Hairyducked Idiot
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I don't think he's actually going to be anything other than a funny footnote in Bears history, but watching Bagent really shows how slow Fiedls' drop and release are. The difference is visible.
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ok never mind. welcome to the nfl kid
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They're going full scorched-earth fire sale in the next few weeks. Hard to imagine that pick isn't a strong favorite to be 10A.
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They fooled him bad showing blitz and then dropping back, and he went back to his old "hop hop hop hop" mode. He's never played a full, healthy season and with his playstyle he may never. Worth including as a factor in considering his future.
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I'm really not looking forward to a week of arguing that fields had no chance and nothing was his fault. Him being awesome or terrible would either be preferable.
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Running backs are just so fungible. You can go down to your 5th, 6th, 7th option and still have a guy who can take a handoff and run through a hole.
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Screens *are* a good call against a blitz-heavy defense. But if this goes poorly, people are gonna be *mad* about them.
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It's so infuriating to go into the offseason knowing we needed a center, waiting for them to get a center every step of the way, refusing to get a center, and now we have to deal with multiple bad snaps per game. I want to love Poles but that kind of stuff makes it so hard.
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The literal meaning of the word. It's not a random collection of syllables.
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I know I'm fighting a pointless and uphill battle against common usage, but the problem with this approach is that eventually someone's going to come along who is better than those guys. The Andrew Luck/Wayne Gretzky/Alex Rodriguez level prospects who truly do only come around once every 20 years or so. And when that guy comes along, you're going to need a word that differentiates them from the "top 5 per decade, was always a consensus No. 1" tier. And when we come up with that word, people are going to start clamoring for it to be used a little too loosely, and it's going to slowly become more overused until eventually it's being used for everyone and once again the words fall down the rabbithole into meaninglessness. I generally hate presriptivism, but sports fans are on a speedrun to destroy every decent adjective they get their hands on. And every cycle gets a little faster to water down the words. "Elite" took all of the 2010s to get dragged down from "in the argument for the best" to "any good attribute." We've seemingly pulled generational down from "once in a generation" to "five every decade" just in the 2020s to date.
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The criteria is the best prospect you are likely to see in any 20-year stretch. He doesn't meet that.
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Pitchers throw harder on average, with more movemenet. You genuinely believe that has nothing to do with it?
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All about the Maye train.
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I dunno. I thought for more than a decade that Bellichek made Brady more than vice-versa, but that's been proven untrue.
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I feel like maybe, and this is a maybe because WTF do I know about scouting college quarterbacks, Williams gets a boost because it's easy to imagine him replicating Mahomes. If Mahomes wasn't Mahomesing, I don't think Williams would be *as* highly regarded.
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The average whiff rate is way higher today. As is the average velocity. Cherrypicking the most memorable names won't change that.
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Guess what an idiot with a sports betting app did this time?
Hairyducked Idiot replied to Brian707's topic in Other Sports
It fascinates me that you can get all the way to high-ish level college football and *still* not get the basics right. There's a DB with two hands up trying to catch the hail-mary instead of bat it down, and it literally cost them the entire game. -
The reason hitters hit for good BA then is beause the tired pitchers were not as good at getting whiffs, and because defenses were not as good at positioning.
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Someone on Reddit suggested the term "presidential" for prospects who are subgenerational but likely to be the best of a four-year span, and I liked that. I want to say the only truly generational QB prospects I can remember are Manning and Luck. I remember the Chicago Tribune sports section having a Manning watch reverse-standings every week, which is the first time I had ever seen that sort of thing. But looking back at some of the coverage that's still around on the internet, there was a lot more questioning him than I remembered. I don't know if NFL scouting rooms felt the same way or of it was just the media, but there was a lot of talk about him being a weak-armed nerd who might be NFL ready but maybe didn't have a star ceiling.
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Running back crises make me think of this scene from scrubs: They're running backs. You can always find 2-3 guys who can run through holes for 3-4 yards when you want to keep the defense honest or when it's time to run out the clock.
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That the pitchers will be fine. Hitters are a lot better than they were in the 1970s. Pitchers have to be fresher to be successful. You can't be noodle-arming 91 down the middle 35 starts a year anymore.
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Blackhawks 2023-24 Season - Bedard luck this year
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
Boston pretty good -
Blackhawks 2023-24 Season - Bedard luck this year
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
Could have easily had another goal and assist that period. He's creating chances left and right. -
Blackhawks 2023-24 Season - Bedard luck this year
Hairyducked Idiot replied to bukie's topic in Other Sports
Made that look so easy. Won posession in the defensive zone with a good steal and pass, makes a nitfy pass just inside the blue line in the offensive zone, then gets a shot, gets his own rebound, scores on a wraparound. I wasn't kidding or exaggerating when I said I thought 100 points in his rookie season was very much in play.
