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| 1 day 12 hours ago | Agree to disagree. Harbaugh |
Agree to disagree. Harbaugh is loyal to his QB, maybe even too much. Speight looked like hot garbage in the second half versus Iowa, was injured part way through, and didn't get the hook. His last drive ended in an interception driving towards the endzone. I don't expect that we will see Peters versus Florida unless something drastically changes in fall camp, Speight gets injured between now and then, or Speight throws three passes for three interceptions on his first three passes versus Florida. |
| 1 week 2 days ago | You're right. That's the guy |
You're right. That's the guy he robbed when Arya was so pissed at him for doing it. He was asked by Thoros if he knew them and said, "Not really." Likely why he felt he had to bury them. I do hope he doesn't grow much of a conscience though, he's much more fun in that middle ground between savagery and his warped moral code. |
| 1 week 2 days ago | He's fun. When giving last |
He's fun. When giving last rights he stops half way through and says, "Fuck it I don't remember the rest. Sorry you died." |
| 1 week 5 days ago | All you need to know |
All you need to know mGrowOld, is that in 14 years at SF and 2 years at KC, Montana went to 4 Super Bowls. In the same 16 year span, Brady has been to 7. Winning in the big game means actually getting to it. Brady has been to the Super Bowl for 44% of his career. Compare that with Montana making it for 25% of his career. While that 25% is impressive on its own, it pales in comparison to the domination that Brady has held over getting to the Super Bowl for the last 16 years. Brady also has 9 more playoff wins in the same span as Montana and only 2 more losses than Montana. His win percentage is much higher than Montana's. 25 playoff wins is a record that won't be touched for a very long time. It's just an unreal statistic for someone who is still active. I get it mGrowOld - Montana was pretty awesome in his day. He was a great QB. He won at the highest level. What you are watching right now with Brady though, will be remembered for the rest of our lives because nobody will touch his Super Bowl and Playoff records for a very long time - if ever. Also, what would you say if Brady got his 6th or even 7th Super Bowl ring? Would you still want Montana as your QB then? |
| 2 weeks 2 days ago | So the times posted are all |
So the times posted are all consistent with the spring camp times posted by Harbaugh - except Higdon is now about a quarter second faster? Pretty awesome to have that kind of speed backing up Chris Evans this fall. |
| 2 weeks 6 days ago | PFF agrees with your |
PFF agrees with your assessment on Taco - listed as a weakness was that he got lost in the wash sometimes allowing the QB to escape. Chase Winovich is probably worse in this regard because of he plays like a rocket. We'll see how that translates this year because he was mostly called in to be a rocket on passing downs. That will change this year as he will be tasked with more snaps. That is unknown for now and anyone's guess as to how it plays out. The biggest criticism on Chris Wormley was his pass rushing. Rashan Gary is an upgrade here. He is going to be so much fun to watch this year. The NT and 3-Tech will need help from new blood. Mone will be all that if he stays healthy and lives up to the coaches reports of how awesome he is. Glasgow will definately be missed because the veteran depth after Mone just isn't there. Solomon could be an immediate help and it sounds like Gary is working with him which is awesome. Hurst will be Hurst and he will be about as fun to watch as Gary. Spelling him at 3-Tech will probably be a combination of Dwumfour and Gary. The athleticism of some of these guys, coupled with Seth's write up in HTTV about Don Brown and how he uses velocity, just has me ready to watch these guys in action. |
| 2 weeks 6 days ago | After reading Seth's piece in |
After reading Seth's piece in HTTV on Don Brown, these guys are going to be like parts of a Swiss Army knife - deployed with their different skills as he needs. I just loved the defensive preview and the character piece on Mo Hurst. Great group of guys, which some will become dudes as the year unfolds. |
| 4 weeks 2 days ago | Best and worst moment all in |
Best and worst moment all in one. Tournament game in baseball when I was 13. Game was tied and the pitcher was feared by all. I wasn't very good at baseball and I was up with a runner on second. First pitch went by and I didn't even swing - strike. Second pitch went by and I watched again - strike. It was the same pitch as the first. He couldn't be bold enough to throw this same pitch again, could he? Well on the third pitch he indeed threw it in the same location and I swung. I'm pretty sure my eyes weren't open when I connected on my swing. The ball went straight back at the pitcher and he tried to glove it in an awkward motion, as he did he put his ankle in the hole next to the rubber on the mound. The ball went past him and slowly dribbled into center field. The runner on second came around to score and I stayed at first still in shock of what just happened. So then as the game was over, the pitcher was clutching his ankle and couldn't stand up. We were wanting to celebrate our victory but instead we had our helmets off watching as the coaches tended to him. Shortly thereafter, an ambulance arrived to take him to the hospital. I guess his ankle was pretty bad. I'll admit that as I ran to first base, I was envisioning people giving me high fives and the like. The shock of teenage kids seeing someone with that kind of injury sort of ruined any celebration I might have thought would come. He was fine and he didn't die, which is cool, but I'd never seen an ambulance at a baseball game before. |
