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They can put his locker right next to Micah Hyde's.

To point out the obvious, the interior of the O-line can't pass block at all. None of them. We can probably get by with Miller, but we're in big trouble at Center (they both suck) and left guard (ideally, we need Teller to win the job).

Just rewatched the Browns game and this is pretty much what I saw. Vlad struggled mightily in pass protection, but had some nice run blocks. But, I think his best run blocks were against Browns 2nd teamers.

I went to Virginia Tech and have had season tickets there for decades. Should I get in on this thread? ? Cam can play. He isn't the fastest, but is a very good athlete with excellent hands and a habit of snagging tough passes in traffic. We'll see how it all translates to the NFL level. I've always thought WR and QB are the two most difficult positions to project from college to pro. Am looking forward to seeing all of our young WR in preseason action.

Every !@#$ing time a defensive lineman bats down a pass: "He got the big paw up to knock that one down." ...because every guy on the field has hands... but defensive linemen have paws. ? (the bear analogy annoys the **** out of me)

I agree. The NBA draft is a crapshoot. The majority of these guys play 1 year of college ball then show up to the NBA physically unready at age 19. The team that picks them gets to spend 3-4 years developing them, at the end of which the player becomes an RFA if they don't sign a contract extension after year 3. So (with exceptions, of course) by the time the player is ready to make a substantial contribution, their entry-level contract is done and they're an RFA.

I think this is a function of the small number of players in basketball (only 5 on the court). Get 2 or 3 superstars and you can dominate for a long time. With football you need a ton of talent across various positions to field a winning team. I actually think it is a more difficult job to be an NFL GM in some sense. Lebron plus anyone will be a good team in the NBA.

I agree. I'm an NBA fan (Pelicans) and it is really difficult to figure out how much a team has available to spend on free agents when every team in the league seems to be over the cap... which isn't really a cap. There is the "non-taxpayer midlevel exception," the "bi-annual exception," the "trade exception," this exception, that exception... The Pelicans could offer Rajon Rondo exactly $8.641 million due to one of these exceptions... so the Lakers offered him $9 million and he signed with LA. Were he a different category of player they could offer him a different amount. Confusing. And, I have a PhD! The Pelicans offered Boogie Cousins $40 million over 2 years... he signed with Golden State for 1 year at $5.3 million. I will seriously root for the field - the entire rest of the league - to win the championship over Golden State.

Ricky Proehl was on the staff at Carolina with Beane and McDermott. So drafting Austin Proehl seems to be based less on "trust the process" and more on family connections. I just didn't think Austin was very good at UNC. He barely caught any passes. If he didn't have an NFL father, no way he'd get drafted. In comparison Cam Phillips started all 4 years at VT and is the school's all-time leading receiver. Huge difference in productivity.

As one of this board's two VT season ticket holders, I like Cam because he catches anything near him. He plays with the edge/attitude that I like from a WR. Very good RAC ability (a bit like a running back after catching the ball, he doesn't go down easily). He was injured the entire second half of this past season, which is surely why he wasn't drafted. My biggest question with Cam is straight line speed. He's not the biggest, not the fastest. So, can he beat NFL DBs? We shall see.... As an ACC guy, I do think he was a much better college receiver than Austin Proehl. Seems Proehl was drafted as a family favor, which annoys me.

Yeah, his best season was his freshman year when he was at safety. When Adonis got switched to corner he was just sort of... average. Neither good, nor bad. He has size and speed, but I question whether he has it between the ears.

(VT season ticket holder here) Adonis was ruled academically ineligible so he applied for the supplemental draft. In today's day and age of tutors and sham majors for players it's almost impossible to not maintain a "C" average unless you're just really unmotivated. Adonis is a good player, but nothing special. I've seen many better corners at Tech in my 30 or so years of following the team. I'd pass on him.

I can tell you first hand, Nashville has grown too quickly over the past 5-6 years or so. Downtown went from sleepy to a crowded mess of humanity in only a few short years. I'll be Atlanta-level traffic soon.

As I see it, having this set of physical tools at the position allows us to play a more diverse set of defensive schemes. Instead of trying to protect a LB who can't run (e.g., with safety help), we can allow 'maine to go one-on-one against a back or tight end in coverage and use the help elsewhere. He's also really good as a blitzer with his size and speed. BTW - I'm a Virginia Tech season ticket holder so I watched pretty much every game Tremaine played in college. I wouldn't consider him a big hitter or "nasty punisher" type. But, he is a very reliable tackler in space when one-on-one. I can't remember ever seeing him completely whiff on a guy (although I do remember a blown coverage or two).

Dan Manucci. Career QB rating of 28.6! ...good times.

After two decades of largely incompetent GMs, I'm strangely optimistic about the future of this team under Beane. At worst he helped get this team to the playoffs for the first time in forever, which I think did a world of good for our fan base.

Allen hasn't taken a single snap in a Bills uniform, yet the YouTube talent evaluators already "KNOW" he'll be terrible... because they read an article somewhere online that used a quasi-statistical argument to infer that Allen can't be possibly good... How many of the "experts" watched a single Wyoming football game over the past two years? *crickets chirp*

Listed as a CB when he was drafted on NFL network. The post was real-time not a day later like yours, jackass.

Cam has a real shot to make this team or at least the practice squad. He's better than Proehl and McCloud as a receiver. If he didn't get hurt he would have been drafted.

The only one that comes to mind is Jim Pyne back in the early 90's. BTW - the Bills just signed Cam Phillips as a UDFA

He didn't have a down year. I get the sense that someone writes something about a guy and it keeps getting repeated... and no one bothers to look at game film to see that he was just as dominant in his senior season as he was his junior season. As a VT season ticket holder for over two decades, he's one of the best O-linemen Tech has produced in my opinion. Everyone knew he was by far our best run blocker the past few years. I think he has a good chance to start...

I know how Jester Weah died...

I agree with the sentiment up-thread that it's time to lose the toddler nickname ("Ray-Ray"). (His name is actually "Raymond")

I'm only disappointed with NFL Network's coverage. "Griffin, Griffin, Griffin, .... oh by the way, a few teams made picks, ... Griffin, Griffin, Griffin" ...I'm happy for the kid, but do we really need two straight days of non-stop Shaquem Griffin coverage?

Wang wasn't nearly as big. He had to rely more on technique. (okay I'll stop now )