Survey Draft version

[The Gipper]

OK, you pancake eating motherfuckers......give your answers to these questions:

1.   Which team is under the most pressure to make the right pick in this draft?   (Let's exclude the Browns from this)

 

2. Which player drops like a lead balloon on Draft Day....ala Aaron Rodgers and others?

 

3. Which team do you think  will be involved in the biggest  Draft Day Trade?

 

4.  Rob Gronkowski caught a football that was dropped  600 feet from a helicopter.   Impressed?

 

5.  Julius Erving did his first and second All Tim NBA teams.  And he didn't put  LeBron James on either squad.   Jealousy a bit?

 

6.  Name those NFL stadiums,  present or former, that you have been in for some event (not just football). 

[The Gipper]

My Answers:

1.   Which team is under the most pressure to make the right pick in this draft?   (Let's exclude the Browns from this)

#1:   49ers.  They traded away like  3 first round picks to go up to #3....they have the pressure to make the right pick  (but it appears they may make the wrong pick if they go for Jones)

#2:  Bears.   Both their HC and GM are on the chopping block if they don't get things right here

#3.  Patriots:   They need to get a QB

 

2. Which player drops like a lead balloon on Draft Day....ala Aaron Rodgers and others?

Top candidates:   Mac Jones.  If he does not go to the 49ers, I think he goes no higher than mid round....which is where he should at best be going anyway.    Caleb Farley....partly because he just tested positive for Covid. That may cause some concern.   Then Davonte Smith.  Not sure why....Heisman Jinx? Maybe

 

3. Which team do you think  will be involved in the biggest  Draft Day Trade?

Just a WAG:   Pats trade up with Panthers,  to get a QB,  but not Jones,  either  Fields or Lance. 

 

4.  Rob Gronkowski caught a football that was dropped  600 feet from a helicopter.   Impressed?

Yes....but, actually more impressed with the toss....which from 600 feet was dead on accurate.

 

5.  Julius Erving did his first and second All Tim NBA teams.  And he didn't put  LeBron James on either squad.   Jealousy a bit?

Absolutely there is jealousy involved.  As great as Dr. J. was,  he was supplanted from any consideration as the best Small Forward of all time by LeBron....and considering LeBron is the GOAT  at any position, it is clearly  jealousy.  Dr. J.  admitted a different sort of jealousy even:  that he left  LeBron off because he does not like the fact that  he was instrumental in putting together a "Super Team".   He didn't mind that Super Teams exist....he was in one himself with Moses Malone,  Cheeks/Jones/Toney.....he just thinks that it should be up to the teams to do the job of putting a Super Team together and that the players should not be trying to do that themselves,  as LeBron has done. 

 

6.  Name those NFL stadiums,  present or former, that you have been in for some event (not just football). 

First Energy  and  Old Muni Stadium  Cleveland.   Three Rivers Stadium  Pittsburgh (for a baseball game);    Both  Dolphins/Joe Robbie/whatever  stadium (for a baseball game when the Marlins played there)  and  the old Orange Bowl...but for a Miami/South Carolina  college football game.    Nissan Stadium  Nashville  (with Hoorta and Flugel).    Riverfront Stadium Cincinnati (for a baseball game)    Old RCA Dome  Indianapolis (for a convention).   Wrigley Field,  Chicago  for a baseball game  (Bears played there many years).    Lambeau Field Green Bay...for a tour.   The  Metrodome  Minnesota (for a baseball game).   Old Busch Stadium  St. Louis  for a baseball game (Cardinals played there when they were in St. Louis.    The Superdome, New Orleans  for  tour.    NRG Stadium  Houston for Browns/Texans game. 

Also...  Old Kezar stadium,  San Francisco....both  49ers and Raiders played there.  It now basically looks like a high school field with some  only about  10 rows of stands in it. (and the site of a famous scene from Dirty Harry) 

[The Gipper]

On 4/28/2021 at 12:48 PM, The Gipper said:

My Answers:

1.   Which team is under the most pressure to make the right pick in this draft?   (Let's exclude the Browns from this)

#1:   49ers.  They traded away like  3 first round picks to go up to #3....they have the pressure to make the right pick  (but it appears they may make the wrong pick if they go for Jones)

#2:  Bears.   Both their HC and GM are on the chopping block if they don't get things right here

#3.  Patriots:   They need to get a QB

Each of these teams seem to accomplish their goals in the draft....though two of them had to use  heavy assets to move up. 

 

2. Which player drops like a lead balloon on Draft Day....ala Aaron Rodgers and others?

Top candidates:   Mac Jones.  If he does not go to the 49ers, I think he goes no higher than mid round....which is where he should at best be going anyway.    Caleb Farley....partly because he just tested positive for Covid. That may cause some concern.   Then Davonte Smith.  Not sure why....Heisman Jinx? Maybe

None of these really dropped  that far,  not really.  

Dayvion Nixon was a big dropper.  Ardarius Washington? 

 

3. Which team do you think  will be involved in the biggest  Draft Day Trade?

Just a WAG:   Pats trade up with Panthers,  to get a QB,  but not Jones,  either  Fields or Lance. 

Wasn't Pats....but the trade did involve a team moving up to get Fields....Da Bears. 

 

 

 

6.  Name those NFL stadiums,  present or former, that you have been in for some event (not just football). 

First Energy  and  Old Muni Stadium  Cleveland.   Three Rivers Stadium  Pittsburgh (for a baseball game);    Both  Dolphins/Joe Robbie/whatever  stadium (for a baseball game when the Marlins played there)  and  the old Orange Bowl...but for a Miami/South Carolina  college football game.    Nissan Stadium  Nashville  (with Hoorta and Flugel).    Riverfront Stadium Cincinnati (for a baseball game)    Old RCA Dome  Indianapolis (for a convention).   Wrigley Field,  Chicago  for a baseball game  (Bears played there many years).    Lambeau Field Green Bay...for a tour.   The  Metrodome  Minnesota (for a baseball game).   Old Busch Stadium  St. Louis  for a baseball game (Cardinals played there when they were in St. Louis.    The Superdome, New Orleans  for  tour.    NRG Stadium  Houston for Browns/Texans game. 

Also...  Old Kezar stadium,  San Francisco....both  49ers and Raiders played there.  It now basically looks like a high school field with some  only about  10 rows of stands in it. (and the site of a famous scene from Dirty Harry) 

So?  No one else ever been to an NFL stadium?