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Never really paid attention to Norman on that play before. Tough to win with only 10 competing.

I like the fact Rousseau played safety in high school and is 6'7, now we have someone who can knock down the hail mary passes! 4d chess! I do think these d ends are more run stuffers than twitchy pass rushers and I'm okay with that. I hope they can help us force more 3rd and longs, which will help our sack numbers. I also hope they can win one on one battles because having to double any dlineman will help the others. The oline guys might not be ready this year but if just one of the tackles hits it will be a good thing. With a deep tackle class I think of Gabe Davis hitting with the deep wr class last year.

I'm fine with that, it's just all the crap around the actual picks that I don't like. They could start later or whatever.

It would be fine if the NFL announced the pick when it was in instead of making sure they get the programming in from the prior pick. Seemed like it was an hour too long, full of production value.

Rousseau's pro day did not help him - falling down after doing the vertical jump will do that. Looks to me like he prepared the week before.

Interesting, ok. I thought he checked a lot of boxes - versatility, young, raw, room to grow both physically and technique-wise. The proday didn't look elite though, you're right about that. It will be interesting to see who goes first between him and Oweh.

Haha, well they say interviews are important - maybe we know now why some decisions are made seemingly in the absence of sensibility. With his neck injury and lack of tape I can see why he didn't get taken as quickly as maybe he should have, but I have to assume that he did not impress (or maybe put off) a lot of gm's in the interview portion. I don't have any other way to comprehend why he would have fallen that far.

Why do you think that? I was just reading some of the quoted articles from his wikipedia page and while it didn't have too much about his personality it seemed to be good. Was a wr/s in high school, Miami had to convince him to get a nasty streak to play DE because they thought it would make him a better player.

I'm going with Rousseau

If I remember correctly Rodgers signed a second contract before he was a starter.

You wondered what they were thinking. I suggested the last time they had a HOF qb and a backup drafted high might be a place to look for answers. Winning super bowls is a team effort, and quite often requires some amount of luck. We're talking about transitioning from a high level qb here.

You should probably google brett favre and aaron rodgers

Do you think when Metcalf met with Beane prior to the draft that he had his shirt on or off?

Haha - it just takes one person to want to pay the price...

I'm thinking if they do indeed take Oweh it is because he has the temperament to succeed in football instead of painting like Maybin. I don't get the angst or comparison, in the football world that circumstance was like 3 generations ago. Would be another young, talented guy for Frazier and co to try and get the most out of.

The flying gnat

I see it as a major hole, the story with Knox hasn't changed since college and if we don't have a player that can hurt the other team there we will not be able to get over the hump. Edit: the other thing for me here is that for all these years our offense has sucked but a lot of folks wanted that great te to open up the seams and the underneath areas. Now, when we have a decent offense it doesn't matter. To me now is the time for one! Someone like Kelce would be nice but it just needs to be someone with a little wiggle and ability to get open and catch the ball. Knox doesn't seem to be that, as much as we hope he will be.

Your main rival for the afc title filled a major hole so you feel the need to fill one of yours. @YoloinOhio (forgot to quote you)

Wonder if the chiefs getting brown changed our thought process

I will be going on Saturday with my son, nephew and brother. Just going to get into all the fan experience stuff at that point.

Thanks for scraping the twitterverse yolo!

He had 1.5 career sacks in college. 1.5 as a player who had an even greater physical advantage than he does now. Looks to me like he rushes like he defends the run, just not explosive or determined. I will say if they did get him to attack more on the pass rush it might help the run defense too, just the whole mentality of attacking.

I want to say empty stadiums (no fan noise/distractions) also led to better execution. Games were as close to practice atmosphere as they ever will be.

I'm thinking early (by the third) or nothing. Obviously they would have to see the value there. I don't know if we need another Gilliam/Becker/Sweeney type, we either need someone to push Knox or don't bother. I'd rather they look for other positions in those later rounds, it doesn't seem like there will be much te talent available later. When they went up for Knox it was because he was the last guy at the tier they wanted, and that was jumping up into the third with two fourth round picks if I remember correctly.

It will be interesting to see how they see this te class. The early indication is obd is not impressed since they are/were trying to get Ertz plus all the other guys they checked on like Gronk and Olsen, etc. I think that a playoff caliber roster affords you the opportunity to spend a high pick on a te, but it seems like the players avaliable at our position don't match the value, at least in the first round. It will be interesting to see how it turns out for us because Beane seems to be actively searching for an upgrade.