GunnerBill

The big problem with a trade up for one of the top 3 receivers is there is no landing spot. If as expected the top 3 all take Quarterbacks the next 3 all have needs at receiver. I think 3 QBs plus 3 WRs is the likely top 6. So there is no route to get one of those guys. If, as @DCOrange for example does, you think Thomas is closer to the top 3 than the next batch (I don't personally I think he is in that second tier but some do) then there is a route to get to 13/14/15 for him.

Yea I have a 3rd on him. My biggest question was speed and bend. He did look FAST on those videos yesterday. Not sure I think first round but I absolutely can see him going round 2 if he has a good process now up to the draft.

Yea. He just isn't necessarily a HC personality. Very good coach though. Yea that entire offensive staff was Shanahan's staff. Basically he was the Head Coach but Kyle had total control over offense from scheme to play calling to staff and even personnel - remember they brought Alex Mack and Tyler Gabriel in from Cleveland where Kyle had just been and Matt Schaub who Kyle had in Houston as the backup QB. The offense was Shanahan's show.

Higgins is a low end #1 / very top end #2. He is a better receiver than Calvin Ridley who I think has always been somewhat overrated.

It is the Buccs, yep. Godwin in 2017 was their last high receiver pick. True but I think they will straight out cut him. Looks like they think Hines might be back to return. Nope. Frazier called the defense 2017-2022. This past year was the first time McDermott called the D.

Good guess. Nope. Tutu Atwell was a day 2 pick.

Dan Quinn had a top 10 QB for all 6 years in Atlanta. He had 2 winning seasons and was 1 game over .500 his entire run there. I think we have already seen that even with a somewhat decent QB situation Dan Quinn isn't a great Head Coach. Great minds think alike....

Yea the same. I'd be up for Hollywood. That would allow you to go for someone like Mitchell in the draft too and have a size guy who catches everything (Mitchell), a route runner who dominates in the intermediate zones (Diggs) and a blazer who is a threat deep and with the ball in hand (Hollywood).

I think Tobin knows Higgins playing on the tag is not a realistic option.

Would Higgins play on the tag? I suspect he'd do a Lev Bell.

His contract is worth $30m AAV, yep. His actual cap hit this year is $30m too, the previous two years it hasn't been. The cap hit the final year (which he will never play on) is $54m. Really interesting question. Spotrac has him at $17m. That is way too high IMO. I can see him missing out in that initial wave of free agency and ending up signing a 1 year $10m type deal.

Before Harbaugh they had two double digit win seasons in eleven years. Then Jim went 10-3, 10-3, 8-5, 10-3, 9-4, 2-4 before they became contenders the last three years. So the "good not great" years were actually the first 6 years of the Harbaugh era. What came before that wasn't good in any way shape or form.

It's Adam Henry who was the OC for Les Miles at LSU back in the day when Beckham and Landry were coming out. He has been in the league a little while now, has bounced around a few spots as WR coach including working with that pair again with the Browns. I think his is a position that should be under scrutiny.

Oh yea, they are still going to run McDermott's scheme even if Babich takes on playcalling (which I don't think has been clarified yet either way).

I'd take Higgins over Ridley every day and twice on Sundays. But Ridley on a 1 year deal here is interesting. I still think he is likley out of our price range though.

I don't think Tee will be tagged. These days the tag is very, very rarely used to actually keep a player an extra year and then let them walk. The tag is only used to retain control beyond the league year and the legal tampering period opening and allowing you more time to do a long term deal. So you have to believe the Bengals are going to pay Tee long term I think for them to tag him. And I just don't see that. Spotrac has Tee at $18.6m but that is too low IMO. Mike Williams got $20m AAV. Chris Godwin got $20m AAV. He is better than both. A team is going to pay Tee to be a number 1 receiver. He is going to be somewhere around Terry McLaurin money - about $22.5m AAV. I don't think Cincy are committing that much to him with Chase due to re-set the market (and the top of the market is currently Tyreek at $30m AAV.... Chase is going past that) later this summer. They could try and hold off paying Chase until after next year but his side are agitating and the best way to spread the hits out is to include years 4 and 5 of the rookie deal in the new contract structure.

I like Mitchell, don't like him as a fit for the Bills needs particularly because he just don't seem to have that explosion. He is an all round solid player and I love his hands. He properly snatches the football from the air, attacks it. But I think we need explosiveness.

I mean this narrative that they only spend draft capital on defense.... there is some truth to that in terms of first rounders. It is 7 on defense 2 on offense. They did obviously trade a first rounder for a receiver too, so 7 and 3 if you factor that in. But then it's 9 offense and 5 defense of their 14 day two picks. On day 3 picks it is 15 offense, 13 defense, 2 specialists. I don't think there has been a problematic over commitment to defense in terms of draft capital. I think the one big issue draft capital wise is they have under emphasised receiver. To have had 6 drafts (since 2018) without taking a receiver in the first two days..... there is only one other team in the NFL that have not picked a receiver in the first two days of the draft in that same period (major kudos points to anyone who can get the other team without googling btw). That has been a major oversight.

Definitely true. I agree on the Ravens as well. Almost every year it feels like I look at the entire classes at the end of draft weekend and think "man the Ravens crushed it again." They stick to the board and they pick the best football player. It is actually startlingly simple. They don't over complicate it.

Darius Robinson seems to be the guy really getting a lot of pop. Some of the clips of him rushing he looks faster than I thought he looked on his Mizzou film. If teams believe in his ability to win around the edge he is going to fly up boards because he has the power and violent hands.

Jags makes a lot of sense.

What would have been better for the Lions is drafting a stud corner with one of those first two picks. I have LOVED their draft work in 2021 and 2022 and I loved their second round in 2023. But a running back and a 1980s linebacker with two top 20 picks is bad draft strategy.

Eating.

Ohhhhh. JPJ could go round 1. For sure. And zero point zero chance he gets to #60.

Yea very possible the Bills were the first to offer him DC. At that point if you reject that and come up empty elswhere then you feel pretty foolish. There is a very real game of chicken going on here.