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In terms of completion percentage, yes; in terms of ball placement, it’s Rosen hands down.

You're correct about how often 40 yards are run over a straight line but that's not what they're looking for, necessarily. Split times are key as well as the endurance indicators over the course of that distance.

Audience members aren’t “supposed” to anything. Take it as you will. I didn’t get bogged down in the plausibility aspects because they didn’t get in the way of my appreciation for a different aspect of the story. For me, it simply wasn’t about Rockwell’s or McDormand’s characters having to face the legal ramifications of their actions, it was about their sheer levels of anger that drove them to those actions in the first place. If the writer had chosen to tell their stories of facing the legal consequences, fine, but it would have been a different story entirely.

I appreciate you pointing out the firsts used on Bledsoe and Losman during the time frame mentioned. Lazy reporting.

Welcome aboard!

Me, too. Like I said earlier, the odds of him getting called for defensive holding are improved by 50%. I like those odds. He would have the refs stumped; they would need a hand trying to figure him out.

I don't think he's Edelman's type at all, given his affection for Tom Brady.

I don't think it could get released in this day and age. This day and age has become too politically correct to appreciate the kind of satire intended by Richard Pryor and Mel Brooks. Comedians and other satirists won't play college venues because of the off the rails "outrage" at the points they are driving home. When books like Huckleberry Finn can't be taught in schools or when educators are fired for using words that students and parents don't know the meaning of, it's little wonder.

Show a racist character and the movie is racist? Show a mean cop and the movie is about bad cops? We need to look deeper into what a writer may be trying to get at. For me, ‘Three Billboards‘ is about the juxtaposition of anger and empathy and how the true experience of either can sometimes be interdependent. It’s just too easy to pigeonhole stories these days when they hit upon hot topical political subjects that we have strong emotions towards.

I think Gase was already in Miami by then.

The draft is nothing if not about taking risks. That should be self evident given the sheer amount of picks that don’t pan out as hoped. No guts, no glory as the saying goes.

That’s really not the point though, is it? Having the conviction about the prospect comes first, being wrong and second guessed comes later.

Thanks. Love to see the big uglies with that kind of explosion, especially.

When it comes to getting a player you’ve identified as a blue chip, can’t miss, franchise-turning-around, perennial All Pro? Yeah, it’s that simple.

I haven’t seen a stitch of the combine until today and not much at that, just the second group of QBs. Has anybody tested “in the red” yet? I suspect Barkley is up there given his bench and vertical, but don’t have his or anybody else’s full results.

Gotta be in it to to win it.

I think it’s just the look on his face, myself.

Love this time of year. Everybody media hack with a twitter account is a scout and can’t wait to tweet his next breathless hot take. My one hot take concerning the QBs we’ve seen today? These receivers can’t run simple cone routes to save their lives. Oh, and Rosen continues to show why he’s been atop the leader board since last fall.

Yes.

I’m not really assuming anything, the Vikes could just as well win it all, too. All I’m saying is that after a conference championship appearance, anything less than a repeat and a win to advance to the SB will be considered a let down. I imagine there will be a certain pressure that comes with being the highest paid player in history and that compounds the expectations as well.

That’s an awesome quote. I draft him based on that alone.

On to a new regime indeed. It’s all about the journey. At least that’s what I keep telling myself

While I think this is true, signing Cousins may be a double edged sword as anything less than a SB after reaching the conference championship will be viewed as no progress at best. And after signing what will probably a record deal, how will teammates and fans alike view that outcome?

Being a professional never hurts and Whaley has always enjoyed that reputation. I’d give him a job but I’d insist on intense media training as part of the deal. He simply cannot get all flustered by the Jerry Sullivans of the world, get pissed, and lose focus like he was prone to do under the glare of media scrutiny. That said, Sully and several others were less than professional on several occasions, in other venues like bars and restaurants over the years so I can see why he had such a short fuse when it came to them.

My golf bag.