2026 NFL Draft Thread

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bluemountain
ChiefGritty said:
Bert has done an excellent job and deserves his flowers, but that list looks very different if it's by who recruited those players.

Lovie brought a ton of NFL talent into the program and Beckman/Cubit brought next to none. (Among draftees it's only Jihad Ward, Nick Allegretti, Dawuane Smoot, Clayton Fejedelem who was a walk-on and Ke'Shawn Vaughn who we underused and forced out, right?)
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When Lovie came here we all assumed he would be good at X's and O's and at player development, but weak at recruiting. Turns out he was the worst X's and O's coach we have ever had and was bad at developing players, but had a knack for finding under the radar Floridians.
 
#327      
ChiefGritty
bluemountain said:
When Lovie came here we all assumed he would be good at X's and O's and at player development, but weak at recruiting. Turns out he was the worst X's and O's coach we have ever had and was bad at developing players, but had a knack for finding under the radar Floridians.
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We just kinda never had the day-to-day operational best practices of college football operating within the building during Lovie's time, and he had no interest or patience in seeing that happen, he always thought he knew better. So whatever he did well (which were many things at various points) constantly sprung leaks because we weren't just doing the basics right.

One killer in that regard was the centerpiece hire of that first staff to be the experienced college hand and recruiting ace who could be a co-HC type was Garrick McGee who was just totally the opposite of that in real life.

All's well that ends well though. We have Mr. Get The Basics Right now.
 
#328      
therealmiket86
bluemountain said:
When Lovie came here we all assumed he would be good at X's and O's and at player development, but weak at recruiting. Turns out he was the worst X's and O's coach we have ever had and was bad at developing players, but had a knack for finding under the radar Floridians.
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From his nfl days he knew the physical traits to look for. He said several under the radar hits but he also had a ton of misses. I mean look at his last oline class
 
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