2020 Draft | Eagles WAR ROOM- Day Three

[ninjapirate]

Also selecting jalen hurts just kind of reeks of howie and company not being able to read the room. 

[Kiltman]

On 1/7/2019 at 1:11 PM, Kiltman said:

 

 

[Kiltman]

^ I don't know why I still make these after all these years, we can embed tweets now

but hey...it's tradition

 

[ninjapirate]

We should just rotate out receivers and have them fly routes every down against a corner. Eventually the corner will be too tired to play anymore.

[mm6492]

4 hours ago, Jeezla said:

1 Reagor WR B+
2 Hurts QB F
3 Taylor LB C
4 Wallace S B-
4 Driscoll OL B-
5 Hightower WR D
6 Bradley LB C-
6 Watkins WR A
6 Winnebago OT B
7 Toohill LB/DE? C+

If we could just swap out Hurts with Logan Wilson or Willie Gay Jr or Fulton or Chinn or Ashtyn Davis, it would have been a good draft.

If we end up trading Hurts for Micah Parson next year, then it was a good/great draft.

Overall grade: C+/B-

I know this is mostly sarcasm (I think), but Parsons may go top 10 if he shows level of improvement he showed last year and ain't nobody who needs a QB trading top 15 pick with lawrence, Fields, Newman, and like 3 others around.

[Danger]

Just now, mm6492 said:

I know this is mostly sarcasm (I think), but Parsons may go top 10 if he shows level of improvement he showed last year and ain't nobody who needs a QB trading top 15 pick with lawrence, Fields, Newman, and like 3 others around.

Parsons isn't Isaiah Simmons but he's every bit the prospect Devin White was IMO

[mm6492]

2 minutes ago, Danger said:

Parsons isn't Isaiah Simmons but he's every bit the prospect Devin White was IMO

Parsons has also played LB for like 1.5-2 years. Was DE all through high school (as well as a RB). Think he will continue to make huge strides as he gets comfortable. And PSU still under utilizes him as a pass rusher

Parsons is also 6'3" 245, while White was 6' 230

 

Not Simmons at this point, but think he may end up being a better prospect than White. 

[Wentz you dog you]

51 minutes ago, ninjapirate said:

We should just rotate out receivers and have them fly routes every down against a corner. Eventually the corner will be too tired to play anymore.

Hope we let Scangarello install some of his wide zone running schemes in 12 personnel & allow Carson to make more plays under center in play action. EASY MONEY after getting those hook curl LB'ers to bite down or move horizontally from a wide zone naked bootleg (Especially with speedy WR's)... Deep third DB's will be forced to respect the speed & Carson has the arm strength to throw 15 yard comebacks/skinny posts to either boundary.

[Nabbs4u]

8 hours ago, ninjapirate said:

We should just rotate out receivers and have them fly routes every down against a corner. Eventually the corner will be too tired to play anymore.

On a serious note. Does anyone know how many times if any the Chiefs might of ran a play like that? 

Hill, Watkins, Hardman on a fly route (who does the safety help) with say Kelce on a slant, possibly the RB in the flat or on a wheel route? Was it successful? How often?

Desean, Reagor, Goodwin

Ertz, Sanders

[EaglesPeteC]

PFF likes our draft

Round 1 (21): WR Jalen Reagor, TCU
Round 2 (53): QB Jalen Hurts, Oklahoma
Round 3 (103): LB Davion Taylor, Colorado
Round 4 (127): CB K’Von Wallace, Clemson
Round 4 (145): OT Jack Driscoll, Auburn
Round 5 (168): WR John Hightower, Boise State
Round 6 (196): LB Shaun Bradley, Temple
Round 6 (200): WR Quez Watkins, Southern Mississippi
Round 6 (210): OT Prince Tega Wanogho, Auburn
Round 7 (233): Edge Casey Toohill, Stanford

Day 1: Wide receiver was priority number one for Philadelphia entering the draft, and it was a mission accomplished by picking up Jalen Reagor in Round 1. Reagor is an explosive athlete by nature, and that becomes clear when he has the ball in his hands. Over the past two years, Reagor generated an explosive play of 15-plus yards on 51.6% of his catches — the second-highest rate in college football and nearly 20 percentage points above the FBS average. With that athleticism, Reagor constantly gets behind defenses. Look beyond Reagor’s collegiate production for reason to worry about his future in the NFL – his situation at TCU could not have been much worse, as he saw a catchable target just 61.4% of the time, which ranked 118th among 120 wideouts. We here at PFF love this pick for the Eagles.

Day 2: Philly threw everyone for a loop by taking Jalen Hurts 53rd overall, but we actually like the pick despite Carson Wentz manning the helm. It’s no secret that Wentz has had his fair share of injuries in the NFL, and the Eagles need a reliable backup as a result of that. Hurts improved drastically over the course of his collegiate career and has the rushing ability, athleticism, accuracy, decision-making and collegiate production that gives us reason to believe he can succeed at the next level. If he can just make quicker decisions (3.08 second average time to throw in 2019 was slowest in FBS), this pick could be an absolute steal down the long run.

 “I like this pick. … Jalen Hurts gives you a high-floor backup in terms of you just run a few option plays, you have a few passing concepts off that. It’s going to be vastly different — teams are going to have to prepare for something entirely different.” – PFF Lead Draft Analyst Mike Renner

Davion Taylor didn’t crack the top 100 on the PFF Big Board due to being relatively undersized and having little experience playing between the tackles, but our data scientists love Taylor as a prospect. In PFF’s analytics mock by George Chahrouri and Eric Eager, they had Taylor among the top-32 prospects, as he projects very well to the NFL. He’s an incredible athlete who you invest in — as Philly did at pick No. 103.

Day 3: K’Von Wallace, who was 60th on the PFF Big Board, is a physical, quick and instinctive player. He’s really just the ideal slot cornerback in the NFL. Manning the slot for the Clemson Tigers over the past three years, Wallace posted a great 87.1 coverage grade. 

“In today’s NFL, you need slot cornerbacks who can stick with some of the top receivers in the NFL, come up and make plays on screens, not be afraid to fill gaps in the run game and get home on the occasional blitz. Wallace is one of my favorites in the class, and he is someone I think can take on those responsibilities well.” – PFF Analyst Ben Linsey

 Draft Grade: A-

[ninjapirate]

All of these kids give pretty good interviews on their press conferences.

[Kiltman]

2 hours ago, ninjapirate said:

All of these kids give pretty good interviews on their press conferences.

Yeah, as corny as it is...you can see what Howie saw with a lot of them as far as the “Does he love football?” question.

[oland11]

1 hour ago, Kiltman said:

Yeah, as corny as it is...you can see what Howie saw with a lot of them as far as the “Does he love football?” question.

I think the theme for this draft was modeled after what they saw with Josh McCown in the playoffs. A lack of speed but the type of player willing to tear his hamstring and continue to play. 
 

I really hope Josh McCown comes back even as a consultant in the future. 

Edited April 26, 2020 by oland11

[DeSean Jackson]

if Devontae smith declares for supplemental draft, would you guys give up a 1 or 2 for him? Supplement draft might be loaded if they cancel college season. 

[Jeezla]

1 hour ago, DeSean Jackson said:

if Devontae smith declares for supplemental draft, would you guys give up a 1 or 2 for him? Supplement draft might be loaded if they cancel college season. 

2 inches taller than D Jax, but they weigh the same. Nope.

Hopefully Dylan Moses declares. I'd use a 2nd, maybe even a 1st on him.

Edited April 26, 2020 by Jeezla