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PaperclipPerfector  7mo ago (text post)   3332 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 25, 2025

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Tangentially Eagles related, McCord at 181 seems a tidy piece of business. I enjoyed his brief sit down with Bootleg.

QB Factory. I'm strongly of the "draft a QB (almost) every year" theory of drafting, even a solid backup is worth the effort because of the positional value, and at least theoretically you can launder a developmental pick into a higher value pick later on if he puts out a little bit of good tape. And every now and then you might get a real hit and change the course of history.

Howie continued to perform Tzeentchian feats of trading all day, moving back twice from their third round pick, walking in with eight picks and leaving with ten players. I have no idea how to feel about literally any of these guys, most of them were not guys who the Philly beat writers had highlighted as possibilities. Even Jihaad, who at least has a top-15 pedigree on the big boards and a cool name, I don't know how to think about: is he an off-the-shelf LB to replace the injured Nakobe Dean or a developmental EDGE who will be primarily responsible for blitzing and might not see much more than rotational work this year?

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