Did Wojo Just Call Connor Cook a Tool?
Of course, Wojo is smart enough not to do it directly, and his purpose is merely to evoke a reader's chuckle, but I do not think the close proximity of "Cook" and "tool" is a coincidence....That’s the newsy impact of the draft, no matter how stridently people will debate Rudock, or why Michigan State’s Connor Cook dropped to the fourth round.
To follow my hardware analogy, follow the trend. The common theme in Quinn’s draft is that he prefers durable, multi-purpose tools, as long as they’re not tools in the negative sense.
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it seems so. and refreshing to have a Michigan alum journalist actually writing positive things about Michigan over the years instead of trying to investigate/manufacture infractions that don't exist.
Anyone know of an online radio station or free live feed of the Michigan baseball game today? I live in Nebraska and I'm at work and would like to follow it today.Thank you
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Thanks for the help! GO BLUE
Sup, fellow Nebraskan
YO, where you at in Nebraska?
I'm gonna guess Omaha
He said where in Nebraska, smart ass.
Last time I looked Omaha was in Nebraska.
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Please don't listen to Pat Caputo anymore.
Pat Caputo sounds like he should be a regular caller into the Paul Finebaum show.
Even when he does say positive things about Michigan/its players, there is always a negative jab in there.
That whole station is a clown show. Scratch that, all Detroit sports radio is a clown show.
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I really enjoy The Huge show. Though it's technically not Detroit.
probably could extend that to talk radio. 4 hrs a day was good, when it was sports reporters who were pros. Honestly do we have 24hr a day worth of news happening to talk about?
on my way home from work, I think the morning show is decent too. Of course Valenti and Foster are awful
I'm impressed you can understand what Caputo is saying in between all that heavy breathing
I moved out of Michigan 15 years ago and used to listen to WDFN. Pat Caputo was a tool then and from what I gather he is an even bigger tool today.
Well, he sure as hell hasn't gotten any smaller.
as long as they’re not tools in the negative sense.
Yeah, that's pretty clear to me.
He's just saying what everyone is thinking.
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I mean, you unceremoniously grab a trophy from Archie Griffin, you openly compare yourself to Tom Brady in an interview when you have exactly zero games on your NFL resume to date, and mix that with some other incidents and yeah, there might be a solid case there for questioning the actual leadership abilities of a certain quarterback.
I have to honestly say I don't completely understand all of this.
The knock is Connor Cook wasn't a captain, as if it's a given your QB needs to be your captain. He did some tool-ish stuff, like the Archie Griffin snub, but he handled the fallout well. NFL people are saying his teammates didn't have glowing things to say about him. There's rumblings agents and scouts think he's a brat.
But yet you look at the kinds of draft stock falls you see with dudes doing things that are legitimately illegal, scary, etc., and it's not a full three rounds or so. This is a league that gave Johnny Football a meal ticket.
Something just doesn't make sense here.
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That''s probably the biggest reason for his drop. He turned off teams in his interviews. He attacked the coaches, scouts and the media before the draft. Will he handle his opportunity better? Yes, probably, but he fell into a little hole that he dug for himself.
I guess I just don't see the reason for this, given the kinds of character risks this league seems totally OK with overlooking. This just seems a guy that a few people didn't like that's just snowballed. I know he's a Spartan, but this whole thing seems just silly and arbitrary.
If this were our QB, after having a stellar career and for whatever reason has not been drafted near where we thought he'd go call a bunch of Spartans digging up excuses why, some that might have merit, some that obviously do not, we would be calling them a bunch of silly trolls for being obsessed with UM yet again. It'll play itself out, and our opinions won't serve to find the answer any quicker.
It appears, as of right now, what he's done in the last three years on the field is not overriding concerns the NFL has about him. That is that. You can counter with, but it's the qb, the one spot where you can't have doubts as to leadership. And I'd counter with show me a qb that has a better three year record over that span? It's a non-issue as far as I'm concerned, and I doubt I'll be interested if the answer ever is revealed. It just does not matter to me.
This world is full of tools.
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So I guess this mini-thread does not qualify as politics.
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in a renewed increase in civilian deaths in Iraq over his term.
https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database
That's just in Iraq. Preventable by leaving the security forces in place.
In Afghanistan:
Since the United Nations began recording civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2009, it has documented nearly 59,000 deaths and injuries.
Civilian casualties in Afghanistan hit record high: U.N.
In Syria
Syria's conflict has left more than 270,000 people -- among them nearly 80,000 civilians -- dead since it erupted in March 2011 with anti-government protests.
http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/news/civilian-deaths-drop-to-fouryear-low-after-syria-truce-monitor-reports_39881
...so much for the truce...
U.N. envoy: Syrian truce 'hangs by a thread'
In Libya--vacuum facilitated by Obama Admin
The conflict has driven at least 120,000 people from their homes and caused a humanitarian crisis, said a joint report by the U.N. human rights office and U.N. Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) that also documents shelling of civilian areas.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-security-un-idUSKBN0K10RV20141223
In Egypt--vacuum facilitated by Obama Admin
Since the summer of 2013, over 40,000 political prisoners were arrested according to Wiki Thawra, a human rights group collecting statistics on the Egyptian revolution, and over 1,000 Egyptians have been killed during protests. (As of March 1, 2015.)
http://www.nawartpress.com/english-egypt-speak-day-1-and-2-of-vote-middle-east-eye/