G.M.O. - 2018 NFL Draft

In real life the Bills just made a huge trade with the Bengals. They traded one of their firsts and Cordy Glenn for #12.

 

The Titans will entertain offers for pick #25.

 

ND beat Syracuse in the Carrier Dome without Colson and had a better showing in the ACC Tourney as well. With Colson in I don't think there's any doubt that ND is far better. I'm from WNY, I consider Syracuse my 2nd team. Even most of the Orange homers here thought that ND deserved it more.

Ok State had a ton of good wins and just beat Okla head to head. Oklahoma went like 2-8 in February, they might be one of the worst at large bids to ever make the tourney.

 

21+Glenn+6th for 12+5th I think?

 

Head to Head isn't everything. The whole resume matters. It wasn't down to 2 teams. It was Syracuse, Notre Dame and a few others. Syracuse as a whole is better than Notre Dame. As for the injury, the committee ignores injuries for the most part. It can't help you get in because it isn't fair for who you knock out, but it can help your seed once you do get in. So imagine ND got in and wasn't one of the last 4 in, so a 10 seed. At that point the committee might have taken the injury to Colson into account and given them an 8 seed or something.

Also when you win doesn't matter. Oklahoma and Arzona State for instance had tons of good wins early that helped them. Oklahoma State is a good team that honestly is worthy but their bad opponents hurt their RPI. Swap Arizona State's 10 worst wins with Oklahoma State's and you probably see OSU's RPI rise enough that they are in instead. But at 90 they weren't getting in. It's a flaw in the RPI. One I, and many others, noticed that the committee didn't. Oklahoma State would be in ahead of Syracuse if it were up to me.

I've gone over a bunch of this the other day on my twitter if you want to see more. Feel free to chat some more here, there or wherever. it's always appreciated. My twitter is the same as my handle here.

 

Close, 21+Glenn+5th for 12+6th

 

So . . .

The Jets are on the clock?

 

Jets? You are up.

 

Glenn is a guy a lot of Giants fans were advocating for trying to acquire in a trade. I mean he was a very good player 3 years ago but has missed a bunch of time and he has a pretty big cap hit for a 350 pound man who has had foot and ankle problems. In a trade from 12 to 21 I think I like it though. The Bengals were likely not getting one of the "elite" guys from this class in that spot anyway so they add a potential LT if he stays healthy and still have a shot at a pretty nice player in R1.

 

I would never had thought it possible for a group of people to stretch 10 hours of mock drafting into 90+ hours.

 

The Bills now likely have enough ammo to trade up to #4 with only their 1st round picks and not anything else if they and the Browns are interested.

 

Sorry, just had to leave you guys in suspense...

With the 23rd Pick in the 2018 NFL draft, the New York Jets select:

Lamar Jackson, Quarterback, Louisville

 

I thought it was obvious. The Rams thought so too looking at the trade convo lol.

 

Andy Dalton to the Bengals front office:
You do like me!!!!

 

Carolina is OTC

 

We might be stuck for a while. Meverhart's profile page says "last seen February 23"

 

He was active here though. I bet he got tired of being outbid. Tim will email him again when we get back. If he misdes the first pick then all of the rest will be autoed as well unless he shows up again.

 

How do you decide who the pick is if it's autoed?

 

Tim and I will discuss with input from Irish and Will if they so wish to be involved.

 

6 QBs in the 1st round and I'm not surprised at all but I'll be mildly surprised if another goes before the 4th round.