Saint Doug

Titan is the best dog ever. No matter what every happens to EJ, having Titan lands him as a personal favorite.

Double sports hernia? Injury prone. Bust.

Normally, you put 32 doctors in a room, you'll get 32 different opinions. The fact that it appears all 32 team docs are all in agreement in unheard of and very damning. Extremely bad for him, but in a draft with so many good, healthy players still available, you just don't waste the pick.

Looks like 32 team physicians are all on the same page in regards to his knee. We're not talking about a difference of professional opinion here. There is a consensus that his knee is done. I definitely wouldn't waste a 2nd round pick on him, maybe not even a pick at all because its appearing like it would be a waste of a pick.

Agreed. He's being a sore loser who doesn't grasp the concept of team or competition. So, the Eagles select a QB in the 1st, there's a significant probability this pick will be a bust. Historically, the first round, even top 10, is full of missed potential. He needs to look no further from the mirror to realize this. And, while he's looking at the mirror, even if the pick pans out, there's always QBs who miss a significant amount of time due to injuries where his services would be needed.

Totally. I think it's unreasonable people automatically think a 2-3-4th round will be worse off than Tyrod. Maybe so, probably so, but you'll never find out if you don't take a chance. A small handful of good QBs have been found in these rounds over the recent years. You never know if you're going to grab a Daulton, Wilson, Cousins (drafting him the same year as RG3 was brilliant), or Carr. Not to mention the B word. One thing is for certain in the draft though: if you never select a QB, you'll never get the one you need.

He actually said, and I paraphrase, listening is free. It doesn't cost anything.

Smart move. This is why we like him.

This guy sounds like complete garbage. Kudos to the Pats for trying to avoid another Aaron Hernandez.

Plus, it's his agent who negotiated Tyrod's current deal, not Tyrod. The agent has no one to blame but himself.

I just see too many variables in football for this to work. Let's think of reasons 1st rounders bust: not enough talent, injuries, no desire to be their best, incompetent coaches, drafted for wrong offensive/defensive scheme. Half of these reasons analytics will not be able to measure or predict.

Human trash. This dude was an unstable time bomb. Hope he gets raped in jail. I don't understand why they wouldn't automatically search it considering the Supreme Court has ruled a long time ago a warrant is not needed to search a car when there is "probable cause" a crime has been committed. Cue "self-defense" argument in 3...2...1...

I agree with this. There's 3 reasons a team tries to jump up 20 spots to #1: QB, QB, and QB. This is the smart thing to do. You avoid blowing all available cap space on Fitz, pick up a real franchise QB, and there's an inordinately large bust rate for OTs picked in the top 5.

Good signing by the Swifters.

Watching Marcia get up (or hopefully not) and throw a complete tantrum would be worth every cent of this guy's contract.

Nice dust settles signing.

No, the Bills are holding themselves hostage by not extending or trading them.

He was a 1st round talent who never developed in the Browns system. What 1st talent does develop in the Browns system? We can't blame him for the team's completely and utter incompetence.

Going out on a limb here, but if your picking within the top 10, that player better end up being a game changer (and yes, a game changer was still on the board, but Marv liked skinny DTs). Whitner has never been a game changer. His presence never dictated the result of a game. He was solid, even above average, but that's something to expect from a pick between 20-32 or in the 2nd round. So, I place him in the bust category.

Have our docs give him an evaluation. Can't hurt. Even if the guy is shelved for another year.

No they don't. Players want to play football. That's why they have an agent. The problem is this: http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2016/04/jairus_byrd_eugene_parker_was.html Eugene was a "father figure" to Byrd. And this probably occurs with a lot of these athletes who grew up with an absent father. These agents know exactly what to say to manipulate their clients weaknesses in order to get what they want. The agent is going to convince their client "not the underestimate the value of their time and skills" and not to accept one dime less. Because at the end of the day, they're not the ones who now have to uproot their family. They're not the ones who suddenly need to learn a new system and make new friends. They couldn't care less. Likely. But, it's not so black and white. What about signing with a different team instead of the one who offered him the most money? Now he's stuck in a quagmire. A defense so bad it rewrote the history books. What about this question: would Byrds career been substantially better if not for Parker instilling in him the idea that feigning injury could be an effective bargaining tool? These are very impressionable young men, especially when advice is coming from a "father figure". But, once a player crosses that line, he's done as a competitor. There's no undoing that.

Come on. Let's not go that far. He put himself first and his clients benefited as a result. Not to say this is unique to Parker, as most agents do the same. Can you honestly say his treatment of the Byrd situation was best for the player? He may have earned a fatter paycheck, but his career has definitely gone downhill. Money made should not be the major criteria for a successful career.

Seriously. Why have these players in if we are not going to sign them? Although some are just using us for financial leverage, they can't all be (right?). It really stings when we lose a defensive player to the Jets. For these type of bubble players, I don't think it just comes down to money. They are struggling to stay in the league and him likely signing with the Jets sends a message that he thinks he'll be more successful in their defense.

That doesn't exactly instill confidence. I can just image his eulogy "As a member of the esteemed NFL agent profession, he is not to be remembered as a man of strong moral compass...but he was no Drew Rosenhaus"

Ralph/Russ/John/Doug/Kim/Terry's cheap