LAOJoe & RTTRUTH's 12th Annual Collaborative Mock Draft

Yep. Been giving Ike a few extra minutes as a courtesy. @jd0313 are you here? (Or did he leave a list?) I don't want to hold things up.

 

He was on a few hours ago. I sent him twitter DM. Although he or his bro said they don't get notifications. Forget which one.

 

My favorite bit of irony along those lines was one mock where the host said that trading a player for multiple first round picks was unrealistic, denying a trade that would have been good for both teams involved. He said that kind of thing doesn't happen in real life.

That mock was in the second round when the real life Jay Cutler trade happened. Beautiful bit of irony there.

 

Do you remember the blank pages on CBS forums that were just hidden PMs between members?

 

Falcons select

Jayson Oweh, Edge, Penn State

 

@neanderthal ike & @jd0313 otc

 

Let me go through my messages and emails to see if Ike left a list.

 

I thought that was one of the more interesting features of their forum. In the later days, people also used it to post the "blue bug" and the "blah blah" thing, if you remember that nonsense. The mods would give users something like a -1000 score for blah blah messages. But they couldn't see the hidden private messages to score them, so the blah blah bug went on sort of underground.

I actually invited people to use some of my Falcons news posts for that, either replying to me privately or posting a legit comment and then replying to themselves privately. That way they got the bump they wanted, but nobody else had to put up with reading the blah blah.

 

I caught a fake trade once because it was done on the honour system at times and you could count pages and see no missing posts from the quota to know there have been 0 discussions. Guy sent a fake trade with an inactive guy. Idiot could have at least sent a BS hidden post to himself or something. I've done that to give myself notes in draft.

edit: It was done by sending it to yourself or a 2nd account. I can't remember which.

 

Oweh was my original #1 target for 1(28), so I'm extremely happy that he was still available. When Travis Etienne slid down that far (which surprised me), I was ready to switch and take Etienne on a pure BPA basis. But even better for both of us, @munoz1987 also thought Etienne was too good to pass up and made a trade offer. So he got a steal of a RB at #28, I got some extra picks (including a future pick) and still got my target guy. Happy happy joy joy.

 

Ike and JD are both on right now.

 

Samuel Cosmi

 

If we still autoed, that was the pick I would have suggested.

 

Round 1 #2
Quarterback Zach Wilson

Round 1 #23
Strong Safety Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah

Round 2 #2
Offensive Tackle Samuel Cosmi

 

The other funny thing about the trade and the pick was that Munoz later commented on the problems I'm facing with rebuilding Atlanta's defense and the need to give Dean Pees the 3-4 capability. He totally nailed it that I was looking for a potential hybrid 3-4 / 4-3 guy for the defense, even though he had earlier listed me among teams likely to be targeting a running back.

(I'm wondering if the trade up for Javonte Williams was also partly to get ahead of me, thinking I'd be targeting Williams since I said I would have taken Etienne. No - taking Etienne would have been pure BPA, not a need thing. As for team needs, I pretty much need everything.)

 

@jd0313 it's your pick.

 

Jaguars select Kadarius Toney, WR, Florida

 

The Philadelphia Eagles Select
Gregory Rousseau, DE - Miami

 

I've been trying to trade up for him (slightly) because it's something that screams Eagles.

 

I'm going on record that both Rousseau and Oweh are picks I can fully support come a team's second pick in the draft. But I hate both as 1st rounders. Just not enough consistency there IMO.

That said, still a big difference between taking them between 12-20 or between 26-32.

Both might come down to the influence a position coach has with their respective GM/HC. Obviously the traits are there a position coach might think they can mould into diamonds.