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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/10/2022 7:01:54 PM   
Bill Johanesen


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I think we should be risk averse if we want to put something solid together for a 2 year shot at it. If you didn't really have a need at CB you take a chance if he falls to you. I don't think him 'falling ' to us at 12 should get us ready to jump.


CB is a massive need, unless you are fine with Dantzler and two vacancies at the end of the year in the middle of this "2 year shot at it".

Our top three CBs will be paid about $7 million TOTAL this year. What's that adage about getting what you paid for?

Would you not run to the podium if Sauce Gardner fell to #12?
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/10/2022 7:12:38 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

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ORIGINAL: Todd M

I think we should be risk averse if we want to put something solid together for a 2 year shot at it. If you didn't really have a need at CB you take a chance if he falls to you. I don't think him 'falling ' to us at 12 should get us ready to jump.


CB is a massive need, unless you are fine with Dantzler and two vacancies at the end of the year in the middle of this "2 year shot at it".

Our top three CBs will be paid about $7 million TOTAL this year. What's that adage about getting what you paid for?

Would you not run to the podium if Sauce Gardner fell to #12?

We need a CB with one of our 1st two picks.

Gardner and Stingley are no brainers at #12.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/10/2022 7:26:01 PM   
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Nfl.com(Lance Zierlein) has drafting grades for all the prospects.

Gardner 6.72 (Day 1 starter)

McDuffie 6.7 (day 1 starter)

Stingley 6.5 (boom or bust) because of injury history

8.0 is a perfect rating.

Is Zierlein the end all, end all of evaluators? Not sure.

Watching some McDuffie highlights. He's starting to grow on me.


i don't take stingley on the first day of the draft...the NFL has a 17 game season, plus playoffs, i don't trust him physically....

we can't afford to take risks this draft - let's draft solid players with no injury history....

by the time stingley plays his first NFL game he will have played in 10 games over 32 months, and none for 12 months - far removed from his stellar play as a freshman in 2019....

if I'm picking stingley, he's the 2nd cb I've picked in the draft....


Based on free agency, it appears injury history is not on the regime's radar, especially if it translates to value.

Nonetheless, there are some other CBs in the mix, although I don't know their injury history.

Ahh, the whole dang thing is a crap shoot. The draft took off after Mel Kiper of all people showed up and coined the term 'reach' when the Jets took Jeff Lageman.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/10/2022 7:28:20 PM   
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I think we should be risk averse if we want to put something solid together for a 2 year shot at it. If you didn't really have a need at CB you take a chance if he falls to you. I don't think him 'falling ' to us at 12 should get us ready to jump.


CB is a massive need, unless you are fine with Dantzler and two vacancies at the end of the year in the middle of this "2 year shot at it".

Our top three CBs will be paid about $7 million TOTAL this year. What's that adage about getting what you paid for?

Would you not run to the podium if Sauce Gardner fell to #12?

We need a CB with one of our 1st two picks.

Gardner and Stingley are no brainers at #12.


Agree on both sentences. You should be the Lakers personnel guy for next year's role players.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/10/2022 7:50:06 PM   
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I think we should be risk averse if we want to put something solid together for a 2 year shot at it. If you didn't really have a need at CB you take a chance if he falls to you. I don't think him 'falling ' to us at 12 should get us ready to jump.


CB is a massive need, unless you are fine with Dantzler and two vacancies at the end of the year in the middle of this "2 year shot at it".

Our top three CBs will be paid about $7 million TOTAL this year. What's that adage about getting what you paid for?

Would you not run to the podium if Sauce Gardner fell to #12?


Not sure why you'd infer I was against going corner at 12. I just wouldn't gamble on Stingley.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 9:46:12 AM   
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I wouldn't mind McDuffie at 12 either but I think Davis would be a bigger bang for the buck.

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 12:10:02 PM   
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So, I heard that our new DB coach Was also the DB coach at LSU, and Patrick Peterson is from LSU… So the feeling is that if he’s available at number 12 Stingley is Our man.

