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imo if david was 15 lbs heavier we'd be talkin about him as a top 20 pick...
imo if david was 15 lbs heavier we'd be talkin about him as a top 20 pick...
I haven't been following closely, so I'll trust the judgment of those here:
Who have been the most surprising (hype as a measurement?)
Who have been the most underwhelming (hype as a measurement?)
If you could choose one player from each position, who would it be?
mayock just said weeden had a torn labrum as a baseball player and never had surgery...don't shoot the messenger but i don't think torn labrums heal by themselves
Brandon Weeden himself says that's not true. Never tore anything, he says. He contacted me privately to let me know that because I said the same thing Mayock did.
well then mayock just told a fib...or weeden did to you...one or the other...
As for the mechanics Rodgers had to be "de-Tedfordized" from, the most basic were in the setup and delivery. The way he held the football way up by his right ear, which was always a Tedford trademark. It was an advantage in Tedford's system, but a hinderance in the NFL. They had to break him of it. There's an article on it around here somewhere that I posted in another thread. I'll find it and insert it here....
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/136856133.html
Alabama has won at least one national championship in every single decade since the 1960's, and have already started off a 6th straight decade with another via the pummeling of LSU a few weeks ago. Alabama football stands on it's own above all else. I probably don't need to speak on it. Even I'm not qualified to put the mecca of college football into proper perspective, and I've been a part of it for almost 50 years.
Alabama has never worried about any of UM's, UF's, or FSU's success. If it wasn't for an Alabama guy to begin with (Howard Schnellenberger) the University of Miami wouldn't even have a football team. An Alabama guy built that program from scratch and saved it. Schnellenberger was Bear's OC at Bama, and learned from the best program builder there's ever been as to how to build a winner from scratch. I'm old enough to remember when Miami was nothing but homecoming fodder for the real blue-bloods of college football. We scheduled Miami for the first ever televised game in the history of Bryant-Denny Stadium... a 30-0 beatdown of the Canes. I believe Bama is somewhere around 14-3 all time vs. Miami. The point is, Miami fans need not ever forget that a Bama coach is why they ever became relevant in the first place.
Same for FSU. Bobby Bowden is an Alabama guy (Birmingham) born and breed. His dream job was always to coach at Alabama. Bobby Bowden grew up an Alabama fan, and still is. Still comes to the games as a matter of fact.
As for the mechanics Rodgers had to be "de-Tedfordized" from, the most basic were in the setup and delivery. The way he held the football way up by his right ear, which was always a Tedford trademark. It was an advantage in Tedford's system, but a hinderance in the NFL. They had to break him of it. There's an article on it around here somewhere that I posted in another thread. I'll find it and insert it here....
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/136856133.html
Alabama has won at least one national championship in every single decade since the 1960's, and have already started off a 6th straight decade with another via the pummeling of LSU a few weeks ago. Alabama football stands on it's own above all else. I probably don't need to speak on it. Even I'm not qualified to put the mecca of college football into proper perspective, and I've been a part of it for almost 50 years.
Big-10 quarterbacks have nothing to do with this either, as the Big-10 has been producing legitimate NFL quarterbacks for over half a century. Along with the Pac-10 and SEC. Hell, your boy Tim Tebow is the worst passer to come out of the SEC in years, yet even he somehow gets it done in the NFL better than any QB the Big-12 has ever produced. I wasn't lumping in Big-12 quarterbacks, or the lackthereof....I was singling it out. Josh Freeman isn't a legitimate franchise quarterback, or even very close to it. I had that argument last year.
mayock just said weeden had a torn labrum as a baseball player and never had surgery...don't shoot the messenger but i don't think torn labrums heal by themselves
His shoulder is a known issue, not sure if it was a torn labrum, but it's the reason he had to give up baseball. He's said that it doesn't effect how he throws a football as opposed to a baseball. His physical at the combine will be extremely important.
I've always liked Spence despite his lack of size, but with the understanding that he's a niche player, and won't be a fit for every team. He hits a lot harder than 228 pounds. He's just raw as a turnip like all the talent that comes out of Miami over the past several years. I think he wants to be coached up, and will at the very least make a good special teams player.