Ketch's 10 Thoughts From the Weekend (The true task that awaits Tom Herman...)
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For depressing movies, don't forget The Piano. After seeing that film, the Mrs. and I decided we needed to watch Schindler's List again to cheer ourselves up.
Well those people are unrealistic. I guess to me it just comes down to i don't think last years team would have been a 5 win team and lost to Kansas under Herman/staff. I'm not expecting a miracle year one but this program struggling to eek out 7-8 wins under a big time coach would be subpar without some circumstances like big injuries.
No, and neither are the rest of the men who played 50-60 years ago, because the size, strength, and speed of human beings has changed everything about the game. Hell, there were linebackers and linemen who were not as big as some of the qb's and rb's of today. However, on a relative basis he was one of the very best qb's playing at that time. And, against comparable competition he stood out; and, he outplayed the others well enough to win five nfl championships.
I think all the attacks are because of your avatar. Change back to previous one.
Just kidding of course. Keep up good work, my son.
Bolden can't get off the bench at Duke because he's apparently lazy. If Bamba's wired mentally from the neck up and he appears to be, then he won't have any problem playing at Duke next season.
Starr wasn't good enough to even be mentioned in same sentence, other than being a Packers player.
The requirements of the position are light years different.
I'm already thinking about my next one.I think all the attacks are because of your avatar. Change back to previous one.
Just kidding of course. Keep up good work, my son.
Faclons offense is very impressive with crazy skill position overall, but let's not forget who they played against the last couple games at HOME. one of the worst pass defenses you will ever see in GB (31st against in yardage) and a Seattle defense who is much weaker on the road and without what i would argue is the glue of their secondary in Thomas (to the point they excluding the Rams and SF, they gave up an average of 279 yards a game passing on the road (i know you can't exclude teams in reality, but for reference, that ypg is more than the worst pass D overall)). I'd be surprised if a Bellichick D that has been pretty good overall and just throttled Pitt gave up 34 to Atlanta. of course, i was at the super bowl where an over confident pats team gave up 29 to to Jake Delhomme.
I feel exactly as you do regarding the one and done thing, but a lot of it is timing. If Kevin Durant's "year" had been the one before his actual year, Texas might have won the NCAA. It was in overtime to go to the final four as it was. And I think we made the final 8 the year after Durant. But we just weren't as good during the year he was here.
Man, I disagree with you on Starr, assuming you take him and give him modern training, nutrition, being coached in the current systems, etc...Obviously you can't take Bart from 1966 and Marty McFly him 50 years to 2016 and expect he would play. I doubt if Bob Lilly from 1966 could play today, because of course he would weigh between 240 and 260 at defensive tackle.
But I don't think that means you say that QB X, Y, or Z of today is better than Bart Starr. Would QB X, Y, or Z be as good if he were born in 1936 as he is right now having been born in 1987?
I will give you this point, however. A Bart type QB today would need commensurate talent as he had in the 1960's around him to win Super Bowls.
It's just a different game with respect to the quarterback position. The game is much more complicated and the level of chaos that quarterbacks deal with in terms of opposing defenses is night and day. It's chess vs. checkers.
Julio was a terror in the first game. I hope that his foot issues are healed by SB
Ok, but I think Bart Starr could handle the complications of today's game if he had come up in the systems of today's game, like the quarterbacks you say he isn't as good as. And I think those quarterbacks have the same problems you are saying Bart would have.
Like a guy who catches 90 passes a year in today's offenses could be called better than Bob Hayes, who might catch 40 passes in a good year. I just don't necessarily buy it.
I totally get your point that no national headliners might be available but the Bleacher Report picks up: Kyle Allen (obvious), Cooper Bateman and David Cornwell (Alabama), Jeremiah Briscoe (Sam Houston), Anu Solomon (Arizona), Thomas Sirk (Duke), Shane Morris (Michigan) and Max Browne (USC). I haven't really followed any of them and am not sure if they are true competition for Buechele or not but I can also turn the question around: if Buechele sinks against USC who does Herman turn to on the bench without gulping?
Ehlinger.
None of those other guys jump out at me, but if one would come, I would certainly consider it.
That did happen, but that three James hit at the end of regulation was pretty sick.
Klopp clearly likes that style of guy for sure. I think that's the kind of player the Liverpool fan base identifies with too.
Fultz, Jackson, Ball probably go 1-2-3... but there are superstar talents still waiting after.
My dream is for Sacramento to win the lottery and then we flip the pick on them.
