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Send Vito over. He owes me money and has been dodging me, afraid of the consequences of not paying up.OK, no more posts about Darden. If you do, I will send Vito to your house
Pro Day was not kind to him.OK, no more posts about Darden. If you do, I will send Vito to your house
Every article I see says he showed out. I guess he could have been faster. But I think his edge is his acceleration. But I didn't see if they tracked his splits.
He wasn't bad, just for a guy from such a small school and who is such a small guy, I felt that he needed to really stand out more as an athlete. You are probably right that the Pro Day should be neutral to his value. He's actually kind of a discount Elijah Moore. He's just a little smaller, little slower, a little less burst. The big difference is obviously quality of teammates and opponent.
https://twitter.com/pewterreport/status/1400489876374671361?s=21
I am a huge Darden fan. I would be more excited about Darden emerging if Brady was coming back, however. Darden may be limited to a gadget role, although he has the deep speed to be a threat down the field. Even with Antonio Brown gone, and Godwin and Gronk possibly departing, etc., Tampa Bay still has a deep, talented corps of receivers, so it is going to be difficult for Darden to break through.JohnnyU said:
I liked his prospect tape but the times that I caught him on the field I didn’t see anything impressive. Looked undersized and not as quick as his tape would have suggested. I would be interested as well what promise others saw in him.
I don't know if he will be any good or not. I was just reading his prospect profile and looked at some videos before the last draft and it looked good. At this point of the off-season we're all looking for that diamond in the rough. While I respect Capella's opinion, it is after all just one opinion. I need to find out more. If I think he's "terrible", then I'll just kick him to the curb. We have expanded rosters in some of my leagues, so it doesn't hurt to stash at this point in the off-season.
Certainly my opinion but go watch the Bucs two playoff games when they were desperate for WR help to get their opinion of him too.
So if Godwin walks & they “rebuild” will they take a WR early? I would think other needs more pressing. I have not seen too many mocks to guess their picks but they do have several FA resigning needs.
I’m not sure about “early” since they have the 27th pick. The suggestion was they’d spend FA $ on shoring up their defense & take Olave, if available (2 of the mocks had Olave, one had someone else - they’re just mocks, but I found it interesting they were all like-minded on Godwin/picking a WR)
Totally agree. Yes, by Early I was implying in a Day 1 or Day 2 pick.
They might not be able to afford him. They’ve been borrowing against their future for years. That’s the price when the bill comes due. I’d put it closer to 30% chance he stays.
That is simply not true. They borrowed against their future for literally one year, 2021. In fact, all their contracts prior to last off-season had the signing bonus paid upfront so not to incur big cap hits down they line. They had never forwarded any contracts like they did last year before.
And improve the defense & replace Brady & re-sign Gronk, & fill special teams holes?
Things I know. Most likely outcome is they let him go to market, get the best available offer and then match it. He wants to be here, they want him back, and he is the perfect wideout for this offense.
Gronk isn’t coming back. Defense doesn’t need a lot and with restructures they could get up to 85M in cap space.
defense coughed up a ton of points to the Rams & got them knocked out of the playoffs. Isn’t Howard also a FA?
I mean the defense has been fine for two years. They’re not going to re-do the defense off of one game, that’s not how smart teams do things.
The offense is the offense. You don’t let a good player that you’ll have for 4-5 years walk because you have a temporary hole at QB.
Right. Why spend a ton on a WR when you don’t have a QB & are picking at the bottom of the draft? Makes a lot more sense to spend on a QB & draft a WR.