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 12:46:33 PM   
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DRAFT THEME 2020: Get big and fat as all get-out

Roster Imperatives

1) CB – Obviously our biggest need. Compounded by needing more than one. Specifically, an outside player with speed and athleticism to offset slow cagey Peterson.
2) C – A violent burly mammoth who uses mass and power to win battles, not just a user of leverage and a shuffler of feet; just once I'd like to have someone better at standing their ground than squirting out and pestering LBs.
3) CB – Versatile outside /inside player to push Sullivan and keep Dantzler off the field tweeting.

Roster Needs (current, not down the road)

NT – A powerful blubberous immovable one-dimensional run stuffer for short yardage, goal line.
S – Rangy free safety to compete with Bynum, give us a chance to move on from Smith, sooner than later.
TE – Big and heavy with big and heavy hands for the red zone / short yardage, and to bump 6'7" punter-bodied Davidson off the roster.
WR – What we don’t have is a hefty (not skinny) big bodied WR with some physicality, catch radius and vertical.
ILB – Beefy tone setting blocker-stacker to back-up our small ILBs and skinny back-ups

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 2:02:54 PM   
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So, I heard that our new DB coach Was also the DB coach at LSU, and Patrick Peterson is from LSU… So the feeling is that if he’s available at number 12 Stingley is Our man.



i wonder if our db coach will recommend we not draft stingley...i mean really, the guy has barely played in over two years...he's had two injuries and they were both ankle injuries...if kwesi drafts stingley and he's an ankle injury bust our new gm has lost me forever...and you can tell him that....

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 3:53:17 PM   
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DRAFT THEME 2020: Get big and fat as all get-out

Roster Imperatives

1) CB – Obviously our biggest need. Compounded by needing more than one. Specifically, an outside player with speed and athleticism to offset slow cagey Peterson.
2) C – A violent burly mammoth who uses mass and power to win battles, not just a user of leverage and a shuffler of feet; just once I'd like to have someone better at standing their ground than squirting out and pestering LBs.
3) CB – Versatile outside /inside player to push Sullivan and keep Dantzler off the field tweeting.

Roster Needs (current, not down the road)

NT – A powerful blubberous immovable one-dimensional run stuffer for short yardage, goal line.
S – Rangy free safety to compete with Bynum, give us a chance to move on from Smith, sooner than later.
TE – Big and heavy with big and heavy hands for the red zone / short yardage, and to bump 6'7" punter-bodied Davidson off the roster.
WR – What we don’t have is a hefty (not skinny) big bodied WR with some physicality, catch radius and vertical.
ILB – Beefy tone setting blocker-stacker to back-up our small ILBs and skinny back-ups


Nice job on bolding certain attributes. But I think Kwesi likes svelte. He love svelte. Wishes it were basketball. He sees big and heavy as undisciplined, even a heathen lifestyle. He got rid of our ONLY blubberous player (Pierce). Phillips, the initial signed heavy, is a compact sort. ACL Taylor has a mystery weight. Hicks looks trim at ILB. Sullivan could use a steak dinner. On offense, Mundt is a bit light in the pants. And the OL guys are certainly not big city fire hydrants.

- Davis at 12 to platoon with Tomlinson initially or a top CB. Read Sauce has been known to allow "slivers of sunshine" between himself and the receiver
- At least one of the second tier CBs might be around in the 2nd, food for thought.
- Center, agree on mass. Birk was 320 lbs a generation ago, let's move the needle a touch to 330.

Good point on WR.

Some article said Smith's contract is structured to suggest this is his last year in Minny. Don't know if that's valid, but if so S could end up being at the top of all-time 'Most Barren Position'.

< Message edited by Bill Johanesen -- 4/11/2022 6:17:45 PM >
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 6:05:08 PM   
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The interesting thing about this draft is for the first time in a few years there is no consensus #1 draft pick it makes the draft more interesting. This draft for the new regime is very important I hope they hit on the first 4 rounds, I know it is asking a lot. I believe we will focus mostly on D.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 6:06:58 PM   
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A question for the board, who is the 1st QB drafted and where?
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 6:21:21 PM   
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I would go with what many drafts are now showing, Carolina taking a chance on QB Malik Willis.

I think Pittsburgh will take QB Kenny Pickett.

