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  1. AgentDib

    How I familiarize myself with a draft class

    That's entirely plausible in my view due to the uncertainty in draft outcomes. It's counter intuitive, but the increased selections from trading down can be the best way of plugging holes because you can take more shots at them. Scouts are not statisticians and are not well equipped to discuss...
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    Favorite Football Podcast

    I don't care much for the Hawks centric podcasts unless former NFL players or coaches are on. Most of the time there's no actual expertise being provided and if you already follow the team closely then the benefits are questionable. I do listen to most of the big general NFL podcasts (Around...
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    The John Schneider Show 4/4/24

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    D’wayne Eskridge and new Kickoff rules

    The other thing to remember is the human factor, as booting the ball through the endzone is now taking a loss on every play. Even if that is the best strategy in the big picture, the special teams coordinator is being employed to add value and the kickoff is a huge part of the job...
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    The 2024 Great Draft Debate

    The problem with talking about missing on individual players is it goes both ways. There are studs throughout every draft and so if you are going to cherry pick, you could just as easily talk about day 3 standouts that we should have traded down for instead of picking where we did. Ifedi has...
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    The 2024 Great Draft Debate

    If you view the draft like throwing darts then quantity leads to quality. You had one near bullseye with two darts, while I was less accurate but had three perfect bullseyes after throwing twelve darts. Of the nine QBs drafted in 2022, here are their relative career valuation ranks: 1) #262 2)...
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    Seahawks eligible comp picks (so far)

    Every NFL front office is short-term minded because that's how they are incentivized to behave. Have you ever heard anybody give Tim Ruskell credit for Earl Thomas becoming a Seahawk? Ruskell is the one who traded a 2nd in 2009 for the 1st in 2010 that ended up being the 14th overall pick. Of...
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    Seahawks 2024 mock draft March 24th

    I normally wouldn't consider X receiver a need, but Grubb certainly wasn't beholden to archetypes last year. Odunze was the prototypical X but still took 150 snaps in the slot. Westover played all over (50% inline/35% slot/12% wide/3% backfield). Bernard and Polk basically rotated positions...
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    Candidates to be extended this offseason

    One of the benefits of drafting players is the opportunity to sign extensions for those players going into their final artificially cheap year. Upfront guaranteed dollars are highly coveted and it's a win-win for player and team to work out a decent deal. For example, RW's cap hit in year six...
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    Candidates to be extended this offseason

    Here are the candidates for contract extensions, their cap hit this year, and their age next season. Would you extend any of them? OT Stone Forsythe: $0.9m age 27 WR D'Wayne Eskridge: $1.5m age 28 LB Jon Rhattigan: $3.0m age 26 DE Jarran Reed $4.5m age 32 CB Michael Jackson $3.1m age 28 CB Tre...
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    Pick 16

    It's tough to predict this year without knowing more about Lucas. I don't think this FO will draft a guard at #16 but they would definitely draft a right tackle with the ability to play guard. If we have long-term doubts about Lucas then I can see them staying at #16 and picking a versatile...
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    OL Movement

    That is a fair concern, and one of the problems with drafting players who need a ton of development. By the time they are contributing the rookie contract is running out and you've lost a bunch of the value. The potential upside is that those players haven't yet made much money, so if the...
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    Deep dive into Darrel Taylor's game?

    It's not just Taylor being bad at edge contain. I was too optimistic about Taylor at one point and so compared him with Crosby's initial similar struggles with edge contain, including the patented spin move towards the QB when the ball carrier is going by the other way. It was a bad comparison...
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    Sam Howell is our Brock Purdy, until he isn't.

    Howell's time to throw has been 2.86s and 2.88s in his first two seasons which I believe puts him slightly slower than average. However, I'm not sure that stat is meaningful across teams when it's just averaging every single drop back. Maybe you could normalize by average depth of target or...
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    Sam Howell is our Brock Purdy, until he isn't.

    Personally, I didn't like Howell in the 2022 draft and didn't like the fit here. Short RPO QB with terrible pocket awareness who hung onto the ball forever looking for big plays. NFL teams clearly felt the same way with him falling to the 5th round, and Schneider passed on him at least 5-6...
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    Hawks areas of need, post-FA.

    BPA is our primary need across the board. A lot of our starters are making what they are worth, and for this team to have a surplus talent level we need them to be supplanted in the future by youth. The only position I wouldn't draft is K since Myers still has guaranteed dollars this year...
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    Was there such a thing as JS guys and PC guys?

    I think we've disagreed on this before but I don't see how you can find this plausible knowing how the NFL operates and that NFL head coach is one of the most time consuming jobs on the planet. I'd be pretty surprised if Pete watched a single TCU game during his tenure here, let alone spooled...
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    Darryl Taylor

    Taylor's a cheap gamble both in salary but also that it doesn't cost a comp pick like it would if we replaced him with a similar FA. Ideally we would have gone with a rookie instead but they're trying to be competitive this year. I think if anything this is understating the differences, and...
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    Mock, more mocks.

    Realistic PFN mock draft (no trade)
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    Hawks agree to terms with Williams (3y, $21.5m per)

    I really don't see how this is a relevant point in a league with a firm salary cap. NFL fans only worry about overpaid contracts because it means there is less to spend on other players. Free agents are usually overpaid due to the Winner's Curse. Players on rookie contracts are usually...

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