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A Texans Draft Lesson

DerekJohnson
DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,217 Founders Club
edited October 29 in Mariners Baby! + NFL + NBA + Other Sports
nationalfootballpost.com/A-Texans-draft-lesson-3971.html
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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    That specific draft was when I learned that all the draft analysis is fucking worthless. The grades, Mel Kiper crying about a team reaching, it's all bullshit. Bobby Wagner was a huge reach.

    I still like watching the draft but it's funny when people get all bent out of shape.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    allpurpleallgold said:

    That specific draft was when I learned that all the draft analysis is fucking worthless. The grades, Mel Kiper crying about a team reaching, it's all bullshit. Bobby Wagner was a huge reach.

    I still like watching the draft but it's funny when people get all bent out of shape.

    I was one of them. I thought passing on Bush was FS. Thought he was a surefire HOF'er. Williams was going to be good, but no Reggie Bush.

    The lesson, as always, I'm an idiot.

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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    dnc said:

    allpurpleallgold said:

    That specific draft was when I learned that all the draft analysis is fucking worthless. The grades, Mel Kiper crying about a team reaching, it's all bullshit. Bobby Wagner was a huge reach.

    I still like watching the draft but it's funny when people get all bent out of shape.

    I was one of them. I thought passing on Bush was FS. Thought he was a surefire HOF'er. Williams was going to be good, but no Reggie Bush.

    The lesson, as always, I'm an idiot.

    See, I liked the Williams pick. But to be fair I also thought Lendale White was going to be great. I even wrote The Sporting News a letter that they published about how great he was going to be. The lesson is that it's a crap shoot.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    allpurpleallgold said:

    dnc said:

    allpurpleallgold said:

    That specific draft was when I learned that all the draft analysis is fucking worthless. The grades, Mel Kiper crying about a team reaching, it's all bullshit. Bobby Wagner was a huge reach.

    I still like watching the draft but it's funny when people get all bent out of shape.

    I was one of them. I thought passing on Bush was FS. Thought he was a surefire HOF'er. Williams was going to be good, but no Reggie Bush.

    The lesson, as always, I'm an idiot.

    See, I liked the Williams pick. But to be fair I also thought Lendale White was going to be great. I even wrote The Sporting News a letter that they published about how great he was going to be. The lesson is that it's a crap shoot.
    I'm not sure it's a crap shoot. I am sure the "experts" that we hear from aren't experts at all.

    It does seem that FO's have a real skill for the draft, whereas others do not.
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  • HuskyJW
    HuskyJW Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 15,521 Founders Club
    I thought Leaf was going to be better than Manning.....I thought he was a better athlete and that would translate to a better pro.

    Oops
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,217 Founders Club
    I didn't know anything about Williams, but at the time I thought using the #1 pick on Reggie Bush would be a dumb move. I did not think he was worth even a top 10 pick. He was one of the most sensational athletes in college, but I thought his small size and relative lack of strength would hinder him in the NFL. His career has been exactly what I thought it would be.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 11,453
    Doogles said:

    Reggie Bush: 1st team all-time Almost Husky team.

    Lorenzo Booker was the first FREE PUB! recruit for even considering UW at all. Bush was the second one.
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  • allpurpleallgold
    allpurpleallgold Member Posts: 8,771
    He_Needs_More_Time said:

    Doogles said:

    Reggie Bush: 1st team all-time Almost Husky team.

    Lorenzo Booker was the first FREE PUB! recruit for even considering UW at all. Bush was the second one.
    We were going to be the Florida State of the west.
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    [Deleted User] Posts: 11,453
    allpurpleallgold said:

    He_Needs_More_Time said:

    Doogles said:

    Reggie Bush: 1st team all-time Almost Husky team.

    Lorenzo Booker was the first FREE PUB! recruit for even considering UW at all. Bush was the second one.
    We were going to be the Florida State of the west.
    Won the Rose Bowl then Slick Rick brought in the #3 ranked class in the nation. If someone had told me in three years UW would go 1-10 I would have thought that was literally not even possible.

    Crazy how quickly everything went to shit.
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