LSUDad Posted April 23, 2020 Author Share Posted April 23, 2020 Report: Bengals shot down Dolphins for No. 1 pick several times ByNICK KOSKO 4 hours ago Share0 Comments It’s been discussed since the end of the season. What will the Cincinnati Bengals do with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2020 NFL Draft? After months of discussion, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported the Bengals are locked in on selecting LSU QB Joe Burrowtonight. However, the Bengals had to make a few rejections along the way. According to Schefter, one team made an attempt to trade for the first overall pick multiple times. “Over the last couple of weeks, the Dolphins called the Bengals on more than one occasion to see if (Cincinnati) would be willing to trade the No. 1 overall pick,” Schefter tweeted. “The Dolphins were told, in no uncertain terms, no. Cincinnati would not trade the pick and would stay put at No. 1.” The Dolphins, another team linked to wanting a quarterback, definitely had Burrow in their sights, but with the inability to trade up from the No. 5 overall pick, they’ll have to settle for a signal caller not named Burrow. For the Bengals, they will get their future star. The Dolphins, meanwhile, could potentially sit at the No. 5 overall pick and have their selection of Tua Tagovailoa, Justin Herbert and Jordan Love, among others. But, due to other teams like the Los Angeles Chargers linked to a quarterback, the Dolphins might need to find another trade partner such as the Washington Redskins (No. 2), Detroit Lions (No. 3) or even the New York Giants (No. 4). ESPN's Cincinnati Bengals reporter Ben Baby said the Bengals are expected to select the Heisman Trophy winner with the No. 1 overall pick. “The Cincinnati Bengals will select the pride of Athens, Ohio in quarterback Joe Burrow from LSU," Baby said. And Schefter didn't disagree, going a step further and shutting down all pre-draft chatter about the possibility the Bengals trade the No. 1 pick to another interested team. "I am going to tell you that is not going to happen," Schefter said. "They will not trade that selection. They will hold it. They will make it. And they will be happy with that selection. That No. 1 pick will not be traded. Cincinnati will hold onto that pick and Joe Burrow is expected to be that No. 1 overall selection." ESPN analyst Louis Riddick, who worked in the front office for multiple NFL teams, said Burrow will give the Bengals a replacement for former starting quarterback Andy Dalton that fits right in line with what teams need during the modern era of offenses in professional football. “I think with Joe you are getting the ideal situation as far as how you construct a quarterback right now in the present day game," Riddick said. "He is someone who is multifaceted with being able to beat you from the pocket, beat you with off-platform throws outside the pocket, then be able to beat you with his legs when everything breaks down or it’s a designed quarterback run. “Everything checks the boxes as far as Joe Burrow is concerned. He has a tremendous mental engine and is a guy you can throw a lot at.” The NFL Draft begins tonight (Thursday) and goes through Saturday (April 25th) live virtually throughout the country. All teams will draft via the internet, phone and other applications as the country continues to deal with the coronavirus pandemic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LSUDad Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 5 Tigers in the first round. Congratulations Tigers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Joe gets the call, enjoy. https://tigerbait.com/s/2087/watch-the-private-phone-call-between-joe-burrow-and-bengals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dachsie Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 4 hours ago, LSUDad said: Joe gets the call, enjoy. https://tigerbait.com/s/2087/watch-the-private-phone-call-between-joe-burrow-and-bengals I love it that Joe's dad had on his LSU gear! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Want to know how to build a winning team? Ask the Chiefs. First Round Draft picks over the years. 2016-None 2017-Mahomes 2018-None 2019-None Thats how you do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LSUDad Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 Clyde Edwards-Helaire just made the Chiefs offense even scarier 11 Kansas City selected the LSU running back with its first-round pick on Thursday night. By Pete Sweeney Apr 24, 2020, 3:27am CDT Share this story Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) SHAREAll sharing options Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images The Kansas City Chiefs’ Thursday night selection might have been a prelude to yet another chapter in the Andy Reid book of innovation. Despite many predicting that Kansas City would trade out of the first round to accumulate more picks, the team instead chose to keep the selection, taking LSU running back Clyde Edwards-Helaire at No. 32 overall. Edwards-Helaire, 21, notched All-SEC first-teams honors as a running back in 2019 — his junior season — by rushing for 1,415 yards and 16 touchdowns on 215 carries (6.6 yards per attempt). He added more than 400 yards as a receiver for 1,867 all-purpose yards. As the Chiefs were on their Super Bowl run, Edwards-Helaire was an integral part of a Tigers team that went undefeated and won the national title. Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports “The guy kind of has the ability to play the game in slow motion.” - Brett Veach on Clyde Edwards-Helaire “The kid, his interior running ability, just the vision and the instincts are just rare and unique,” said Chiefs general manager Brett Veach on a conference call Thursday night. “The guy kind of has the ability to play the game in slow motion. Lateral, agility, vision, his ability to start and stop and redirect his hands out of the backfield, some of those guys, one guy may have one trait, the other guy has another trait. We felt like he kind of had all of those traits.” “That makes defenses stressed. Being able to be a running back and catch the ball out of the backfield and run routes — I feel like everything is a perfect [mix].” And he didn’t even mention Reid’s personal favorite — screen passes. Along with the scheme fit comes familiarity. When Edwards-Helaire was a freshman at LSU, he had current Chiefs running back Darrel Williams to guide him as he learned a complex Tigers offense. Williams and Edwards-Helaire remained friends after Williams left and joined the Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2018. Edwards-Helaire said Williams was the first person to contact him when he was drafted on Thursday night. In addition to Williams, Edwards-Helaire also looked up to current Washington Redskinsrunning back Derrius Guice, who played with him at LSU and prior to college at Catholic High School in Baton Rouge. “I was on the same team as Derrius Guice in high school and him being on the field his junior and senior year was a must in high school, so I had to find a way to get on the field. They wanted me to get on the field and I started playing slot — sliding in at wide receiver and kind of hop back and forth from slot to the backfield and then two-back sets. Veach explained that he and the personnel staff work all year to narrow the prospects down to a final list, which they share with Reid toward the end of the process for guidance. “I give Coach a couple guys to take a peek on,” said Veach. “I told Coach, ‘Wait until you finish up your work on Clyde Edwards-Helaire. He’s going to remind you of Brian Westbrook.’ Coach called me back and said, ‘He’s better than Brian.’” Yes, that Brian — the one who played for Reid for eight seasons in Philadelphia and started 90 games during a nine-year career, accumulating more than 10,000 yards from scrimmage in the process. Westbrook could run the football, but his passing numbers were just as good — he had a stretch in his career where he caught more than 60 passes four seasons in a row. Between Kareem Hunt and more recently, Damien Williams, Reid has demonstrated in Kansas City that he favors a running back who can do both. Danny Kelly ✔@DannyBKelly we gotta get chris berman to narrate clyde edwards-helaire's highlight tape bc there are a LOT of WHOOP! moments 42 5:22 PM - Feb 17, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy See Danny Kelly's other Tweets “Watching the Kansas City offense last year, they were big on getting the back out in space,” said Edwards-Helaire on a conference call. “Any checkdown, any way the back can get out and run a route, that’s where I absolutely did most of my damage as far as being in the passing game, and that’s what Kansas City is big on and that’s what the foundation is built on — being able to get the ball in space and spread the ball out. “Ulitmately, it was just something that was just part of my DNA. I was always able to catch. I was always able to run routes, and LSU took complete advantage of it with my last year.” Skill-position players who join the Chiefs will often talk about the steep learning curve that comes with Reid’s playbook. It is positionlessin a sense. Every player — running back, tight end or wide receiver — must learn every position along the line of scrimmage, thereby providing Reid with a wide variety of options and playcalls. Sometimes, it takes years for a player to get comfortable. But the Chiefs don’t feel that will be the case when it comes to Edwards-Helaire. Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports “He’s going to come in right away and pick up this offense quickly,” said Veach. “I always worry about the complexity of our offense and just about how long it will take guys, when the coaches feel comfortable, but everyone that you talk to at LSU, they rave about his football character and his football IQ. And then you throw in the talent that he has with that. We think he can come in right away and be a big factor in this offense.” The high praise continued throughout the conference call, and at one point, Veach went as far as to call Edwards-Helaire a “franchise-type running back.” The Chiefs were fielding calls on potential trades until the Green Bay Packers landed the 26th overall pick to take quarterback Jordan Love. Then, Veach said, the rings from the phone quieted. Veach almost made it sound as if the silence provided him and Kansas City’s personnel staff a sense of relief — with no deals on the table, the Chiefs were free to take who they felt was the best player available — and that was Edwards-Helaire. In 2017, Reid led Alex Smith to his best season thanks to an RPO revolution that tapped back into the strengths of his college days. Over the past two seasons, Reid has formulated “Pat plays” — unique ways to provide Patrick Mahomes the freedom to play out of structure. The hybrid of organization and non-organization led the Chiefs to the Super Bowl. The Chiefs’ offensive weapons now consist of several of the fastest receivers in the game in Tyreek Hill, Mecole Hardman and Sammy Watkins. Travis Kelce is a wide receiver in a tight end’s body. What the addition of Edwards-Hellaire may allow Reid to do is