I think the Vikings are either taking CB Derek Stingley Jr, or DL Jordan Davis. I am sorta hoping they trade back about 5 spots, and I usually hate trading back.

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 6:28:27 PM   
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The interesting thing about this draft is for the first time in a few years there is no consensus #1 draft pick it makes the draft more interesting. This draft for the new regime is very important I hope they hit on the first 4 rounds, I know it is asking a lot. I believe we will focus mostly on D.


Good point. Or even, say, top 5. That could bode well for us if we want to trade down as teams might be itching to trade up to get their top target, and with fewer resources than it would take to move into the very top of the first round.

Like I said, go with top quality or go with quantity.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 6:52:46 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

DRAFT THEME 2020: Get big and fat as all get-out

Roster Imperatives

1) CB – Obviously our biggest need. Compounded by needing more than one. Specifically, an outside player with speed and athleticism to offset slow cagey Peterson.
2) C – A violent burly mammoth who uses mass and power to win battles, not just a user of leverage and a shuffler of feet; just once I'd like to have someone better at standing their ground than squirting out and pestering LBs.
3) CB – Versatile outside /inside player to push Sullivan and keep Dantzler off the field tweeting.

Roster Needs (current, not down the road)

NT – A powerful blubberous immovable one-dimensional run stuffer for short yardage, goal line.
S – Rangy free safety to compete with Bynum, give us a chance to move on from Smith, sooner than later.
TE – Big and heavy with big and heavy hands for the red zone / short yardage, and to bump 6'7" punter-bodied Davidson off the roster.
WR – What we don’t have is a hefty (not skinny) big bodied WR with some physicality, catch radius and vertical.
ILB – Beefy tone setting blocker-stacker to back-up our small ILBs and skinny back-ups


Nice job on bolding certain attributes. But I think Kwesi likes svelte. He love svelte. Wishes it were basketball. He sees big and heavy as undisciplined, even a heathen lifestyle. He got rid of our ONLY blubberous player (Pierce). Phillips, the initial signed heavy, is a compact sort. ACL Taylor has a mystery weight. Hicks looks trim at ILB. Sullivan could use a steak dinner. On offense, Mundt is a bit light in the pants. And the OL guys are certainly not big city fire hydrants.

- Davis at 12 to platoon with Tomlinson initially or a top CB. Read Sauce has been known to allow "slivers of sunshine" between himself and the receiver
- At least one of the second tier CBs might be around in the 2nd, food for thought.
- Center, agree on mass. Birk was 320 lbs a generation ago, let's move the needle a touch to 330.

Good point on WR.

Some article said Smith's contract is structured to suggest this is his last year in Minny. Don't know if that's valid, but if so S could end up being at the top of all-time 'Most Barren Position'.

Word from the combine was, Kwesi’s interviews were focused on kale-based recipes and proper bowell cleansing, so I see your point. Find the prospect with the least hair on their back and shoulders, that’ll be my draft challenge entry #1.

In a perfect world, we’d be looking at the girthiest waddlers in the 3 Cone. Not with this regime.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 6:52:47 PM   
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considering the contracts that are being doled out at wr i think that kwesi is going in that direction with the draft....

trade back a little for another 2nd day pick - wr/cb (whichever is better) - cb/wr - wr/cb - cb/wr....

our first four picks this year are two wr's and two cb's....

wr contracts are becoming qb-lite....

jefferson, although we love him, he's going to ask for the moon next season...we're going to need a couple of young players to help us evaluate our situation - do we keep jefferson, or trade him and go with who we've got, and the younger dudes we drafted in '22?.....

next year with go with qb/edge....

pff has us picking #20 in 2023 - which means we make the playoffs....

vegas has us at 8.5 over/under - over would seem like a good bet IMO....


I opined on Jefferson last week... news must travel slow to Portugal

At this point, they must have had the conversation on JJ. Then again, the league is a few contract extensions or signings from other positions overtaking WR. The usual suspects are LT, CB, and DE. But it looks like there will be a relative flood of DE and CB entering the league so the re-up market might not be as strong. I have no idea if anything said is remotely accurate, just saying.

