Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

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volsagain said:
There's a chance for a little step back on offense but the defense should be quiet a bit better. Joe just needs to come closer to making the right decisions. Not to many missiles bouncing off the receivers or bad time interceptions.
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There is no doubt the offense takes a step back. I think we fall out of the top 10. I think we will rank 15-20th this year in offense. I hope the defense improves especially in the secondary.
 
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VolsDoc81TX said:
Without the Russians, the first atomic bomb would have been dropped on Germany. Same outcome, except no East Germany.

If Patton had been heeded, he would have taken out the Russian Threat too.

If the Japanese had stopped fighting. No atomic bomb would have been dropped on Japan. The Japanese leaders squandered human lives as badly as Stalin. I actually took care of a WWII veteran who survived the Bat-an Death March. His stories were horrific. The Japanese considered themselves humans and the rest were subhumans of no consequence if they were tortured, killed or otherwise mistreated.
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What the Japanese did across China was just appalling and unspeakable. Good reason they are still strongly shunned across many Eastern regions.

It's wild to think of all the atrocities and treatment of people just 80 years ago across the globe and at home. And just 80 years before that we had literal slaves in our own country. It melts my brain.

And we still have many more ways to go, but a far better world than in the past. Global sunlight is the best of disinfectants. Among rising global literacy, less poverty, more freedom, more womens rights, less hunger, less slavery, things are getting there slowly but surely.
 
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Jackcrevol said:
we had alvin kamara and some other dude named Hurd... and couldnt win the SEC East.
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Know why? Because football is a team sport. It requires the combined effort of 22 players and a coaching staff. They all must be in sync. We could have had Trevor Lawrence or Joe Burrow with Hird and Kamala and still lost the East.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Houston Oilers from 1960-1996
Tennessee Oilers from 1997-1998

Houston is the oil capitol of the world so "Oilers" as a mascot made sense. But to me if you're the owners and you decide to move AND rebrand the team then why wouldn't the original team mascot/logo stay with the founding city.

Ravens didn't keep the Browns from Cleveland they relocated with their new branding and that's when the franchise essentially began. Titans did the same thing, except rather than be ready to rebrand before starting the first season in the new city they were too cheap/lazy and waited a couple seasons to see if Nashville would be profitable for them.
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Bud owned the trademark. Based on what I read, the NFL brokered a deal between Art Modell and Cleveland for the Browns situation. Modell had to surrender the trademark, history, franchise, etc to ths NFL, who would give it back to Cleveland in an expansion (that included the Texans) and in exchange Modell was allowed to found a new franchise in Baltimore.

Bud wanted to stay in Houston but Houston was sick of him and wouldn't give him a new stadium. So he threatened to leave, and they jumped for joy. They knew if he left they'd get another team after expansion, and they built a new stadium for the Texans with Bob McNair. McNair had been trying to get an NHL team in Houston but failed, then when Bud left the city approached him about getting behind an NFL team.

The Adams Family is Texas Oil Oligarchs through and through. 0 part of their body, soul, or mind is Tennessee (as apparently is most of Nashville these days sadly). They're in Nashville to spite Houston, Texas and they flaunt the Oilers logo and brand to rub it in.

I grew up loving the Titans, but always hated the Oilers throwbacks. Give it up. Move on. It's like threatening your girlfriend you'd break up if she doesn't do things with you, she dumps you, then you date her slut friend to try and make her mad and you never get over it (not speaking from experience).

The League made the Titans stop doing throwbacks a few years ago and the management has been pushing and pushing to bring it back. This year they've hinted at it multiple times and in the last two years they sneak the logo in everywhere they can.

The Titans Franchise still owns the Oilers history but I wish they'd just fully embrace Nashville/Tennessee and let Texas go. If you do an alternate, do a Nashville alternate.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Those guys in the videos that Enki posts thought Bussell was one of our better recruits and would see the field this year. IIRC.
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Yeah, that surprised me a bit. I haven't heard that much talk about him, then they say he'll see the field. I don't pay much attention to freshman OL/DL though. I just figure they need at least a year of training. I hope he is good enough to see some action.
 
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Enki_Amenra said:
Yeah, that surprised me a bit. I haven't heard that much talk about him, then they say he'll see the field. I don't pay much attention to freshman OL/DL though. I just figure they need at least a year of training. I hope he is good enough to see some action.
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That edge..forget his name.twitchy guy..actually looked very good as well.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
that's the most knock-off Don Draper line I've ever seen on a package. Someone thought they were real smart for that too.
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I had to look it up, trying to find out what I don't understand. Apparently they have put this on a few different types of candy. I couldnt find any definitive answer to what it means, though. Closest I could find was *maybe* it means real colors and no artificial coloring. Not sure why they wouldn't just say "no artificial colors". . . like no artificial flavoring. . . but then, what does that even mean? Real colors? Like colors from the actual fruits? Idk. . . I want to laugh at it, but im not sure if I'm the dummy for not understanding, 😂
 
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SoilVol said:
Bud owned the trademark. Based on what I read, the NFL brokered a deal between Art Modell and Cleveland for the Browns situation. Modell had to surrender the trademark, history, franchise, etc to ths NFL, who would give it back to Cleveland in an expansion (that included the Texans) and in exchange Modell was allowed to found a new franchise in Baltimore.

Bud wanted to stay in Houston but Houston was sick of him and wouldn't give him a new stadium. So he threatened to leave, and they jumped for joy. They knew if he left they'd get another team after expansion, and they built a new stadium for the Texans with Bob McNair. McNair had been trying to get an NHL team in Houston but failed, then when Bud left the city approached him about getting behind an NFL team.

The Adams Family is Texas Oil Oligarchs through and through. 0 part of their body, soul, or mind is Tennessee (as apparently is most of Nashville these days sadly). They're in Nashville to spite Houston, Texas and they flaunt the Oilers logo and brand to rub it in.

I grew up loving the Titans, but always hated the Oilers throwbacks. Give it up. Move on. It's like threatening your girlfriend you'd break up if she doesn't do things with you, she dumps you, then you date her slut friend to try and make her mad and you never get over it (not speaking from experience).

The League made the Titans stop doing throwbacks a few years ago and the management has been pushing and pushing to bring it back. This year they've hinted at it multiple times and in the last two years they sneak the logo in everywhere they can.

The Titans Franchise still owns the Oilers history but I wish they'd just fully embrace Nashville/Tennessee and let Texas go. If you do an alternate, do a Nashville alternate.
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Spot on.

I am totally over them. The only road back for me is regime change and embracing of our state. I want "Tennessee" replaced by the word "Nashville" anyway. There is nothing about that org that reflects the rest of the state. I'm back to bandwagoning teams that sign and play VFLs again.
 
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