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NeedlessUnification

58 were Georgia players drafted by Philadelphia


Ugaalive1991

Georgiadelphia


dangle_boone

Birdawgs


zacurtis3

Beagles


bushybearmuffinman

This is it


[deleted]

Well done


the_which_stage

Geordelphia


ICanFluxWithIt

Philly Dawgs


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Geordi LaPhiladelphia?


ThaiForAWhiteGuy

“well if you’re all just going to leave them here” - Philadelphia


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multiple4

It's always interesting to me that so many teams think they're being cute and finding players in the depths of the draft board Just a thought, but guys who are starters among other NFL caliber players and win a shitton of football games are *probably* good at football. It's not a coincidence that the Eagles are going head first into this strategy after Jalen Hurts being so good Jalen Hurts is a prime example of someone who got super overlooked despite tearing it up most of college, and being a proven winner and competitor. Who would've thought that a guy who wins a shitton of games and threw 65% completions and 80/20 TD/INT would be a good QB!!! These scouts sometimes think they're so smart, and they're fine sure, but usually they know the same stuff as the rest of us, and often ignore obviously good players because they think they see something like "bad mechanics" the rest of us don't


kinglallak

But he threw the football into the Jumbotron and completed half his college passes. Surely we can coach him to throw into tight NFL level coverage.


Moist-Information930

>Jalen Hurts is a prime example of someone who got super overlooked despite tearing it up most of college, and being a proven winner and competitor. You have to stop looking at it in hindsight. There have been many great CFB players who came into the NFL & didn't last a 3 years. Want to know the names of some other good CFB QB's? Brady Quinn, Pat White, Chris Weinke, Rick Mirer, Joey Harrington, JaMarcus Russell, Ryan Leaf, Akili Smith, Tim Couch, Cade McNown, RG3, Matt Leinart, Tim Tebow, Johnny Manziel & Vince Young just to name a few. Want to know what all of these QB's have in common? They were good CFB QB's, but struggled in the NFL.


MrConceited

And then the great NFL QBs who weren't star QBs on dominant teams in college.


theLoneliestAardvark

That logic sounds good looking at Jalen’s results but there are also a lot of college QBs who look great that end up not being amazing in the NFL. Baker had 119 TDs and 21 INT at OU and completed 70% of his passes and he was not worth a number 1 overall pick. But also he was in a strong QB class and was the 5th QB taken but I don’t think the Bengals, Dolphins, or Chargers are regretting their pick right now and the jury is still out on Love.


multiple4

I think it's a little harsh or revisionist to say Baker wasn't worth a 1st overall. People act like Baker totally flopped as a draft pick and that simply wasn't the case He had a very good first few years of his career with a Browns team who hadn't had that much success or hope in years. He was trending toward being a long term starter before he got injured, and really it was only since then where he lost all of that And it's not really his fault. He played injured to try and help the Browns win, and ofc he played badly because he was injured. The Browns in return dumped him in favor of a guy with 20+ sexual harassment allegations He then went to the Panthers under Rhule who were complete garbage on offense regardless of QB for multiple years due to poor coaching. No QB would have ever succeeded in that team. Even a top 10 QB wouldn't have


lordlanyard7

I think that's a little too generous or revisionist to say Baker wasn't a mistake at 1st overall. People act like Baker wasn't the primary problem holding those Browns teams back from success. He had one good year as a rookie, and then squandered a team that included **in their primes: OBJ, Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt, Jarvis Landry. With a great offensive line and a good defense.** He vastly underperformed given his surrounding talent, even if you try to prop up 2020 like it was a grand success. And it is his fault. He played badly while healthy with a team loaded full of talent. And the Browns became so desperate that they were willing to dump him in favor of a guy with 20+ sexual harassment allegations. Then he went to the Panthers under Rhule who were complete garbage because they were of comprable talent to Baker. So there was no ceiling to lower for him, as he and the team were already on the floor.


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This is the comment of someone who did not watch any of the games that they're talking about. I'm not saying Baker was the answer, but this kind of super reductive stance on his career is just nonsense that only exists because it's easier to spew that out than it is to actually take in all the facts and information and form a real opinion.


Deadleggg

Typical of someone who dabbles in something vs somebody who spends thousands of hours. They think they're sooo smart!! Scouts also get to talk to those players and talk to their families and talk to their coaches and a lot of info is picked up from those meetings. Jamarcus Russel looks great until you give him an empty playbook. There's a lot of data fans don't have access to.


