NFL Draft/Sixers choke?/etc. open thread
Useful draft guide here.
This seems right about both the presumptive #1 pick and especially the Trent Baalke Experience in general:
Yes, SackSEER loves Walker. But as the No. 1 pick in the draft, he’s complete schmuckbait. Unfortunately, Trent Baalke is a complete schmuck, and Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson goes to the Baskin-Robbins in his mind whenever defensive decisions must be made. There are three elite sack specialists atop the draft board, and two of them actually generated sacks in college. It’s like a shell game with two balls! The only way the Jaguars can fail is if Baalke purposely makes an illogical choice just to prove how smart he is!
It now looks as though Baalke is making an illogical choice just to prove how smart he is. (To be clear, SackSEER loves Hutchinson and Keyvon Thibodeaux too, to the point where little things like actually being an elite college player and not just the third-best guy on your own line become worthy tiebreakers.)
My hope — although presumably not as fervently as Loomis — that Thibodeaux gets galaxy-brain dropped to #9. But 1)he probably won’t and 2)even if he does Carroll and Schneider probably have their eye on the 3rd best down lineman in the Mountain West or something.