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I have them as a dark horse SB contender.

Cousins is a top 10 QB and they got a guy they think can be one, I have no issue with it. Cousins is 10x anything we had here between JA and Kelly.

This is one thing I really like about what they have done, they built a team that can score with anyone in perfect conditions (well, ok, they have JA17), but they also added big bodies to try to win some physical battles in Dec/Jan. They saw a problem and attempted to fix it? I’ll take that.

Good time to be a Falcons fan, they are all in.

Look, the stats are what they are, BUT who’s to say another guy wouldn’t have been just as good, if not better. RBs have been plugged into systems and succeeded for stints for many teams, over many years. The most famous being the Broncos, making everyone and their brother look good. Cook is pretty fast, but it’s all he brings. I would argue, Ty Johnson would be just as successful and possibly more reliable than Cook. So long as Davis gets over the fumble issue, he will over take Cook as the primary guy, pretty quickly and Johnson may be the primary back-up. NFL is Not For Long when you can’t do the basics. He sucks at pass blocking, can’t be relied on to catch and isn’t a strong inside runner. Davis does all of it, Samuel can do everything Cook does and Johnson is just as fast, just slightly less bounce to him. Cook may find himself the odd man out, pretty quickly this year.

I’m guessing we will be shopping for a kicker at cut down time. Bass can’t be making 2/3 of his kicks and missing the distance you really need to have in the bag, especially when that’s already cost you playoff games.

I mean that was basically the scouting report coming out and why Zamir White was ahead of him in college.. but Beane outsmarted everyone and got Kamara .02.

He sucked, had he been a 5th round pick he’d probably be looking for a camp invite, his potential seems to keep people waiting for him to be more than he is.

I’m not going to say that’s appropriate.. but I’m not going to disagree either.

Kincaid will lead the team receiving and Samuel will lead the team in scrimmage yards. Kincaid should break 1k and I think Samuel will combine for around 1200 yards between runs and catches. Everyone else is along for the ride.

There was no bad PR, just a sect with differing views from his. A bunch of whiny “free speech, if it fits my views” type made it a big deal.

yeah, polling biased fans is going to get a biased answer. I prefer Josh all day long, but I’d rather have the Championships over anything.

Oh you are crazy, nobody of nobody would trade Mahomes for JA and White. I love Josh, but he’s #2 (or 3,4,5 depending on your opinion). The Jefferson reference was to the person saying it’s “nice to be on this side of” the regret. The Bills may be pumped to have Allen, but it’s hard to ignore they traded the best players at both QB and WR in the league. As somebody I would like to root for, Josh, all day. Mahomes I find hard to like, but if he were a Bill, Id be rocking a Kermit head to the tailgate, so it is what it is.

I’ll say this, ANY time you are trading back because you know the guy you “want” will be there, you should just go another direction entirely, ESPECIALLY if it’s a QB. I’m a little more optimistic about Coleman because I think he was falling bc of his speed and the traits available with others made it likely they could get him. Doesn’t mean it’s a good pick, just LESS stupid than taking a QB nobody wants.

I disagree with you on EJ. He was a liability at FSU and he couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat in the middle of the Atlantic. He was an athlete who played QB and it carried him as far as it could. He had no business being a 1st round pick and honestly, if he was ANY good, he could have done something after leaving Buffalo, but he just bombed out. He never was NFL caliber. That’s no slight, he made it to high level D-1, but that’s it.

Pssh, don’t be callin Keon “slow”.

Still arguable. I wouldn’t take him.

It will be interesting to watch how it plays out, Davis is a better prospect out of college as an actual RB and pass catcher, I still have no idea why Beane felt Cook was worth a 2nd, but I digress. Assuming Davis keeps the ball off the ground, I expect him to overtake the lead role by mid-season. Cook isn’t a physical runner and it appears that will be a premium.

Funny story, I almost crashed my car over the Maybin pick. I got stuck having to drive during the draft, so I was listening to the draft on the radio. I couldn’t believe Orakpo had fallen to us, it was a no brainer, and then they didn’t have a brain. I threw my hands up in disbelief and hit my wheel on the way up, almost threw my car into a concrete barrier. That one along with Whitner was just inexcusable with Ngata on the board. All of that was horrible, but EJ? Oh man, I just gave up. I used to follow FSU almost exclusively and was PUMPED he was leaving. Sure enough the Bills take him… I could have lived with it in the 4th round, where most had him ranked, but to trade down and then take him 🤮. I would have taken GeNO and been ok-ish with it. At least he was good in college. Awful, just awful. Only bonus for me was Winston came in and won the Championship with the same FSU team EJ let down for years, so I got some sort of win.

I have never been more disappointed than the EJ pick, including Maybin and wrong Josh. That guy held FSU back, it was clear he wasn’t NFL material. At least with Allen, it was a boom or bust potential, I said when we picked him, “most likely a wasted pick, but if he can ever put it together he can be great”. Here we stand, lucky AF.

It does…. But we traded the picks that became Mahomes and Jefferson.. so yeah..

This could be, BUT I would prefer to keep an extra WR if the race is tight. Coleman is unproven, Hollins at BEST has been a 4th option, Samuel has injury concerns as does everyone fighting for #5/6. All it takes is a bad week and our WR room looks like the LB room last year. As of this moment, I would like to see: Samuel Shakir Coleman Hollins Hamler Shavers/Claypool Hamler has massive upside IF healthy, Shavers sounds like he’s getting it done and Mapletron is as physically gifted as they come so let that play out as it will. Hollins being a virtual lock is scary to me, I’m not sure he deserves that, but it seems like he’s going to get it bc of the love affair w ST players.

That would be huge. He’s flashed a lot when he’s been on the field, I see why they picked him and I don’t really know why we haven’t seen much of him. It sucks that the Chiefs jumped us and got an All-Pro while Elam has done nothing, but if he could at least make it hard to keep him off the field, it would be a huge improvement. I always thought Benford would become our FS and Elam the starting corner, Benford has been too good for that move, which is great. If Elam could push to start or outright earn the spot, it would be MASSIVE.

There’s reason to wonder if he will be able to be the same player. Let’s let him get some time back to football before “worrying”.

I was surprised Mitchell wasn’t the pick instead of Coleman. He must have REALLY rubbed teams the wrong way in the pre-draft process. Talent wise, he should have gone much earlier. Coleman appears to be a guy you want in your team and he has some talent, I’m hoping for a Michael Thomas type of thing from him, without the Michael Thomas experience on the personal side lol.