sooner than we do need to get up to that area for QB that are picking well before us. The price tag is going to be higher than normal this year because of the competition. Combine that with where we're picking and them having to drop 24 picks and knowing that we consistently pick at the bottom of the 1st - it's going to take 3 1's right off the bat plus more. Probably still doesn't get it done.
  4. The 3 RB's we know that they met with at the Combine are Audric Estime, Braelon Allen, and Frank Gore Jr. Estime and Allen will go higher than Issac. Gore is probably a UDFA. Allen is my guy. If I can get him in Mocks after WR or DT, I take him. Probably a little too rich for our blood IRL. But my hope is that RB's fall in general and that maybe he falls a little more than expected for not running a 40 at the Combine or his Pro Day.
  5. This is true. There's definitely names not on the list that we met with that we don't know about. The only ones we know that we definitely didn't because it's been documented are the top 3 WR's (MHJ, Nabers, Odunze) and Ladd McConkey.
  6. It would have to be even more than that. There's a number of teams looking to get into the positions you need to be to land MHJ to select their QB. That's going to drive prices up. Minnesota for example needs to get a guy. And they have 11 and 23 as ammunition to do it. And the other issue on top of the astronomical cost of what it would take for us to get there is the fact that some of the teams we need to trade with (Arizona, LAC, NYG) are expected to go WR. So they're not just going to give him to us and take whatever's left at 28. They're going to take him themselves. For us to get them to give him to us, it's going to have to be an offer that they have no choice to refuse. Which is a price that's more than that and more than Atlanta paid for Julio Jones. It's not worth it any way you slice it. Especially when you figure in moving Diggs costs us 31m in space until 6/1. We literally cannot move him at the Draft. We don't have any way to account for that, pay Draft picks, and Practice Squad for the season (let alone final touches on the roster post Draft and spending money for the season) - even with Tre's money coming. It'd have to be 28, 60, 2025 1st and 2026 1st to even start the conversation to beat out others and convince someone to pass on MHJ. You don't pay a price like that for anything but a Franchise QB. I don't care how good the prospect is.
  7. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39772593/ex-saints-wr-michael-thomas-enter-pretrial-diversion-program Yikes. Legal problems and injury prone concerns. No wonder no one's touching Michael Thomas.
  8. That's the problem I find with all the Simulators lately. Idk if they're all just waiting on more consensus opinion for a bigger update as we get closer. But the rankings on all of them are really off. Like the one I did last. Javon Baker isn't sniffing the end of Round 4. Gabe Hall in Round 6 is even more ridiculous. Things like that are rampant across the sims. The trades are even more ridiculous. Some of these are like offering up their entire Draft to move up a couple spots and take your pick. At this point, I find them to be like an entertaining video game. Fun to play, but absolutely not reality.
  9. Totally incorrect. Watkins was as big of a prospect as MHJ is now - and bigger. He was considered maybe the best WR prospect ever. He was a "can't miss" guy. Anyone claiming MHJ is a "Future Hall of Famer" before even being Drafted is being absolutely ridiculous.
  10. How'd Chris Jones, Derrick Henry, Mike Evans, Tee Higgins, Michael Pittman, DE Josh Allen, Khalil Mack/Joey Bosa, Christian Wilkins, Calvin Ridley, Courtland Sutton, and every other high priced or unlikely acquisition you posted about exclusively for months work out for you?
  11. Oh, I know you were. That's why I put a laughing emoji myself. Sad part is there probably is people who think that's legit.
  12. In today's day and age, I don't think a Mary Jane gas mask would have the same effect on a prospect falling as it did with Tunsil then.
  13. This isn't news. He listed Allen among a list of like 4 QB's he'd like to play with. Doesn't matter though. He's going to go in the Top 4-6 picks. We won't be able to sniff him. A free fall for MHJ is like falling from 4th to like 8th 😂
  14. Quite a bit. Especially in the higher Rounds. There hasn't been a player we've taken in Round 1 that we didn't meet with at the Combine. It's essentially the official job interview when it comes to this regime.
