Your Arizona Cardinals now hold the 16th pick in the 2025 NFL Draft

[Chopper0080]

pretty sure 32 out of 32 NFL GMs take MHJ if they are sitting where the Cardinals were given their roster

there is SO MUCH randomness in the draft that even the best drafting GMs miss on picks all the time.

Drafting is like batting average in baseball -- so many peaks and valleys. No idea if Monti and his scouting operation is better, the same or worse than Keim-- not enough at bats yet.

IDK about 32 of 32. Nabers offered a different skill set that might have been more appealing than MHJ for a given team. I think most teams in the NFL had a top 10 grade on MHJ. Also keeping in mind that our offense and QB are both non-traditional while MHJ looks to be a very traditional WR.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Yes MHJr was nowhere near pro bowl level this season. There are at least 5-6 NFC players ahead of him who didn't make the Pro Bowl roster this season.

Drake London
Malik Nabers
JSN
AJ Brown
Mike Evans
Puka Nacua


That isn't to say that MHJr couldn't easily make the leap next season. His 8 TDs puts him right in line with some of those guys. He just needs to be more consistent and add about 250 yards and 2 TDs. Then you could say that he is on the bubble of making the Pro Bowl. Right now that is not the case.

I’ve never said he couldn’t take a leap. In fact, I expect him to be a 1000 yard, 10 TD player next year.

What I don’t know is if he’ll ever be one of the elite WRs in the game because of the lack of dawg I was stunned by in him all season. And when you’re drafting 4 or 3, you have to get the guy who’s going to be elite, especially if your plan is pretty much to only focus on the draft. Picks that high need to be home runs, if not grandslams.

We passed on a homerun Edge last year and got a solid LT who looked shaky the second half of his second season and jury’s out on Marv when other home runs were hit right after him.

 

[MadCardDisease]

I’ve never said he couldn’t take a leap. In fact, I expect him to be a 1000 yard, 10 TD player next year.

What I don’t know is if he’ll ever be one of the elite WRs in the game because of the lack of dawg I was stunned by in him all season. And when you’re drafting 4 or 3, you have to get the guy who’s going to be elite, especially if your plan is pretty much to only focus on the draft.

Sorry, didn't mean to make it seem that I was calling you out there. Was just throwing in some commentary at the end.

I added IMO to the beginning of that paragraph to clarify.

 

[Cardiac]

I think it is fair to say people expected Justin Jefferson and got Tee Higgins.

First of all I blame Cbus for the expectations not being met. 2nd, Tee Higgins helped me win in my fantasy league.

 

[Shane]

First of all I blame Cbus for the expectations not being met. 2nd, Tee Higgins helped me win in my fantasy league.

You got lucky and had his one monster game at the right time. Another mediocre season overall under 80 catches and barely eclipsed 900 yards. TD totals not too bad.

 

[slanidrac16]

I’m telling you this is the weirdest fascination this board possesses. GMs job description is literally to the FORESIGHT to make decisions that look right using 20/20 hindsight. What other criteria are you going to use to measure them? That they made the pick that fans and magazines said they should make?

OZC it’s all right to look back and scrutinize picks. You can do the with every team in the NFL and find “ who they should have taken” scenarios.
It’s not an exact science. It just chaffs my a$$ when poster proclaim what the would have done.
Why, because to say “ I would have done this” doesn’t tell you a thing about the other 6 picks they would have made.
I was thrilled with Isabella. I was wrong big time. I was thrilled with Simmons. I was wrong big time. I didn’t come back here a blast Kiem.

Revisionist history to me is a waste of time. I’m looking at 2025 and working on just how wrong I can be.

 

[kerouac9]

OTC, it’s all right to look back and scrutinize picks. You can do the with every team in the NFL and find “ who they should have taken” scenarios.
It’s not an exact science. It just chaffs my a$$ when poster proclaim what the would have done.
Why, because to say “ I would have done this” doesn’t tell you a thing about the other 6 picks they would have made.
I was thrilled with Isabella. I was wrong big time. I was thrilled with Simmons. I was wrong big time. I didn’t come back here a blast Kiem.

Revisionist history to me is a waste of time. I’m looking at 2025 and working on just how wrong I can be.

How do you learn from the past if you never revisit it? How do you judge Monti's production?

 

[slanidrac16]

How do you learn from the past if you never revisit it? How do you judge Monti's production?

From 4 wins to 8 wins and we’ll see in 2025.
It’s like those investment commercials when they say “ Past performance does not guarantee future results.”

 

[Cardiac]

You got lucky and had his one monster game at the right time. Another mediocre season overall under 80 catches and barely eclipsed 900 yards. TD totals not too bad.

