LAOJoe & RTTRUTH's 9th Annual "Official" Mock Draft

So the Cowboys apparently had a meeting with Dez Bryant today and the word is they are releasing him as soon as today.

 

@rediiis

 

Wow... they arnt messin' around in the D.

 

Not surprising. Talk has been for months they Dallas was going to release him before or after the draft. Just giving him time to find a new home.

 

Queue the talk of him going to the 49ers and Patriots.

 

Raiders select Tyrell Crosby OT Oregon

 

I can’t argue this. It’s frustrating watching them waste good years with Luck.
Grigson would be in the conversation for me of 5 worst GMs ever. He was pretty bad. Rumours are he was arrogant on top of being shitty at his job

 

If I had just said owner, you’d have a shot. But even considering him, I don’t think we have a chance. I meant literally dysfunctional. Not stupid and high. He’s stayed out of his own way a lot. Polian handled everything when he was here. Again, I think just Irsays drug issues and Twitter account, paired with those 5 bad Grigson years make us look a bit worse than we really are.

Irsay is my least favourite thing about the Colts though. He’s like the Trump of the NFL owner world. Hardly ever says anything without looking stupid

 

APPROVED AND CONFIRMED

49ers Trade
3(12)

Chargers Trade
3(20)
5(18)

 

Still the craziest thing to me was Michael Lombardi and Chudzinski being hired, trading for future assets but looking semi-competent in the draft, and being both fired after a single season. I thought the owner was tweaking with all those changes within two calendar years

 

Chargers are OTC

@matthewwillson29 Bengals on deck. You here?

 

That to me would be fine. I have no problem with them moving on from the coach. But if they move on from Dorsey without giving him a fair shake forget it.

 

I think there are more recent examples, like how the whole Luck situation was handled last year but I'm not going to sit here and tear apart your franchise. They have some work to do and their ability to solve their issues will provide the answer to the current debate IMO. I thought they should have done more in free agency.

 

Ballard has a good opportunity to get the roster better in hurry. Had an ordeal with finding a coach (McDaniels pullout), but ended up with a good HC in Reich. Interested to see how Ebron plays in that environment, because there were too many expectations for him here, and was a toxic situation for him. Remember he was picked 2 picks before Aaron Donald and 3 before Odell Beckham Jr. Wouldn't be surprised if the term 'Grigsonesque', like the Millenesque term is used for the Lions.

By the way, people who said 49ers, Martin Mayhew is a senior personal exective for them. Pushed for the Laken Tomlinson trade, because he was his 1st round pick, and liked Foster and pushed for that. Mayhew served under Millen before getting promoted to the Lions GM.

 

I disagree with we should have done more. Could have done more, sure. But it's one of the things I immediately appreciate about Ballard. He's not going to overpay for talents that may or may not fit what we're doing and that put us in a future hole. He stockpiled some draft picks and is going to build the talent base around Luck the right way, "in the Colts culture", which I assume began with Ballard's hiring. I think the only other guy they really took a run at was Norwell, and it didn't pan out. I personally love the Autry signing.

And I'm not that sensitive. You can try to tear apart the franchise. But again I think where you criticize Irsay you'll succeed. I think when you try to expand it much beyond him you'll come up short. As for pin-pointing the issue with the handling of Luck I don't think any of us fans actually know who knew what. They spent the roster spot to take him off the PUP. So I believe at some point they literally believed he would be back at some point during the year. It would have been a much worse mishandling to rush him back and screw up his future longer term, ala Redskins letting RGIII back into that game on what was likely a torn ligament (My vote stays with WSH).

Colts might make a top 7, top 8 list of most dysfunctional franchises. But if we're talking literally the most dysfunctional, there's no way it's us. We'd top out maybe at 4 or 5.

 

Here

 

Your pick is coming up VERY soon Matt. Joe's just texting me his choice for SD. His internet went down

 

I never received an email about anything. That is bullcrap. Not from you all

 

The Los Angeles Chargers Select
Jamarco Jones, OT - Ohio State

 

No update on boadd