Amegadjie's mom is from Cameroon and his dad's from Togo or Benin, I forget which. Both Francophone countries (I conflated his background and Odunze's in the Discord discussion, but his dad lived in France for a long time, so it's got to be one of those thin countries between Anglophone Ghana and N...

1983 was pretty darned good... Jimbo Covert Willie Gault Mike Richardson Dave Duerson Tom Thayer Richard Dent Mark Bortz And none of those players also involved paying an exorbitant salary which come along with Sweat and Allen. On top of that, Finks added .75 Hall of Famers a year throughout his ca...

My only hope for Tevin is that he plays so well and is healthy, he becomes impossible to let go. Maybe we'll cut Davis after this coming season and use that savings to extend Tevin. But then you still have Jones coming due the following season and Wright the year after.... :( It might just come dow...

Just a quick nod to how international this class is. Odunze's grandfather is from Nigeria, and in at least one interview he's said something like "well, you know Ibos, we such-and-so." And his mom's family is from Utah, which sometimes seems like another country. Amegadjie's mom is from Ca...

The Crocodile Punter.

wab wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:27 pm
Well they just traded back in for Booker.

Holy cats! I was about to start thinking about literally anything else.

Not sure how much Iowa football any of you guys could stand last year, but for what it's worth, Taylor's a different kind of punter. He's legitimately got a lot of different approaches to the ball and spins it in different ways depending on the situation to help his coverage team. Kind of like Willi...

Four picks, three starters (Odunze's going to start at least a couple of games this year) and one extremely promising developmental guy. We'd have been happy with that result from seven or eight picks.

In some drafts, this would've been a reach. In 2024, the late fourth round is where everyone seemed to start picking RBs and Canadian linemen. Instead of a dart throw, we got a guy whose upside is perennial All Pro. Sure, he's a punter, but he's the only guy picked nearly this late in the draft who ...

The Keenan Allen pick went for Javon Baker, fittingly enough.

The Kaiser wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:26 am DAMN, Taylor-Demerson gone.He was my first choice. On to Dorlus and /or Booker now.

Yeah, the Cardinals are having a sneaky-terrific draft.

Like I say at the start of every date and job interview, I consider myself something of a draftnik. Don't laugh: I've had lots of preliminary job interviews and lots of first dates over the last six months, so I know what I'm talking about. Anyway, you might not have heard of him, and that's all rig...

Congratulations Karhu, your TE beat out "my guy." Would you still favor Reiman if you knew you could get Theo this much later? It was a weird third round. I wouldn't have considered either guy over Amegadjie, but I thought Reiman was a good pick for the Cardinals. Especially since he thin...

The Sweat pick went for Cooper DeJean to the Eagles. Terrific player, but one we didn't really need.

The best part? Green Bay wanted him badly, and bailed out immediately after Philly jumped them. Then a ton of other CBs flew off the board.

Jeebus, the Falcons traded a third-rounder to do...that.

Magilla_Gorilla wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:13 pm Joakim Noah is an awesome comp. One of my all time favorite Bulls.

My only worry is that I've now compared Williams to Emanuel Augustus and Joakim Noah, which means that he'll be sparking u-

Oh, it's legal in Illinois now? Never mind.

Some fans were speculating about Ryan Pace's influence on the Falcons draft. Even after last night.

They just traded up to 2.3 for Ruke Orhorhoro. With Johnny Newton and Michael Hall on the board.

QED.

Still, You may be right, and I'm hoping you are. Maybe he's just someone trying to act cool despite not really feeling like that guy underneath? Anyway, it's a minor quibble - I'm STOKED were have him - and there's a strong possibility some of it may be a product of the whole process and environmen...

Yeah. Outside of the Bears, I think the Vikings have had the second best draft. Idk, they paid a super steep price for turner. Besides the first round pick they used they gave up 2 - 2nds, a 3rd, a 4th and a 5th for him. That seems like a whole bunch of draft capital for a guy that doesn’t touch th...

The Penix thing still blows my mind. It’s like the whole Glennon/Trubisky situation. Also, I’m absolutely thrilled with the Bears first round. Thrilled. I watched the first twelve picks with my third-grader, and he got into it when I kept guessing stuff correctly. Atlanta stumped me, so I said &quo...

I have to reorient my brain here. We intend to win with offense and out score people. It’s…..huh. Such a foreign concept for me, but should be fun With a pretty darn good defense too. I can't wait! And that defense is going to get more rest and play with more leads than any of its predecessors in r...

The more I see of Williams, especially in the off-the-cuff stuff that's come out tonight, the more I think he confused some people not because he's outrageously flamboyant or morbidly self-obsessed or any of the other labels some idiots tried to pin on him, but because he's roughly 61% cool nerd. Je...

Vikings could've pulled off a cheaper but comparable version of the Texans' draft from last year. No one saw Stroud's rookie season coming, and McCarthy's not going to equal it, but if they develop him right he could be just as good a long-term QB. If my wife wasn't shopping for divorce lawyers, I'd...

So far, we've invested this draft in

Montez Sweat
Keenan Allen
Caleb Williams
Rome Odunze
Ryan Bates
Some guy from Palos Hills or something
N'Keal Harry

Even with the last two guys, that list is obscene.

Very cool watching that pick with my nine-year-old (we're in the Seattle area). And I'm 11 for 11 so far. Kid, your dad's not a complete idiot.

Brilliant pick. Love it.

The dream is alive (streaming lag notwithstanding). Let's see Odunze!

So the whole "Grizzly" talk from Poles, I'm going to trust. I think he stays put at #9 and takes one of his grizzlys. He seens to like his mid round picks and seems pretty damn good at them. I'm guessing he trades back several times from that 3rd round and ends up with a shit ton of 4, 5,...

At this point I make the pick at #9 if one of Alt/Turner/Odunze is available. If they're all gone? Trade as far down as you can where you still can pick a player in your cloud. 24 hours to go boys!!! I'm kinda in this boat. I dont think this is a deep draft. Why not try for 2 starters from the top ...

Not sure that I'd compare Williams and McGregor. To me, he's more like (Chicago's own, kind of) Emanuel Augustus: smart, crafty, and self-disciplined in a way that can be difficult to appreciate when he seems to go completely off-script. No such thing as too much Augustus or too much Micky Ward, or...