re: Falcons free agency 2023

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If Jalen Carter is on the board at #8 and the Falcons pass, I’ll just stop watching them for good. There is nothing wrong with Carter, except the fact that he watched one of his best friends die.

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The questions about Carter started popping up before the Ohio State game, which was before the wreck. I think it is fair for NFL teams to wonder what kind of effort they'll get from him every week. College offensive linemen should not have been able to block him. When he's fully engaged, like he was against Tennessee and LSU, he's a #1 overall type of game wrecker. He was sucking wind and was shockingly ineffective against Ohio State. They had a good team, but they should not have been able to take him out of the game so easily.

His talent suggests he should have been a far more consistently dominant player at Georgia than he was. (ETA: Especially in 2022. In 2021, the Georgia DL was so absurdly deep with NFL talent that you can't hold it against him for being part of a rotation.)