| 4 weeks 2 days ago | I wish I hadn't replied. |
I wish I hadn't replied. Sometimes the bait is just too tempting. If I were a fish, my lifespan would be short. |
| 4 weeks 2 days ago | Good thing this wasn't about |
Good thing this wasn't about spelling or grammar. |
| 11 weeks 6 days ago | Nope. You're a dipshit who |
Nope. You're a dipshit who has probably spent way too much time on Reddit. You are also bad at English. I don't read the apparel threads by WD and am indifferent to most of his posts. I like the historical posts he's been doing lately and appreciate those. I'm not quite sure what you contribute here "left brain" besides yuck-yuck humor that will fade with time and some poorly written anecdotes. Carry on. |
| 11 weeks 6 days ago | Tim Brewster Head Coaching |
Tim Brewster Head Coaching Record: Minnesota 15-30 2007: 1-11 2008: 7-6 2009: 6-7 2010: 1-6 (fired mid-season for being terrible) B1G Record: 6-21 Bowl Games: 0-2 (Both were the Insight Bowl, lost to Kansas 21-42 2008, and lost to Iowa State 13-14 2009) NFL Playing Career: cut from the 1984 Giants and 1985 Eagles during training camp. Career Highlight: Spent 13 years under Mack Brown as an assistant coach. I think we all know Harbaugh's track record as a head coach and a player. I'm glad that Harbaugh responded the way he did. Tim Brewster is a has been do nothing piece of shit and will stay that way for many years. I hope Brewster enjoys his Orange Bowl ring and hanging out in the exhaust of Jimbo Fisher. He's literally done nothing as a player or a coach that warrants his arrogant attitude. He's actually lucky to be employed.
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| 12 weeks 5 days ago | Fuck Eli Apple. |
Fuck Eli Apple. |
| 12 weeks 5 days ago | Taco possibly to Dallas, |
Taco possibly to Dallas, Seattle, or Green Bay. Would be great to see him with any of these franchises. |
| 12 weeks 5 days ago | Nevermind - Seahawks traded |
Nevermind - Seahawks traded to Falcons |
| 12 weeks 5 days ago | Taco to the Seahawks? Read |
Taco to the Seahawks? Read somewhere they were looking for a hybrid pass rush guy. Would be nice to see him in the first round. |
| 14 weeks 19 hours ago | I agree that this IS the |
I agree that this IS the place to discuss and debate sports. I've enjoyed reading (some) people's opinions on Peters vs Speight. I think for me it comes down to this - 2014 Wilton Speight - #22 pro style QB, #453 overall 2013 John O'Korn - #32 pro style QB, #635 overall 2016 Brandon Peters - #6 pro style QB, #61 overall Last year I watched highlight tape of O'Korn and got hyped up. I was on the O'Korn hype train. Who is this Wilton Speight kid? There was no tape to watch for Speight, so there were only crumbs coming in from practice. You had to take the word of the source at face value, and even then when the first game came around - it still wasn't 100% confirmed that Speight would be your started. (It was probably 95% confirmed based on the insider reports and was only going to be O'Korn if something really weird happened.) I kind of shrugged and said well this kid must be good because Harbaugh(!) and that O'Korn kid sure has a fancy tape playing real live college football. Let's do this. As the season went on, there were some really great moments for Speight and some not so great moments for Speight. Analysis was done on this blog checking to see if he was good, great, just okay, or bad. It turned out that up to October he was like a B+ type QB. #17 out of 66 P5 quarterbacks. Tried to find the link to the post, but no luck. I did find this comparing him to the Michigan great quarterbacks though after six games in... http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/comparing-speight-michigan-greats Then by early November we started to see things like this from Brian... http://mgoblog.com/content/joe-flacco-question Summary: Wilton Speight is Joe Flacco poetic or something. People were starting to think that maybe this guy could keep improving and we'd have a shot at winning in the playoffs. Playoffs? November 12th Speight was horrid versus Iowa with barely more than 100 yards, Doom was the theme and the party hats were put back away. November 14th it was announced he was out with a shoulder injury. It was reported that he would be out for the regular season. Some people thought, you know what - that O'Korn kid has a spectacular tape from playing real live college football and I'd bet he could have thrown for at least 250 on that stupid Iowa team. Let's do this! We got to see John O'Korn at home versus Indiana and it was clear why he did NOT get the starting job. It was Yakety Sax out there with him running full speed away from the line of scrimmage with his back turned to the people chasing him. A QB he did not