The analogue you'd point to with Ivey is Kevin Young, although I think Ivey is probably a couple of years away from where Young was (lead assistant and getting discussed as someone who could get upcoming NBA head coaching jobs)
Who is the attainable coach who'd "make UT a bona fid basketball school as part of being a bona fide everything school"
The obvious names seem unlikely to be attainable
It seems like it'll be leaps of faith of mid-major types, and Ivey becomes less of a ridiculous option against those types
Frequently people conflate the buyout to be paid if fired with the buyout to get hired away. You'd think he'd have enough leverage to not have that large of a buyout for leaving
It's possible that number is accurate, but it's also plausible that a reporter mixed the two buyouts up and that number spread to other reports
While Ivey is still an unconventional and arguably underqualified candidate for what many are hoping for, he's clearly a better candidate than he was a few years ago when he was discussed, between the S Sudan Olympics job and working as Ime's #2 assistant while not being under his besty KD's influence
I'm curious who the IOL are who DJ thinks Houston can get "later", I'm assuming at pick #58
He did list some WRs he liked in the mid-late 2nd if they passed at #25, although he seemed to think Houston should go WR with that first pick
The two TEs who seem like they could be there are Fannin and Helm. If Arroyo or Taylor are there and there's no injury/character issues sinking them, I think you take them without thinking about
There's so many DTs that there should be various options at that pick, the bigger question is who could be there at #89
The context there was a broncos reporter asking about Sean Payton recently talking about how he wanted a “joker” player who he can get the ball in his hands for explosives, and DJ mentioned that if it’s in the form of a RB it could be Blue
In *potentially* the third round
No, I’m just the one guy in the group who drinks a lot of bourbon, so I’m tasked with organizing the distillery day
I guess my main question at this point is do we just done one tour, and then just go to the bar at the next two places?
McShay's first mockdraft in two years (behind a paywall, and he refused to give the mock in his podcast)
Houston drafting an OT is absurd
1) Tennessee- Abdul Carter
2) Cleveland- Travis Hunter
3) NYG- Cam Ward
4) New England- Mason Graham
5) Jacksonville- Tyler Warren
6) Las Vegas- Sheduer Sanders
7) NYJ- Will Johnson
'8) Carolina- Mykel Williams
9) New Orleans- Jalon Walker
10) Chicago- Will Campbell
11) San Francisco- Kelvin Banks Jr
12) Dallas- Ashton Jeanty
13) Miami- Armand Membou
14) Indianapolis- Jahdae Barron
15) Atlanta- Mike Green
16) Arizona- James Pearce Jr
17) Cincinnati- Colston Loveland
18) Seattle- Tyler Booker
19) Tampa Bay- Jihaad Campbell
20) Denver- Tetairoa McMillan
21) Pittsburgh- Omarion Hampton
22) LAC- Kenneth Grant
23) Green Bay- Walter Nolen
24) Minnesota- TreVeyon Henderson
25) Houston- Josh Simmons
26) LAR- Josh Conerly JR
27) Baltimore- Azareye'h Thomas
28) Detroit- Shemar Stewart
29) Washington- Matthew Golden
30) Buffalo- Derrick Harmon
31) Kansas City- Donovan Jackson
32) Philadelphia- TJ Sanders
Thanks for the response
Would you do a tour for the first stop (whichever you think has the best tour), and then just hang at the bars of the other two?
Following up on this, it'll be about 20 guys in a bachelor party, the vast majority (say at least 15) aren't really bourbon drinkers, and are just there to have fun. We're going to do one day of a private tour bus, and they said for a 9 hour day they usually recommend three stops, although they'll do it however you want to
With those parameters, what would you do? It seems like some of this will be wasted on a bunch of guys who aren't bourbon snobs
In DJ's latest mock, five of the names I'm hoping will make it to #25 are off the board in Booker, Loveland, Nolen, Grant, and Zabel. The three candidates for WR2 (Golden, Egbuka, Burden III) and Donovan Jackson are still sitting there though. As are the two TEs I like after the big two, although it might be a reach to take them (Arroyo and Taylor)
Brugler was on Mays' podcast, and for Quinn he mentioned how while he respected how he gritted his way through playing while injured throughout his career, his play did drop quite a bit when that happened, and he talked about how in the NFL QBs are always playing injured as the season goes on, and you have to be able to keep your level of play high while playing injured. With Banks, he talked about how there's a lot of rough tape of him losing balance and falling off of blocks quickly, and he contrasted him with the Missouri guy who has mostly clean tape and is always staying balanced
Reminder of some things Caserio/DeMeco have tended to draft
- P5 plus Notre Dame
- Team captains
- GPS game tracked speed over testing speed (a way to find value?)
- Avoiding players with injury histories
- Younger
- Participated in senior/shrine bowl
https://x.com/Texans_Thoughts/status/1884623511211114580