The Falcoholic
What do the Falcons need, and what might they get?
The past week, we have seen a mass exodus of sports media personalities, including some of your favorite SB Nation writers, make the leap from X (formerly known as Twitter) to the new social media site: Bluesky.
Why? Simple.
Bluesky is for the culture.
The rampant, nonsensical hellscape that is X (formerly known as Twitter) now has a viable competitor that doesn’t include suffering through the controversial takes from your least favorite aunts and uncles. Bluesky is a breath of fresh air that gives you that reminder as to why you scoured the likes of social media in the first place.
This leads me to my mock draft: The cream is finally starting to distance itself from the crop, and each top team has one thing in common: Culture.
The Kansas City Chiefs are the Kansas City Chiefs. Whatever dark magic they’ve summoned to continue their success at this rate, I’m not sure we want any part of it.
The Detroit Lions bite kneecaps and dare you to tell them not to. Dan Campbell has instilled one of the most physical cultures of any team in the NFL.
The Pittsburgh Steelers ground your offensive line into dust on one side of the football and force you to guard the NFL’s version of NBA Youngboy on the other side, it doesn’t make for an enjoyable experience for any opponent.
The Baltimore Ravens have built an entire football team solely around one of the most dynamic players to ever touch a football field and his 6’3”, 250-pound running mate in the backfield.
With each of these teams, there is a plan in place and it so far has been executed about as well as it could.
In this exercise, we both further those plans, as well as give those teams without a plan (seriously Atlanta? Nine sacks in ten games?) a direction to go.
How are we here again, Jacksonville? Where did it all go wrong?
The Jags are hopeless on both sides of the football, but they are horrendous defending the pass. The Jaguars are dead last in EPA allowed per dropback...by a lot. The difference between Jacksonville (0.271) and the Carolina Panthers (0.193) at 31 is more than the Panthers and the Cincinnati Bengals at 26 (0.119).
Hunter is more than just an answer to the Jaguars and their pass-defense woes. His love for the game shines through with his willingness to play over 100 snaps (he averaged 114.7 in 2023) and Jacksonville needs someone to instill the love of the game back into a franchise that is seconds away from drowning in their stadium swimming pools.
Out goes DeAndre Hopkins...Calvin Ridley is not a #1 receiver...Tennessee has plenty of resources to go and grab a QB in free agency...It just feels like the perfect spot for a difference-making type of receiver...
