Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

[dwaugh]

Got ‘em!

All older VFLs attention!
Spring Break is going to be at @BaldBiker’s compound! Can’t wait. Minimum age is 50. Gotta have folks old enough to know how to party and fall asleep by 10PM

Sound off if you’re interested and let’s get this shindig started!

By the way Thanks @BaldBiker !

I'm in. I'll bring the prune juice.

 

[VolsDoc81TX]

View attachment 526475Let’s see all the new orange swag. I might not break 90 but I’ll look sharp doing it. Merry Christmas Morans! Cheers

Funny story (to me): On the big island of Hawaii for my wife’s 30th birthday.
I had all my Vols golf gear on. I’m at the driving range and the wind is blowing about 30+ miles per hour right to left. There’s a division 1 college golf tournament at the same course. On the range, I am the only one hitting the ball straight (my slice was so bad that it took a 30 mph wind to straighten it out).
After 10-15 driver shots, I am surrounded by all these collegiate athletes. They start adking me which pro circuit I play on. They asked when I played at Tennessee. I responded that I went to med school after college…
Then gave them a lesson on how to hit a strong slice to counteract the extreme wind…

Then I packed up and left!

 

[85SugarVol]

Cheat, you get beat.

Bobby Bonilla still the most respected man in all athletics.

All that **** may be well and good. But how can we differentiate the cheating seasons with non-cheat? We never doubted Bonds' talent. He was a 'me' guy in an era of 'me' people.

Rose will always have my respect. Dude oozed win.

The ‘98 season is widely regarded as Bonds’ last clean season, as well as the primary driver for his descent into PED usage.

He started juicing in 1999.

The mean shift occurred in 2000-2001 when he went from great player to Marvel Avengers level.

 

[TheRain]

So this bug's me...

I'll be here all week.

 

[TheRain]

 

[hndog609]

So lemme get this straight. You think Dobbs was better served being the #2 to Big Ben a future Hall of Famer who had been remarkably durable up to that season over a 6th round rookie who became the Jags starter due to Nick Foles season-ending injury? That's called revisionist history 101.

I actually remember when that trade went down. Most people on here were happy for Dobbs and thought he would finally get a chance to start. What actually happened is why I said Dobbs has been unlucky. Minshew ended up looking pretty good and having a good enough season to keep the job all year while in Pittsburgh both Big Ben and Rudolph ended up getting hurt.

Looking back you can say Dobbs would have been better served if he stayed at Pittsburgh but at the time, everybody thought being traded to Jacksonville was the better move to getting playing time. Unfortunately for Dobbs it didn't work out that way.

OK, you've almost worked your way back to making some sense. Now let's have you level up to actual compression.

If Josh had gone to the Steelers and displayed half of the kind of transcendent talent you've attributed to him on these forums he'd have gotten his shot in 2019 in Pitt. That's it. No revisions of anything. That's how it would have played out.

It's true Minshew came in and played well but that's just a surface read. At the very least your description of what to expect from Dobbs would be to have him a rock solid #2 and pushing the #1 guy. (especially a 6th rnd rookie) That's how you keep yourself in position to have a "chance". Instead the Jags waived him to move forward with the likes of Mike Glennon and Jake Luton. (who had 5 and 3 starts respectively in '20)

Which brings us back to post 7960 and addressing your usage of the terms "luck" and "chance". Completely beyond Josh or even sports opportunity starts at being where you need to be to seize that opportunity. You had cited Warner in what was actually an inverse example of the point you were trying to make. Kurt started at zero and clawed his way from the outside all the way up to making himself a first option. Only then was he in position to get that chance. It has been Josh's failure to achieve that status that has primarily kept him from having a shot at real game play, not something as whimsical as luck.

Still, as true as the above is (and it is no matter how unpalatable that may be for you) that doesn't preclude what might happen if Josh does get that shot. To be current I just can't accept that Dobbs isn't a better option for the Titans at QB than Willis right now. If he doesn't come out looking solid against the Cowboys I (and a lot of other people on this board) will be screaming at their tv's to get him out of there and put Dobbs in.

 

[Jackcrevol]

the tennis raquet is its natural enemy

 

[volinbama256]

So no Hooker, Ced, Hyatt, or Banks-- anyone else opting out or not planning on playing?

 

[Jackcrevol]

didnt realize the lber from utah was a captain. had several sec offers, acc to callahan.

this is a huge pickup after losing the enigma.

 

[bluegrasser]

My dad would look at something caddywampus in a particular construction trade and say “that looks like damnit”

Quoted for use of caddywampus. That was one of my Dad’s favorite words!

 

[Orange Studs]

Why so blue?

Looks darker in that picture than it really is. lol

 

[Orange Studs]

You sure that’s not a Krampus minion in your fireplace? Sweet jeebus man…RUN!

