Fact is that the player he became is not the player he had the potential to be, and that doesn't just happen. Elite athletes don't just become shell-shocked versions of themselves for no reason.
We can debate all day about whose fault it was, but we can all agree that Devin deserved so much more success than he got.
I was gonna crack open a cold one once I got out to the East Coast, but en route I slipped on some ice and smashed my car headfirst into a goddamn tree at about 50 mph.
Currently sitting in a hotel outside Syracuse wishing that had gone slightly better.
Your argument is, "With two NFL tackles on the line, how could the offense be so bad?" As a position coach, it's not his job to make the offense good. His job is to make the players at the position into NFL-types. Which, as you noted, is exactly what happened.
Soon we'll have a Thursday posbang, and then a Wednesday posbang, and then every day of the week will be a posbang at which point we'll achieve world peace and subsequently probably get hit by a meteor.
There were plenty of games this year - MSU and Iowa come to mind - where he'd drop back to pass, bring his arm back to throw, and then seem to lose his nerve, scramble around for a bit, and then get sacked.
Last year, and even as recently as the Notre Dame game, it seemed that he'd either make the tough throw or just pull it down and start running. Now I don't know if the bad games this year were as a result of coaching or from him simply becoming gun-shy because of other factors, but to my casual observer's eye he did seem to regress.
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My understanding of the rule is that targeting requires leading with the crown of the helmet, and it looked to me like it was face-to-face.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Just beautiful.
I mean, I guess he did catch it...
YOU BARBARIAN
Hm.
Fact is that the player he became is not the player he had the potential to be, and that doesn't just happen. Elite athletes don't just become shell-shocked versions of themselves for no reason.
We can debate all day about whose fault it was, but we can all agree that Devin deserved so much more success than he got.
I could blame it on the sister who played it nonstop for months after it came out, but that would obviously be a lie.
Because JMFH. That's why.
Understated but still cool, and still had some color.
I got insanely lucky - a bruise on the chin and that was all. Could have been much worse.
I was gonna crack open a cold one once I got out to the East Coast, but en route I slipped on some ice and smashed my car headfirst into a goddamn tree at about 50 mph.
Currently sitting in a hotel outside Syracuse wishing that had gone slightly better.
For my part, it turns out that fewer posbangs happen at night.
I'll message him and inform him that the world of MGoBlog pines for his return.
The stuff he does outside of Bon Jovi is pretty amazing.
Joe Montana's opinion on the 49ers usually carries a bit of weight. At the very least it's interesting.
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Your argument is, "With two NFL tackles on the line, how could the offense be so bad?" As a position coach, it's not his job to make the offense good. His job is to make the players at the position into NFL-types. Which, as you noted, is exactly what happened.
Lincoln didn't even have access to the Internet, man. He lived in like the 1700s or something, bruh.
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I do have another account, though. I created this one on a whim after MGrowOld gave me the idea in a thread about a year ago.
It's fun to be spectral.
The next few days were excruciating.
I played ping pong during the 2004 Super Bowl, and consequently missed the infamous Janet Jackson wardrobe mishap.
but the position of eerie spectral resident has already been taken.
Soon we'll have a Thursday posbang, and then a Wednesday posbang, and then every day of the week will be a posbang at which point we'll achieve world peace and subsequently probably get hit by a meteor.
So, average?
That's kinda what mediocre means, isn't it?
That shit works like magic.
Surely we're not all that bad?
What is dead may never die.
...so, how come none of them got picked up by the Seahawks?
I am seriously excited for this. Holy shit.
You know at least one couple is gonna try to screw on the 50-yard-line.
No really, I am!
"...for the extra point by John Carney, and he makes- NOOOOOOOO! He missed the extra point wide right! Oh my god, how could he do that?!"
Who's Watson?
He put in the work, got prepared, and accomplished the task.
Turns out my mom knows her aunt or something. Day I found out, I wanted to plaster the board with that fact, except that my Internet decided to die.
That is what reading this thread was like.
...
(...the hell did I just read?)
There were plenty of games this year - MSU and Iowa come to mind - where he'd drop back to pass, bring his arm back to throw, and then seem to lose his nerve, scramble around for a bit, and then get sacked.
Last year, and even as recently as the Notre Dame game, it seemed that he'd either make the tough throw or just pull it down and start running. Now I don't know if the bad games this year were as a result of coaching or from him simply becoming gun-shy because of other factors, but to my casual observer's eye he did seem to regress.
Case in point: defense was awful at the beginning of the year and then, obviously, was much better by the end.
2012 there was still that progression but less so.
2013... well, yeah.
I want Hoke to get back the mojo he had at the beginning of his tenure.
I've got no problem with these.
I originally wrote "is awful." Then I felt like hyperbolizing.
Never liked Field Turf. Always preferred grass. Getting tackled on turf is the worst.
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but if he's a receiver, then he'll probably be good at rebounding.
It's a good point. Where do you draw the line?