2016 NFL Draft

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^How did that guy Sashi Brown get the GM job, what a joke of a resume.
Degree in "Communications":confused:, goes on to get a J.D, fair enough, somehow gets a job in the background of Jacksonville Jags whilst also working at a law firm doing contract law, also "Brown served as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Section 8 Subcommittee to the Jacksonville Housing Authority."
I dont mean to bag the guy, for fairness sake, look at say Mike Tannenbaum, as caste whore as they come, but on paper has an ok background in the sport, yet he is a clueless and awful a GM as any.
Why would you hand your football team over to this guy, his resume consists of government housing for blacks and some contract law, upon getting the job he immediately starts staffing along racial lines.

You dont have to be Nostradamus to see further Browns ineptitude in the future.
 

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Saints signed UDFA WR Jacob Lampman last week. I wish him all the luck in the world.

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Matt Judon was a highly productive division II defensive lineman that was drafted in the 5th round. Judon is black.

Justin Zimmer was a highly productive division II defensive lineman that was not drafted. Zimmer is white.

Both Judon and Zimmer tested out well athletically.

The fact that Judon was drafted and Zimmer wasn't is an example of how white players don't get the same opportunities in the NFL that blacks do.

Zimmer's statistics: Started 12 games in 2016. 81 total tackles. 26 tackles for loss. 13 sacks. Four forced fumbles. Five pass breakups. 1 blocked kick.

Dominant production for a defensive tackle.
 

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There were some positives, primarily on defense, in this Draft and there were certainly multiple negatives.

One positive, and something to compare/contrast is at LB: Nick Vigil went significantly higher than expected to Cincy. Joe Schobert (CLE) and Nick Kwiatkowski (CHI) were selected in fair spots. Then, on the other side, there is the Scooby Wright and Tyler Matakevich, we're gonna put you in yo' place treatment that occurs every year. Both were very lightly recruited, along with Schobert (walk-on), but the difference here is Scooby's and Tyler's national college football awards. Let's put them in the box as only capable of being excellent college players.. ahhh they had their "moment in the sun" already.. frankly, got too much accolades and attention.

From comments around the web, more people are aware that Scooby and Tyler should have gone no later than 4th round/very early 5th. They noticed that team-after-team wasted picks on disposable corners/safeties, rbs, really weak linemen and Cardale Jones.
 

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Ladies and gentleman, the 34th player selected in the 2016 NFL Draft. Oh, dat upside!:

ESPN's Ed Werder reports Cowboys second-round LB Jaylon Smith (knee) has experienced "no significant improvement" in his damaged nerve. Werder concedes that Smith playing in 2016 "seems unlikely." Prior to the draft, Smith was dealing with "drop-foot", a condition where the front of the foot can drag across the ground while walking because the nerve doesn't fire to raise it. Smith faces a long road back to even become half the player he was at Notre Dame. The Cowboys may end up regretting picking him at No. 34.
 

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There were some positives, primarily on defense, in this Draft and there were certainly multiple negatives.

One positive, and something to compare/contrast is at LB: Nick Vigil went significantly higher than expected to Cincy. Joe Schobert (CLE) and Nick Kwiatkowski (CHI) were selected in fair spots. Then, on the other side, there is the Scooby Wright and Tyler Matakevich, we're gonna put you in yo' place treatment that occurs every year. Both were very lightly recruited, along with Schobert (walk-on), but the difference here is Scooby's and Tyler's national college football awards. Let's put them in the box as only capable of being excellent college players.. ahhh they had their "moment in the sun" already.. frankly, got too much accolades and attention.

From comments around the web, more people are aware that Scooby and Tyler should have gone no later than 4th round/very early 5th. They noticed that team-after-team wasted picks on disposable corners/safeties, rbs, really weak linemen and Cardale Jones.

For an example of the caste system at work compare the linebackers Tyler Matakevich and Antonio Morrison.

The mainstream sports media is saying that Matakevich went low in the draft due to athletic limitations. Yet Matakevich bested Morrison in almost every test of athletic ability. In addition Matakevich was more accomplished as a college player. Also Morrison has injury and off the field issues.

Clearly Matakevich is a better prospect.

Despite all this Morrison was drafted in the 4th round and Matakevich in the 7th round. The reason is simple. Morrison is black and Matakevich is white.
 

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For an example of the caste system at work compare the linebackers Tyler Matakevich and Antonio Morrison.

