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FearlessF

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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #154 on: August 28, 2019, 01:14:52 PM »
ask Buddy Ryan
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #155 on: August 28, 2019, 01:30:13 PM »
Quote from: GopherRock on August 28, 2019, 11:36:06 AM
Ask Jared Goff how much of a dumbass Jeff Fisher was
Jeff Fisher didn't want to take Jared Goff just like he didn't want to take Vince Young. He got over-ruled by his owners both times. I'm pretty sure Jared Goff feels like Fisher is a huge dumbass. He's too classy of a guy to say anything like that publicly. Wouldn't be surprised at all if Goff talks shit about Fisher in private though.

Jeff Fisher tried his best to kill Jarred Goff's NFL career just like he killed Vince Young's once promising NFL career. Thankfully for Goff, the Rams owner has a brain and realized wait...my coach I hired actually sucks- and he fired Fisher's ass and went out and got a hell of a coach to groom Goff in Sean McVay.
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #156 on: August 28, 2019, 01:33:50 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on August 28, 2019, 01:14:52 PM
ask Buddy Ryan
Buddy Ryan's problem was his freaking ego. Maybe the best defensive co-ordinator of all-time. But boy was he a lousy head coach. If he wasn't such an ego-maniac and if he had just stayed in his lane- who the hell knows how many Super Bowls those Bears teams could've won. Those Bears defenses were very good after Buddy left, but they were never quite the same.
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #157 on: August 28, 2019, 01:37:25 PM »
Boy, I sure do wish you B10-types scheduled more like the mighty Gators....
Tulsa?  South Alabama?  Idaho?  


Good grief.
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #158 on: August 28, 2019, 01:43:36 PM »
Quote from: MrNubbz on August 28, 2019, 08:39:00 AM
Obviously Kareem disappeared but IMO Brown was the head scratcher.Thought he would/should have made a much better accounting
I think Kareem Walker might've just been a case of a kid peaking early and then not improving or getting any better and everyone else in his age group just passing him bye. Walker had standout freshman and sophomore years, which is why he was a way too early 5* on 247's first rankings, and then he just kind of fell off a cliff as a junior and senior and he saw his rankings tumble from 5* and top 20 player to I believe being ranked like in the 370's. That's a huge tumble downwards.

Carlos Brown should've been way better than he was. That one is a head scratcher to me as well. He was an explosive athlete with great burst and top end speed. He played QB and DB in high school though, never even played the RB position. Might've been a case where he just didn't have the football IQ as a RB to be successful. A lot of that is instinct and just a feel for the position. He never had that. Incredible athlete though.

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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #159 on: August 28, 2019, 01:49:14 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 28, 2019, 12:24:02 AM
I remember hearing about Grady and purposely looking for him in UM games and was like "uhhhh, he's fat."  And slow.  And didn't run people over.  And wasn't shifty. 
Odd.
If you look back in like Rivals' RB rankings from like 2002-2008, lot of RB's with Grady's body type were rated 5*'s. The bigger power backs were in more demand back then I suppose.

Grady was probably rated 5*'s just because of his sheer domination in high school. He put up crazy numbers but he was playing mostly crap competition. He wasn't playing the best the state of Michigan had to offer, not even close to it. He came to Michigan overweight, kept ballooning up and he wound up getting up to almost 250 and getting moved to fullback. He was fat. And slow. And not shifty. And he didn't run anyone over. Like you said. Odd.
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #160 on: August 28, 2019, 01:51:08 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 28, 2019, 01:37:25 PM
Boy, I sure do wish you B10-types scheduled more like the mighty Gators....
Tulsa?  South Alabama?  Idaho? 


Good grief.
Michigan opened with ND last year on the road at night. And opened with Florida the year before that. And two years before that opened with Utah on the road at night. We're due a patsy for the opener this year.
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #161 on: August 28, 2019, 01:53:42 PM »
http://www.startribune.com/min...&om_mid=405701065&refresh=true

Yesterday the Minneapolis Park Board tried to put tailgating out of business at the East River Flats, neglecting to consider that it's the only tailgating (and only day-of-game parking) on the East Bank. The attempt didn't end well. 

It feels more like a stay than a pardon, but I'll take it. 
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #162 on: August 28, 2019, 01:54:27 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 28, 2019, 01:37:25 PM
Boy, I sure do wish you B10-types scheduled more like the mighty Gators....
Tulsa?  South Alabama?  Idaho? 


Good grief.
like UT Martin and Towson?
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #163 on: August 28, 2019, 01:55:08 PM »
Quote from: GopherRock on August 28, 2019, 01:53:42 PM
http://www.startribune.com/min...&om_mid=405701065&refresh=true

Yesterday the Minneapolis Park Board tried to put tailgating out of business at the East River Flats, neglecting to consider that it's the only tailgating (and only day-of-game parking) on the East Bank. The attempt didn't end well.

It feels more like a stay than a pardon, but I'll take it.
just hold out until after the Sharkwater North party!
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #164 on: August 28, 2019, 07:56:45 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 28, 2019, 01:37:25 PM
Boy, I sure do wish you B10-types scheduled more like the mighty Gators....
Tulsa?  South Alabama?  Idaho?

Good grief.
Not to stick up for my home-town team or anything, but Tulsa went into South Bend and beat Notre Dame (who finished 8-5) not too many years ago.  And Texas had to struggle to beat them 28-21 in Austin last year.

The Notre Dame win (28-27) was in 2010.  They finished that season by blowing out then-10-3 Hawaii in the Hawaii Bowl.

In 2011, they beat UCF in Orlando and lost 21-24 to BYU in the Armed Forces Bowl

In 2012, they beat Iowa State in the Liberty Bowl.  Also that season they beat UCF in the C-USA CCG.

In 2013-14, they went 5-19, but they beat a Colorado State team that finished 8-6 in '13.

In 2015 they played OU pretty close in Norman, and lost to Va. Tech 55-52 in the Independence Bowl.

In 2016, they beat UCF again and blew out Central Michigan in the Miami Beach Bowl.

In 2017-18, they did the 5-19 thing again.  But there was that close loss to Texas in there.

My point is not that they are great.  But they do periodically jump up and beat someone that they have no business beating.  I have no idea how good they will be this year, but I think they are not an automatic "cupcake" OOC opponent.
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #165 on: August 28, 2019, 08:22:30 PM »
Quote from: Mdot21 on August 28, 2019, 01:33:50 PM
Buddy Ryan's problem was his freaking ego. Maybe the best defensive co-ordinator of all-time. But boy was he a lousy head coach. If he wasn't such an ego-maniac and if he had just stayed in his lane- who the hell knows how many Super Bowls those Bears teams could've won. Those Bears defenses were very good after Buddy left, but they were never quite the same.
Yes, they were good on defense even after Buddy, but the entire defense (except the Fridge) and even some of the offense hated Ditka - another egomaniac.

In that strike year, Ditka said the "real" Bears were the substitute players on the field, and not the ones on strike. And then there was Flutie... That was the end.

I blame him more than anything for the Bears not winning more, like the '49'ers did in those days.
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #166 on: August 28, 2019, 08:45:38 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on August 28, 2019, 01:54:27 PM
like UT Martin and Towson?
Left out the Citadel
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Re: There's honest to God football this week
« Reply #167 on: August 28, 2019, 10:40:09 PM »
Quote from: OrangeAfroMan on August 28, 2019, 01:37:25 PM
Boy, I sure do wish you B10-types scheduled more like the mighty Gators....
Tulsa?  South Alabama?  Idaho? 


Good grief.
Purdue plays 11 P5 schools this year and zero FCS. And we're not even one of the "good" B1G schools.
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