Hey, I did mention mitigating for it!
BUT heās not going to be there. When the weigh in happens and heās without a shirt off as a clean 320 everyone will have their, āoh I get itā moment.
Mocking you is more fun than reading comprehension.
Fair enough. I get that a lot at home too.
Pretty sure thatās a husband thing.
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Weāll see. I think he probably goes earlier, but thatās mostly down to the weakness of the class and the value of the position. But he could drop, itās usually the athletic freaks who hold their value at that spot, Wright notwithstanding. Fuaga too I suppose.
Despite all of that, I would still take McCoy. Then again I think he is a Stingley/Surtain level prospect, so finding him at 17 just feels like such a steal.
Husband, brother, friend, associate, guy who sees me at the store, you get it
The tackle class will dictate that he goes early IMO. Iāll be floored if heās there tbh.
Plus the floor is so high bc of the elite OG flip fallback
Youāre a lot of things to a lot of people but mostly just one thing to a lot of people.
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I think itās like 70-30 that heās not. But I wonāt be the only one who thinks heās a guard, some teams will too. That will help.
The class is so bad. Heās a first rounder in any draft bc of the OG option. Heās probably one of 12-13 no doubt first rounders IMO. Maybe itās 15.
2024 Fano and 2025 FM are the two seasons of no doubter first round OL play in this draft IMO.
Fano has to answer the regression questions. Therefore FM will go very high IMO. Easy first OL off the board.
Yeah I agree itās weak, especially at the top, but some of the 15-40 range will jump up there higher than you think. Like a Caleb Banks type, he could go anywhere. Where does Freeling end up? Does someone fall in love with Concepcion the way the Commies did Dotson? Sadiq? Etc.. Again, Iād put it at around 70% that he doesnāt fall to us, but that still leaves an OK shot.
I think itās very possible for Lomu to test himself into OT1. FM wonāt rise any higher, the process isnāt made to inflate guys like him. But Lomu itās tailor-made for
I always forget about him high bc I think of him as a 24 year old with bad foot health.
Before I knew about either the fake 24 thing or the foot I thought he could go top five-ish. So yeah thereās one.
But you are still underestimating the floor of OL1 in terms of draft spot.
I might be, but hey, OL1 didnāt go until pick 20 in 2017, and he was more of a traditional athlete at tackle. That was a better class at the top and had more QBs, but it wasnāt a great one, at least not pre-draft. I do agree that Mauigoa probably goes higher than 17, I would bet money on it in fact, but I think itās pretty clear we differ on how big the chance is that he falls to us. So be it, youāre still more likely to be right.
And the league looks terrible for it. Plus I like FM much, much more than Bolles back in ā17 though they are different stylistically.
Is that the only time in the last ten drafts?
No idea, didnāt go look. Just remembered it. I donāt expect itās the sort of thing that happens very often, but most OL classes are better than this one.
And so are most overall draft classes. IMO 70% is too low as long as there is no threshold outlier that Iām not expecting.
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Iāve seen 4 mock drafts today, two had us taking Lomu while the other two had us taking Faulk. Iād be OK with either of those. Not over the moon, but fine.
Interestingly, one of the Faulk mocks had us getting Lomu in the 2nd. His stock is really all over the place.
Oh and @CuriousHusker , Mauigoa went 23rd in one, 5th in another, 6th in another, and 16th in the last. Definitely not much chalk going on out there yet.