look like. If not for De'Veon Smith putting the team on his back before the snowstorm broke out, putting us up by enough that IU would not be able to see or play anything resembling football for the remainder of the game, I dunno man - we could have easily lost to Indiana. So then we trotted out Speight versus Ohio State with 243 lbs of gauze wrapped on his shoudler because that is better than - whatever that was last week versus IU at quarterback. Should have won that damn game and aside from the image of the extra wrapped shoulder we all got to see him fumble right at the goal line. Florida State was a decent performance considering he was under pressure as soon as his hands touched the ball. The theme there though was the same theme that caused people to even run analysis and question why he was our starter or if he should be our starter - he missed game winning passes by miles and miles. Did it at Iowa. Had the ball in his hands versus Florida State at the end of the game too. Smith was blindingly open and Speight didn't see him. Fearless leader had this to say in his First Look 2017.. Probably Wilton Speight. Speight's 2016 did not have the clear takeoff narrative that Jake Rudock did. He was great for a couple games early, then bad, then indifferent, then awesome after the bye week until he turned into a pumpkin a third of the way through Iowa. He was terrific against Ohio State despite an injury that seemed to prevent him from throwing it downfield whatsoever... except for two turnovers 100% on him that lost the game. He gets an incomplete for the Orange Bowl since every time he dropped back he was beset by hounds instantly.
It would be much easier to draw an upward arrow if he'd packed the bad stuff in early and then got a lot better; unfortunately that is not the case. I'm still a Speight optimist for three reasons:
1. Harbaugh. This should be self-explanatory but if you need a refresher here's the QB season preview. 2. Speight seems to have the hardest thing down: pocket presence. His ability to turn garbage into first downs is exceptional for a guy his size. 3. His good periods came after an opportunity to take a breather and focus on the things Harbaugh was coaching him to do. Speight was hot at the beginning of the season, after the bye, and after he missed the Indiana game. As we go along here he should be more that guy than the one who forgot and reverted to high school/Borges stuff when the heat got turned up.
To the author of this post... There was always just that something about Speight that couldn't be explained away by stats and advanced metrics. It was just what you saw with your eyes and experienced as a fan. So you'd come here and talk about it. Sure if this or that had happened it would have changed the outcome, but discussing some of those things gone different leads to some interesting discussions that go deeper than you're giving them credit for. As per Peters, it's hard not to get excited for what he did on Saturday. I don't think anyone here is out to rewrite history or the such. I think it allows us to revisit our journey as fans and to reflect on how we feel based on those experiences.
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| 15 weeks 1 day ago | Great post! |
This super secret height information has let me see that Wisconsin is fucked this year. Of the 15 players listed as OL, only 6 of them are short enough to be a guard or a center! Plus of those guys 4 of them are 6'5" tall. If those guys grow another inch, then Wisconsin will only have 2 players on their roster eligible to play on the interior. They are so screwed LOLOL |
| 17 weeks 5 days ago | I want to watch him tell |
I want to watch him tell Walton and Irvin this. I so much want this. |
| 18 weeks 1 day ago | Dillon Brooks almost died |
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| 18 weeks 1 day ago | Ugly Uniforms? |
Notre Dame says "Hold my beer..."
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| 18 weeks 1 day ago | Maybe a stretch to say one of |
Maybe a stretch to say one of the best - Kenpom has him as the #100 OR% and #161 DR%. Compare that to Mangok Mathiang from Louisville, who is the #38 OR% and #363 DR%. Think of a poor man's Ethan Happ, #39 OR% and #34 DR%. |
| 18 weeks 1 day ago | Oregon - UCLA Highlights | |
| 18 weeks 1 day ago | Probably not a bad idea - |
Probably not a bad idea - Brooks draws an average of 5.4 fouls per 40 but also commits 4.5 per 40. |
| 18 weeks 2 days ago | Yes it is - but the |
Yes it is - but the basketball "Championship" they won in 1939 was against Ohio State, so maybe they get some credit there. Anyways, they've been pretty much irrelevant for the better part of 80 years. |
| 18 weeks 2 days ago | (No subject) |
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| 18 weeks 2 days ago | Good... |
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| 18 weeks 4 days ago | You are correct, comrade. We |
You are correct, comrade. We all won yesterday! |
| 18 weeks 4 days ago | As long as we have our spy in |
As long as we have our spy in place - we're good to go!
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| 18 weeks 4 days ago | I agree. Team didn't want to |
I agree. Team didn't want to wait for another start time for Illinois. We seem to like this noon game thing. |
