Bryce Young was only #1 because he was so successful with NIL. He was all over TV before he ever stepped foot on that draft stage. Those kinds of "intangibles" are great if you're an agent, or an NFL marketer, or a media person, but they don't do you a whole lot of good on the field. And Bryce won't be the last guy who was overrated because he came across well in a Dr Pepper commercial. We may not even have to wait a year for the next one...
Seahawks had been, at leas until the last few drafts, the worst first round drafters, but they make up for it with late round gems and fantastic UDFA pickups.
great to see my home town getting some recognition, we even have a high school stadium named after Dutch Clark. all high school teams in Pueblo play there, I made some good memories at that place growing. up.
Y’all gotta stop shitting on Goff. For whatever reason, he's one of the most disrespected QBs in the league. He's the truth. Since this video was dropped, he's been one of the best QBs in the entire league. He does his job week in and week out. He does his job week in and week out. Can't blame him for his team's record.
Hue Jackson was a pretty good coach but I didn't think he was mentally prepared for the front office to TANK the first season on purpose to build draft picks. Hell I don't even think they told him that he was a patsy coach. I credit SASHI BROWN for the current team
Khalil Mack is the first player to be an All Pro at defensive end and linebacker in the same season. It was a pleasure watching him in Oakland and an absolute heartbreak when he was traded. I have no idea what Gruden was thinking alienating him. You build a defense around that kind of talent. And you pay him what he wants, no question about it. The biggest lament about him is they got Carr in the 2nd round. The thing that held the Raiders back during the last five years of Carr's tenure behind center was bad defense. Eventually they found Maxx, and payed him handsomely and he deserves every cent of it. How much better is the defense with Mack for another four years if he is not traded for what unfortunately amounted to basically wasted picks in Arnette and tragically on Ruggs? Hard to say. But I bet it is a different story in the AFC West playing the Chiefs twice a year with Khalil Mack than it was with an average corner who was a moron and a kid who was starting to have a bit of shine then made an awful series of decisions under the influence and caused the death of a young woman and her dog. You can't tell me that Mack and Maxx wouldn't have been an absolute wrecking crew.
It's like he was gonna say something significant and break things down. Then only talked about like 4 teams. Thought I was getting some deep analysis here, guess not.
Remember that after the initial attempts to get Saban failed, Alabama thought it had lured Rich Rodriguez from West Virginia. That would have made for a very different outcome.
The "cupcake" opening games just got worse and worse in the BCS era. Wins and game spread (style points) were more important since Strength of Schedule could vary over time with rankings and you had to play a set number of conference games. These use to be the bottom dwellers in the division but then went to lower divisions for warmups. Plus made it even easier to at least qualify for a bowl game. Remember when we had so many bowls that 5-6 teams were going to bowls? Heck Big-12 and SEC complained since they had a championship game that Pac-10 and Big-10 did not have (one more chance to lose to a good team). Once this changed to the committee of people deciding we started getting good out of conference games again as those were used to rank the conferences against each other. Prior to that it was "the Big-10/PAC-10 is weak so no loss teams there were = to one or two loss SEC or Big-12 Teams".
When SC went down. Well I guess I root for Cal this year (whichever one has best chance for Rose Bowl or NC). Then well I guess Oregon for Pac-10 respect. Then my highlight is learning that the secret is eating the grass on the field before deciding what play to call. Thanks' for the memories for that wild year. This is why I hate Harbaugh till this day. The next year he really whammied us.
In my opinion my Seahawks were a big disappointment because EVERYTHING was in our favor after week 8 and we legitimately seemed like the challenge to the Mary Sues (49ers) and like we were better than last season. Then Pete Carroll forgot how to coach and the run defense forgot how to play football. It was so bad in that 2nd half of the season that I even got mad when we won because those games, especially the Commanders game, were way too close for games vs teams we were clearly way better than.
I can do a most shocking moment from almost every game for my Hawks last year: Week 1: The 2nd half. Week 2: Going into overtime despite having a comfy lead with like 3 minutes left or the defense stepping up as much as they did (I didn't mind either of them though). Week 3: Trailing at halftime and letting Andy Dalton throw for almost 400 YARDS. Week 6: The absolute ineptitude of the offense. Every time we had the ball we said "You can have it." Week 7: The offense's ineptitude again but we just barely did enough. It wasn't late season Eagles bad. Week 8: Choking a 14 to 0 1st quarter lead vs the at the time (and eventually fraudulent) best defense in the league and our offense coming back from the dead and getting an AWESOME game winning play with our equally awesome throwbacks. Week 9: I can't talk about this without getting mental pain. At least we got Mike Macdonald from this. Week 10: Barely beating the worst defense in the league and mostly scoring JUST field goals. Week 11: Geno coming back from an injury just for Jason Myers to miss the game winner. I couldn't trust him after that and he accidentally started the Rams run and I can never see him the same way after that. Week 12: I can't have another Thanksgiving without thinking about the almost physical pain from this game. Week 14: The fact that Geno came back from the elbow but couldn't come back from the groin injury. Also the fact that Drew Lock actually played really well in the first and some parts 2nd quarters. Week 16: My Christmas almost being ruined because our defense couldn't stop even the slowest person in America. Week 17: The missed tackles in the 1st half. We couldn't even tackle their tight ends and this was a horrible way to end 2023 and was the game that showed that Pete needed to go. Week 18: Letting the ducking Cardinals out of all teams shred us on the ground and almost losing. Thank goodness Pete is gone.
I’ll say this for Mac. I thought he had great upside, was a good decision maker, and was safe with throwing the ball. But he didn’t have great targets to throw to and my Patriots’ offensive scheme was garbage. He took a little bit more blame than he deserved and that destroyed him. I would like to see him succeed but he needs a good OC to work with him, and a good WR core to help him out. Mac could be a HoF QB if he was given the right system, but the Patriots didn’t do that.
It feels like Deion is only running CO to try and get his kids drafted. He boots out anyone who doesn't do that, and only caters to them. He demands his son is a Top 5 pick at QB, even though he's a 3rd round pick at best, and doesn't teach his kids humility at all. When his kids leave, he will
I think Caleb Williams and JJ McCarthy are going to be the successful QBs of this draft mainly because both were drafted into great situations on win now teams while penix wont get a chance to start till hes almost 30 and Bo Nix and Jayden Daniels got drafted to horrible teams
I hate TCU so much. Lucked into the title the year before and was so trash they gave Colorado credit last year. Hate TCU so much, guess how many titles they wine that year. 0.
