The Commish

On to the Southern divisions for Episode 2 of our NFL Pre-Draft Breakdowns series but you already know that because of the title! I decided to go to the South first because you have the 1st, 4th, and 8th picks in this group, which are the highest picks vs the other divisions. These divisions were specifically hard to find trends for because there are 4 new GMs and 3 new HCs in this group of 8 teams. So I tried to bring a mix of ideas for them. Let me know what you think of this series in the comments or on Twitter! Important to note: The Panthers have not picked up Sam Darnold's 5th-year option yet even though there were many people, including Adam Schefter, saying they were/had.   __________________________________________________________________________ Jacksonville Jaguars 2021 Draft Capital:  Total Picks: 10 1st Round: 1, 25 2nd Round: 33 (1), 45 (13) 3rd Round: 65 (1) 4th Round: 106 (1), 130 (25) 5th Round: 145 (1), 170 (26) 6th Round: None 7th Round: 249 (21) Team Needs:...

NEW SERIES!!! I did an unofficial poll to a few of the readers last week and decided that a team-by-team breakdown for the Draft would be something you all might be interested in. I am going to specifically be focusing on 4 pillars. The 2021 Draft Capital, Team Needs/Wants, Draft Trends by Team/Coach/GM, and My Perspective on what they may do on Day 1 and Day 2. I am going to be doing this the same way I did the Team Needs/Wants series. 4 articles with 8 teams in each. Today is the East obviously. Check back on Wednesday for the South divisions. Friday will be the North and then next Monday will be the West. Next Wednesday is the day right before the 1st round which will be my final mock draft and then we made it. Crazy how slow it went for what seemed like forever and now there isn't enough time to do every article I had planned. I hope you all enjoy this series!   __________________________________________________________________________ New York Jets 2021 Draft Capital: Total Pi...

A weird article today but the venerable Sam Teets put out a tweet on Wednesday asking if anyone wanted to do an All-Rookie Draft. Basically, the idea is you draft a starting 11 for offense and defense and then your team would play against your opponents team. So a total of 22 picks per team. Sam decided on a snake draft and he allowed me to go first. Anyway, this idea was really fun because you are filling out a roster, not just taking the best players in the draft. Only 2 QBs should be drafted, 5 OL, so on and so forth. But Sam and I have a decent idea about schemes among these players so we took it a step further and got guys that fit into the schemes we wanted to run. Sam's offense took on the light of the Steelers offense of old with beefy lineman and a running game. I took a bit of the 49ers idealogy with an outside-zone running scheme and a weirdly versatile 3-4/4-3 under type of defense. My defense ended up being a 3-3-5 which is even weirder, but whatever. There is a graphi...