I watched Metchie and Williams (both Alabama) highlights thinking they were close. OMG, Williams is incredible. I don't even like Alabama but they were in the Nat'l Champ. game w/o both of them.

Drafting a Williams type helps cushion the blow against an unaffordable JJ. Trouble is, we have other needs.

I had also mentioned extending JJ might mean we draft a starting QB due to the cap.

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 6:56:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

DRAFT THEME 2020: Get big and fat as all get-out

Roster Imperatives

1) CB – Obviously our biggest need. Compounded by needing more than one. Specifically, an outside player with speed and athleticism to offset slow cagey Peterson.
2) C – A violent burly mammoth who uses mass and power to win battles, not just a user of leverage and a shuffler of feet; just once I'd like to have someone better at standing their ground than squirting out and pestering LBs.
3) CB – Versatile outside /inside player to push Sullivan and keep Dantzler off the field tweeting.

Roster Needs (current, not down the road)

NT – A powerful blubberous immovable one-dimensional run stuffer for short yardage, goal line.
S – Rangy free safety to compete with Bynum, give us a chance to move on from Smith, sooner than later.
TE – Big and heavy with big and heavy hands for the red zone / short yardage, and to bump 6'7" punter-bodied Davidson off the roster.
WR – What we don’t have is a hefty (not skinny) big bodied WR with some physicality, catch radius and vertical.
ILB – Beefy tone setting blocker-stacker to back-up our small ILBs and skinny back-ups


Nice job on bolding certain attributes. But I think Kwesi likes svelte. He love svelte. Wishes it were basketball. He sees big and heavy as undisciplined, even a heathen lifestyle. He got rid of our ONLY blubberous player (Pierce). Phillips, the initial signed heavy, is a compact sort. ACL Taylor has a mystery weight. Hicks looks trim at ILB. Sullivan could use a steak dinner. On offense, Mundt is a bit light in the pants. And the OL guys are certainly not big city fire hydrants.

- Davis at 12 to platoon with Tomlinson initially or a top CB. Read Sauce has been known to allow "slivers of sunshine" between himself and the receiver
- At least one of the second tier CBs might be around in the 2nd, food for thought.
- Center, agree on mass. Birk was 320 lbs a generation ago, let's move the needle a touch to 330.

Good point on WR.

Some article said Smith's contract is structured to suggest this is his last year in Minny. Don't know if that's valid, but if so S could end up being at the top of all-time 'Most Barren Position'.

Word from the combine was, Kwesi’s interviews were focused on kale-based recipes and proper bowell cleansing, so I see your point. Find the prospect with the least hair on their back and shoulders, that’ll be my draft challenge entry #1.

In a perfect world, we’d be looking at the girthiest waddlers in the 3 Cone. Not with this regime.


Speaking of bowel cleansing, per SNL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KM
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 6:58:31 PM   
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Draft mission: Give us your skinny, your blown ACLs, your value.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 7:02:56 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

DRAFT THEME 2020: Get big and fat as all get-out

Roster Imperatives

1) CB – Obviously our biggest need. Compounded by needing more than one. Specifically, an outside player with speed and athleticism to offset slow cagey Peterson.
2) C – A violent burly mammoth who uses mass and power to win battles, not just a user of leverage and a shuffler of feet; just once I'd like to have someone better at standing their ground than squirting out and pestering LBs.
3) CB – Versatile outside /inside player to push Sullivan and keep Dantzler off the field tweeting.

Roster Needs (current, not down the road)

NT – A powerful blubberous immovable one-dimensional run stuffer for short yardage, goal line.
S – Rangy free safety to compete with Bynum, give us a chance to move on from Smith, sooner than later.
TE – Big and heavy with big and heavy hands for the red zone / short yardage, and to bump 6'7" punter-bodied Davidson off the roster.
WR – What we don’t have is a hefty (not skinny) big bodied WR with some physicality, catch radius and vertical.
ILB – Beefy tone setting blocker-stacker to back-up our small ILBs and skinny back-ups


Nice job on bolding certain attributes. But I think Kwesi likes svelte. He love svelte. Wishes it were basketball. He sees big and heavy as undisciplined, even a heathen lifestyle. He got rid of our ONLY blubberous player (Pierce). Phillips, the initial signed heavy, is a compact sort. ACL Taylor has a mystery weight. Hicks looks trim at ILB. Sullivan could use a steak dinner. On offense, Mundt is a bit light in the pants. And the OL guys are certainly not big city fire hydrants.

