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On January 14 2020 14:14 Shellshock wrote:
Zero how do you feel about Nebraska being joe burrow’s dream school and being a triple legacy and Nebraska telling him he wasn’t good enough
That was on Mike Riley. Any legacy should have automatically gotten a look at and tried out on the field. That was a HUGE mistake letting him go.
That's the good thing about Frost and his staff. He finds those players and he gets the good ones to commit and can get the best out of anyone who plays for him. This coming year is going to be tough, but we have the pieces to start 7-0.
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On January 14 2020 15:29 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2020 14:14 Shellshock wrote:
Zero how do you feel about Nebraska being joe burrow’s dream school and being a triple legacy and Nebraska telling him he wasn’t good enough That was on Mike Riley. Any legacy should have automatically gotten a look at and tried out on the field. That was a HUGE mistake letting him go. That's the good thing about Frost and his staff. He finds those players and he gets the good ones to commit and can get the best out of anyone who plays for him. This coming year is going to be tough, but we have the pieces to start 7-0.
The Mike Riley era has to be one of the most befuddling moves of the last decade at a major college football school. He had no qualification to get that job in the first place and pretty much nothing about it made sense.
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On January 14 2020 16:04 Shellshock wrote:Show nested quote +On January 14 2020 15:29 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:On January 14 2020 14:14 Shellshock wrote:
Zero how do you feel about Nebraska being joe burrow’s dream school and being a triple legacy and Nebraska telling him he wasn’t good enough That was on Mike Riley. Any legacy should have automatically gotten a look at and tried out on the field. That was a HUGE mistake letting him go. That's the good thing about Frost and his staff. He finds those players and he gets the good ones to commit and can get the best out of anyone who plays for him. This coming year is going to be tough, but we have the pieces to start 7-0. The Mike Riley era has to be one of the most befuddling moves of the last decade at a major college football school. He had no qualification to get that job in the first place and pretty much nothing about it made sense.
We'll look at that hire 10 years from now and still wonder what the fuck that was. We could have gotten Les Miles. So many different ways we could have gone and that was where the heads decided to take the program. Now Moos is getting us a 150mil addition and Frost is bringing in top 20 classes. Almost cracked top 15. Those 3 years set us back 5 years no doubt.
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Is Joe Burrow possibly a giant asshole or is that just the vibe that I'm getting from him through the TV?
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Are you sure its not just his stupid haircut?
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On January 15 2020 05:39 Aveng3r wrote:
Is Joe Burrow possibly a giant asshole or is that just the vibe that I'm getting from him through the TV?
He seems super nice and humble in most of the interviews I’ve seen
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I kinda saw this coming, but fuck...
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makes sense with all the injury problems. great player though
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The CFB carousel continues?
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On January 15 2020 14:00 Shellshock wrote:
makes sense with all the injury problems. great player though
I can't help but think all those star players retiring for health reasons in their primes is becoming a major problem for the league now! Unfortunately, keeping them on the field, with the risk of destroying the rest of their lives would be even worse.
The obvious solution is to hype up young players a lot, which I think the NFL is doing a good job at.
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On January 15 2020 19:31 Slydie wrote:Show nested quote +On January 15 2020 14:00 Shellshock wrote:
makes sense with all the injury problems. great player though I can't help but think all those star players retiring for health reasons in their primes is becoming a major problem for the league now! Unfortunately, keeping them on the field, with the risk of destroying the rest of their lives would be even worse. The obvious solution is to hype up young players a lot, which I think the NFL is doing a good job at.
I think it is way less of a problem that youth football rates are inevitably gonna crater since brain injuries are just the cost of playing football. They happen in other sports too, but you are effectively running your head into a wall on every play for some positions.
this one made sense, Keuchly was fantastic but I feel every time I heard his name it was 50:50 shot of being a concussion or a great play. Then you guys like Vander Esch who are going to have major neck surgery and continue to play which is so mindbogglingly dumb long and short term.
this still all goes back to the NFLPA being dick. No guaranteed contracts is absolutely insane based on the injury rate and how much money the sport brings. It guarantees non-star players will play through really bad injuries and grind themselves to dust. And then their post career healthcare is shit too.
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Guaranteed or not guaranteed contracts makes no difference. The NFL PA gets the same revenue split either way.
Instead, what they should do is set up their own health insurance and pension systems with that money.
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On January 16 2020 02:52 cLutZ wrote:
Instead, what they should do is set up their own health insurance and pension systems with that money.
That sounds reasonable. However, even that isn't a guarantee. The NHLPA had its own pension plan. The guy that set it up, Alan Eagleson, also robbed it.
What the NFLPA needs is a better union leader. When Donald Fehr retired from MLBPA I thought the NFLPA would go after him hard. I think it was a mistake not offering Fehr a truckload of cash and full autonomy as NFLPA leader.
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On January 16 2020 06:29 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On January 16 2020 02:52 cLutZ wrote:
Instead, what they should do is set up their own health insurance and pension systems with that money. That sounds reasonable. However, even that isn't a guarantee. The NHLPA had its own pension plan. The guy that set it up, Alan Eagleson, also robbed it. What the NFLPA needs is a better union leader. When Donald Fehr retired from MLBPA I thought the NFLPA would go after him hard. I think it was a mistake not offering Fehr a truckload of cash and full autonomy as NFLPA leader.
The NFL PA has a lot of unique problems. Obviously one is short careers, but also those short careers are not equally divided among positions. Places like QB and OLine are much more stable than RB, and also higher paid. Plus those are also the positions with the smarter players. So the angry underclass has much less in common with the highly paid players.
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I wonder how American football would look with rugby tackling rules and helmets.
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On January 16 2020 10:33 GTR wrote:
I wonder how American football would look with rugby tackling rules and helmets.
a few years ago the NFL considered a larger field.
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On January 16 2020 10:33 GTR wrote:
I wonder how American football would look with rugby tackling rules and helmets.
By that you mean tackling below waist only, right? I have no idea either...
Other rules like that the play does not end when a ball carrier player is down would probably turn it into a completely different sport.
I have a hard time seeing how to make the game a lot safer given how explosive it is. When all players on the field gives their all in 10 seconds tops with infinite changes, players will get hurt, a lot...
For some positions, even 4 seconds of maximum power is all you need.
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Rugby tackles are below shoulders, not waist, for the record. Beyond that idk, they're completely different sports
Imo the biggest thing protecting rugby players is that everyone on the field has to play a full game on both sides of the ball. You can't have these 300lb dudes going all-in on each other, because those guys can only function for a few seconds at a time, as you said, and rugby demands endurance.
When a game is 80 minutes long with minimal stoppages, that hyper-damaging playstyle and fitness type is just not possible.
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So we now have a situation with Odell Beckham handing out real money to the LSU players on the field after the championship game. The NCAA will certainly be up in arms about this.
Couple of issues -
1. The NCAA really needs to get these rules straightened out. The idea that players CANNOT be compensated for all of their hard work is just ridiculous.
2. Profoundly poor judgement by Beckham.
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