scottynola

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Sounds like a terrible analysis

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Why terrible? The Rockets and Celtics have cap space and star players to match him with, and he's already in Miami. Why wouldn't they be logical destinations? Not trying to argue, just curious about your logic here. This is a more entertaining topic than soccer right now as far as I'm concerned.

I don't want to play there, but at my age and physical condition those young bucks would kill me! Seriously though, I think the NFL track record and the playing true freshman track record are LSU's 2 best arguments for out of state recruits.

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I've always imagined that if LSU would hire Ed O that he would do something like this, intentionally.

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Ed O. would never get busted on something smalltime like this. He'd be photographed delivering the kid a brand new Camaro with a suitcase full of cash in the trunk at the very least.

See the news, posted 2 minutes ago on Twitter, Recruiting board has it beat by a solid hour. Of course.

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Not Larry Johnson.

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He's a Knicks great? I thought he was a Knicks player?

I wrote a blog post today, part of a series of coaches who succeeded without sticking to a single system. I included Mora because he won in New Orleans with a great defense and so-so offense, and in Indy with a great offense and so-so defense. One item I mentioned was the number of future head coaches who were with the Saints during Mora's tenure. Jack Del Rio and Mike Tice were both players under Mora, and Dom Capers and his son Jim Mora Jr. coached under him. Did I miss anyone? I keep thinking there was another but I'm not coming up with anything.

Here's the article if anyone is curious: Jim Mora

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I frickING LOVE THIS TEAM

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That sir, is what I call leadership. :bow:

The only way for this to happen is to negotiate a sign and trade type arrangement with the Browns. Some think that is against the NFL rules, not technically, the Patriots worked out something like that with the Dolphins for Welker a few years ago. Basically the Saints would have to negotiate a deal with Mack, leave it unsinged, trade Cleveland for his rights then sign the contract.

Having said all that no, not happening. Would be nice, he's an upgrade at a critical position, but not happening.

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Most prominent rumor on Eugene was pot, but we'll never know. He showed promise so I doubt he'd transfer on his own.

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According to NOLA.com he was dismissed from the team, didn't leave voluntarily, but they didn't give a reason.

Coaching only gets you so far, imo. Same with nature, honestly. If you look at NFL players they all have the genetic potential to develop the kind of bodies the NFL requires. Of all the guys with this DNA, of the ones who actually play in HS, excel, work out, and get enough exposure to get into football schools that is your pool of possibles. Coaching certainly helps at that point, but if you have ever seen anyone associated with the NFL talk about what it takes to make the next step, whether it's players, coaches, scouts, management, whatever, all of them say the same things. The guys in the league are not the most gifted athletes, they are the hardest workers at every level. That's character, not nature or nurture. The one exception is probably QB's, I believe a great quarterback is born, not made. They have arm talent, vision, an ability to focus and think under high stress and most importantly the great ones are wired as pure predators. They see the whole field as their property, the guys on their team and the opposing defense as pawns to be dominated and used, and when the opening is there they consider it theirs by right and take it without hesitation. You can't really coach that attitude. Mechanics, reading defenses, conditioning, you can coach that but not the attitude.