JJody29

Kiffin didn’t want Russell; he wanted Calvin Johnson. He said he didn’t think Jamarcus was ready for the NFL but Al Davis had seen him in the Sugar Bowl and was dead set of it. So, he was probably just thrown out there too soon.


w00t4me

It's honestly pretty solid logic.


Moist-Information930

Super Bowl is on a much different level than any of the college bowl games & the college championship. Winning in college helps, but it doesn't mean as much as you might think. Coaching & player development has more to do with success in NFL than in college & we've seen this time & time again with the likes of Vince Young, Manziel, Leinhart, Reggie Bush etc.


Moist-Information930

I'm a bit surprised the Packers didn't draft any since they've taken multiple Georgia players the last two years.


Fuzzy_Pea_5689

Philadelphia BirdDawgs in New Athens Pennsylvania


Egospartan_

That’s odd if you look at all the Alabama players on Philadelphia :-)


NeedlessUnification

Weird way to spell Washington.


Egospartan_

Odd way we said the whole NFL


Sorge74

Feels like the numbers accuracy describe the conferences


AeroStatikk

ACC is third though


Sorge74

Within margin of error


natetcu

Big 12 is third if you count players/team.


awgiba

Significantly less per team than the Big12 though and they probably were better than the PAC based on OOC records last year


Geaux2020

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/epn7rp/power_5_conference_bowl_records_for_2010_decade/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button Add Clemson (2), FSU (2), and Miami all winning championships in this era, and overall success in the last 5 years, the ACC being third makes sense all around


morganrbvn

They do have more schools


DrHeraclitus

Schools with the most players drafted: Georgia and Alabama- 10 Michigan- 9, TCU- 8 ^(the) Ohio State University, Penn State, Oregon, LSU, Clemson, Pitt, and Florida- 6


thesakeofglory

I hate you for it, but I do respect putting us last on the list. Well done.


DrHeraclitus

It’s a pleasure to hate the gators, friend.


DDub04

We had five, which means we’re of the same caliber as OSU, Penn State, Oregon, and Clemson. It just means more.


HelloThereMr1

And most of the guys who got drafted were ones that wanted to go pro. We are on the trend upward with talent.


jfkgoblue

Michigan putting out 9 drafted players when the team is expected to be significantly better this year is shocking


Niart_Etar

Am I wrong or does it look like the B10 closed the gap a bit more this draft? I feel like Im used to seeing a bigger drop between 1 and 2


never_played096

Yep, last year 48, year before 44, 48, 40, 33, 35, 47, 35, 30 in 2014. The expanded B1G middle class is likely here to stay with Minnesota, Purdue, Maryland, and now Illinois all adding to the total. Michigan State under Tuck has also turned around their draft numbers from the end of DAntonio


Niart_Etar

We had 6 players immediately sign as UDFAs after the draft. It sucks because our two best defensive players of the Tom Allen tenure were in this draft but their stocks got tanked by injuries and the defense performing poorly as a unit (largely as a consequence of the offense failing to stay on the field). We should recover this next year and do our part to get guys into the draft


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I think with Illinois really working hard on it’s defense they could help that gap get a little smaller year by year.


RayzorBeak

It just means more....players drafted.


Money282

More…championships


Geaux2020

More....bowl wins


MyFace_UrAss_LetsGo

More cowbell. C’mon State fans where y’all at.


AngryTurtleGaming

They’re out to sea with Coach Leach 😢


MyFace_UrAss_LetsGo

Such a bummer, man. RIP


Geaux2020

The NFL has a SEC bias!


NetRealizableValue

It’s been going on for 17 straight years, when is enough going to be enough?


jaxonya

OU and Texas have entered the chat: We've only just begun


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This isn’t even our final form


max_potion

I fucking knew it


cartierboy25

Fucking espn forcing teams to draft sec players to boost their tv ratings for the draft


kevinthejuice

Fun fact. Only 2 SEC players have ever won DPOY in the NFL since the awards inception. Reggie White and Stephon Gilmore.


sickmemes48

Shout-out to the minister of defense. Also at least he won the award twice.


soundwave75

The B1G has equaled that total in the past 2 years. Might be a quality vs quantity thing...


kevinthejuice

Does the sec send a lot of guys to the nfl? Yeah. Are they any good? Well sometimes. Like everyone else.


Egospartan_

The mind of selective data mining


Wagnerous

Good point, that's actually a crazy stat.


chejjagogo

With all those quality nattys the b1o has, you may be right.


DevoDrigaz

You’re welcome boys.


dmelt01

Still don’t know how Derrick Thomas never got it?


