Every draft on the old board, McQueen used to start those threads what you would have done in the moment. Those were all my actual picks in those threads, but I recall them all being fairly popular. You are right there were a ton Devin Lloyd or Tyler Lindenbaum people before the draft because we were picking at 11 and knew there would be better fits/premium positions. Between 11 and 16 a bunch of players we were looking at Chris Olave, Jameson Williams, Jordan Davis, Kyle Hamilton, and Kenyon Green went off the board. Hamilton was the guy I definitely wanted at 11, Olave would have been my 2. I felt like Hamilton probably had a plurality of the board. You tend to get more all in on prospects than me. For example we would both take David Bailey, but I do push back on him a bit as a run defender. It was likewise with Hamilton where I said he probably did have limitations as a deep safety, but he was still my guy. The two guys I was interested in at 16 were Lloyd and Lindenbaum. I liked Lindenbaum more but probably would have drafted Lloyd because LB was seen as a need and C wasn't. The board had thought we were picking at 11 not 16 so there had not been a ton of discussion on them. I probably would have drafted Lloyd because we already Chase Roullier (though like he suffered a career ending injury in like game 4 of that following season) and drafting Lindenbaum would have involved Roullier moving to Guard, but McQueen (by then he had already switched his screen name to GoingCommando--as two months before that draft they announced the name Commanders) was pretty convincing on Lindenbaum. McQueens big miss on that draft was George Pickens. He convinced me not to like him in round 2.
I can remember well prospects I pushed where I got push back -- I got plenty of pushback lol on Hamilton. But agree he probably had a pluarity.
As for McQueen-Going Commando. He got some good takes. But had some big misses like all of us. He's easy to remember as to his takes because like you say I do, he comes in hard for the prospects he liked and was heavy handed with his points. I recall being one of the few people who liked Terry McLaurin and his take in response was "McLaurin sucks" and he had some others echo that. He worshipped Haskins (RIP) and I think that more than anything created some tension between us from that point on because that conversation would arise again later from time to time. He liked Kyle Trask a lot. I recall one of his last posts on QBs included he thinks Kenny Pickett will be elite and also the more he watches Jayden Daniels he doesn't see it with him. He would get pissy if they took a player he didn't like ala Brandon Coleman in that last draft.
He of course had some good takes too. He pushed Lloyd and sold me on him. I recall he was a big Deebo guy. He pushed Garrett Wilson a lot and then oddly backed off. Yeah he was a big Linderbaum guy but I didn't want him that early in the draft and I wasn't alone on that but clearly he's a really good player. Big Jordan Davis guy. He was a big Payne guy -- I duked it out with him over that one versus Vea, Fitzpatrick, James before the draft. But the key with him is agree or disagree he would go into detail about why he liked or didn't like a player. I enjoy that a lot. Someone just saying they like or don't like a player without explaining why, while is cool of course, does nothing for me.
The other thing I had-have in common with him is I don't like to plant a flag for or against a player based on highlights or conversation, i got to watch the player enough to get a feel for them. For example I've mentioned my iniital takes on Concepcion and Boston well over a month ago. But I didn't feel like I had enough to watch to land on hard takes. I liked both superficially. But I need to watch more. I can't wait for that dude, forget his name, who on youtube ultimately puts every game back to back, all plays, for some players. That is so cool. And makes a world of difference for me. It's part of why I fell harder for example for Skattebo. Nothing beats watching 8-12 games with every play of a player. It was part of what made me fall for both Jayden and Maye before that draft, someone posted every game back to back, I probably watched those games at least three times for each.