create packages in which he can truly line up any player at any position at any time — without the thought of substitutions. Purely positionless. Edwards-Hellaire may not be a three-down back anywhere else in the league. But this is Kansas City, and much like Mahomes, Reid and Veach picked him. “I think because of the type of offense that we are, I do [think he could be a feature back],” Veach said. “I think if we were a more traditional two- tight end set, power run game, certainly there would be some questions. But I think the way we can spread teams out and make them play east and west, and the threat of our vertical passing game, and again, this kid’s low center of gravity, his ability to make people miss. “I think just the way our offense is constructed I think this guy will thrive in it and I think he’ll be able to handle the workload.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dachsie Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 I guess Clyde was not one of the 60 they had thinking to be drafted in the first round. Am so glad he was!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSUDad Posted April 24, 2020 Author Share Posted April 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, dachsie said: I guess Clyde was not one of the 60 they had thinking to be drafted in the first round. Am so glad he was!! They asked Mahomes, who he wanted. Last time a QB was asked about drafting a RB, he would like to have in his backfield. Peyton Manning was asked to review film on the RB’s. After a few days, Peyton wanted Joseph Addai. When asked why, Peyton said, “His QB never gets hit, he protects his QB!” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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houtiger Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 Biggest surprise to me was AJ Terrell CB from Clemson going in the first round, and Kristian Fulton not going in the first round. I mean we abused Terrell in the championship game, as one announcer said, they tried to cover Chase with just Terrell, and Terrell couldn't do it. On the other hand, Stingley and Fulton controlled the two good receivers from Clemson most of the time. I thought Fulton was the better corner than Terrell. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutriaitch Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 20 minutes ago, houtiger said: Biggest surprise to me was AJ Terrell CB from Clemson going in the first round, and Kristian Fulton not going in the first round. I mean we abused Terrell in the championship game, as one announcer said, they tried to cover Chase with just Terrell, and Terrell couldn't do it. On the other hand, Stingley and Fulton controlled the two good receivers from Clemson most of the time. I thought Fulton was the better corner than Terrell. lot of things go into a draft pick. Terrell was basically a 3 year starter that stayed healthy the entire time. Fulton only got 2 years, and an injury ended one of those seasons early and slowed him down a bit at the beginning of the next season. I'm pretty sure being slowed and hampered by injury kept Delpit out of first round as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutriaitch Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 so, 27 people that did not play for LSU went in first round last night. 14 of those (more than half) played against LSU last year. meaning if you only watched LSU games and no others, you saw 19 of 32 first round draft picks. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COTiger Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 (edited) https://gazette.com/ap/sports/the-latest-sec-breaks-draft-record-with-15-1st-round-picks/article_7cd6820c-bf5b-5bb4-af05-f58daeaedf2b.html Any doubts as to where the best CFB is played where just removed. Edited April 24, 2020 by COTiger 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COTiger Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 I just read that CEH was the first RB selected. That in itself is quite an honor. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eq4bits Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 So LSU got, with Joe, the 1st, and with CEH, the last pick of the first round with 3 more in between. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutriaitch Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 first team ever with QB, WR, and RB in first round of same draft. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
COTiger Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 1 hour ago, Eq4bits said: So LSU got, with Joe, the 1st, and with CEH, the last pick of the first round with 3 more in between. It's early, but so far nobody in the 2nd round. Delpit & Fulton have got to be getting nervous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dachsie Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Delpit to the Browns. He's reuniting with Greedy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herb Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 9 hours ago, Nutriaitch said: lot of things go into a draft pick. Terrell was basically a 3 year starter that stayed healthy the entire time. Fulton only got 2 years, and an injury ended one of those seasons early and slowed him down a bit at the beginning of the next season. I'm pretty sure being slowed and hampered by injury kept Delpit out of first round as well. Also factor in that LSU did not have a Pro Day this year. We might have seen 7 first rounders if we did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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