Daily Short #190, June 5th, 2018: Three Tweets
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1) I hate ALS. Lou Gehrig's disease. It's ravaged my family in ways I couldn't have imagined prior to 2012. That was when my old man started getting far too winded walking the dog up the hill to start his daily routine.
Six months of specialists after later -- six months of second and third and fourth and fifth opinions later, six months of self-talk saying there HAD to be another explanation, that it was Lyme disease or a chemical imbalance or just ... anything else -- we had to come to terms with the fact that it really was ALS. Our remaining time together was about to be cut painfully short.
My thoughts and prayers go out to former 49ers TE Dwight Clark's family and friends. I'm heartbroken to say I know just how they feel.
2) Alright, on a lighter note: Jake Smith. Holy cow, the highlights.
That's a 6-foot-plus, 190-pound junior in high school. The Phoenix and Scottsdale area is not exactly a dead-zone for recruits. My previous research, in fact, has shown it on par with elite prospect concentrations along the lines of Denver, the Bay Area, and other regional pockets amid otherwise dead zones. Notre Dame prep is a 5A powerhouse within that region. Smith is not exactly playing versus inferior competition.
Let's make no mistake, Smith will surely play receiver at Texas. However, Smith said in the interview below that the Texas staff sees him in a role that operates both out of the backfield, "mostly on jet sweeps" and out at wide receiver. That means that the see him the the Texas' offense slot WR role.
Already 6-1, we'll see how Smith's abilities are on intermediate patterns and such, but his feet on screens (and just in general) indicate he'll handle option routes with ease. This sort of player on the offense can be a force nature in college football, especially in a league filled with other spread teams. See how Louisiana Tech used Trent Taylor. It's the way that team used Trent Taylor, in that epic 2016 season, that led to what fellow WR Carlos Henderson would end up achieving himself.
He's one of my favorite commitments to the Longhorns since I started working at OB. His highlights are simply sensational. I wrote about him in my "Instant Analysis" from yesterday, but I can't get enough of watching his HUDL.
In fact, I made my wife watch Sunday night. I wasn't surprised to find that she automatically thought the video had to have been altered or sped up. It's that preposterous to see a prospect THAT fast with that kind of open-field vision, while also being THAT sick in adjusting to the football in-flight as a vertical WR. I've probably watched his HUDL four times today. It's must-see TV.
Texas fans owe it to themselves to partake in the pleasures of Smith's junior highlight reel.
Life really is too short not to.
3) I know that Sooners fans are hoping that QB Kyler Murray comes back to play at Oklahoma, but how can that be possible after being drafted No.9 overall by the Oakland Athletics? Returning to school to put your body at risk and play football as a college player vs. the money associated with a Top 10 MLB contract is a laughable and cockamamie action. I don't care how much folks say that playing QB at OU is his "dream" and he can't turn his back on it. It's time for Oklahoma to move on.
Furthermore, it's laughable that the NFL Network's Ian Rappaport would say that OU (and especially the NFL) has potentially lost a future star. Murray hasn't shown anything to prove he would have been capable of holding Baker Mayfield's jock as a replacement college player, much less a future NFL "star".
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1) I hate ALS. Lou Gehrig's disease. It's ravaged my family in ways I couldn't have imagined prior to 2012. That was when my old man started getting far too winded walking the dog up the hill to start his daily routine.
Six months of specialists after later -- six months of second and third and fourth and fifth opinions later, six months of self-talk saying there HAD to be another explanation, that it was Lyme disease or a chemical imbalance or just ... anything else -- we had to come to terms with the fact that it really was ALS. Our remaining time together was about to be cut painfully short.
My thoughts and prayers go out to former 49ers TE Dwight Clark's family and friends. I'm heartbroken to say I know just how they feel.
2) Alright, on a lighter note: Jake Smith. Holy cow, the highlights.
That's a 6-foot-plus, 190-pound junior in high school. The Phoenix and Scottsdale area is not exactly a dead-zone for recruits. My previous research, in fact, has shown it on par with elite prospect concentrations along the lines of Denver, the Bay Area, and other regional pockets amid otherwise dead zones. Notre Dame prep is a 5A powerhouse within that region. Smith is not exactly playing versus inferior competition.
Let's make no mistake, Smith will surely play receiver at Texas. However, Smith said in the interview below that the Texas staff sees him in a role that operates both out of the backfield, "mostly on jet sweeps" and out at wide receiver. That means that the see him the the Texas' offense slot WR role.
Already 6-1, we'll see how Smith's abilities are on intermediate patterns and such, but his feet on screens (and just in general) indicate he'll handle option routes with ease. This sort of player on the offense can be a force nature in college football, especially in a league filled with other spread teams. See how Louisiana Tech used Trent Taylor. It's the way that team used Trent Taylor, in that epic 2016 season, that led to what fellow WR Carlos Henderson would end up achieving himself.
He's one of my favorite commitments to the Longhorns since I started working at OB. His highlights are simply sensational. I wrote about him in my "Instant Analysis" from yesterday, but I can't get enough of watching his HUDL.
In fact, I made my wife watch Sunday night. I wasn't surprised to find that she automatically thought the video had to have been altered or sped up. It's that preposterous to see a prospect THAT fast with that kind of open-field vision, while also being THAT sick in adjusting to the football in-flight as a vertical WR. I've probably watched his HUDL four times today. It's must-see TV.
Texas fans owe it to themselves to partake in the pleasures of Smith's junior highlight reel.
Life really is too short not to.
3) I know that Sooners fans are hoping that QB Kyler Murray comes back to play at Oklahoma, but how can that be possible after being drafted No.9 overall by the Oakland Athletics? Returning to school to put your body at risk and play football as a college player vs. the money associated with a Top 10 MLB contract is a laughable and cockamamie action. I don't care how much folks say that playing QB at OU is his "dream" and he can't turn his back on it. It's time for Oklahoma to move on.
Furthermore, it's laughable that the NFL Network's Ian Rappaport would say that OU (and especially the NFL) has potentially lost a future star. Murray hasn't shown anything to prove he would have been capable of holding Baker Mayfield's jock as a replacement college player, much less a future NFL "star".
