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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:40 am |
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KC
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 9:53 am |
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The guy's a football player.
A sudden, explosive football player.
We can always use one of those and I'm damned excited we have him!
_________________  The Betty White Watch: Still unwanted by 32 NFL teams. Pretty good on NBC though!
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sgtrobo
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:02 am |
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as I've said elsewhere, I DESPISED the pick when I first saw it announced. Absolutely despised it.
I went into the draft with 3 guys I did NOT want us to draft at ILB, and I was afraid we would draft them.
1. Lavonte David
2. Mychal Kendricks
3. Sean Spence
David and Spence were "too small" to play the buck LB, and Kendricks was simply too dense.
yet when you think about a guy like Spence, and especially when you watch him, the dude is all over the place. He's in the right place at the right time because he's a smart, instinctive, aggressive football player.
Not the "right size", but if he was 6'2, 245 lbs, he'd have been gone shortly after Kuechly, if not before
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 10:48 am |
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Ed B talked about Rolle and his education being exemplary -- probably the highest among any Steeler ever. TBF, Ed limited this discussion to when he covered the Steelers. But honestly the smartest Steeler of all time is Byron White. Yes, he was only a Steeler for a year. But White graduated from Yale Law School and became a SCOTUS justice. One of my favorite justices. His WWV opinion is bawse.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 1:11 pm |
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KC wrote: The guy's a football player.
You trying to get a job on ESPN? "That guy's a football player in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE!"
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 3:02 pm |
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Dionysus wrote: KC wrote: The guy's a football player.
You trying to get a job on ESPN? "That guy's a football player in the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE!" Um, duh....yes I am. _________________ The Betty White Watch: Still unwanted by 32 NFL teams. Pretty good on NBC though!
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 3:10 pm |
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Now a guy like Sean Spence, THAT GUY PLAYS THE GAME OF FOOTBALL.
/gesticulates wildly
You see him move suddenly, flow to the ball [has no idea what this even means] SO SUDDENLY AND FLUIDLY.
/cums
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 3:14 pm |
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zeke5123 wrote: Ed B talked about Rolle and his education being exemplary -- probably the highest among any Steeler ever. TBF, Ed limited this discussion to when he covered the Steelers. But honestly the smartest Steeler of all time is Byron White. Yes, he was only a Steeler for a year. But White graduated from Yale Law School and became a SCOTUS justice. One of my favorite justices. His WWV opinion is bawse. The only way for the Wizzer to get out of his Steeler/Pirate contract was to go to law school. To the benefit of the country.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:39 pm |
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I saw that Stapelton failed his physical and got the boot.
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Posted: Wed May 09, 2012 9:27 am |
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zeke5123 wrote: Ed B talked about Rolle and his education being exemplary -- probably the highest among any Steeler ever. TBF, Ed limited this discussion to when he covered the Steelers. But honestly the smartest Steeler of all time is Byron White. Yes, he was only a Steeler for a year. But White graduated from Yale Law School and became a SCOTUS justice. One of my favorite justices. His WWV opinion is bawse. I'm not sure it really matters or that there's any way you or I or anyone can say for sure who is smarter. Sorry I just think that's a pretty crazy premise to base a post around. That said I would imagine it's much, much harder for an athlete today to be a super academic than it was in the past. I'd give Rolle the edge because of it. That said, I have no idea who is smarter and neither does anyone else.
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