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With the 202nd pick of the draft, the Packers select: Edefuan Ulofoshio, LB, Washington He's a solid athlete at LB, putting up elite explosiveness numbers with a 39.5" vertical leap, and 10'8" broad jump, along with a great 4.56s 40-time. He's a little under-sized at only 6'0", though stocky build weighing in at 236 at that height. Decent 33" arms plus is leaping ability help to overcome his size disadvantage in coverage. Scouts don't seem to know what to make of him, as I've seen takes ranging from coverage-specialist with trouble in run support, to run-stopper who needs to work on his coverage skills. From the film I've watched, I didn't see anything that stood out as a negative in coverage, and the numbers seem to support him as a coverage LB; his season-average QB rating when thrown to hasn't surpassed 57.1 since his freshman season. In run-support, he plays downhill. He'll choose a gap and burst through. He needs to work on picking his gaps, as he doesn't always choose correctly, but I'll take that over the countless LBs I've watched who just stand there watching the backfield and then the play blows by them before they ever get involved. Once he makes his way to the ball-carrier, he's a solid tackler and provides some thump while wrapping up with strong hands. He's effective at splitting gaps between blockers when blitzing the QB or pursuing a ball-carrier on screens and end-arounds. One thing that needs a lot of work is coming off blocks, however. Once a blocker gets hands on him, it's game over; he doesn't have much ability to get off a block; as such, he also tends to try to run around blockers rather than engaging, which can hurt in gap-control. I think Ulofoshio has the potential to grow into an every-down type linebacker, but to start, he'll compete for snaps as a nickelback where he can be effective in both coverage and blitzing the QB on occasion.

I believe @goskins10 is on the clock. I see you hanging out in here.

It's, uh... Dusche. German for Shower.

This round:

DANG IT! Really wanted to snag him here in the 6th. Fantastic blocker, and has some untapped potential as a receiver.

He was here a few minutes ago, and was typing. Now he's gone. Did he think he sent in his pick but it didn't get through?

I miss Fullbacks.

He's typing 👀

The former. Goskins simply made an unclocked correction. It's like when someone gets skipped. They're free to put in their pick at any time after that, but they weren't on the clock, so the clock is unaffected.

I forgot that was a thing.

Doesn't a player have to declare for the NFL draft?

I think I read about this treatment 15 years ago or so when it was first being explored. I want to say that a high school student had come up with the idea for it, but I could be mixing it up with another treatment.

So, uh... are we gonna draft an alternative player to Zion while waiting for the next GM?

I think that one was 13 years ago.

Don't feel like responding to the rest of the post (sorry; lazy), but just wanted to touch on this here. The threat of losing their outsized voice makes for an awful strong motivator to bring said minority to the table to negotiate for real reforms. Faced with the prospect of a popular vote, they might be willing to sit down and discuss alternative solutions that they are currently disinclined to.

Here's the deal: I'm not exactly a supporter of popular vote wins the election. I think my history in this thread through the years backs that up; go back to my post on the first page, and my post on the previous page. I believe the ideal solution involves increasing the number of representatives so they represent closer to the number of people they used to before the house was arbitrarily capped, and to end gerrymandering. I also believe states should not be giving all of their votes to whomever won the state, because the state is effectively steamrolling 45% of its people, but if you don't bundle all of your votes together as one, you limit the value courting your state, so it is in the state's best interest to do so. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be much chance for these to be implemented. The folks in power are the folks who benefit from the current arrangement, and are the folks who have the authority to change it. The popular-vote pact, however, does seem a possible goal to reach. It doesn't require an act of congress to vote against congress-critters' best interests. It just requires enough states to buy in to achieve the 270 vote threshold. Not an easy task, but does seem possible. I'm not down with the argument that this ignores the will of the voters, considering the will of the voters of these states is that the president be elected by popular vote. And in this case it gives value to all of their voters. And all voters in the country. No more is a Democrat in Texas voting in vain, or a Republican in California. It does diminish the pull of the less populous states, but as the current electoral college stands, their voters get a ludicrously outsized voice allowing for the tyranny of the minority. If I had to pick between two imperfect systems, I'd rather the one where majority rules than where minority rules. If those small states don't like it, their Congress-critters can then push for real meaningful reform; like my suggestion of growing the House like in the days of yore. It still grants the senate bump, but makes it a much smaller, more reasonable bump.

Oh, I didn't realize that this would abolish congress. Silly me.

This makes literally every vote count equally as the winner of the popular vote wins the election.

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