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AnotherLawyer

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  1. It's "Westley" not "Wesley."
  2. Since 2000, 21 QBs have been drafted in the second round with none drafted in the 2nd in 2000, 2002-2005, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2022 and 2024. The successful 2nd-rounders were drafted at or near the top of the 2nd round in what was then considered to be a deep draft overall or specifically for QBs (Drew Brees, 32 overall in 2001; Andy Dalton, 35th overall in 2011; Derek Carr, 36th overall in 2014). Generally, QBs don't go in the 2nd unless it's a deep draft or they're a high-potential project for a recently-successful team. The former tend to do well (three HOF so far from the 2001 1st round with at least one more expected plus Brees at Round 2, Pick 1; multiple All-Pros) while the latter not so much (John Beck? Drew Stanton?). If you take out the statistical anomaly of 2007-2009, only 14 QBs have been drafted in the 2nd in 22 years. It looked to me like the only position that hasn't had a 2nd-rounder every year. The outlier is 2007, when three were drafted in the 2nd round in one of the worst QB classes of all time (Jamarcus Russell and Brady Quinn in the 1st; Kevin Kolb, John Beck, Drew Stanton in the 2nd). The Eagles had Donovan McNabb on IR with former 49ers starter Jeff Garcia as the backup and drafted Kolb as the "future" in the 2nd when most had him projected to go in the 3rd/4th and be the 5th or 6th QB off the board. I think the Dolphins have been the biggest offender of drafting 2nd round QBs. The overwhelming majority of 2nd round QBs have been Christian Hackenburgs and Pat Whites who no one could call a sure-fire future starter or who had some question mark that was enough to keep them out of the first round in favor of an immediate or borderline-immediate contributor, but not enough to outweigh whatever buzz surrounded them and drop them to the 3rd or 4th where teams are really drafting players who could sit for a year or more and learn your system. If Ewers is drafted anywhere in the 2nd other than the first few picks, the odds are in favor of him falling into the latter category. Given his obvious arm talent and decision-making that can be brilliant or puzzling, that's why I put him 3rd-4th. He seems to be the kind of clay a QB guru would want to work with over a year or three.
  3. Unless the Steelers trade down from 21, there's no one behind them that needs to draft a QB or even an insurance policy. Maybe the Ravens? Sit him behind Lamar for a couple years. They need OL more than they need a future QB. They're losing 3/5 of their starters to FA, I think.
  4. What's it look like so far post-Combine? First: Banks, Barron, Golden Second-Third: Bond, Sorrell Third-Fourth: Ewers, Collins, Williams Fourth-Fifth: Blue, Mukuba, Helm Fifth-Sixth: Helm Sixth-Seventh-UDFA: Majors, Broughton UDFA: Connor, Norton
  5. I get that he's TE4 or TE5 on most draft boards, but I haven't seen anyone play consistently better than Gunnar this season other than Tyler Warren. Harold Fannin is smallish, and the guy from LSU is a stop/start kind of F who did okay running R routes in college but is too underdeveloped a blocker to be true R, and I don't think he even ran the 40 at the Combine. Hopefully Gunnar's ankle heals up in time for Pro Day and he can rerun and get somewhere closer to Fannin's time.
  6. Yeah? 4.84 with a severely-sprained ankle is astounding (especially considering healthy TEs like Dalton Kincaid were first rounders and maybe ran a tenth of a second faster on healthy ankles).
  7. Yeah. It’s like it amplified everything bad about Shaggy, and twisted what made Shaggy good. It’s no coincidence the best elements of Shaggy didn’t make it over here or didn’t last for very long.
  8. Disagree. Will Howard looked like Cush from Jerry Maguire after a long weekend at Waffle House. And threw like he was sending back soggy waffles.
  9. It's awesome to see this many Horns at the Combine and with a real shot at getting drafted. It's insane to think more could get drafted this year than last year.
  10. Hopefully Blue sticks. It was electric watching him break a long run. Especially against Tceh two years ago.
  11. Okay. Thanks for clearing that up. I didn't think "2 or 3 fastest" differentiated by position. I would agree he'll be one of the 2 or 3 fastest RBs every time he steps on the field.
  12. @JordanSportGuy
  13. You're right. I still had the screen for 2022 up. It's 9 now. Point is still the same.
  14. In college, yes. In the NFL, it depends on the weekend. More than a dozen CBs ran sub-4.4 just this year. 3 WRs have so far. There were 20 sub-4.4s last season, 17 the year before that, 31 the year before that. The NFL is different. 4.39 is fast, but he's one of dozens and dozens at the next level. Xavier Worthy on the other hand, is the fastest on the field every time he steps on it, no matter the team, no matter the era. If Blue ran a 4.29 then, yes, he'd one of the 2 or 3 fastest every time. We know Blue is fast. I think some of us are disappointed that he wasn't as fast as we were hoping, and certainly not as fast as he said he was.
  15. Yeah...it's argumentum ad absurdum. Justified in this context.
  16. Fair. He's second-fastest among RBs this year. My point was that he needs to be up in that rarified air given his history coupled with talking trash about how fast he's going to be.
  17. Especially after flaking out of the East-West Shrine Bowl. 4.4 is definitely fast, but it's not rare in the NFL. It's not even rare at the Combine.
  18. No. No, they wouldn't. Good luck to you, kid.
  19. It's you. You're the unstable spaz. I don't see any memes about threads being "AnotherLawyer'd."
  20. You don't understand. If Ricky Williams doesn't rush for 6,000 of his career yards, his statistical career at Texas sucks. DEBATE ME LIKE A MAN MOTHERFUCKER
  21. Shane Smith is a pretty good songwriter and has some good energy on stage, but agree to disagree.
  22. Because...that's...what...Derka...did. And you're arguing with Derka unironically.
  23. But do you compare how you deal with injury to how a 21-year-old soon-to-be professional athlete deals with injury? I mean, can't argue in the face of objective proof like that, you know.
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