The Buscher

Jason Witten is retiring to join the broadcast crew for Monday Night Football.

At 205 lbs, Didi Gregorious could be in the Cruiserweight division. That he's turned himself into a prolific power hitter is pretty mental.

Fun as this was, I must admit that I miss the draft being on Saturday and Sunday. Firing up the draft at noon on a Saturday and spending the afternoon watching the first round made for some good times.

Good for Lamar. I have no interest in Mason Rudolph at all, so I'm hoping the Giants pivot to helping the O-line and get Orlando Brown.

Ravens just moved up.

Oh god, Ryan Shazier

I really want Lamar Jackson, but I don't get the sense that the Giants are all that high on him. So if they're not going to take him, I'd rather someone grab him tonight so I don't need to spend tomorrow getting my hopes up.

I like Mike Mayock but I have to admit I do love when he calls for the same guy to be taken four or five picks in a row and keeps getting it wrong.

Time to pause the draft and bomb in HQ Trivia as I do every night at 9 PM Eastern.

This draft is already bananas. Browns easily could've taken Barkley first and had Mayfield there at 4, I'm positive the Jets weren't in on Mayfield. The Giants could've taken Darnold who they never thought would be there. The Browns manage to whiff on both picks because of course they did. And then the Bills. JOSH ALLEN??? Seriously?

........did he seriously base his draft pick on the minicamp performance of a 37 year old who played horribly last season?

Davis Webb: Quarterback of the future. I look forward to a decade of irrelevance.

Oh man. If the Giants don't take Darnold or trade out of this pick they are really really dumb.

Hahaha the NFL Network guys flat out admitting that some teams wait to put the pick in based on if they're having good things said about them on TV.

Whaddya know? Thor pitches a gem and Familia blows the save (and the game) in extras. The Mets started 11-1 and have gone 4-7 since. Defense and a lack of situational hitting has really killed them. Even guys touted for their gloves like Frazier and Rosario have looked bad in the field. Hopefully they can sort things out sooner rather than later.

Generally if you're going to predict trades, it's a safe bet the exchange will follow along the lines of this value chart: http://walterfootball.com/draftchart.php Where it could get thrown off is the rare instance where players are thrown into the trades.

The Giants last had a run game when they had one of the best offensive lines in the NFL. There aren't many (or any, really) great RBs in the league that have a terrible line in front of them. I'm really happy with the Nate Solder add, but his impact will mostly be felt in the pass blocking game. The rest of the line are a bunch of scrubs and they let Weston Richburg who was their best interior run blocker go. This is exactly it. My complaints have nothing to do with the player and everything to do with the fact that the roster has gaping holes in the two most important spots on the offense. Barkley is great a player and a guy you jump for joy over being able to land when you've got our infrastructure sorted out and feel you are a piece or two away from contending. He'll help but his impact won't really be felt until they can sort out the mess they've left for themselves at QB and OL.

Hearing Mayfield rumors leaves me optimistic that the Giants will have a last second change of heart and take Darnold, or find a trade partner willing to give them a haul at the last minute with Darnold still on the board. Boy this is gonna be a stressful evening.

Fully prepared to just let out a big sigh when the Giants' selection of Barkley is announced. I don't think they'll be as abysmal as a year ago, but they're a 3-13 team going into a brutal schedule with a new coach, a brand new defensive scheme, a patchwork O-line, and a 37 year old QB. They're going to win 5-7 games next year at best.....and I'm okay with that as long as they make the right moves to set themselves up to make a run in 2019. Opting for the flashy pick at a position easily filled later in the draft instead of securing their future QB and banking on an Eli and a guy who didn't take a single NFL snap in a lost season feels like it could torpedo them for years to come. If and when they take Barkley, he needs to get 2,000 yards from scrimmage and a dozen or so TDs every year he's here to be worth the pick they're using on him. And if one of the QBs the Giants passed on ends up being great, it still wasn't the right pick.

Matt Harvey being an unprofessional prick once again proving that he can't handle the New York media now that he's no longer good? You don't say!

Yeah, Rosen's "poor attitude" is probably why the Giants will pass on him even though I 100% think they should just go with him (or Darnold if the Browns passed). I've mentally prepared myself for Barkley. I'm not gonna jump for joy and celebrate like the Penn State fanboys. But at least it's not Josh Allen.

Ronald Acuna is getting called up. So his and Torres' call ups were pretty much in line with recent years, teams nearly always wait three or so weeks into the season to call up their stud prospects. I find it amusing when it happens because you'll always hear the GMs come up with every baseball-related excuse under the sun why the player could not be called up for Opening Day when we all actually know they're trying to dance around service time so the player doesn't accrue a full season this year. It's obvious that's why it happens, but they can't say it and give the union ammunition to work. I still fully expect the union to try to get the rules modified somehow during the next CBA, though I'm not sure how something like this could be worked around to appease both sides.

I'm actually glad that I still have no idea who the hell the Giants are taking two days before the draft. Barkley would seem to be the easy money pick but I've heard varying degrees of interest on three or four quarterbacks, Chubb, and a few more. It's just one smokescreen after another, and I'm fine with it given their recent draft history. Two years ago, it was widely reported that the Giants' top targets were Jack Conklin and Leonard Floyd, and they were expected to both still be around at the #10 pick. So of course the Titans and Bears both traded directly in front of the Giants to get those players. The leaks cost them who they actually wanted, and instead they got stuck with Eli Apple.

I think the Giants were hoping for the Broncos to have a substantial enough desire for one of the top two QBs so that they could move back and take Quenten Nelson at #5, but that doesn't sound like it will happen. The Bills are now their best hope for a trade partner but #12 to #2 would be a big jump. I can't see it.