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https://theathletic.com/5416007/2024/04/16/nfl-drafting-methods-insight-massey-thaler/?access_token=2164005&redirected=1 A few excerpts relevant to our conversations here: ------------------------ Even Nobel Prize-winning scholars have spent decades mulling whether there is a single best way...

I wouldn't be disappointed with Penix, Rattler, one of the top WR's, and a solid left OT, then BPA for the rest. I'd think that the odds of one of Penix and Rattler becoming a good NFL QB are at least as good as Daniels or Maye alone.

Opening the call for best interpretations of "NY". I'll start with "Not Yet"

It isn't about "hating all these guys." From what I'm reading, the only one that's clearly worthy of being at top of the first round is Williams. The others don't measure up to that, so they are all high risk picks inside the first 10. Using #3 on one of them is over drafting out of need. But...

Interesting: Randy Mueller's top 10 players in the draft: A surprise pick at WR1 and more Top 10 from this guy, who has impressive creds: 1. Williams 2. Alt 3. Odunze 4. Fuaga 5. Nabers 6. McCarthy 7. Daniels 8. Harrison 9. Latu 10. Bowers Acknowledges that McCarthy and Daniels are over-valued...

What I've read in the past month would indicate he's one of three WR's in this draft that are roughly equal. None of them is the best player in the draft, nor generational. That's echo chamber magnification.

Yes. I think there are two distinct strategies for NFL teams. Orient toward a single season where everything comes together, but at the expense of future seasons. Or, orient towards sustained quality while knowing that you are less likely to buy 3-4 veterans on their last legs to add rocket fuel...

Tampa won a single title and now will wallo for a decade or more. Sacrifice everything for a single successful season. That's not the formula the Pats are going to follow.

I'm not a fan of UNC athletics, so the "deserved catch rate" should be 0 afaic. But if we end up with this kid, then he's our QB.

In the old days, teams with neighboring picks would agree to make a pick for each other and then do the trade afterwards. So in your situation, the Pats pick the player AZ wants, and vice versa, then they trade the players and AZ throws in a draft pick to compensate for essentially swapping places.

Ha. I wasn't referring to our emotional maturity here on the site (requires a PhD) so much as our joints and muscle recovery. It looked like Brady could barely extend his hips enough to get into a reasonable run in his last season with the Bucs. Yes, he's into fitness, but still.

Most of you guys apparently have not begun the adult aging process.

Depends on our individual inputs. Does not line up the assessments that I'm reading, in The Athletic, BSJ, and The Globe.

There are reports of others, but no hard evidence.

The young pitchers do seem to be better than we thought. Keep fingers crossed.