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Rimbo

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  1. 25 minutes ago, Surly Bevo said:

    You can never have too many solid linemen.  Never ever fucking ever.  College football is there for the taking with spare receivers ahoy, DBs who won't sniff the league and RBs you will never hear of again IF time is granted for the offense and taken by the defense.  That all, ALL comes down to the lines.  

    i mean, nfl games are also won and lost on the lines

    career jabroni Mark Rypien won a dang super bowl because he had one of the greatest OLs ever assembled in front of him

    and look how pedestrian Russell Wilson looks with that below average OL

    Random note: guys, we had a great recruiting class and the recruiting season isn't even done yet. I swear that some of y'all could bitch about a gift box from La Maison du Chocolat.

  2. I see this "NFL is a different job from college" cliche thrown around with astonishing regularity by people who generally don't have any clue what those particular differences are.

    I think the Jimmy Johnson quotes are a good start; you're still teaching college guys how to play, and -- until the days of NIL and the Portal -- held power over them that you could wield like a blunt instrument. Whereas NFL guys make more than you do, sometimes, have kids of their own, should damned well know how to play the sport already. Someone up-thread mentioned Belichick as an exception to that, but he isn't; he may ride his players hard, but he respects every one of them. We get the notion he's disrespectful because he's that way towards idiots in the press who ask stupid questions. But if you ask him a real football question or ask him about his players, he lights up.

    You have to recruit in college, which means you have to sell the program to teenagers. This is why Mack Brown was a good coach; he could sell water to a drowning man, and just out-talented the hell out of everyone. Conversely, this is why Kliff Kingsbury is doing fine in the NFL; recruiting was the part of the job he hated most, and now it's not his problem. Now he can focus on staff, organization, and X's and O's, which is the stuff he's actually good at.

    X's and O's, and organization, are skills head coaches at every level need. Strong had the former, but failed utterly at the latter.

    But I think growth is the biggest thing for long-term success. You can, in fact, teach an old dog new tricks. You see that with Nick Saban. He is not now the coach he was when he was at LSU or Michigan State. He's not even the same coach he was when he first took the Bama job. He and Belichick get together regularly and share notes to each try to make each other better, which is why these guys have both been so good for so long; just like when Neil Peart took drumming lessons in the mid-90s, they're not satisfied with being better than everyone else; they're interested in being better than themselves each passing season. They're each still learning how to be a better coach. Guys who don't do that... the game passes them by. Like it did for Tom Landry.

    Generally, most people who succeed do so because a large number of factors came together all at once, mostof which were beyond their control and often in spite of their flaws, which may be huge.

    My point is... I don't think Urban would have succeeded here, and then all this bullshit would have been on OUR plate, instead of on Jacksonville's. After this, I don't think he'll succeed anywhere else.

  3. On 1/14/2021 at 3:44 PM, Machinator said:

     

     

    This aged poorly, to say the least.

     

    On 1/14/2021 at 3:45 PM, Machinator said:

    Urban's statement:

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    HAHAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAH wheeze haaaaaahahahahahhahaahhahahaha

     

    On 1/14/2021 at 4:18 PM, Longboard Horn said:

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    Can the Jags even win 2 more games?

     

    On 1/14/2021 at 4:27 PM, Rimbo said:

    fuck im

     

    I'm glad I had the right attitude from the get go. Hey, look y'all, even a broken clock can be right twice a day...

  4. 48 minutes ago, Patrick Bateman said:

     

    Darn. Had my hopes up for Chuck. :) 

    I gotta say... after two failed Urban coordinators, one failed attempt to hire Urban himself, and flipping a lot of players away from Urban's successor... I'm... really glad we're not going after Urban or his assistants any more. I think that coaching tree is over.

  5. I just wanted to hop in here and say that I'm really, really proud of y'all for doing this. HWH is going to help a lot of people, and I don't just mean players. But let's talk about the players, too, because it is good and right that they are being justly compensated for what they are worth.

    Yeah, today was a good day for Sark & Co, but let's not pretend the coaching staff did it all. This was a team effort of alumni thinking in terms of what's in the community's and players' best interests, combined with the coaching staff being full of guys who can develop players into NFL-caliber players. The playing field isn't level; it's biased heavily in our favor, as it always should've been, and I thank all of you for making this happen.

    As for the rest, they're salty, because they lacked the resources and vision to do this.

    Whatever I can do to help, let me know.

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