"but...but...Aaron won back to back MVP's and all his teammates love him and he always is in shape by August and he loves his family and you people listen to fake news!"
LOL....right, it also seems to tick off a few fans that get so vested in 1 player, they can't see the forest through the trees. It's been fun watching them twist in the wind.
"In preparing for battle, i have always found that plans are useless, but the planning is indispensable. "
Minicamps do that. I doubt OTA's with a group of guys brand new to the building and team are going over new schematic wrinkles when they don't know the old ones they built off of.
What I think Eisenhower meant was that there will always be something different than planned. More tanks moved in the night before, artillery you didn't know about, or company Z took Hill X much more quickly , whatever ...... But knowing the overall objectives and reasons for individual roles, you can quickly and coherently adapt to situations as the battle (or NFL play) unfolds.
I think the biggest reason for OTAs pre-draft is to see who got fat and needs to be replaced.
yes, and all those new guys have to learn to crawl before walking and running. One could easily argue that giving Love all those reps last year paid bigger dividends than having some like Rodgers run them. Especially as we're moving forward.
i see what guys like you and Amish have been saying, I do understand it's not a great look and perceptions matter to a degree. But I think that perception is radically changed once players get into the heart of the work and realize just how hard that guy works. and what is expected of them. I don't think it was impactful on the season.
All we can do is speculate on what the difference may or may not have been.
Yes! This is the Jordan Love thread.It wouldn't have hurt, you're right. But now we don't have to worry about it anymore
It does give a renewed excitement for training camp and preseason games. The kid can definitely throw the ball.
Years ago I had a customer(s) who were starving and getting ready to leave to eat and come back another day. We ordered them a Pizza to finish the deal and when I was doing their paperwork we were discussing sauces. This next part deserves its own paragraph!
Is that Woodley? Wonderful theatrical spin move.
It is the best sauceYears ago I had a customer(s) who were starving and getting ready to leave to eat and come back another day. We ordered them a Pizza to finish the deal and when I was doing their paperwork we were discussing sauces. This next part deserves its own paragraph!
After I told him various hot sauces I liked to use with Pizza.. . he said
“Hunger is the best Special Sauce”
and took a big old bite of Pizza. He looked like a Mountain man so it really added to the effect ! (You can’t make this stuff up)
I wrote those words down immediately. One day you will here a song and you will know who wrote it and the story behind it!
Oh.. that was so off thread but I did hear once that Jordan was real hungry coming out of college.
There’s a Bridge in Austin that the Bats come out just before dusk. There are so many (millions) that their is a tour company that Ferries people on the river in order to see the Bat spectacle.
Yes, because he was hyped as the Greatest Of All Time, a guy who won the Super Bowl at a young age and who would surely have multiple Super Bowl wins in his future. His individual records were great, but he wasn't the Michael Jordan type figure he was made out to be, where team championships come with it. You could blame that on the front office or just bad luck if you want, and maybe you'd be right. But he was hyped as a guy who would win multiple Super Bowls, and that never happened.
Let's just hope that not ALL of AR's "qualities" rubbed off on Love. I'm quite confident in saying that Love had a very good teacher playing in front of him, as did Rodgers himself. That said, one can learn from both the positives and negatives of their teachers.
Agree. One thing that I will remember Rodgers for was is ability to do some great things, but also, for not being able to adapt to changes, that usually impacted his ability to do those great things. For a few years straight, he was the master of getting free plays, we loved him for it. However, teams adapted as did the refs it seemed and those free plays became less frequent. As a result of not seeing that and changing his ways, Rodgers too often found the play clock at zero and had to burn a timeout. Hail Mary's were big for Rodgers, I mean some of those completions will forever be etched in my brain and I still love to watch the replays of them. However, they too kind of dried up and too often, Rodgers would return to attempting them (long passes), even when it was 3rd/4th and short. I also think Rodgers got a bit spoiled in his first 10 or so years, with an excellent group of receivers and when he didn't have them, it often was visibly frustrating to him, on and off the field.
