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  1. Burt Macklin
    If anyone was on the fence about whether we should go after Bear, these two posts should settle it.
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    So you’re saying the info in there is more up-to-date than the usual Orangebloods report?
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    Blue entered the portal last offseason and fumbled the ball when we were trying to run out the clock against Wyoming. It’s not a mystery why it took him time to earn more touches. in fact IIRC @Hookem2147 proclaimed that fumble against Wyoming would be Blue’s last ever carry at Texas.
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    Yeah, it seems like there’s a lot of smoke on this. I have a hard time believing it, though. I know Antonelli has had an extremely successful junior career, but he was below F3 last year and then skipped to F2 this year. So far, he hasn’t lit the world on fire in F2, which is fine for his age and lack of experience, but throwing him into an F1 car when he hasn’t even adjusted to F2 yet seems like a bad idea. It sounds like Toto is leaning toward putting Antonelli in the Merc next year (probably because Toto’s given up on this reg set and wants to prep Antonelli for 26), so I guess that could be why they’re looking to rush him into Williams this year to see how he progresses.
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    I wasn’t following F1 when that happened, but the story about Charles losing Jules and his father within a two year span is what first made me root for Charles. It’s crazy to think a driver died under safety car conditions in a 2014 race. It’s truly inexcusable. Also wild to think that if not for that accident, Charles and Jules could have driven together for Ferrari.
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    Quinn’s sack avoidance numbers and pocket presence have always been terrible. The injury didn’t change much.
  7. Burt Macklin
    Agree with this. Conner could step in at either G or T in a pinch, so he’s very valuable for creating depth on the OL. Having said that, it would be severely disappointed if he’s starting.
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    That was just a terrible reach by the Cowboys. They thought they needed a run stopping NT, so they took him way too early. If Sweat was in the draft last year, Cowboys probably take him there. Sweat’s problem is he just doesn’t provide much pass rush or pass disruption. In today’s NFL, that’s always going to decrease value. Going in the second as a run stopping NT is still very high.
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    He’s a huge upgrade at safety over Jerrin Thompson, Taffe, true freshman Williams, etc. He’s a proven above average P4 Safety. How much more ceiling he has is yet to see.
  10. Burt Macklin
    Well then your question is an even stranger one. He will still be playing safety in 4/5 wr sets just like he would in base. If we bring a safety down to cover, he’s good at playing the slot for a safety. He’s not as good full time as a nickel CB. Those are two very different things.
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    Hill already played off ball LB last year, so we’re not moving him. I’m sure he’ll still blitz plenty again this year, but his role isn’t changing. You’ve clearly never watched Blackshire play. Blackshire was slow and couldnt move at 250ish. Now he’s over 260. He would get absolutely murdered by Michigan’s offense, and playing him significant snaps would be monumentally stupid. Blackshire was a culture take. He may get some run in goal line situations, but that’s pretty much it. Are you under the impression we don’t play safeties in dime sets? He’ll still be playing safety. PK very rarely runs true man. He’s almost all quarters/matching, which is perfectly fine for Mukuba at Safety.
  12. Burt Macklin
    I was about to say Riley’s already tanked his chances at an NFL HC job, but then I remembered Kingsbury got hired as a HC after being fired from Tech and not even winning half his games with one of the greatest QBs ever.
  13. Burt Macklin
    Exactly. This guy gets it. You can find guys like Anthony Hill, Manny Muhammad, and Ryan Wingo just sitting in the portal every offseason. Why are all these dumb head coaches wasting their time and NIL money recruiting them out of HS?
  14. Burt Macklin
    It means Robinson had terrible vision and wasn’t actually good as a RB. He was mainly a gadget player. Wisner can do both.
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    Sure but things at Red Bull were very different a year ago. If they’re not doing everything they can right now, it’s a huge mistake.
  16. Burt Macklin
    The team who can’t figure out a ground effect car to save their ever loving lives isn’t that interested in Newey. LMAO Merc is so bloated and lost. They’ve been fading hard ever since they lost their massive engine advantage and it’s not getting any better. Their strategy team tends to be slow to react and too conservative. Their pit stops have been consistently slow for years, and they obviously have huge issues with car design and development. If there’s one team willing to absolutely break the bank on Newey, it should absolutely be Merc. Them not being that interested in him just shows they’re still lost and not even close to figuring things out.
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    And about 20 of those 25 were guys who hadn’t played a snap of college ball yet.
  18. Burt Macklin
    You are drastically overrating Finkley. He’s undersized and doesn’t have great explosiveness. He’s a solid backup, but he’s not starting at any program that has hopes of sniffing the playoff. He could probably start at low end P5 schools or G5 schools.
  19. Burt Macklin
    I could see the first 5 picks around there. That Ford pick seems way too high. I can’t see him going in the third. Sanders early third also seems a little high after his poor testing and being undersized.
  20. Burt Macklin
    If we’re talking about more than a couple wins over two seasons, I think it would matter, but Singapore was a pretty fluky race. Sainz did an amazing job in Australia, but he’s not even the fastest on his team most races. Leclerc had the pace to win in Las Vegas last year, but an unlucky safety car took away his chance at a win so it’s not like Sainz is the only guy who’s shown the pace to challenge Max the last couple years. I do think Sainz gets underrated a lot, and he’s a top 5 driver on the grid, but saying he’s the second best driver in the grid is quite a leap, especially for a guy that’s lost to his teammate 2 of the last 3 years and is down by 62.5 points to Leclerc over the last three seasons with Leclerc losing quite a bit more points due to bad reliability than Sainz over that time. If you equal out reliability, he’s down by over 100 points to his teammate over 3 seasons.
  21. Burt Macklin
    Showing up to Spring ball that out of shape when you’re in a loaded RB room and will have to fight for every carry you get is certainly a choice.
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    If it was just up the conferences, we wouldn’t be in this situation. If the NCAA tries to enforce that rule, they’ll get sued and lose in court.
  24. Burt Macklin
    This is a great idea. The NCAA absolutely needs to pass another rule it can’t/wont enforce. That’ll fix it!
  25. Burt Macklin
    This is pretty disingenuous. Manning and Brady were all time greats who took big pay cuts to win a last SB on a loaded roster. You can’t build a team around hoping you find that. Foles had one of the flukiest runs ever and was a backup QB getting paid $5 mil with a starting QB on a rookie deal. So this also isn’t a repeatable strategy to hope your backup QB has an all time playoff run and then never has a good year again for the rest of his career. Stafford’s really the only example in the last 20 years where it’s worked.

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