American Football Talk II

It's an interesting one. I don't know the numbers, but surely this year's top 8 must have an unprecedented amount of capital already invested in QBs. Dallas, SD, Baltimore and Philly are all paying franchise money, as are SF if they can't offload Kaep. Jacksonville has a high draft choice in there and will obviously not be going QB. Cleveland has two players making high level backup/low starter money and IMO will only take a QB if it just so happens that they disagree with the Rams on which one is better out of Wentz and Goff.

I don't see Glennon being very compelling trade bait (at least for you guys to move up in round 1) for that reason. The only team that can be considered to have a pressing need there is San Francisco. I see them moving up a couple of spots to secure Goff, but not moving down and going into camp with Glennon and Gabbert. That just sounds like a great way to get fired to me.

It seems that although it's NFL lore that there are always only 20-25 qualified QBs to do 32 jobs, that is not really true at the moment because 5-6 spots are being filled by players over 35. I don't know if that is an unusual number though. It does feel as if an uncommon number of teams are comfortable with their QB right now though. Curious about other people's thoughts on this.

I do see where you are coming from. If we unloaded glennon for a back end first early second some how though it would give us ammunition. But yeah the qb is saturated because of these old guys going and going and going. Teams keep paying them and they do a job.

I don't see how you could be that upset with Tunsil. There are ways to get defenders other than your first draft pick.

Watched some of Paxton Lynch yesterday. Would be very surprised if he goes in round 1.

Have you seen the LT depth chart on the Jags? Beachum and Joeckel already competing for the starting spot, neither project well at guard. You can get defensive players for sure but top 5 guys are supposed to be surer bets, generally Dave the GM doesn't get good defenders late either, he gets backups.

Watched some of the QB camps today. Goff is basically a ringer for Aaron Rodgers, for whatever that's worth. Turned off Wentz when he started blabbering about God (ie after 2 minutes). Watched about 2 thirds of Lynch and I mean whatever. What was interesting was that they had cutups from the same game that I watched, so I know he didn't play nearly as well in that game as Gruden was saying. But it was always obvious that you can't really get much info from a reality TV style fluff job, just thought that was interesting though.



I don't know much about the Jags, I just don't think you can ever really be that disappointed with a tackle prospect as elite as Tunsil is supposed to be, and that's second hand info because I haven't watched him. RT and LT are basically the same position nowadays because of slide protection (and also the fact that the Jags RT faces JJ Watt twice a year) and injuries happen. So yeah I don't think it would be a horrible pick.

If the GM is so bad at drafting that he can't find anyone in rounds 2, 3 and 4 then that really is too bad. Kind of explains why the Jags always seem to have a top 5 pick though...

Matt kalil was supposed to be an elite tackle, you can be disappointed.

Watched some of the QB camps today. Goff is basically a ringer for Aaron Rodgers, for whatever that's worth. Turned off Wentz when he started blabbering about God (ie after 2 minutes). Watched about 2 thirds of Lynch and I mean whatever. What was interesting was that they had cutups from the same game that I watched, so I know he didn't play nearly as well in that game as Gruden was saying. But it was always obvious that you can't really get much info from a reality TV style fluff job, just thought that was interesting though.



I don't know much about the Jags, I just don't think you can ever really be that disappointed with a tackle prospect as elite as Tunsil is supposed to be, and that's second hand info because I haven't watched him. RT and LT are basically the same position nowadays because of slide protection (and also the fact that the Jags RT faces JJ Watt twice a year) and injuries happen. So yeah I don't think it would be a horrible pick.

If the GM is so bad at drafting that he can't find anyone in rounds 2, 3 and 4 then that really is too bad. Kind of explains why the Jags always seem to have a top 5 pick though...

Eagles trading up to 2..... People have been watching too much draft day.

I understand the Rams trade but I have no ****ing idea what the Eagles are doing.

I just don't believe they're willing to trade for sloppy seconds on the qb market. Must be Ramsey surely??

I mean trading for whichever unknown QB the Rams don't want makes zero sense, and given they extended Bradford it now makes less than zero sense. Trading that much for a corner makes more than zero sense but still not very much. Doing it for Tunsil when they already have very good bookend tackles probably makes less sense than Ramsey but more sense than doing it for a QB. Kind of a crapshoot unless there is an elite pass rusher who fits their scheme? I don't know much about the pass rushers available or the Eagles' scheme so I wouldn't know.