LET'S DEAL!!!

COUNTER ME!!!

Pick 221 is up for trade for the right offer

Pft.

Puppies give zero ****s if you stayed up late. When 7 o'clock rolls around, it's time to get your ass out of bed...

I swear DJ if you snipe my pick again I’m gonna go all Liam Neeson on ur ass!!

There, I'm pretty sure I didn't draft your guy.

Jayon Brown, ILB - TN

But he's a friggen letter perfect Will linebacker in my system. Great in coverage with some developing and functional pass-rushing skills. He doesn't have the pedigree I'd like and that kind of thing means a breakout could be fools gold. It also makes teams oddly willing to cut bait or bury guys who are otherwise extremely productive (which makes no sense to me but I'm not a GM).

Just another complementary part in a defense that's come together pretty much exactly how I wanted it to. But I can't imagine that pick upset too many people...

I mean would you take a look at this versatile MFer right here....

https://www.stampedeblue.com/2018/11...-at-linebacker

Scout's draft, gentlemen. And I'm just better at it that y'all...

I couldnt believe how long he lasted.

Lol I don’t know why I was worried about you going offense

I was really worried you'd grab him. I knew you had Van Noy and Edmunds but you could've made a pretty seamless transition on the fly to a 3-4 if you chose to go that route and been pretty damn versatile.

He was the clear #1 on my board as far back as pick 175 when you took Byard. I took Hooker with my next pick as a pure gamble thinking that Brown would stay under the radar and I could have both whereas had I gone with Brown first, I'd lose Hooker.

But if I could've only had one of them, I'd have rather had Brown.

it really came down to his position designation on sandbox. I wanted to play a 4-3 and didnt want him to be penalized too much playing "out of position"

How do these penalties work? What happens if I play a FS at SS? Does it degrade their play to the point it’s not worth it?

Yeah, that concerned me a bit as well but my memory is that Rainman and CD have sorta given a 'use your common sense' sort of rule where if you think a guy can probably do that job credibly, the penalty isn't gonna be as severe as you might think.

And for whatever penalty I suffer, I can make up for it a bit by getting him at a 'discount' over what the OLB 'tier 2' price would be as a tier 3 ILB.

So I took a shot figuring that worst case scenario there are gonna be some 3-4 teams that could really use him and I could eventually put a deal together. The ILB position looks to be a little iffy.

Here's the 'official position'

I had neglected to consider the possibility that Sandbox simply wouldn't allow Brown to be selectable at OLB, but that would be kinda ridiculous. 3-4 ILBs are effectively 4-3 OLBs in most ways. The software can't treat a 4-3 OLB the same as a 3-4 OLB; they're completely different animals yet largely indistinguishable as position groups on Sandbox.

For instance, DoD is listed as an ILB and he couldn't be further from one. I guess we'll see.

trying to trade into the 220s

got 250+ ??? to offer

When it comes to playing a player out of position, the general rule here is 'football common sense'. The software recognizes that putting a C at G isn't a huge stretch, but putting a CB at OLB wouldn't work well (as a couple of examples).