Jason_R

I will say it this way. It is a whole lot better to be going into this particular draft needing an offensive tackle then it was to go into the 2024 draft needing a cornerback.

Yes, this is right. Most of the draft analysis I read think there are at least four and maybe six starting, first round caliber, OT prospects in this draft. I don't think a trade up will be necessary, and depending on how the board falls they may be able to pick one up while dropping back a few spots. I don't think it is ever a reach to draft a tackle in the first round. Outside QB there is no greater positional value than a player who will be on the field for every offensive snap and is likely to be a part of your team for ten years.

I would be astonished if they don't use their first on an OT who they expect to lock down the position for another ten years.

I feel like they have enough pieces on the OL that they aren't forced to take a tackle in the first round, especially if Sewell flips to LT. But everything I've seen about the draft this year indicates that there is good depth at OT in the first round. Assuming that they do pick an OT at 17, I don't get the sense that they will be over-drafting.

Anyone sign Cam Jordan yet?

Amazon Prime is a disaster for sports broadcasting.

Pileup in the net near the end of second period. Didn’t look catastrophic. He was slow to get up but when he took his mask off he didn’t look like he was in agony.

Norris Seider

Clearly I was joking in the post you are responding to. But we know Holmes gets fixated on his guys. It feels like after rebuilding the roster with some historic trades and drafts, he got a little bit cute.

All I’m saying is that if he hadn’t traded up for Manu he would still have had the 92nd pick in the 2025 NFL draft where he could have picked up Jalen Milroe as the replacement for Hendon Hooker at the position of developmental QB. 😂

Anyway, can't they just shoot Larkin up with some Chinese peptides?

I'm not ready to say all is lost, but it is a bummer the trade deadline was yesterday and not today.

But they maneuvered up the draft board for these developmental players like they were moving up for Gibbs or Jameson Williams. You put players like that on a bit of a pedestal. Now everyone is dancing around Manu like, uh are we allowed to acknowledge that he is not progressing? I don't know what that looks like in the locker room, but is he getting attention that another player should get?

When Brad and Dan talked about getting back to competition, hopefully that meant drafting talent regardless of position and not getting cute about filling a developmental tackle or special teams role.

Well that was a disastrous 51 seconds.

OTOH I also saw a tweet that said he has been getting Seider-like minutes and usage, so maybe sliding in underneath Seider/Edvinsson will help.

Early report was picks only. This shows Buchelnikov and Holl. I had hopes that we would see Buchelnikov come to the NHL and fill the net with pucks, but the trade market is the trade market. The blue line is stronger.

Control R, Control R, Control R

Yes, and they needed to do it. You can’t pay a guy $15+ million if you assume they won’t be able to play more than 80% of the season, and they are likely to be dinged up when they are on the field. With Decker off the books, I’m more favorable to signing a guy like Linderbaum and earmarking the 1st round pick for a plug and play tackle. It is a deep draft for that.

Brutal. Sheila needs to commission a study into the nature of these injuries to determine if there is some preventable factor. One historically bad season is a fluke. Two back to back is an alarming trend.

The Pettersson thing that I saw looked like a fake Darren Dreager post. I couldn’t find it on DD’s feed.