The mainstream sports media is saying that Matakevich went low in the draft due to athletic limitations. Yet Matakevich bested Morrison in almost every test of athletic ability. In addition Matakevich was more accomplished as a college player. Also Morrison has injury and off the field issues.

Clearly Matakevich is a better prospect.

Despite all this Morrison was drafted in the 4th round and Matakevich in the 7th round. The reason is simple. Morrison is black and Matakevich is white.

This was a head scratcher for me too. I was sure the Colts were going to take Scooby Wright here. Morrison was just another guy at Florida, and if I do some research, there were at least a dozen better LB prospects available. The Colts have to be one of the most mismanaged teams in the league. Morrison is a project you bring in for a tryout, if at all, instead they chose to waste a 4th on a guy who will be lucky to make it through the first round of cuts.
 

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Depressing, yet inspiring all the same, piece on Clayton Fejedelem
http://www.cincinnati.com/story/spo...afety-clayton-fejedelem-path-to-nfl/86562572/

"The NFL has its share of long roads leading to the league, but from zero star high school recruit to the NAIA to walk-on to NFL draft pick in four years?

“What’s really an amazing thing is that he had the self confidence and the determination to say ‘I can do this’ at another level, where some guys might have been content to be at a smaller level and try to be a dominant player,” Coyle said. “Here’s a young man who felt he wanted to take the challenge – and the risk. There’s risk involved, in trying to go to a bigger school and walk-on and see if he could really cut it. Not only did he cut it, he became a dominant player for them and he got drafted in the NFL. It’s an amazing story. It says a lot about his character, a lot about his mental toughness and just overall determination as a person.”"


He was named Illinois’ defensive player of the year and recorded 140 tackles. His pro day measurables (he wasn’t invited to the NFL Scouting Combine) of a 4.47-second 40-yard dash, a 40.5-inch vertical jump, 20 reps on the 225-pound bench press (after hitting the rack), and over 10-feet in the broad jump, had translated to the field.

He’s a super athlete, man,” Banks said. “I mean he really is. I don’t know if he gets enough credit for that. I’m not sure why.



Weenieworlds analysis

"He'll begin his career on special teams, but could be the rare seventh-rounder to eventually carve out a role on defense"

Standard half a career on special teams bringing him up to 26/7 before he gets the starting job, the caste apprenticeship whilst the team cycles through terrible "affleet" after "affleet"
 

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I noticed that the supplemental draft came and went this past week without any player being drafted. Drew Ott was not eligible apparently for the supp draft - he was royally screwed over by both the NCAA - for stringing him along and not coming to a decision until very late in the draft process (2 weeks before the draft) and the NFL for not protecting him - making him eligible for the NFL draft while his status was uncertain from January to April. I hope he catches on with a team.
 

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It's especially funny in a sad way because Elliott has received an unbelievable amount of positive publicity since the Cowboys drafted him. Not only as the favorite of fantasy footballers, with him being seen as the only "NFL ready" running back from this year's draft who can play three downs (that says a lot about how weak RB is due to college football and the NFL's extremist affirmative action policies), but also as a "great guy" who's "always smiling," blah, blah, blah.

Meanwhile the Crawfords' star RB, the injury prone LeVeon Bell, has screwed up again and has been suspended four games for violating the league's drug policy by skipping several mandated tests. Bell and his buddy and fellow pothead, the aptly named Lagarrette Blount, were busted a couple years ago for smoking weed while driving to the airport to take the team plane to a road game. Bell has been "rapping" about making $17 mil per as he'll be a free agent after this season. His teammate Martavis Bryant is suspended for the entire '16 season because of being a pothead who's failed multiple drug tests.

I think weed ought to be legal or at least decriminalized, but given the opportunity to make $5 or $10 million or $17 million a year or more by refraining from smoking it, it shouldn't be hard to give it up. But then again, as Mr. Elliott illustrates, a pronounced lack of self-control is a black characteristic that no one in public life is allowed to mention.
 
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Mudsharkin' ain't easy.
I have no sympathy for her whatsoever. As the saying goes, "You lie down with dogs..."

If only he had just stayed true to his own race and color for a girlfriend, those marks would be barely noticeable and he probably wouldn't be in the situation he's in now. Karma's a bitch, ain't it?
 

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The Cowboys big board for the 2016 draft was leaked and can be found on the internet. They had Jeff Driskell graded ahead of Dak Prescott but they picked Prescott when they had a choice of either one. Was it because Driskell is white and Prescott is black?
 
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