The most wonderful time of the year. MOCK DRAFT SIM THREAD.

[Donn Beach]

You don't have to have gaudy stats to 'take the top off opposing defenses'. You simply have to have the threat of doing that, and Shaheed does that 100%. Sam threw deeps balls quite a bit to him. Did they always connect? No, but the threat of that opens everything else up.

This! Again, JSN was open all year long. Some of that can be attributed to Shaheed. A run first team with a deep threat. Could Horton do that? Sure, if he ever puts on a uniform and actually takes the field. I'm not holding my breath for that. That dude reminds me of Paul Richardson.

Yeah, I posted this earlier, Kupp explaining it. Shaheed doesn't have to catch a pass to alter a game, he just has to be on the field.

.I think you saw early on there, we had a play to Jax where, you know, that safety backside from Rashid, he knows there's a post alert, anytime that Rashid's on the field, there's a chance that you could be taking the top off. I think you're going to see that it's a dangerous thing

[Michael K.]

Yeah, I posted this earlier, Kupp explaining it. Shaheed doesn't have to catch a pass to alter a game, he just has to be on the field.

.I think you saw early on there, we had a play to Jax where, you know, that safety backside from Rashid, he knows there's a post alert, anytime that Rashid's on the field, there's a chance that you could be taking the top off. I think you're going to see that it's a dangerous thing

Yeah, it's really not a novel concept. Calling a trade a poor one when the team went 10 and 1, with the one loss being very flukey, AND wont he Super Bowl? Very odd to me.

Why are we arguing over re-signing a core member of the team on a thread about a Mock Draft?

Well, it came up, and is probably relevant since how the team drafts will most likely be impacted by who they sign and re-sign.

Shaheed may very well fall outside of the price range we want to pay....but to call it

a failure acquisition

? That, again, fucking baffles me. The ultimate goal is to win a Super Bowl, and they did. I'd say pretty much nothing they did was a failure.

[Donn Beach]

It impacts the draft, I really don't like to argue but I do like to drill into stuff. It was an interesting discussion. I'm a lot less convinced now he gets re-signed actually. It was interesting to me that none of the in season trades he was compared to were re-signed. I could see him going the Raiders or the Rams at this point

[HawkandMariner88]

Kupp needs to retire, Horton is injury prone why the F would you not bring him back he's not a #1 for sure. He knows what his worth is to this team.

[Donn Beach]

Here's the rookie classes ranked, Chicago first, Cleveland second, Seattle third. What I find interesting is Denver twenty-three. Payton has been saddled with the RW contact, his draft wasn't that great and yet he rolls out the number one seed.

https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-rookie-rep ... witter_atn