RollerColt

I can see your position and why. That's why I say it's possible for him to be drafted by Chris, not maybe not probable. It really won't be determined until the draft starts and we see where the top picks fall. But I could just see us in a specific situation where perhaps Bowers and the top CBs are already gone by 15, and there's Murphy. Do we trade back or do we take him? It's going to be a very interesting chess match tonight.

I agree. It will need to be addressed sooner rather than later.

You might want to prepare yourself for DT... I'm not saying it's going to happen, but it could very well be a possibility tonight that we take Murphy if he's there...

Depends on how well that rookie receiver does. If we were to draft a WR and it works out, most likely Pierce gets pushed down.

Daniel Jeremiah has 5 QBs get taken off the board before us and having us land Bowers at 15. Jeremiah is not to sleep on, he can be very accurate with his inside information.

That seems fair to me, but I'm no expert when it comes to player value. I would probably suck as a general manager because I care too much about the person instead of the position. Being a manager takes a bit of cold heartedness to let people go and to trade lives and families away.

He's a hell of a player. If any team other than Cincy were to take him, I'd definitely want it to be Indy. But I think you're right, @w87r, I don't see the Bengals honoring that request just like with Higgins. The front office I imagine is telling them "go help us win a Super Bowl and then you can make as much money as you want!".

It reminds me of the 2020 draft. Just so much going on and a lot of teams sick of mediocrity ready to be relevant again.

I don’t think so either. He’s learned to be patient, perhaps even to a fault. It is a positive for Chris that he has Irsay to work with and bounce ideas. Jim has a lot more experience with how to run a team properly compared to a lot of other owners. The Chiefs ownership for example is simply lucky that they scored a GM, HC, QB trio of perfection. Yet the dude hawks the Lombardi as if he did all the work.

Ballard trades out of the 1st round and the forum completely implodes on itself like a dying star.

I would imagine in that scenario Ballard would once again have a bit of a mulligan if the situation were to go south down the road…

My bold-ish prediction: Nabers gets taken before Harrison Jr.

Well you don’t have to worry too much. The Irsay daughters are very involved and seem to be learning as much as possible.

This is a bit believable because last year was one of the worst years for QB injuries derailing seasons. Any team that has their “guy” but is shaky at OT needs to be looking hard at this draft.

It's only a stupid move if it fails. If the player succeeds then it's a genius move. Such is the way of life and judgement of the public.

Cards are exactly that. I never, ever count them out. All they need is one good hot streak in the summer and they're right back into the mix. Always seems to happen in July!

This is probably the strongest I've seen the Central division in my lifetime. I feel like any of these teams could beat any other team in the country on a good night.

Ah gotcha, yeah the helmets are decent.

I actually kind of don’t like them. Too Atlanta Falcon looking to me…

Correct. The Colts are a tightly run ship.

No worries, mate.

That was sort of my earlier argument some posts back. My biggest point being that having actual experience playing football or being around football itself is going to have a larger impact and receive more consideration.

I think someone working in sales would have a better shot than someone who only plays Madden.

The best move Chicago could do is get an OT to protect their new asset I think.