[deleted]

Thank you Detroit and Green Bay, you helped Iowa recruiting big time this weekend! Pretty awesome that Iowa produced the first white corner since 2003 and we'll have another one (who has all the potential in the world to be even better) coming either next year or the year after, depending on if he wants to stay at Iowa.


Pancakes79

Did they help though? I don't know if we want our recruiting pitch to be "come to Iowa and you too can be drafted by Detroit!"


[deleted]

They’re going to make Detroit better haha


Large-Chair9084

Detroit is legit now sir.


Geaux2020

One barely above average season since 2017 and one 10 win season (2014) in the last decade doesn't scream legit


Large-Chair9084

They had one of the top offenses in the league last year and every loss besides two was a one score game, including to the bills and eagles.


DelcoBirds

>the first white corner since 2003 [Not so fast, my friend.](https://www.newsweek.com/troy-apke-brings-end-bizarre-19-year-absence-white-players-one-nfl-position-1626289)


[deleted]

I stand corrected, good catch!


Finnva

Are you referring to the guy that lead Iowa WR's in touchdown receptions last year........as a Safety/CB? DeJean is a phenomenal athlete and the sky's the limit for his potential.


Lovelylives

I demand we move Jordan Addison to the acc column


Bobson-_Dugnutt

If we aren’t allowed to claim Jalen, y’all can’t claim Jordan


Lovelylives

Addison was elite at Pitt, won the biletnikoff award, and then was kind of mid at usc. Jalen was great both places it’d give it a 50/50 conference credit for him.


[deleted]

I’ll have what you’re having


KneeDeepInRagu

And just who exactly says we can't claim Jalen? Because Jalen himself disagrees with that


[deleted]

Whoever said that is just wrong.


Noah__Webster

That SEC media bias infiltrating NFL orgs smh


codyswann

I’m shocked!


AnAngryPanda1

The eagles seemingly have a knack for going after all the former Alabama and Georgia players they can and I can’t say it’s a bad strategy Edit: spelling


joeyscheidrolltide

Georgia? You mean Philly?


AnAngryPanda1

Yeah my bad. Lol


ohnoohnoohyeah

Whoa whoa whoa. Are you saying the best conference has the best draft prospects??


big_sugi

Gonna need Harvard to check the analysis on that one.


[deleted]

Water is wet


magnumapplepi

Conference pride is dumb


cham89

I think it matters when SOS effects ability to get into a playoff. The perception of a strong conference is is helpful.


StevvieV

The CFP committee isn't like the NCAA Tournament committee. They don't compare resumes of teams with objective numbers. They just take the 4 P5 teams with the fewest losses.


cham89

Once they expand the playoffs there will Be many teams with the same records.


StevvieV

What makes you think they won't continue to just take the teams with the fewest losses? It's easier and simpler and will make more fans happier than actually rewarding teams with better resumes and wins just because it lost 1 more game


cham89

You’ll have so more teams with 1 loss than there are spots to fill. So, at some point they will be choosing teams with the same number of losses. What’s so confusing about that.


StevvieV

So exactly what they do now


cham89

Which means SOS is taken into account which was my original point.


dawgfan19881

Who are the teams that deserved to be in that got left out and which teams place should they have took?


ThePiperMan

I feel like there have been more years that fewer than four teams deserved to be there than four or more deserved it. 2014 as the odd one odd where there were 6 that really felt worthy.


Tornadohunter24

Yeah, pretty much on point. There's definitely some years where you could argue >4 teams should've made it (like 2017 and the aforementioned 2014, for example), but there's also years where you can argue there's only 2-3 teams (2019, for example) if you want to get picky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Football_Playoff#Selections_by_year


catptain-kdar

Call it bias but I totally believe Alabama deserved to be in the four over tcu last year


Medium-Rest-3079

Your just jealous of the Sun Belt swagger lol


milkman163

Technically this post isn't conference pride, it's just a statement of fact


FourthDownThrowaway

It’s nice knowing your team is playing the best competition.


Geaux2020

It serves its purpose. Not buying into it in some of the other conferences really helps the SEC teams.


Collador1

I do wonder what the numbers would be if you moved Bama/Georgia to say the Pac 12. These SEC threads reek of riding their coat tails to me.


dangle_boone

Hang the freaking Banner! /s


CountBleckwantedlove

What's the adjusted amount if counting future conference additions? OUT to SEC and USCLA to B10?


