Did Wojo Just Call Connor Cook a Tool?

Submitted by Muttley on
I think so.

...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.

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.
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UNCWolverine

May 1st, 2016 at 1:16 PM ^

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.

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michiganmanj221

May 1st, 2016 at 1:25 PM ^

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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Prince Lover

May 1st, 2016 at 1:58 PM ^

Thanks for getting me in trouble. I'm half way through my first beer of the day, my wife quipped- a beer this early?- and because I laughed mid sip and choked and coughed a little, I get "How many beers have you had" comments. Okay, I'm not in trouble, and she knows it's my first because she's enjoying hers as well, but she did make fun of me. So to sum up this whole story, thank you sir. Good joke. +1.

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MWolverine7

May 1st, 2016 at 1:27 PM ^

Honestly I could care less if he intended to do so or not. I've listened to Pat Caputo's comments about Glasgow and Rudock being a reach for two days straight so yeah.



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aratman

May 1st, 2016 at 3:04 PM ^

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?    

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WolverineHistorian

May 1st, 2016 at 4:50 PM ^

He's a jackass. Sparty homerism aside, I had to stop listening to him because he never let his callers finish their points. He cuts them off every single time. He was practically laughing his ass off on the radio over Harbaugh's first recruiting class last year on the heels of Hoke's firing. And that voice....that mopey and dopey voice. I don't understand how even MSU fans can stand to listen to him talk.

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M-Dog

May 1st, 2016 at 1:33 PM ^

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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LSAClassOf2000

May 1st, 2016 at 1:33 PM ^

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.

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Bando Calrissian

May 1st, 2016 at 1:48 PM ^

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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kgh10

May 1st, 2016 at 1:58 PM ^

It's more about can this guy lead teammates on the field. Look at a guy like Winston or even Cam Newton. Those guys had major red flags off the field, but their teammates loved them and fought like hell for them. That makes a difference when your talent alone isn't good enough to rally the troops, and I'm not sure his is.

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Bando Calrissian

May 1st, 2016 at 8:51 PM ^

What I was referencing was the night of the Griffin scandal. He got right on TV that night, addressed it, and that was that. It seemed to be an honest mistake/heat of the moment thing.

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.

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Wolfman

May 2nd, 2016 at 6:10 AM ^

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.

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bacon

May 1st, 2016 at 9:27 PM ^

This has to be bigger than a small attitude issue. Qb is the one position where NFL teams gamble in early rounds. Hell, Christian Hackenberg was drafted in the second round and he sucked in college AND blamed his coach for his problems. That's not good leadership either, but he's got potential and so he's gone in the 2nd round. My guess is NFL teams just don't think as much of Cook based on his performance on the field play as the media did.

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Muttley

May 1st, 2016 at 6:42 PM ^

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/

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