2018 NFL Draft

“That’d be smart” — Jason Sehorn

 

The reach brought them a guy who struggled in man coverage, missed open-field tackles and took bad angles in pursuit in college. So basically, right now he is a younger, faster Mike Mitchell. Of course, he could improve upon those things.

Also, it's more than a bit of a reach. At the end of the second round, he would have been a bit of a reach.

 

That makes sense. That's what I was thinking when is saw the deal. Then the Bills traded up to get Edwards and I knew if that was the goal, they failed.

It makes the Bryant trade look even worse if that was the motivation.

 

Sizing up a legend: Inside Ray Lewis' draft-day slide to the Ravens

There was a lot of talk that it was foolish for the Ravens, even down at 26, to take an undersized linebacker in the first round.

Baltimore Ravens Received C Grade In 1996 NFL Draft

From Len Pasquarelli: “Baltimore: C…Jonathan Ogden, OT, Ray Lewis LB…Passed on the draft’s best player, and where does Ogden play?

 

So I was very wrong about Goff, but I got to the right conclusion. I have no idea what NFL organizations look for in a player. I sat out all the browns bashing yesterday.

BTW, don't go find my posts about Todd Gurley after the 2016 season.

 

OMFG

 

"Short for the NFL and is not a real ballhawk. Misses plays because he is out of position. Does not read keys well and diagnose. Struggles covering man deep. Plays out of control and lacks great change of direction. Skills will translate to the NFL, but measurables might not. Gets carried away. Prefers setting up a well-timed hit to break up a play over going for an interception. Does not have great playing speed and range."

That's the Pro Football Weekly scouting report on Troy Polamalu. Scouts aren't sages.

ESPN.com - Draft Tracker - Players

 

This is very good. Better that Lawrence Phillips is the best player in the draft he’s referring too.

The draft is such a strange beast becuase it’s simultaneously meaningless and meaningful. A coach I covered was talking about recruiting, and pointed out NFL teams have all those resources and still bust half the time or more.

 

The scouts didn’t factor in Lewis’ desire to take a lot of steroids and bulk up for the NFL.

 

Was there any argument at all regarding whether or not Polamalu should be a first-round pick? I believe he was on every list out there as a first rounder. Nobody had Edmunds in the first.

Of course, scouts screw up. It was the entire point of what I posted about Antonio Brown before the draft. I'm just stating that based on what I've read about the Steelers' top pick, they took him at least a round too early.

 

There seems to be a huge "scouts suck" culture here, both on the MLB thread and now here. It's cropped up before.

Maybe it's just really hard to project players?

 

Is the logo C for the Cincinnati Reds the exact same C for the Chicago Bears?

I saw the C logo on the huge ribbon board last night, with a red background, and I wondered when the Reds were drafting?