Recruiting Football Talk VIII

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Brillovol said:
You gotta balance college versus pro in my opinion. Some ball out here but flame out in the NFL. Others like Eric Parker barely did much here and has a decent little pro career.

My reasoning is that we’ve got guys like Matthews as backups. This receiving corps is good and deep. Best in a long time no matter how you slice it.
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Definitely think you have to look at the whole pie. Agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying, adding that to be up on the 2nd deck at Neyland takes an incredible amount of talent, discipline, effort, focus, and ... luck.

Who of those currently enrolled will end up on an NFL team, with a great QB, surrounded by winners, and will take it and run?

I think its an interesting debates...but to me the criteria is both nfl and college, hardware, and legacy.
 
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Glitch said:
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BigOrangeTrain said:
Hopefully Pearce can become that dude we all know he is. So far he has been on a milk carton.
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He's either sitting against powder puffs, taking double-teams, or the threat of him (and the rest of the line) is causing OCs to game plan quick-hitters.

The entire DL has done their job magnificently.
 
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peaygolf said:
....Bradshaw learned to play the position without trying to be a super hero. He let his playmakers make plays, relied on his run game and defense.
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The entire post was good, but I'd already been thinking about this bolded part. Maybe it was the influence of his instagram display-girl gf (who bolted when he wasn't a first day pick), in part; but I also recall a post here about a Manning camp where everyone asked about football except Mayo-Malaise, who asked Peyton about endorsement deals. He needs to drop the embarrassing "hero" moves that are exploding in his face and make a solid role player of himself.

I don't follow the Titans as closely as many here, but it seems to me that if Levis would stop imagining himself as "putting this team on his back," stop losing games with (anti) heroics, and just do his job in a conservative and workmanlike way, maybe he could get out of his team's way and get some wins.

I'm trying to be a friend to my Titan friends here, and stop laughing at Levis (a long established and well merited enjoyment) for a sec and look at it from the other side.
 
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Orange. said:
I'd not seen the play earlier and was astounded when I did see it. It's bizarre that he basically did the same thing AGAIN this week. He learned...
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Know this, Levis is going to look good at times but he is guaranteed to have at least one huge costly brain fart per game. Been watching for four years and It is never gonna change. He is not very smart and he is impulsive, fatal combo.
 
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Orange_Crush said:
This isn't a "we told you so..." post, but a "can we find some common ground now?" post. You see why some of us Titan fans threw our hands up (and the towel in) when the Titans drafted him?

We were so disgusted with how close they came, just to have Tanny's QB play be the problem. If they could just get an above average QB, the pieces were there! And they got this knucklehead.

If anyone paid any attention at all to UK, they knew this is who he is. All the physical tools in the world with a wasp nest in his head that will get you beat in heartbreaking and head scratching fashion every week in the NFL. In college, there is enough lack of parity that the rest of the team can often overcome the knuckles in his head. But not so in the NFL. All other teams have to do is tread water until he gives them the game. Period.

And you can lift weight to get stronger. You can work on technique to throw the ball farther or run faster. But I'm not sure there's much you can do for that wasp nest and his terrible, terrible football instincts.
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I'm actually impressed with his mental faculties now that I know he has a wasp nest in his brain. That sounds miserable. Is Mayo anti wasp? Maybe that's how he treats it?
 
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Orange. said:
The entire post was good, but I'd already been thinking about this bolded part. Maybe it was the influence of his instagram display-girl gf (who bolted when he wasn't a first day pick), in part; but I also recall a post here about a Manning camp where everyone asked about football except Mayo-Malaise, who asked Peyton about endorsement deals. He needs to drop the embarrassing "hero" moves that are exploding in his face and make a solid role player of himself.

I don't follow the Titans as closely as many here, but it seems to me that if Levis would stop imagining himself as "putting this team on his back," stop losing games with (anti) heroics, and just do his job in a conservative and workmanlike way, maybe he could get out of his team's way and get some wins. He could do a lot worse than to watch some old Bradshaw. Low key winner.
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I'm pretty sure he dumped the girl.
 
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Guys and gals, my family and I have been at the ER for most of the night (my mom and brother are still there, and Im about to head back that way). Any prayers you could send up, and any love you can spare is greatly appreciated.

My 85 year old granny fell last night and broke her hip; and, they're doing surgery later on. As you know, I've been living with and taking care of both her and my mom for the last 3 years, helping them both beat cancer. I was back here in my part of the house, and heard her land in the kitchen (that's how hard she hit, that i was able to hear it from my room), then she screamed something terrible. I ran in there and my heart broke. It was the most awful, most pitiful thing I have ever experienced. She was/is in bad shape, and in an extreme amount of pain.

She just got past being sick...beating breast cancer here in the last bit, and doing so with a broken back; yeah, she's been through the ringer the last few years. I just took her Friday for tests, after she felt another lump in the other breast. The radiologist said it didn't look like anything to be concerned about, fatty tissue or such; she has her Dr's appointment, for the actual results, coming up. However, the contrast she drank for the MRI broke her out from head to toe, and she was itching something fierce Friday night into Saturday; she was feeling somewhat better from that yesterday, before she fell last night.

Anyway, again, please keep her in your thoughts, if you will. She's a trooper, and one of the toughest gals I've ever had the pleasure of knowing...if anyone can get past this, and come out stronger than ever on the other side, at her age, it's my granny. I'm a hardened pipeliner, who's worked underground and around heavy equipment for most of my life, and I believe what she's been through, and going through, would've killed me. I'm not even joking! She's BEYOND tough as nails.

Absolutely this household believes in the power of prayer, as we are a prime example of it. The good Lord has been amazing to us, and blessed us abundantly. He's seen us through time and time again.

Thank you all, and hope you have a safe/great day.
 
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