  15. Teair Tart is a good under 30 rotational piece as well. My guess is one of them ends up here. Then there's the Draft and I'd expect WR and DT to be taken as our picks in Round 1 and Round 2, in whatever order Beane sees best with how the board falls. We got Jones back to fill our hole at starting 1T, which was the most important thing. But with where we were at financially and everything we had to, we kind of had to let the market come to us for rotational depth. Unfortunately, the DT market was both very active and very expensive. But I think we'll still get a good veteran rotational piece and a high Draft pick (possibly another later) and we should be good. I wouldn't rule out Jordan Phillips returning as back of the roster depth too if he decides he wants to give it another go.
  16. Austin Johnson and Teair Tart represent the best fits for what's left in my opinion, which funnily enough, when I was looking up the correct spelling, I just noticed someone updated his Wiki to say he's a Bill and I just had to go back and check the board to see if we had signed him lol Campbell, as good as he still was last year, will be 38 years old when the season starts. I'm not interested in giving money to a 38 year old. At just about 9m under, I think it's all in on DT help and then it's probably on to the Draft. Whatever we don't adequately fill out in the Draft, we'll address later and/or with Tre's money post-6/1. Factoring in where we're at financially, where we're at with DT, and money we'll need for Draft picks - things like expecting a 3rd Safety signing right now (and specifically Simmons) seem silly to me.
  17. Spotrac has us at 8.54m under - without accounting for Mike Edwards, Casey Toohill, and Ty Johnson or the Taron Johnson savings. Edwards seems to be about 3. If we assume Toohill (being a DE) is about 2.5 (just a guess) and Johnson is minimum - that would be about 6.5 estimate. If we then push down the 3 lowest contracts to fit them into the Top 51 - that would make that 3.75m in accounting for those three (the difference between 6.5 and the 2.75 for the lowest 3 contracts). So a rough estimate right now has us at about 4.79m under, without the Taron re-structure being accounted for. Reports are about a 4.1m savings for Taron. So that would have us at roughly 8.9m under right now, by my calculations.
  18. It's extremely bizarre. I remember last season him banging the table to get a DE. Then when we signed Floyd, instead of being happy about it, he immediately started banging the table to sign BOTH of Melvin Ingram and Justin Houston too. It's always manic behavior like that during the Offseason. I guess most people just ignore him - but the non-stop over the top ridiculousness irks me, obviously as I've earned a reputation of being a "party pooper" by constantly refuting his posts. Blackmon has "several suitors". He wasn't interested in signing when he was here and it's no coincidence we then brought in Edwards the next day and signed him the day after. If he wasn't interested in signing with us before we signed Edwards - why would he come back to us now and be part of a 3 man competition for 2 spots with Rapp and Edwards - when he'll surely have better options for a more secure role and/or a more secure contract? Though I will say, as unlikely as that it is, it's WAY more likely than Justin Simmons. What about what we've been doing with the Safety room in re-signing Rapp, visiting with Blackmon, and signing Edwards says we're interested in signing the most expensive player at that position (besides McKinney)?
  19. Beyond not needing a CB for anything but depth - he was released because of a Domestic Violence incident. So, no. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39779567/lions-release-cam-sutton-amid-police-search-cb-florida
  20. 40 times for DT's are basically meaningless. It shows a little bit of athleticism, but doesn't mean a thing compared to things like hand usage, strength, and technique.
  21. Scuttlebutt was we offered something heavy in incentives. Which isn't surprising. He tore his ACL before he was Drafted. He tore his Achilles a couple years ago. And now he's coming off a Shoulder injury late in the season. Unlike White, both the ACL and Achilles happened early in his career and he's had years removed from both to show where he's at. But the fact remains, he's gone down a lot for such a short career. Regardless of what posters want you to believe, Blackmon and Edwards are close as far as prospective options in the market went. When we brought in Blackmon and then a day later brought in Edwards and signed him after that - that said to me Blackmon wasn't interested and we moved on. I don't think odds were great he was going to come back to our offer to begin with. Now that we've signed Edwards after re-signing Rapp, I see the odds of him coming back to our offer even less. He'll get a better deal elsewhere or the same deal with a team that has less of a competitive aspect. TL;DR It'd be cool if we landed him too - but I think the Bills and Blackmon have moved on. I don't see this as something you should be expecting or waiting for anymore.
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