- Davis at 12 to platoon with Tomlinson initially or a top CB. Read Sauce has been known to allow "slivers of sunshine" between himself and the receiver
- At least one of the second tier CBs might be around in the 2nd, food for thought.
- Center, agree on mass. Birk was 320 lbs a generation ago, let's move the needle a touch to 330.

Good point on WR.

Some article said Smith's contract is structured to suggest this is his last year in Minny. Don't know if that's valid, but if so S could end up being at the top of all-time 'Most Barren Position'.

Word from the combine was, Kwesi’s interviews were focused on kale-based recipes and proper bowell cleansing, so I see your point. Find the prospect with the least hair on their back and shoulders, that’ll be my draft challenge entry #1.

In a perfect world, we’d be looking at the girthiest waddlers in the 3 Cone. Not with this regime.


Speaking of bowel cleansing, per SNL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KM

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 7:52:15 PM   
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So, I heard that our new DB coach Was also the DB coach at LSU, and Patrick Peterson is from LSU… So the feeling is that if he’s available at number 12 Stingley is Our man.

Or he won't be do to inside information. His footwork and ball skills are excellent but he avoids contact so much it would Deion Sanders blush.

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 8:53:51 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Bill Johanesen

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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

DRAFT THEME 2020: Get big and fat as all get-out

Roster Imperatives

1) CB – Obviously our biggest need. Compounded by needing more than one. Specifically, an outside player with speed and athleticism to offset slow cagey Peterson.
2) C – A violent burly mammoth who uses mass and power to win battles, not just a user of leverage and a shuffler of feet; just once I'd like to have someone better at standing their ground than squirting out and pestering LBs.
3) CB – Versatile outside /inside player to push Sullivan and keep Dantzler off the field tweeting.

Roster Needs (current, not down the road)

NT – A powerful blubberous immovable one-dimensional run stuffer for short yardage, goal line.
S – Rangy free safety to compete with Bynum, give us a chance to move on from Smith, sooner than later.
TE – Big and heavy with big and heavy hands for the red zone / short yardage, and to bump 6'7" punter-bodied Davidson off the roster.
WR – What we don’t have is a hefty (not skinny) big bodied WR with some physicality, catch radius and vertical.
ILB – Beefy tone setting blocker-stacker to back-up our small ILBs and skinny back-ups


Nice job on bolding certain attributes. But I think Kwesi likes svelte. He love svelte. Wishes it were basketball. He sees big and heavy as undisciplined, even a heathen lifestyle. He got rid of our ONLY blubberous player (Pierce). Phillips, the initial signed heavy, is a compact sort. ACL Taylor has a mystery weight. Hicks looks trim at ILB. Sullivan could use a steak dinner. On offense, Mundt is a bit light in the pants. And the OL guys are certainly not big city fire hydrants.

- Davis at 12 to platoon with Tomlinson initially or a top CB. Read Sauce has been known to allow "slivers of sunshine" between himself and the receiver
- At least one of the second tier CBs might be around in the 2nd, food for thought.
- Center, agree on mass. Birk was 320 lbs a generation ago, let's move the needle a touch to 330.

Good point on WR.

Some article said Smith's contract is structured to suggest this is his last year in Minny. Don't know if that's valid, but if so S could end up being at the top of all-time 'Most Barren Position'.



Tough guy WR is Drake London, who will probably be available in late 1st ( I know nothing). Has also been described as a basketballer type which is Kwesi's kale jam.

But freaking Tredwell (and Nkeal Harry) ruined me on that approach.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/11/2022 9:02:58 PM   
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So, I heard that our new DB coach Was also the DB coach at LSU, and Patrick Peterson is from LSU… So the feeling is that if he’s available at number 12 Stingley is Our man.

Or he won't be do to inside information. His footwork and ball skills are excellent but he avoids contact so much it would Deion Sanders blush.


