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I honestly don't think either was making the team. Houston might have just based on sheer need. But Irving looks to be taking the job and Houston wouldn't have been out there in the first place had his spot been safe.

im not qualified to answer but i will anyway. I'd guess it would be like watching the Senior Bowl or one of those college all star games. Most of the guys playing were successful college players with upside but are probably not going to make the team or will be one of the last 4-5 guys to make the cut. They were probably not good enough to come out until junior year at the very earliest but most likely seniors, and most probably havent been in the league for more then 3-4 years as most veterans have either made the roster or have been cut already. Yeah, seems pretty accurate. A bunch of vanilla players, running vanilla plays. A top college team would probably beat them simply because it's a bunch of guys who probably haven't had a ton of reps, whereas the opposite would be true for the top college teams.

im not qualified to answer but i will anyway. I'd guess it would be like watching the Senior Bowl or one of those college all star games. Most of the guys playing were successful college players with upside but are probably not going to make the team or will be one of the last 4-5 guys to make the cut. They were probably not good enough to come out until junior year at the very earliest but most likely seniors, and most probably havent been in the league for more then 3-4 years as most veterans have either made the roster or have been cut already. Yeah, seems pretty accurate. A bunch of vanilla players, running vanilla plays. A top college team would probably beat them simply because it's a bunch of guys who probably haven't had a ton of reps, whereas the opposite would be true for the top college teams.

#MAGA

Yeah, I get that and said as much. But like the basketball thing, there's risks everywhere. Baseball, you can take a ball to the face. A batted ball to the skull from an aluminum bat. Hockey doesn't allow kids to hit from what I understand, but they're going to do it because they see it in the NHL. And in football, you have to consider that a 6-8 year old is only going to get hit with the force of another 6-8 year old. Granted, there could be great size discrepancies among those ages but most of those kids aren't going to be very capable of causing injury, not to mention the smaller kids are protected as much as possible by playing safety or playing DL against OL of a similar size. I agree there's no level of protection that's going to prevent every injury. And I stated there is really no benefit to the child. But to some extent, you have to let the kids do what they want to do to have fun and make sure they are as safe as possible. Whether that's football, riding a bike, skateboarding, whatever.

I didn't think it looked that bad in all honesty. Everyone says how bad it looked, but it was clear to me that it wasn't Marcus Lattimore (Career ending) or Jaylon Smith (15-18 month injury). My only thought was maybe he broke the bone in his leg near his knee, which would be problematic also. But I was always pretty hopeful that it was just your typical ACL tear.

I'm going to guess Sanchez gets cut. I think his value was to be a mentor to Trubisky, but it sounds like Loggains himself has taken on more of that role (which should be the case in the 1st place). The only scenario where Sanchez ever even sees the field for the Bears would be if Glennon gets hurt mid-game and you don't want to throw a non-ready Trubisky in the middle of a mess. But Trubisky appears ready to play at any given time, making Sanchez pretty pointless. Sanchez also isn't very likely to get picked up so if something does happen to Glennon, you can always sign him as a backup at that point.

As a youth tackle football coach, for 6-8 year olds, I have to chime in here. You guys are dead on that there's really no reason for kids this age to be playing tackle football. My son plays, and I really wish there was another way available (there was flag, and may be next year but it was so informal and the same 2-3 teams played each other every week). I coach to essentially keep an eye on him and make sure he's being treated fairly and he's being safe. I can't vouch for other teams in other cities/states and in other organizations, but the organization that we play/coach in has not had a confirmed head injury in the last 5 years. This is me and my son's 2nd year being involved, but the only head injury in the last 5 years was a player and his parents saying he had a concussion but never got him checked out for one apparently. But anyway, as coaches we definitely harp on tackling form and teach the kids the right way to tackle. 95% of the contact we have in practice is with pads, handheld by the coaches or on tackling/blocking "dummies". Including, these which teach the kids the "wrap and roll" technique rather than trying to destroy another kid with your shoulder or helmet. http://www.fisherathletic.com/images/Football/TackleWheels/tw-group-web.jpg All the coaches have to take classes to know how to teach this technique and how to spot a concussion....every year. Also, it's worth pointing out that helmet to helmet hits aren't typically the cause of head injuries. Helmet hits cause NECK injuries (AKA whiplash type of things). Head injuries are mostly caused by heads hitting other places on someone else's body or by being slammed on the ground. It's really not a huge risk for head injury in the grand scheme of things at the youth level. There are weight limits and most teams will communicate before the game to try to match up their little guys on the field when everyone is required to play 5 plays. That being said, there's really no logical reason for that risk to be more than 0 for a 6-year old. There's simply no benefit to the individual kid and the only benefit to the organization is having a group of kids that get to the HS level and have a ton of experience playing together. Of course, even then that only happens if the kids A) stay together in the same school district and B) kids stay generally the same AKA big kids stay big and form an OL, fast kids stay fast and are the QB/RBs/WRs. Maybe I'm a hypocrite for letting my son play, but this is something he wants to do and I have talked to him about the risks, though at 6 last year I'm sure he doesn't understand....hence why I'm with him at practice every day.

WTF dude, being 6'2" is all I got, don't go calling it short. As a 6'2" person, I've never really considered it short. As a 6' tall person, horsefeathers you tall bastards

Efficient guy, who doesn't turn the ball over and has won 60 of his last 85 starts.....now give him a better arm and more bulk with similar (at worst) athletic ability. I'll take it. Trubisky is much more Russell Wilson than Alex Smith.

Oh boy!

ahahahaha! Muthaeffing beast!

Goes on to have a 3800, 30 TD, 12 INT season....signs a big money deal with another team for 3 years. In the booth for the 2021 season.

Caratini about to Wally Pipp Rizzo

THE JASON HEYWARD GAME!

Great job by Joe. If you have to use Koji, there vs. the bottom of the lineup is ideal. Now let's have Davis pitch the 10th.

Ha. So trash Javy.

That was the longest scoreless inning ever.

Why are humans still calling balls and strikes? My God!

Oh boy! Cubs gonna win this bitch!

5 pitch walk to start, 7 pitch inning.

Javy owes us a dong.

Can't give up too many more runs if you hope to beat Bruce Su(t)ter.

Nailed it.

Quintana's first ML hit comes tonight.