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Old Coot

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  1. 36 minutes ago, Whkfc said:

    Chiefs gonna Chief. But then again they got the rings we got good guys. Personally I appreciate that our guys are as classy as our fan base. But it had to be said.

    I fully agree with you.

     

    But unfortunately, a moral victory is just another name for a loss.

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  2. I hope Coleman doesn't become a head case like Sammy Watkins.  

     

    I remember Sammy saying his first year that guys in the pros hit pretty hard and thinking even if its true you don't admit it.

     

    Poyer's hit on Coleman was wicked (but clean). It sounds like Coleman may still be mentally bothered by that hit.

  3. 6 hours ago, Mikie2times said:

    Given he had Bernie Kosar and Drew Bledsoe, two players with much more raw talent, I would yes. 

    A bit uncertain what you mean here. I agree that Kosar & Bledsoe had more raw talent than Brady but it takes more than raw talent to succeed in the NFL as a QB. It requires a rare combination of talent, vision, spatial recognition, quick information processing and the drive to study for hours the cutups supplied to the QB.

     

    I cannot say for sure that Belichick made Brady better but given that most agree that Belichick is an excellent coach and that Brady was not an outstanding collegiate QB, it seems likely that Belichick's coaching made Brady a better QB.  Not many QBs become better in the pros than they were in college (Brady & Josh Allen and maybe one or two others excepted.)

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  4. 6 hours ago, FireChans said:

    QB’s matter more than coaches. They always have.

    My point, which I could have made clearer, is that Brady might have become better for having had a coach like Belichick. The Belichick-enhanced Brady then goes to Tampa Bay and wins another SB; meanwhile, Belichick cannot instaneously produce another Brady.

     

    It may be that QBs matter more than coaches but it may also be that a good coach can make a QB more successful. That's all I'm saying.

     

    It is notoriously difficult to predict which college QBs will be successful in the pros. Look at how many 1st round QBs turn out to be busts.

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  5. The 1932 NFL Championship game was played in Chicago at an indoors hockey rink because of a blizzard and sub-zero temps.

     

    One rule change: because the filed extended right up to the stands the ball was placed at the hashmmark when a play went out of bounds instead on the out of bounds line. Previously teams needed to waste a down running a play to the center of the field because that was the only way to go.

     

    Read more about the elephant manure littering the field and other rules changes sparked by the game at:

     

    https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/NFL_Championship_Game,_1932

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