Originally Posted by BakoSaint (Post 994454)

The 2022 Bills went 13-4 and lost in the 2nd round of the playoffs. The 2023 Bills went 11-6 and lost in the 2nd round of the playoffs. How did Kinkaid make them so amazingly better? Leading all receivers on your team in a playoffs loss is not necessarily a good thing. It means the opposing defenses game plan to focus elsewhere worked.

TE just doesn't work like other positions in the draft. Yes Adam Trautman was a horrible disaster, one of the worst Saints of all time, and he was a mid rounder, but we were Kelce, Kittle, Gronk, Gates, Graham, etc. Just imagine our infinite 4 straight super bowl glory if we took the first TE off the board Cole Kmet instead of waiting to the mid rounds to take a shot on Trautman. In this case Kmet has been decent I grant you, but he has never made a pro bowl and when he was taken the following players were available taken in the next 10 picks: antoine winfield jr, jaylon johnson, trevon diggs, jalen hurts.

The draft is a crapshoot but TE is different because the biggest stars are divided almost evenly between rounds 1-7 in terms of where they were selected. At other positions, like half the big stars come from the first or maybe 2nd round.

We need better talent at TE but the best way to get that is to spend more picks at the position in Rounds 2-7 not to ever waste a 1st round pick on it. If you are going to draft TE it would always be better to trade back out of the first round. The Ravens for example addressed TE with a sure thing HOF lock championship glory 1st round TE in 2018 and then took a flyer on a second rate mid round TE later in the draft. The 1st round TE was Hayden Hurt and the late 3rd rounder was Mark Andrews. This is not the exception at TE this is the rule. This is not the one Brock Purdy miracle story. Most good TE come from later rounds.

Originally Posted by SmashMouth (Post 994477)

Denver just resigned Trautman to a 2 year deal.

Originally Posted by K Major (Post 994579)

Troy Fauntanu - T
Washington

Per reports "good movement for zone blocking scheme. Physical run blocker and traits of a plug and play starter".

1st and 2nd round grades.

Originally Posted by AsylumGuido (Post 994600)

Speaking of Luke McCaffrey, of course. I wouldn't mind that.

https://twitter.com/bobbyr2613/statu...26992215580851

Originally Posted by AsylumGuido (Post 994715)

Draft Thomas and give him #13 so all the fans can keep wearing their jerseys. Although, I'll guarantee you there's still going to be a lot of Thomas #13's anyway. Other than Kamara's #41, Thomas' jersey was easily the most common jersey in the Dome this past season.

https://twitter.com/DATsDAVIS/status...56787878478334

Originally Posted by K Major (Post 994755)

Probably little chance we make all 7 picks. Some will be combined to move up a little.

Originally Posted by SmashMouth (Post 994813)

https://twitter.com/danorlovsky7/sta...68386854015349

If JD5 slides for whatever reason to Saints.... should we?

Originally Posted by SmashMouth (Post 994821)

Originally Posted by papz (Post 994825)

Flag football at it's finest... with pads.

Originally Posted by papz (Post 994825)

Flag football at it's finest... with pads.

Originally Posted by AsylumGuido (Post 994827)

The hip-drop tackle was introduced to the league within the last couple of decades. Just ask Rugs, it came from rugby and has since been banned in rugby due to the rash of serious injuries involved. It is no less dangerous than the horse-collar tackle and from what I have heard even more likely to cause serious injury. The NFL is just correcting their mistake of adopting it, as well. From what I'm hearing it probably won't draw a penalty, but will result in a letter from the league and a fine just like some other infractions.

When the competitions committee votes unanimously you knows it's something that was a major concern.

Originally Posted by papz (Post 994861)

Players are against it, officials won't call it, so what's the point?

The NFL wants increased scoring so they're going to turn the NFL into the NBA by playing no defense while implementing an MLB strike zone for tackling. You can't tackle high, you can't tackle low, and tackling from behind will be difficult.

Sounds like we're in for a treat.