Yep. I said over and over that I wanted Bijan at #6…but, I also knew who Gibbs was.
When you’re starring a generational talent in the face, positional value goes out the window.
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So the Millen model of printing out a Mel Kiper article ranking prospects the morning of the draft isn’t a recipe for success?
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Nothing that any of the prior regimes did was a recipe for success. At least not consistent success
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I think that tactic has been played out.
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Oh there are plenty of teams still using it…
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Good! Good!
Somebody has to be roadkill.
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BTW who is looking foolish now at ATL?
I love Penix. He is has a legit NFL arm.
My point is often teams are clearly looking at the big picture. Those 2-3 games he played are going to play huge dividends. Will allow him to have a super productive off season.
Love this post.
Just a damn shame that Dan Campbell keeps losing the locker room.
Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!
in hindsight, we look like a bunch of dam GOAT herders now, as we have potential GOATs at multiple positions.
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Agreed… Coach Campbell is on thin ice moving forward 
he’s also heavy so thin ice is problematic.
My man! Great call!
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I didn’t know anything about Gibbs when we picked him and had some serious trepidation, but I’ll give it to you guys who knew all along. I remember @bignatty in particular saying we hadn’t seen anything yet before this season
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I still think he’s only about 85-90ish% of the way to his ceiling…full route tree…coming up. Him and Monty out there at the same time - fuuuun stuff.
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It takes five seconds to find the original Gibbs pick thread here and, oooooh man, some of us were really off on this one. I remember when the pick was made and my son (the Eagles fan) didn’t even laugh, he just said, “Dad, you’re not going to like this.”
And I didn’t.
Until I saw his highlights.
BOOM!!!
That is some excellent tooting of your own horn right there 
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haha. I just got done reading through that whole thread. It’s interesting to see everyone’s reaction. I can say with certainly the only thing we all agreed on is that we were all a little surprised
I watched over half the Alabama games that year and was shocked by that pick (not in a good way). Here are the RB stats. Gibbs was only marginally better on a per carry basis than Jase McClellan. Anyway, glad I was wrong about the doom and gloom of that pick. The Lions have certainly got more out of him than Saban did.
