Seahawks should take CJ if available at pick 5
Everybody knows y'all taking Carter
Unless Eagles trade up to 3 and take him first
I'd take him 2nd...2nd round that is.
You live on the island? Beautiful place.
If you’re a true fan I don’t think CJ will payoff in the pros.
Glad you know about Whidbey and the San Juans...
I'm just not sold on Geno and I think Richardson is a project. Hawks have this 5th pick because of the Wilson trade and I just think Stroud has had an amazing career (with the obvious exceptions of 45-23 and 42-27). In 2021 he made some pretty amazing plays (even with the flu LOL) and the OSU kicker lost the Georgia game, not CJ. I think he's worth taking at 5
I don’t think I have ever seen a college QB as consistently accurate as Stroud which is something.
But the NFL game is is a different level than college ball and the QBs that excel all have extraordinary processing for everything that gets scouted and thrown at them.
The times we have seen him struggle have been when he is under duress. Which of course.
Brady isn’t what he is because of his athleticism it’s because he sees it like the matrix.
Somebody is trying hard to Tank CJ and Carter. Both will go in the Top 5 I'm sure.
Is this the ❄️🌨️❄️ thread?
This post wins!
Good point, hopefully someone posts a NFL Draft thread soon or every post will be buried 30 deep by 11pm tonight.
I think the Titans trade up to 3 to get Stroud
Just let Anderson fall to 6 please
Obviously management knows way more than me, but I would look to trade up to 2 for him at this point
If at all possible, I'd love to have him but I think we'd have to pay QB prices trade-wise to get to #2. Maybe #4?
Yeah, the way things look I'd trade up or trade down. Please don't take Witherspoon at 6.
Witherspoon is the floor @ 6. That being said I would still be OK with it. Anderson, Carter & Wilson I like better. Glad I'm not Brad tonight.
The most intriguing part of the night is to see what Holmes does @18.
Anderson, Robinson or Wetherspoon/Gonzalez, then Mazi!
A guy can dream.
So which franchise is now the franchise that is destined to do the stupid **** that the Lions used to always do?
You mean my beloved Chicago Bears....
Da Bears got a pretty nice return for the first pick, so unless they blow them all on TEs and DBs who can't run, they aren't in the running to be the New LOLions.
Seahawks should grab their quarterback next year.
Reigning national champion JJ McCarthy mayhaps?
God that would be nice! We'd have to trade up next year to get him, though.
Not sure I understand the love for CJ. I’ll give it to him that he’s a pretty damn good pocket passer (so was Cardale) but CJ is absolute shit when out of the pocket. I’m also wondering if having the big target WRs this past year helped him look good? The R/R is not there to take a swing on him unless he is a backup the first year. My opinion anyways. I think he’ll bust
Agree. Plus you forgot he falls apart when he gets serious defensive pressure on him. Not exactly a good NFL attribute.
And, he doesn’t like snowflakes or colder weather.
I disagree with this take. Georgia brought the heat and he handled it quite well. He was bailed out by his receivers in 2021 against us (but we had a pair of NFL DEs ourselves), but I wouldn't say he fell apart.
The difference in 2022 was that Michigan put together a game plan that never let him be sure what he was looking at, and that almost always doubled his binky. He had all the time needed, but couldn't find anyone before someone leaked. That processing deficiency is what I think is most likely to limit his pro potential. By contrast, the one time Michigan blitzed a safety, he read it, knew he had single coverage on Harrison deep, and stood tall to deliver a strike into good coverage that Harrison somehow reeled in.
I wouldn't take him at #1 or #2 (I think Anderson's a better bet unless you're convinced a QB is going to make it), and the Lions don't *need* him at #6 - and especially don't need him the way they need Anderson/Carter/Witherspoon - but I don't see him as flustered by pressure. It may be that he simply doesn't have the processing chops to be one of the ~35 best QBs on Planet Earth, but it also could be that he does and simply wasn't prepared well in college.
oh, they should? thanks, that's really fascinating.
I always root for every current and future Ohio QB to do exactly what all their predecessors have done in the NFL:
Crash and burn.
No. ftosu
As long as Lions don't take him, I am fine with whatever. If taken in top 5 and if he bombs out (or when??), We all get to point and laugh.
I have a friend that is a Bengals fan. Years ago I was at his place watching the draft and the Lions drafted Joey Harrington. He said "Woohoo! The Bengals aren't drafting him!"
I don't think CJ Stroud is the holy lock to be a bust that Joey Harrington was but I'll gladly let him not be on the board when the Lions draft. I'm thinking more like a Ryan Tannehill type guy...
I won't be shocked if the Lions take him at 6, but I hope they don't, and I fully agree with Brian that this QB class isn't good.
I dislike this
He’s got all the arm talent in the world. That throw to Stover that Sainristril broke up was a different level throw. Back foot and a dime. Turns out we just had better athletes.
The best team for Stroud would be the Packers. The weather is perfect and Aidan Hutchinson could chase him around twice a season.
Underrated.
I always thought CJ will be a bust. He has an accurate arm sure in college, but I think this will fall off playing against an NFL defense that will demand everything happen faster. His biggest flaw to me is I don't think he is very tough and will have a hard time when he gets smoked a few times by NFL defensive folk.
Fuck off troll