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Bobref

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  1. I really believe that JF will be a top 10 QB in the NFL someday. I wouldn’t have said that even 2 years ago that a QB with that skill set could be a winner in the League. But Lamar Jackson has made a believer out of me. Fields can be a bigger, faster version of Lamar if he gets some coaching.
  2. This has all the earmarks of a self-fulfilling prophecy, I fear.
  3. Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all the “Irish” out there, from the Fightin’ Irish!
  4. Until Russ sucks. That’s why I said Week 6.
  5. This is just interesting as heck … from the Steelers’ side. How does anyone think Russel Wilson is going to feel about this? I foresee a world class pout from diva Russ. I also predict Fields will be the starter by Week 6, if not before. Ryan Poles has now officially pushed all his chips to the center of the table.
  6. A program on the rise. They’ve only had varsity football for a decade!
  7. Did someone forget about the offensive line? The first thing a rookie QB needs is a little extra time to process all the information. I know they have recently signed several guys to 1 yr. deals. I never heard of any of them. Looks like they’re just shuffling the deck. I’m sure they’ll make up for it in the draft. Otherwise, these highly-touted receivers will be useless. And I like the Swift signing, but again, who is going to block for him?
  8. No doubt whatsoever. Probably the best player with his hand in the dirt since Reggie White. But — and I heard this on the radio today — please stop with the comparisons to Lawrence Taylor as the greatest defensive player of all time. LT completely revolutionized the way 2 different positions — offensive tackle and outside linebacker — were played. They had to invent a new position (“edge rusher”) to describe what he did. Just read The Blind Side. Or, you can just ask Joe Theismann. 😉
  9. I never imagined you’d think otherwise.
  10. Do you think the determination whether to build another school is going to be influenced, and to what extent, by the perception that a mega-school, like Carmel, has a greater chance of athletic success? I mean, if it’s really “all about the kids,” doesn’t that favor multiple schools, i.e., more opportunities for participation? How similar is this situation to the one that Hamilton Southeastern faced years ago … and resolved by building Fishers?
  11. So, Ryan Poles got pretty good grades for his first 2 seasons as Bears’ GM. But clearly, the honeymoon is over. https://ftw.usatoday.com/2024/03/justin-fields-trade-bears-excuse-caleb-williams-failure-video# The Bears’ excuse for failing to trade Justin Fields lacks all common sense All offseason, the Bears have been presumably preparing to move on from Justin Fields and select a new young quarterback with the No. 1 overall pick in next month’s NFL draft. If only this bumbling excuse for a pro football organization could get out of its own way. With the early salvos of 2024 free agency taking away various potential Fields’ trade suitors off the board — Kirk Cousins with the rising Atlanta Falcons, Russell Wilson with the usually competent Pittsburgh Steelers — the Bears have more or less been left high and dry. It turns out most other NFL teams don’t want to trade a Day 2 draft pick for a flawed quarterback and extend him his fifth-year option. Huh, who knew? Now armed with little recourse but to reevaluate how the rest of the league views their incumbent quarterback, it sure seems like the Bears are trying to play the stupidest public damage control imaginable for their trade failure: Do you mean to tell me that they didn’t deal away Fields because they’re still evaluating Caleb Williams? Really? That’s the best possible explanation that Chicago general manager Ryan Poles and his cronies could come up with. Come on now. At this time of year, in mid-March, you’re confident in your potential quarterback of the future (that everyone else seems to love) and deal away the guy (Fields) you don’t want when his market is the healthiest. There is nothing much else to learn about Williams (or Drake Maye) at this stage in the evaluative process. And even if you’re unsure who to take, it seems pretty clear Fields isn’t in the long-term plans, and you should be committed to maximizing his trade value as much as possible before taking more appropriate time in deciding on a rookie signal-caller. You do all that, or you simply stand pat and stick with Fields and deal away with the top pick. But that’s not really what happened here. Oh, no, no. The Bears asked for too much in a Fields trade, everyone balked at the price — including two of the primary suitors who opted for two quarterbacks in their mid-30s instead — and now they’re trying to pretend that the reason nothing happened is because they’re only 99 percent sure Williams is their man. Again, that is literally the best they could do to save face for playing themselves. It’s embarrassing, I know. I’d say I’m surprised this failure happened with Poles — who has 10 wins in two years as a GM — but this is par for the course for the Bears, a franchise that can’t even get its own fanbase properly excited for a generational quarterback prospect because it doesn’t know how to rip the Band-Aid off. Bravo, Bears. Next, you’ll tell us that, actually, you believed in Fields the whole time, and pigs will start flying in the sky.
  12. Didn’t I see that one of his assistants already has the job? My impression of Westfield is that one of the reasons for their execution and discipline is a great staff from top to bottom.
  13. My 2 cents: I first saw Westfield when they came up to play Merrillville in the semistate in November, 2020. Before the game even started, I knew Merrillville was in trouble. Even in the pregame, you could see Westfield was extremely well-organized and disciplined. And that’s the way they played. Not extraordinarily athletic, but no missed assignments, no bad body language, no stupid penalties. Their sideline ran as smoothly as I’ve ever seen in a great big game on the road. In that regard, I felt they were comparable to Center Grove. In my view, these are the signs of a very well-coached team: discipline and execution. In the times I’ve seen them after that, same thing.
  14. How ironic would it be if the Bears were “stuck” with Fields because they couldn’t unload him … and then he turned into the multi-threat franchise QB we saw flashes of this past season? You can bet everyone would be lined up to take credit for that, when the reality is they busted their butts to try and ship him out of town.
  15. Both can be true. 😂
  16. One of the things I liked about Coach Geesman is that he had a standard, and it was the same regardless of the score or who was playing. True story: We were at Freed and Penn was crushing someone. It was the 4th quarter and they were pretty far into the depth chart. A Penn offensive lineman false started and Coach Geesman just about lost it. He was almost out to the numbers when my line judge, facing the field of play, stepped in front of Coach and just started backing up. He backed Coach all the way back to the sideline. When they got there, Coach said “You just saved a sophomore’s life.”
  17. Now that I know I entertain you, I can die having accomplished my life’s purpose.
  18. Good for him. Now let’s see which goes higher in the draft.
  19. That would be great … but I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, I’m not pinning my hopes on a guy who paints messages to opponents on his fingernails, refused to provide medical information … or do anything at the combine, and has come up small in many big games. That is especially true when he comes from that place out of California. When you think about the haul in draft capital they could get for trading that pick … we’ll, he’s going to have to be awfully good awfully soon to justify passing that up.
  20. Trying to figure out whether this improves the trade market for Fields, or not. I think not. One more veteran QB capable of starting on the market, and I don’t see Denver as a destination for Fields. Plus, Russ is dirt cheap.
  21. And I think Keith Olberman should be dissolved. He should have stuck with Sports Center.
  22. That the opinion was unanimous is very significant. Increases the legitimacy of the decision … and the Court.
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