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Don't confuse whining with informing and/or mocking.

There seems to be a bit of confusion regarding Byrd. Byrd is franchise tagged for $6.7M. He will be playing for us this year. He has until July 15th to sign his tag. Most likely we will negotiate with him in June after FA and rookie signings. There is a high probability he will holdout, which is the correct move - why would he risk a freak injury in OTAs? Whatever happens, he has to eventually sign and suit up for us for the 2013 season, or he forfeits his entire paycheck and gets nothing. So let me repeat, he will be suited up for us this year, long-term contract or not. Yes I know Pettine has formations that use 3 safeties. Yes I know that we needed one in this draft. No, drafting an UDFA as a 2nd project safety in the 5th round is not a good pick. Please resume cheerleading.

That logic also applies to drafting a punter here. I'm starting to hope they take another safety in the 6th, just to see how people will defend it. Maybe safeties from here on out in fact, because hey, they fit the scheme.

The Koolaid overfloweth in this thread.

This pick is so terrible they didn't even talk about it on NFLN, which is probably better.

Very surprised that Da'rick Rogers is still around. Those off-field and maturity issues must be worse than what the public is hearing.

I'm totally on board the Scott bandwagon at this stage. I think it would be excellent value if he's there in the 5th.

And he's right where he belongs - holding a clipboard for the next 4 years. Thank God we did not take him and I don't have to look at his ugly throws. I even made myself a new avatar just in case we picked this guy, if anyone wants it feel free

Exactly. There's a big disconnect between what the fans think we need and what OBD thinks we need, especially at guard. The FO has said they like the line, don't be surprised if we don't pick a guard at all.

NFL Network quotes "tough hitter will take your head off" "had multiple off-field issues - reason for his drop" "can't believe he wasn't invited to Senior Bowl" "heard multiple teams were targeting him this round, good pick by Buffalo" It seems like everyone though it was a very solid pick.

Glad the Eagles took Barkley and not Matt Scott as Mayock predicted.

I like my linebackers a little bit crazy. I'd love to see the look on his face when someone tells him the bars don't close until 4AM here...

This guy is not Tavon Austin lite, that's ridiculous. Austin put up better numbers in 1 year than Goodwin did his entire career. And that's the problem, we drafted another track star that wasn't able to produce in a 4 year college career. That's a carbon copy of T.J. Graham. Graham and Goodwin are limited route runners that will probably be on the field 10% of the time - they are there to take the top off a defense, they're not every-down players. They weren't able to operate underneath in college, and they sure as heck won't be able to in the pros. I'm not against the idea of having a burner on the team, but I'd much rather use a 3rd-round pick on a guy that could potentially be on the field all the time. Take a good, hard, sobering look at his 2013 game logs. Yeah, that 64 yard run in the Alamo Bowl was impressive, but how many times was he stuffed for losses on those reverses? This is a guy that you can realistically expect to step in and get that 1 big catch for 30 yards a game (which is already TJs job). I really liked the draft up until this pick, but I just can't get on board with this guy. I hope I'm wrong, but he looks like a lottery ticket to me.

#$%@^&^$* Chargers took Allen 2 picks earlier....

so he's T.J. Graham 2.0?

wow Keenan Allen went 2 picks earlier too... .... that would have been glorious

Ugh would have liked Escobar over kiko

Minter or Escobar let's go

Well that sucks hunter and ertz gone like that...

Ugh I just read that Harbaugh personally recruited Ertz out of high school to play at Stanford. That doesn't bode well for him falling to us.

Well I guess that makes it official guys, the Orange Bowl now means nothing. We get it, you don't like E.J. Manuel. But you're just making a complete fool of yourself now.

How did I know the OP would have less than 100 posts?

Haha this is great. "I don't like the Bills pick so I'll just make up my own narrative about him." Or maybe it's just hard to type through all the tears...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v8OOY7AHRE Not certain if he can start week 1, but I like the boldness of the pick - there's a high ceiling with this guy. Now queue the Nassib lovers saying "You don't spend a 1st on a guy to sit the bench...."

These two. Right here. The wait is going to be painful.