I saw that in the picture to. Creepy looking. lol

 

[Orange Studs]

Man I pulled it off after all who would have thought.I just put my head down and did what needed to be done.I won't lie I have an absolutely amazing family especially my daughters...Man I couldn't begin to tell u how much my kids had my back no questions asked!

To all on VolNation that extended their hands in a time of despair I sincerely Thank You.I won't my kid to understand that bad things are going to happen in life,speedbumps etc.You can put ur head down grind and figure it out or sit back and let someone else fix it for you.Im not a give up kinda guy and she won't be either.I will say this is the first time in my life ive realized that everybody is gonna need ppl sometimes and thats okay....Merry Xmas

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That's awesome Bro and great lesson for the kids.

 

[utkevdawg1]

So this bug's me...

I'll be here all week.

Could you not bee though? Don't need nightmare fuel.

 

[Buddy’s Bandit]

Today in 2004……Reggie White passed away.
Sad day……

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Guy could DOMINATE a game from the defensive line like no one I have ever seen before.

 

[85SugarVol]

I’ll stick with my assessment. He sacrificed a lot of his TRUE HOF skillset to chase homers.

Yep. His burgeoning hat size led to regression of multiple tools.

He had put up close to 14 defensive war thru the ‘98 season.
He was a -6 from ‘99 onward.

Became a completely one dimensional player.

Skinny Barry was one of my favorites.

 

[Jackcrevol]

I'm in. I'll bring the prune juice.

Is this for butt chugging warm up/cleansing?

 

[Jackcrevol]

Yep. His burgeoning hat size led to regression of multiple tools.

He had put up close to 14 defensive war thru the ‘98 season.
He was a -6 from ‘99 onward.

Became a completely one dimensional player.

Skinny Barry was one of my favorites.

OD & Dobb's say hold my beer.

 

[Vol423]

So lemme get this straight. You think Dobbs was better served being the #2 to Big Ben a future Hall of Famer who had been remarkably durable up to that season over a 6th round rookie who became the Jags starter due to Nick Foles season-ending injury? That's called revisionist history 101.

I actually remember when that trade went down. Most people on here were happy for Dobbs and thought he would finally get a chance to start. What actually happened is why I said Dobbs has been unlucky. Minshew ended up looking pretty good and having a good enough season to keep the job all year while in Pittsburgh both Big Ben and Rudolph ended up getting hurt.

Looking back you can say Dobbs would have been better served if he stayed at Pittsburgh but at the time, everybody thought being traded to Jacksonville was the better move to getting playing time. Unfortunately for Dobbs it didn't work out that way.

If Dobbs were 1/10th of the fictional super hero that you have built him up to be in your delusional little mind, he would have supplanted Big Ben as the starter in Dobb's first stint with the Steelers, and Minshew wouldn't have ever seen the field.

 

[MoCo_Vol]

So no Hooker, Ced, Hyatt, or Banks-- anyone else opting out or not planning on playing?

The big ones IMO, Wright & Young both playing is pretty big.

Hyatt would have been a nice one to have, but we all knew Hooker/Ced wouldn't be playing and the rumor was Banks' grades would make him ineligible. So been expecting him to not play anyway, personally I don't mind it since I think giving the younger LBs more snaps in the bowl game is going to help the team more long term and having a few weeks to prepare to play instead of a few days (like South Carolina) will allow them to better prepare.

Honestly though the success of the game will come down to can Milton hit the throws when they are there AND can the secondary play a good enough game to prevent Clemson from getting a big lead.

 

[Enki_Amenra]

 

[UTMVol76]

US government pushed companies to switch from cane sugar to corn syrup way back. It was an effort to support all the middle American farmers.

Bad news is that high fructose corn syrup is preferentially deposited into adipose tissue.

So basically if you check the timeline, that correlates when America began to become obese. Now 70% of America is overweight.

So the US government is responsible for two of the biggest health crises in the US. The US government convinced tobacco growers to mass produce premade cigarettes. This was to put packs of cigarettes in C rations for soldiers. And subsequently killed generations of Americans with tobacco related diseases.

If you add up the number of deaths attributed to either tobacco or obesity, the US government has killed more Americans than any other country in the world.

Plus the industrially encouraged Food Pyramid we were all taught as kids that is completely wrong. Another major contributor to obesity.

 

[Glitch]

Where did they do this interview? Behind the hotel next to the A/C units?

 

[Volbucky]

Where did they do this interview? Behind the hotel next to the A/C units?

Right in the jet wash zone on the runway

 

[Riverratvolfan]

the tennis raquet is its natural enemy

I can’t use a tennis racquet it just seems unfair. I prefer the long skinny yellow wiffle ball bats. Just seems to give a bit more satisfaction.
You should at least drop down to a badminton racquet.