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Beauty of Penix at 8 for Atlanta is that his biggest drawbacks are what made Cousins effective. So Penix gets to sit and watch a pro do the things he himself is maybe not so good at. Which hopefully rubs so he can up his game when it's time to take over It's similar to Mahomes behind Alex Smith. Mahomes' questionable traits were the traits that made Alex so effective later on. He got to sit and learn and watch from Alex. And those things rubbed off on him enough to where when he stepped in. Those questionable traits were no longer questionable. It's an ideal situation for Penix. And a very smart move by Atlanta. In 2 or 3 years when Penix steps in, he should.be reading defenses and Knowing when to make the smart play instead of try for the big one. Which were his 2 largest issues.

I think the strong reaction to team building right now, one way or another, is premature. We're not going to be any good next year. I would say that whether we picked MHJ, Nabers, Odunze, Alt, Bowers or whoever. This team has far too many rather significant holes on it. I trust Bill Callahan to make the o-line better, but he still needs better pieces to work with at RG and RT. Getting a seemingly aggressive DC is fun, but we're lacking starting caliber players at FS, DE, NT, OLB and ILB(x2). Our defense right now is 3 good corners, Jeffery Simmons and Harold Landry. Getting Ridley should mean our WR room is better than it was last year pairing him with DHop, but DHop is an FA after this season, so we need a 3rd option at receiver for this year, and likely to need to select another WR high or sign another relatively big named one in FA next off season to replace DHop. We'll see if Chig improves, but even if he does, we need depth at TE. Right now it's him and uh...Whyle I guess? at the position. Whether we address weapons heavily in the rest of this draft, more OLine, a pass rusher, a safety, an ILB, interior d-linemen, or some mixture of all of those, we're still going to have a lot of holes that need to be addressed in 2025. The only way we're winning anything in 2024 is if Will Levis transforms in to the next Roethlisberger or whatever or if CJ Stroud is out for the year and we just win a battle of bad teams in a bad division. The time to be upset will be if we're still looking at a ton of massive holes after the 25 draft.

Pick #1 Results 2 PTS Trade Up, Trade Down, Stay: BareYourTeeth, RavensTillIDie, berlin calling, DreamKid 5 PTS Pick #1: Ray Reed 2 PTS Correct Position, Wrong Player: RavensTillIDie, berlin calling, DreamKid, coordinator0

Yah listened to Gute's presser. It's pretty clear they view him as an OT. Reading scouting reports sounds like they are not going for Tom 2.0 but rather Bak 2.0. We'll see how it works out. Kinda looks like Bak the way he plays. Grossi was hilarious again tonight. Sounded like me although I was pounding the table to go up and grab Arnold. When we were on the clock it was Cooper or Barton...Typical Packers draft always out of left field.

Good enough for both CW and Bears fans to be happy we were able to draft him. In Keenan Allen he'll have one of the best teachers and guides to success he could ever have.

Yeah, Terrion you go to bed easy knowing one of your top two spots is in good hands. Quinyon isn’t too far off from that, but a little bit more projection. Bonus is the additional ceiling is there for him to be your clear top corner and in discussion throughout the league for that too if he hits it. Woulda been ecstatic for either, fun to have the extra ceiling and athleticism to monitor in camp and his first few years.

I'm offering BUF, NE, AZ, WAS, and LAC my 2025 1st for their pick early in the 2nd, straight up. I want to draft DeJean but need to get him. I am assuming no one late in the first accepted that trade and none may for this one. We will see.

Thanks for getting the threads up guys. I was actually in Detroit for the draft today so my availability was nonexistent. It was absolutely insane down there. So many people and not just Lions fans. You might see some pictures of the crowd by the draft stage but they weren't even the half of it. The Draft Experience area actually had to shut the gates a little after 6 because the area went over capacity. That area being a fairly large park with quite a bit of space for people to spread out. Never seen anything like it.

Ari Meirov - Falcons HC Raheem Morris on taking Michael Penix Jr.: "The Green Bay model was something we talked about. It proved to be right last year. Hopefully we’ll be right with them."