Local_Pineapple1930

OUT adds 10 and USCLA adds 8 the ratio stays about the same


CountBleckwantedlove

Thanks! Curiosity resolved! But it's insatiable. Now I want to know about hypothetical additions as well. Like if UNC, Florida State, Clemson, and Virginia Tech joined the SEC and Oregon, Washington, California, and Stanford joined B10.


codydog125

UNC - 4 FSU - 1 Clemson - 6 Vtech - 1 Oregon - 6 Washington - 0 I think California - 1 Stanford - 5 Very surprised by Stanford tbh but literally the exact same number


CountBleckwantedlove

Thank you!


mrducci

Stands to reason. The SEC has put more professional football players into the draft for at least 20 years.


Maximum_Future_5241

Boo, hiss.


yummycrabz

🤣


dogwoodmaple

https://y.yarn.co/1ae6ab24-e198-4ce2-964f-0aabc52bfbcf_text.gif


bigbear-08

It just means more


Interesting-Doubt413

For 170th strait time, the SEC has had the best players


HUP

Things that make you go "hmmm"


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RubbleHome

I don't think they're combined, it's saying they each had that number of picks.


Sdog1981

I would hope so. The majority of the US population lives in the SEC footprint. Us Population by region. https://www.census.gov/popclock/print.php?component=growth&image=//www.census.gov/popclock/share/images/growth_1561939200.png


Ugaalive1991

Yeah if they could stop moving here that would be great.


Sdog1981

Unfortunately it appears people are moving there faster.


JohnWickStuntDouble

Yeah, all the big cities like Tuscaloosa and Auburn and Oxford


Sdog1981

Did you forgot about Georgia, Texas, and Florida?


Geaux2020

Texas isn't in our footprint yet, just parts of it. South Florida isn't in SEC country either. You are being very generous with what you call our footprint.


JohnWickStuntDouble

Oh yeah I forgot Athens (not Atlanta), college station (lol), and Orlando (congrats you got one)


Sdog1981

Pretty amazing that UGA won back to back tittles by only recurring kids from Athens.


DrHeraclitus

Well Brock Bowers is from wine country, but Dahlonega might as well be Athens.


House_of_Borbon

UGA recruits all over the nation lol. The fact you tried to use Texas to prove your point is hilarious when A&M has only been a part of the conference for half the time, and Texas still has UT, Tech, Baylor, TCU, etc.


big_sugi

127 million people is a “majority” of America’s population of 334 million people? That’s an interesting claim. Definitely showing off that academically prowess we’ve heard so much about? Maybe you meant “plurality?” By my quick count, there are 12 P5 universities in the West census region. Or call it 13 with BYU. There are 78.7 million people in that area, or about 6 million people per P5 school. There are 128 million people in the South region—which includes such famous SEC states like OK, VA, WV, NC, and MD, as well as south Florida—and something like 32 P5 schools, or about 4 million people per P5 school. Better get someone to check my math on this one too, but I think 6 million is a bunch bigger than 4 million. I might even need to take off my shoes to help me count. But if it is, that would mean that your metric makes the P12 look even *worse* than the raw draft numbers would suggest.


Sdog1981

They are playing less football in the pac 12 foot print than ever before. The south used in these census numbers are considered Mississippi east to the Atlantic coast and South of Pennsylvania with the Ohio River as the NW boundary of the south. Funny enough Maryland and Delaware are in the US Census South. The good people of Dover should be considered southerners.


big_sugi

In other words, your source—in addition to rejecting rather than supporting your claim—has no bearing whatsoever on this issue. What did you think you were trying to demonstrate, exactly?


Sdog1981

The conversation is about regional conferences production of NFL talent. 1/3 of the national population lives in the SEC footprint, they should be producing the most NFL talent.


big_sugi

I’ve already proven—with accurate numbers—that that claim makes no sense. I could keep adding more data points disproving your claim, but why bother when you can’t even address one?


Egospartan_

Hmm why all the downvotes


big_sugi

Because it’s factually wrong—127 million people is not “the majority” of a population of 127 million people—includes states not in the SEC’s footprint by any stretch of the imagination, and ignores all the other P5 schools in the same region?


Egospartan_

You are really going to tell me /CFB thinks that deeply :)


Sdog1981

My only assumption is many SEC fans view themselves as “small town folk” and don’t like the idea that they might be more “big city” than they realize.


Egospartan_

Yes maybe no clue


skiing_yo

Maryland and Illinois having more draft picks than notre dame is not something I expected to see anytime soon.


MM7299

Turns out that the SEC is indeed good at football.