Malazan

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...

People can't even make cries for attention through their own twitter anymore. They have to use someone else's twitter to get attention. Stop giving it to them.

Sharp's Next article: Why scoring more points than the other team is good

I read your account and thought this is why I never want to go to a draft.

No, unless you count strawmen..

I'd show you, but I don't want to end up in jail again

~Some people call me Maurice..~

You're right, the forum software sucks and ignore doesn't completely remove the person from view and the policy of this board that more traffic is better than quality makes it near impossible without just leaving the forum all together. On top of that, my personal crusade against those who feel that their own intrinsic need to post bait topics to get attention urges me to respond since I can't outright ignore them. Congratulations on your success.

Answer the questions yourself. Stop begging us for attention.

I realize that reality is of little importance to you and I am loathe to give you the attention you so desperately crave, but this info is not exactly hard to find so I ask why you didn't answer these questions yourself? The #1 defense in 2020 had no opt outs and was one of the lowest in roster turnover (no "starters" changed from 2019). All of their coaches returned.

They exist? Nickel is by far the most used formation in the league. It's over 60% while 3-4/4-3 "Base" formations are under 30%