100% agree DJ, like i told someone on facebook, if the worst you can say about someone is that they smoked some weed in college, then you really have nothing.

 

i know right lol, all i could think of was the scene from platoon, thought it was pretty funny but at the same time felt bad for him since you just knew this was going to become the main story of the draft.

you know damn well philbin wouldn't have pulled the trigger, it just amazes me that we got a #1 talent, at #13 at a need position. i still cant believe it to be honest, this never happens to us.

 

This was an absolute best case scenario for me. I kept saying that we just needed to sit at 13 and wait for the BPA who shouldn't be there slip right to us and take him regardless of position. To have it be the top OT is just unbelievable. I really want to see us keep Tannehill upright and some holes for our RBs. As a Dolphins fan, I am pretty shocked that I like the pick. Doesn't happen too often.

 

I'm excited to have him. Yesterday afternoon, if anyone would have said that we could get Tunsil, a player talked about as the #1 choice for a while, at #13, virtually everyone would have jumped at it. I'm not going to let the fact that he was caught smoking weed make me feel bad about it. As you said, the majority of the other guys have done the same thing and just not gotten caught, or have gotten caught and their college kept it quiet.

For one year at least, we now have an OL where 4/5 guys are really solid, and our worst starter is whoever wins the training camp battle between Bushrod, Urbick, and Turner. That's a big step up from where we were.

 

Man, I hope you guys are right, but this seems like a dion Jordan suspension waiting to happen.

 

Its been estimated that 75%+ of NFL players smoke pot. Most of them just don't get caught. Tunsil was dumb enough to do so on a vid when he was a freshman in college. Hopefully, hes smarter from now on.

 

With that picture posted yesterday the NFL will be on him like super glue.

Personally I wish they would get rid of the pot rule in the NFL

 

Hopefully the knowledge that he's more likely to be tested helps him stay clean. We'll find out.

 

Never failed a drug test in college. Didn't fail the drug test at the combine. Either this stuff is truly behind him, or he is smart enough to not get caught with it.

 

I hope it is the former!! He does seem likeable, but where does he play today?

 

Really any OL spot besides Center.

 

If we can cajole Branden Albert to play LG, then we REALLY have something with our OL. Assuming we stay fairly healthy.
Tunsil, Albert, Pouncey, Turner/Urbik/Bushrod, James...that has the makings of a fine OL.

If Albert isn't interested in moving inside, then we are still fine, but with Albert's experience at LG and Tunsil's future at LT, it just makes sense.

 

Rookie LT is a bit scary. Would be different if Wake was 100% and could teach him how to handle NFL speed rushers in camp. Have a former Pro-Bowl LT right now, put Tunsil at LG let him learn the speed of the NFL and move him outside when BA breaks.

 

Mario Williams will be good for him to work with.

 

While true, I would rather let him learn a year sandwiched between two pro bowler than sit out on the edge and get wrecked as a rookie.

 

Well he did look like Darth Toker, with sound effects to boot, lol.

 

Well it wasn't just the mask. There were already questions about him because of Nkemdiche dropping a dime on him about the hotel incident. Then the photo dropped and people got scared.

Let's see how he plays.

 

It's risk assessment. He was smoking weed 2 years ago. Okay. He was at a party where Nkemdiche jumps out of a window just months ago. Where he was smoking synthetic MJ (allegedly) and cited for MJ. Now, that doesn't mean Tunsil was also smoking the stuff, but he was there. And today, he looks like Reggie Ledoux from True Detective and the gas mask.

I'm saying there is absolutely reason for people to be risk averse here. One, it could be kids being kids. Or, it could be red flags. He could be Mike Pouncy, who does drugs but doesn't do anything stupid and doesn't get caught. Or he's Josh Gordon. Good kid, does drugs, keeps getting caught.

 

Making the rounds

 

Either way, classic TBaum selection.

You can't deny the talent, but the twitter thing is utter mindlessness. I don't care what peoples' stances are on smoking weed. Then you pile on the improper benefits. Look, we can harp on rules that may be outdated, but they're still the rules and if they're followed can earn these guys millions. To not be able to follow them just makes me scratch my head.

 

If there were a law passed which stated you were no longer allowed to listen to music, would you happily comply and throw out all of your Taylor Swift albums or would you call BS and listen anyway? Do you ever drive over the speed limit because literally everyone else around you does?

There's a difference between just laws and unjust laws, and in a sense that's sort of what this country is founded on. Not saying our new tackle is a revolutionary or anything, but looking at the big picture is better than saying "It's a dumb rule, but it's still a rule". I'm glad our front office looked at the big picture.

 

The offense should be flying higher this year.

 

Horrible comparison, but to play your little game if it potentially hurt my ability to earn a living in the NFL, then yes. Why would I want to jeopardize that? That kind of stupidity cost him $20 million in guaranteed money over what? To smoke some weed? Let's see ....... $20 million or weed? Hmmmmmmm such a hard decision.

We're not talking about just or unjust - what we're really talking about is entitlement. Unless of course he's self-medicating which is a whole other ball of wax.

 

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If
You had a wonderful driving job that paid a ton of money as long as you never got a ticket would you still speed?

 

Are you asking a grown man or an 18 year old BMOC?

 

Not sure how you know he's going to step right in at guard and be a stud from day one
How soon we forget how our pro bowl center stepped in to play guard and it didn't work out so well

People have this idea that players can just be switched from positions they've been playing
and expect improvements that more times than not don't happen

 

I am psyched about the pick!

It would be awesome to see the whole stadium wearing that gas mask after a TD or something. They can call it the Tunsilnator or something.

He can market it and sell it in head shops. A big Tunsilnator with A Phin logo on it.

 

I love the film on this guy, he makes it look really easy. I hope Albert will step inside to prolong his career

 

Or move to RT, and slide James inside to RG, James has the least talent among the 3 Ts, so I'd rather him slide to RG until Albert is gone, or even play Tunsil at RT until Albert is gone or injured, whichever comes first, but in this pecking order James is at the bottom and should therefor be the player that moves inside imo.

Albert or Tunsil playing inside just seems like a waste of talent to me.

 

I like the idea of Tunsil becoming aclumated to the speed of the NFL during his rookie season at LG.

 

but why mess around with more than one player ? if you move Tunsil to LG no one else has to learn another position, i realize Albert has played LG before but that was a long time ago, just let Tunsil learn to play LG , he just has to get used to less space, thats it stance will be about the same and if he really is that talented than the transition should be easy for him

 

Plenty of BMOC have done it the right way. The guy put out an analogy to make a point so I showed how wrong the analogy was. If you have opportunity staring you in the face, and you do something to mess up that opportunity, you don't get to use the excuse, Oh I'm 19 I'm supposed to do stupid stuff, don't punish me for it.

Fame is arguing that these kids should decide which rules are just and unjust and break those that are unjust. Sorry, doesn't work that way. NFL doesn't like you smoking weed. Go ahead and do it, but pay the price for it.

Don't cry if they take away millions because of it. Tunsil apparently lost millions and so there it is.

 

Of course plenty have, but that doesn't mean teenage boys aren't more apt to do something stupid then grown men.

 

Are they selling those in the pro shop?