buddha

https://www.nfl.com/prospects/t.j.-hockenson/3200484f-4342-2041-c442-6c874885b155

nobody gives a shit about san antonio. they didnt care when they won championships and were boring as hell and they sure as heck dont care now.

cade is luka doncic. grant hill was a much better athlete than cade. which doesnt mean cade will be worse than grant hill, but hill is a much different player than cade.

football outsiders has hock ranked 11th at tight end last year. in 2020 he was ranked 30th in 2019 he was ranked 43rd so he's improving at least....but top 5? not quite.

they just traded for davante adams. giving up and tanking was not an option.

pro football reference tried to come up with a stat for football players that approximated bill james' win shares for baseball. obviously much harder to do for football. anyway, they call it approximate value. hockenson's approximate value (AV) for his career is 13. that's not very high. part of that is he plays for a bad team that doesnt win much, part of it is that he's been injured a lot. part of it is he's an average tight end. the player from his draft class with the most AV is kyler murray (unsurprisingly). second is devin white. the lions didnt have a chance to draft either of them. next on the list: aj brown (51st pick) dk metcalf (64th pick) deebo samuel (36th pick) maxx crosby (106th pick) if the argument is that no one would have taken them at 8, that's understandable. looking at the guys taken around hock or in the first round: ed oliver: 23 marquis brown: 24 josh jacobs: 22 chrstian wilkins: 21 kaleb mcgary: 21 brian burns: 19 dexter lawrence: 19 devin bush: 17 tytus howard: 17 noah fant: 14 jerey tillery: 14 and those are just the first round picks taken after hock. he ranks 51 out of all the picks in that draft so far. an imperfect way to judge a player and not entirely fair to hock because he's stuck on the lions. but it gives you an idea of how valuable he's been and how much more valuable so many others taken in the draft have been than him.

i guess that was the only option.

hokenson is not a great nfl blocker and he's not the mismatch we hoped he would be as a pass catcher. he is not a big play threat like waller, kelcie, gronk, or kittle. he's not a great blocker. he's not a 6'7 mismatch in the end zone like jimmy graham was. but he's not bad at any of those things. he's solid. he might be a "top 10 te" but what does that get you? a guy who is good at some stuff who doesnt move the needle but doesnt hurt you. ok. but that's not what you expected from the #8 pick in the draft. and unfortunately, that's where we picked him and that's how he'll be judged.

i have a sinking feeling okudah will be just like jarrad davis: a guy with great tools who tries real hard, says the right things, and you root for him....but it never works out. i hope not, but coming back from being terrible and then having an achilles injury is rough. he may end up at safety. how weird would it be if will harris turns into the corner we thought okudah was and okudah becomes the safety we hopes harris would be?

what's the other option? mayfield? draft a qb in a bad class? carr is a decent qb and is the best option available to them.

they screwed cade's rookie of the year chances by sitting him for so many games down the stretch. i get it, they wanted to lose those games. but that was his chance to win it.

cossa looks like a giraffe. really big and doesnt knkw how to walk yet. once he learns how to walk, he could be pretry good. or not. he's a goalie so you never know. hopefully cossa is vasilevsky and edvinsson is hedman and mazur is pointe.

in a recent piece on senators v red wings futures, they seemed to think the wings had a slight edge.

they didnt come around on seider for a while either.

the whole thing was ridiculous. beverly acting like a fool as usual, running around and drawing attention only to himself while the rest of his teammates celebrated together. kat standing on the sidelines doing nothing until someone told him the cameras were on him so he clapped half heartedly when his teammates took the lead and won. arod in the front row showing off his guns and making sure the cameras knew where he was.

i think hockenson is a slightly above average nfl tight end.

click bait and sports radio talk fodder

kat fouled out and minny started playing better? no way.

between arod, kat, and patrick beverley, minny might be the most annoying team in the league that james harden doesnt play for. all they need is drake in the front row.

the swedish mafia cant get here soon enough.

vrana/suter/zadina wastes vrana's talent.

lord, please dont make me watch sam gagner and filip hronek on the power play next year.

the guy isnt white so it wont be investigated as "domestic terrorism."

good for monty. please please please let klutch sports strongarm the lakers into hiring mark jackson...only for thd team to totally suck, lebron to sulk and leave, and the whole franchise to be the worst in the league for a decade because they traded away all their picks. a man can dream.

those pff mock trades are ridiculous. you can get a team to give you three number ones and their entire draft to move up to #2. and then when they do, they take a corner or a tackle. its amazingly stupid. those things are fun, but ive stopped doing most trades just because theyre so silly.