When the camera pans out and the opposing QB launches a bomb, and you're ok with his excellent footwork and ball skills...
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/12/2022 2:04:57 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Tom Sykes

DRAFT THEME 2020: Get big and fat as all get-out

Roster Imperatives

1) CB – Obviously our biggest need. Compounded by needing more than one. Specifically, an outside player with speed and athleticism to offset slow cagey Peterson.
2) C – A violent burly mammoth who uses mass and power to win battles, not just a user of leverage and a shuffler of feet; just once I'd like to have someone better at standing their ground than squirting out and pestering LBs.
3) CB – Versatile outside /inside player to push Sullivan and keep Dantzler off the field tweeting.

Roster Needs (current, not down the road)

NT – A powerful blubberous immovable one-dimensional run stuffer for short yardage, goal line.
S – Rangy free safety to compete with Bynum, give us a chance to move on from Smith, sooner than later.
TE – Big and heavy with big and heavy hands for the red zone / short yardage, and to bump 6'7" punter-bodied Davidson off the roster.
WR – What we don’t have is a hefty (not skinny) big bodied WR with some physicality, catch radius and vertical.
ILB – Beefy tone setting blocker-stacker to back-up our small ILBs and skinny back-ups


Nice job on bolding certain attributes. But I think Kwesi likes svelte. He love svelte. Wishes it were basketball. He sees big and heavy as undisciplined, even a heathen lifestyle. He got rid of our ONLY blubberous player (Pierce). Phillips, the initial signed heavy, is a compact sort. ACL Taylor has a mystery weight. Hicks looks trim at ILB. Sullivan could use a steak dinner. On offense, Mundt is a bit light in the pants. And the OL guys are certainly not big city fire hydrants.

- Davis at 12 to platoon with Tomlinson initially or a top CB. Read Sauce has been known to allow "slivers of sunshine" between himself and the receiver
- At least one of the second tier CBs might be around in the 2nd, food for thought.
- Center, agree on mass. Birk was 320 lbs a generation ago, let's move the needle a touch to 330.

Good point on WR.

Some article said Smith's contract is structured to suggest this is his last year in Minny. Don't know if that's valid, but if so S could end up being at the top of all-time 'Most Barren Position'.



Tough guy WR is Drake London, who will probably be available in late 1st ( I know nothing). Has also been described as a basketballer type which is Kwesi's kale jam.

But freaking Tredwell (and Nkeal Harry) ruined me on that approach.



I've seen mocks where we trade back, pick london with our 1st, and then cb and iol our two 2nds...i'd go with that....

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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/12/2022 8:07:19 AM   
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In highlights for other Georgia defensive prospects, Davis is nowhere to be found. He's a very part-time player at this point who doesn't offer much, if anything, on passing downs. On downs he is on the fields, he takes plays off. Unless you can get comfortable with those things, and I'm not saying there's no explanation or justification, 12 is way too high for him. If you think he can offer much more than he has shown, he might be worthy at 12. He doesn't look like he'll ever be on the field in passing situations, so he'd have to be dominant---in the NFL---the rest of the time he's on the field.
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RE: 2022 NFL draft - 4/12/2022 8:42:27 AM   
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In highlights for other Georgia defensive prospects, Davis is nowhere to be found. He's a very part-time player at this point who doesn't offer much, if anything, on passing downs. On downs he is on the fields, he takes plays off. Unless you can get comfortable with those things, and I'm not saying there's no explanation or justification, 12 is way too high for him. If you think he can offer much more than he has shown, he might be worthy at 12. He doesn't look like he'll ever be on the field in passing situations, so he'd have to be dominant---in the NFL---the rest of the time he's on the field.


In highlights of Davis, other Georgia defenders were nowhere to be found!

Not sold on him beyond options at #12 or a bit lower and wonder about full-time capability, but did read his responsibility at Georgia was run first and/or occupy two blockers.

And Georgia's scheme worked. They were second in the NCAA in rush ypa at 2.56, second in rush ypg, and first with allowing just three rushing TDs over 15 games. Those stats include the playoffs and title game where Alabama rushing was 28 attempts for 30 yards (Young -43 yards skews that).
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