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I imagine he's low, because you're just drafting potential. Newsome had in no way polished him. It's a shame.
No, blame Marcus FOR Glennon. If he and Ike had had a brain between them, Glennon never would have seen the field.
It's a 10th of a second, and the clocks at the combine, while stopped electronically, are started manually. There's a ton of error in these numbers. Never really understood the excitement over them, myself. If a guy plays fast (and you can tell when you watch them play), then they're fast, regardless of what some guy with a stopwatch says.
I hadn't heard that! I bet his skill with timeout management is also a great draw.
It's a really long flight.
I think some of these guys want to be closer to home to make it easier for their parents to come to games and stuff. a 1hr or 4-5 hr car ride is a major difference in that regard.
Whatever it means, I take it as a good sign that changes are occuring. Our o-line has been inept for a while now (aside from one pretty good year when it was seniors across the board). Changes need to come, and this is certainly a sign of them.
It would be karmic justice if they got hammered after the UM guy (Paul Dee) who was the one who ran Miami during most of the Shapiro era, lectured USC about compliance during the Bush case. I mean, they took USC behind the woodshed for one player.
On one hand, Miami's already had 2 years of bowl bans which has kept them out of the ACC Championship. The reasonable part of me says they've suffered enough, and the NCAA is way too heavy-handed.
On the other hand, it's Miami, and that stupid bird thing and all their fair-weather fans can go choke on it.
In all seriousness though, it's tough for me to have a ton of sympathy for them. Crap like boats-n-hos go hand-in-hand with "swagger," and when you build your program with that mentality, you eventually have to pay the piper. Plus, it's Miami. Screw them.
It appears you have me at a disadvantage, vtaero.
I don't know how Logan is going to respond next year. Part of me thinks he will improve dramatically with better coaching, but on the other hand, we still could have a lack of quality skill positions around him, and we really have no idea how the o-line is going to be next year. I mean, we all hope the line gets dramatically better, but can we be sure it will just turn-around all of a sudden? Likewise, the running game was a mess last year, but do we know new coaches are going to improve it immediately? There could very easily be growing pains there.
I'm certain that Logan has all the physical tools to succeed, and he clearly has the want-to to be successful. I just worry if the whole offense can gel into an effective unit in one off-season, which could limit his productivity, regardless of any gains he makes this off-season.
Are you serious? I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or deserving of ridicule....
I just wonder what the point of being in a conference with a team is, if we never play them... With only 1 rotating intra-division game a year, the two divisions might as well be separate conferences.
Joe Flacco >> Trent Dilfer. It's not even a contest. Flacco was Superbowl MVP and had an aging defense. Dilfer was not, and had one of the best defenses ever dragging him there.
I hate the reversion by the ACC because it means we practically never play teams from the other division now (aside from BC, and lets get serious, no one gets excited for that game). With 7 teams per division, 1 set intra-division 'rival', and only 8 games, it means you've got 1 game per year to rotate between 6 teams. It'll be over a decade in between marquee home games against teams like FSU and Clemson. Ugh.
Sorry, off topic, I know, but I just wanted to complain.
Some Wahoo defensive linemen might not have loved DeChristopher...
The article doesn't suggest trading him. The scenario suggested is that the Ravens, not wanting to sign Flacco to a deal making him the highest-paid qb in the league, Franchise him, and then the Browns offer him some absurd amount of money ($30million/year). The Ravens then can't match that, so Flacco goes to the Browns, and the Ravens get 2 first rounders from the Browns as compensation). I don't see that happening, myself.
You can't just 'make it aerodynamic.' It's still got to be a big flat TV screen. Not like you can shape it into an airfoil or something. I think you'd just have to reinforce the crap out of it if you wanted to go that way, but you'd probably be better off finding another place for it.
There may be riots in the streets of Baltimore if they let Flacco go after being Superbowl MVP. As much as I love Tyrod, I can't see this happening.
Excellent analysis.
Any word if he's getting that stem-cell treatment? I heard somewhere that Andrews treated AP with stem cells removed from AP's own hip bone, and it really helped the healing process, and that RGIII was getting the same treatment. It sounds cool, and I was just wondering if anyone had heard something like that.
Anthony Shegog was first one to sign. I really hope he becomes a contributor, because his name is so awesomely Lovecraftian. Photoshop a football helmet on Cthulhu or something
According to Twitter, he's coming as a walk-on
I don't particularly care where a player is drafted, I just care what they do in college. Look at Tyrod - he was a 6th round pick, but he was one of the best qbs we ever had here. So using that to evaluate a player's college success is pretty flimsy.
What is interesting is the disparity between the two schools - one has 22 busts, the other only 8. I'm not entirely sure how bust is defined here, but clearly Bama utilized its talent better.
I wonder how much Kendall already knows about the system. If Kyle has been coaching him up on the side a little, or at least getting him up to speed on the terminology and philosophy of the defense, perhaps he can have a highly accelerated learning curve. For me, knowing the scheme is the big issue that could keep him off the field the first few games in favor of Manning. The guy is clearly talented enough to go.