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Teams never come out and say “we really want to draft X!” … that would be gross incompetence and gross incompetence gets you either fired or promoted to OC of the New England Patriots. Poorly run organizations do tip their hand though - either via leaks or public comment. It doesn’t matter how obvious it was in hindsight that Quinn wasn’t going to trade Stafford, he diminished his standing by saying so publicly before the draft. There were leaks within those close to the organization about Hockenson too. I believe that Carter is off the draft board of the Raiders. And that someone in the org leaked it because the org is poorly run. And that McDaniels tried to do damage control by denying the report and is really just making things worse.

Those are just the ones who realize Northwestern is in Illinois, not Oregon.

This is how you fail at running an NFL franchise FWIW. It does nothing but hurt the Raiders for this to leak.

Bijan’s ceiling appears to be universally considered higher than Gurley’s too. Though Gurley’s downfall of injuries could happen to any running back.

Part of it too goes to the proverbial window of opportunity. Unless you have Patrick Mahomes, you are probably not going to be in the Conference Championship Game every season. There will be ebbs and flows to your success.. We are certainly entering a window in 2023. If Bijan gives us five Pro Bowl years, I don't think that's a wasted pick at all.

I would question it for similar reasons, but at the same time if the Marshall Faulk comparisons are what Holmes sees in Bijan, I wouldn’t fault him for just making the pick and flipping Swift for a late 2nd day or early 3rd day pick.

I still wouldn’t rule out Bijan at #6. If Will Anderson isn’t there and a trade isn’t available, I wouldn’t put it past Holmes to just take the best player on his board no matter what.

I expect they’ll stick pick up another in the draft as well. I don’t foresee Cephus making the roster and Jones is probably good for one season at most.

My guess is that his contract is the exact offer that was on the table for Chark.

I was at LCA last night with some buddies and it was very confusing when they announced the game misconduct… I looked it up on Twitter and showed the clip to my row and the row behind us and we were dying laughing.

There’s plenty of space on the outskirts of A2. Concordia owns more lane than they know what to do with. SHF lives in Ann Arbor, so that might make sense.

If they move it to Oakland County, is that property at the Summit Place Mall still vacant? Relatively close to Woodward and Birmingham/Bloomfield Hills players homes if that’s on their wish list.

My favorite Raiola memory is him getting into an argument and flipping off fans by the tunnel. The fans were in the right.

I’m not going to say you’re wrong, it’s your opinion and we just differ slightly. It’s certainly unique to be a hell no on an offensive lineman but to each his own.

Lalonde ejected lol

Two goals gift wrapped by NHL officiating. NFL refs have nothing on the NHL incompetence.

I wouldn’t call it atrocious but I don’t think it makes sense. Between Sko, Glasgow, and Vaitai, 2/3 aren’t on the field and that’s a lot of wasted capital.

That’s not his first surgery on that ankle either. Big injury risk.

I think they’re already ahead of that by saying that Goff is aware of the Lions intentions. Rodgers learned the Packers were taking Love on draft day along with everyone else. Presuming the Lions said “hey we love you, our plan is to win a lot of football games with you, but full disclosure, there is one guy who we would take at #6 if he is there that would involve us moving on from you in a year or two” I think it creates a whole new dynamic from the toxicity Green Bay invited but surprising their MVP QB with his replacement.

I’m a nerd. Don’t ask me for solutions, just data.

I actually misstated it. It was 5%, or 3/56 attempts. Still very very low. Braden Mann (NYJ) was a planned onside kick against the Browns. It was perfectly executed, but a Browns player still had a chance at it. Brandon McManus (DEN) was a planned onside kick against the Raiders. It didn’t make it ten yards but a defensive player jumped to catch it and tipped it. Riley Patterson (JAX) was a surprise onside kick against the Chiefs. Patterson himself recovered it. That was it though.

Something I hadn’t considered RE Lamar (maybe others have and I’m just slow)… I think it’s just as if not more likely that the volume of NFL agents are colluding against him as it is owners are. Agents control the media narrative to a large degree and it is in their interests to make Lamar’s situation look like a cluster so no one else seeking a market setting contract tries to represent themselves

FWIW the difference between #32 and #12 on the chart (610) is actually remarkably close to the difference between #6 and #3 (600). If it becomes a bidding war though, I think we agree that the ask could go sky high. I just don’t think it will.

How about tonight we trade #6, a 2nd round pick, and a 2024 3rd round pick to Arizona for #3 and DHop, and then on draft day when one of Stroud or Young slips to #3, we trade #3 to Indianapolis for the 2nd and 3rd round picks back. Big Brain.