2024 Free agency and draft thread

[Lake Shore Drive]

I'm calling for them to trade back from 12 and getting Hampton later in the first.
I'll be OK with him at 12 but it's a reach in my mind.

The strange thing is once the 5 or 6 'blue chippers' are off the boards, pretty much every pick thereafter is gonna be considered a reach pick, because most of these remaining players have late teens/mid 20's stamped as to their value. Yet teams after those blue chippers are gone still have to make a selection. And not every team in that reach zone will be able to trade back.

It really is a crazy draft this year. One commentator on the NFL radio channel put it best when he said this draft class has only a few true stars, yet it also has a lot of starters. Sounds almost contradictory, but at the same time seems spot on.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

I hear ya....but I'd be willing to bet at least one QB in this draft turns out to be better than both Nix and Penix.

Maybe Ward? I was and still am a fan of both Nix and Penix. Pre-draft I would've been ok if NE had selected either. Glad we got Maye though. I think Cam will need a few years to show his worth if Tenn selects him. If he falls or a different team moves up for him, he could develop quicker.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

I think a WS game get better ratings than the NFL draft especially if a big name team is in it.

Would be interesting to see those numbers. Last year the amount of spectators that showed up to watch the draft was crazy.

 

[NWPATSFAN]

I named a couple that were behind him. The ones ahead of him have been top-5 QB's at different parts of their career. And yes Baker is up there but like you said he has figured things out and looks closer to being a top-10 QB now. This is why situation matters big time. A player can have all the talent in the world and be a bust because the organization around them is terrible. The one that comes to mind is David Carr. Went to maybe the worst situation a top overall pick has ever went to when joining the expansion team Texans. I wonder if he went to even a middle of the pack situation what he could have been.

This is why I laugh when people say so and so is a system QB. Why wouldn't a good FO/ coaching staff build a system around the most important position on the field?

 

[shopson67]

This is why I laugh when people say so and so is a system QB. Why wouldn't a good FO/ coaching staff build a system around the most important position on the field?

Yeah, there are two flavors of good coaching. Those that have their system and those that work more to their players' strengths (the best probably do both). It would be more on the GM IMO to get the right kind of players on the roster.

A famous bad draft example for my teams was the Bills drafting Kaiir Elam. They play mostly off/zone and draft a press corner in the 1st after getting sniped by the Chiefs for McDuffie. He gets outplayed early on by the other corner they drafted on day 3 and never earns the starting job thereafter. Maybe the Cowboys can get more out of him, he's certainly a strong athlete.