Skipping Bowl Games really hurt the two RBs

[Briancuse]

Skipping 1 game to focus on your professional career, and to avoid an untimely injury is a slap in the face of teammates, yet nobody has a problem with a kid entering the draft after his junior year, and missing 12 games in his senior year.

Completely different, you are a part of a team for the year, you play every game that you can.

 

[JoeSU]

Obviously it is a good look...for them. Their status wasn't hurt one bit.

...except in the eyes of their teammates.

 

[cuse309]

Injuries are a part of the game, the Washington kid got hurt during his pro day, you don't just skip games because you are worried about getting hurt.

Apparently they can and do.

 

[Briancuse]

Apparently they can and do.

It would be a red flag, If I was an Nfl gm or scout.

 

[orangenirvana]

I have no reason to question Marrone

Of course not. That would be crazy!

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Completely different, you are a part of a team for the year, you play every game that you can.

The season was over.

 

[Briancuse]

The season was over.

Bowl games matter to these teams, you can't tell me they don't.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

It would be a red flag, If I was an Nfl gm or scout.

That's why you are not one. Every year some kid loses hundreds of thousands from needless injuries from needsless bowl games.

 

[MSOrange]

 

[Briancuse]

That's why you are not. Every year some kid loses hundreds of thousands from needless injuries from needsless bowl games.

These Gm's and scouts look at everything, they call high school coaches to find out info on these kids, you don't think they look at the fact that they didn't want to play in their bowl game, and take it into consideration.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Bowl games matter to these teams, you can't tell me they don't.

Yes I can. How many times do you hear about teams that "mail it in" or just "aren't up for the game"?

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

These Gm's and scouts look at everything, they call high school coaches to find out info on these kids, you don't think they look at the fact that they didn't want to play in their bowl game, and take it into consideration.

Did you see the draft? Clowney took his whole senior year off. Talent will always triumph. The motivation for missing the bowl game was money. The NFL motivates with money. Pretty simple, really.

 

[djcon57]

These Gm's and scouts look at everything, they call high school coaches to find out info on these kids, you don't think they look at the fact that they didn't want to play in their bowl game, and take it into consideration.

THEY WERE PICKED 4TH AND 8TH OVERALL!!!! FACT!

How are you still clinging to this?

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

These Gm's and scouts look at everything, they call high school coaches to find out info on these kids, you don't think they look at the fact that they didn't want to play in their bowl game, and take it into consideration.

So why wasn't Jake Butt taken in the first round? Huge talent! Plus, he set aside the personal risk and played with his teammates. Total gamer and stand up guy.
Surely that means more to the NFL GMs than being healthy.

 

[djcon57]

...except in the eyes of their teammates.

Did you read the article linked specifically stating McCaffery's teammates gave him an ovation or nah?

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

...except in the eyes of their teammates.

Except every report was that the teammates were for it.

 

[Briancuse]

So why wasn't Jake Butt taken in the first round? Huge talent! Plus, he set aside the personal risk and played with his teammates. Total gamer and stand up guy.
Surely that means more to the NFL GMs than being healthy.

You know why he dropped, he got hurt, its football, it happens.

 

[Briancuse]

Except every report was that the teammates were for it.

That was the company line, you don't think some of them were ticked, How come the other Lsu kids who were going to get drafted played?

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

True in part.

The large conferences and the media have tried very hard to minimize the college football post-season - other than the play-offs.

And that's a shame.

When your team is playing in a bowl game - any bowl game - it means something.

Playing in a bowl game gives the team a chance to finish the season with a win and affords the players and coaches a nice reward.

What if their last game was already a win. Now, they could finish the season with a loss.
Maybe only teams that lost their last game should go to bowl games, so your made up logic can stand up.

 

[Briancuse]

THEY WERE PICKED 4TH AND 8TH OVERALL!!!! FACT!

How are you still clinging to this?

They got drafted because both were incredibly talented, I never thought it would hurt them, its not the point.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

That was the company line, you don't think some of them were ticked, How come the other Lsu kids who were going to get drafted played?

Have to ask them. Maybe they are not the astute business minds the other 2 are.

 

[pacusewife]

That poor, poor dead horse... beaten to unrecognizability.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

They got drafted because both were incredibly talented, I never thought it would hurt them, its not the point.

If they blew up a knee, they would not have been drafted that high. THAT'S the point.

 

[Briancuse]

If they blew up a knee, they would not have been drafted that high. THAT'S the point.

Ifs, have you ever played football before? You don't play the game scared, if you do, thats when you get hurt.

 

[djcon57]

Ifs, have you ever played football before? You don't play the game scared, if you do, thats when you get hurt.

YOU DIDN'T PLAY DIVISION 1 FOOTBALL, Al Bundy.