Having JC, Barclay and Mcbride helped

 

[Card'em]

You judge a draft in year 3 after the draft. I think getting 2 starters is an average or "C" draft grade, 3 starters is a good or "B" grade and 4 starters is a very good grade and "A" or "A+".

The Rams got 4 starters in each of the last two drafts. Not surprising that they're in the playoffs. Compare that to the Cardinal 2021 and 2022 drafts where we got two starters total.

 

[kerouac9]

From 4 wins to 8 wins and we’ll see in 2025.
It’s like those investment commercials when they say “ Past performance does not guarantee future results.”

It doesn’t guarantee but it’s the best indicator we have

 

[ASUCHRIS]

The Rams got 4 starters in each of the last two drafts. Not surprising that they're in the playoffs. Compare that to the Cardinal 2021 and 2022 drafts where we got two starters total.

It was really frustrating watching that game and seeing all the young impact players drafted by the Rams...so jealous of their FO.

 

[Cheesebeef]

You judge a draft in year 3 after the draft. I think getting 2 starters is an average or "C" draft grade, 3 starters is a good or "B" grade and 4 starters is a very good grade and "A" or "A+".

The Rams got 4 starters in each of the last two drafts. Not surprising that they're in the playoffs. Compare that to the Cardinal 2021 and 2022 drafts where we got two starters total.

I was listening to the local guys talk about "If the Cardinals are like the Rams" for drafting... and they first gushed about the Rams the last two years. Then they started talking about the Cardinals basically getting three starters, none of them home-runs, a couple role players and some guys who "the Cardinals like but haven't produced yet"... and then said "They could be like the Rams!" And all I could think is if they could be the Rams they WOULD BE the Rams. Both teams had tear downs and started over almost everywhere at the same time... and we had 5 more draft picks during those two years, not to mention drafted MUCH higher than the Rams in both drafts. And the results have been anything but similar.

 

[Mainstreet]

Every dollar put in scouting is money well spent and will reward the team many times over.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

OZC it’s all right to look back and scrutinize picks. You can do the with every team in the NFL and find “ who they should have taken” scenarios.
It’s not an exact science. It just chaffs my a$$ when poster proclaim what the would have done.
Why, because to say “ I would have done this” doesn’t tell you a thing about the other 6 picks they would have made.
I was thrilled with Isabella. I was wrong big time. I was thrilled with Simmons. I was wrong big time. I didn’t come back here a blast Kiem.

Revisionist history to me is a waste of time. I’m looking at 2025 and working on just how wrong I can be.

But you would’ve been right to blast keim regardless of who you wanted. Newsflash: slanidrac isn’t the benchmark for measuring success of GMs, nor should a nonprofessional fan of a team be a reasonable benchmark. Professional GMs should be marked better than you (and me and everyone on this board). It’s literally why they are paid.

 

[oaken1]

But you would’ve been right to blast keim regardless of who you wanted. Newsflash: slanidrac isn’t the benchmark for measuring success of GMs, nor should a nonprofessional fan of a team be a reasonable benchmark. Professional GMs should be marked better than you (and me and everyone on this board). It’s literally why they are paid.

One would think.

However the definitive difference between an amateur and a professional has nothing to do with ability. It is simply that a professional gets paid to do it while an amateur does not.

 

[slanidrac16]

But you would’ve been right to blast keim regardless of who you wanted. Newsflash: slanidrac isn’t the benchmark for measuring success of GMs, nor should a nonprofessional fan of a team be a reasonable benchmark. Professional GMs should be marked better than you (and me and everyone on this board). It’s literally why they are paid.

I get that. Every team misses more picks ( stars) that they hit. Rams draft was epic. It was also better than 31 other teams. Also players success over the years are tied to the team, situation, organization and opportunity.
Can you clearly say what kind of year MHJ would have had if was drafted by the Chiefs or Rams or Lions? Odds are it would have been better and we’d be screaming why didn’t we pick him, but we will never know. Would PJ benefited by playing next to an all pro guard?

I’m not questioning that we have to draft better but I will argue it’s a little too early for a final grade. We’ve turned over 85% of the roster in 2 years and went from 4 wins to 8 wins.

It appears this team is trending upward even with the early grade on the “ bums” we’ve drafted.

 

[Crimson Warrior]

It was really frustrating watching that game and seeing all the young impact players drafted by the Rams...so jealous of their FO.

It's sickening. It literally makes me nauseous.

And it's a big neon billboard advertisement for the "you win by building through the draft" strategy.

You plug holes in FA with mid guys, and use the rest of your cap to sign your home grown superstars.