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Recent content by Alpe d'Huez

  1. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    You might use that word, "bust" too liberally. By such a metric about a quarter or more players in the NFL are busts. Then again, here's the thing with Tua. He's entering the 5th year on his rookie deal. There's talk right now about how the Dolphins are going to sign him to a massive...
  2. Alpe d'Huez

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    Good posts. Odd team to take him. A year ago I felt he was worth nowhere near the money he was expecting. Well, Baltimore paid him a lot. His numbers? Played in 14 games, had just 35 catched all season, 3 TDs. He was sandwiched between Brian Robinson Jr. and DJ Clark in the league. His yards...
  3. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    Speaking of the UFL, if you haven't watched a game, but want to, set your calendar for May 11th. That's when the two best teams in the league clash. St. Louis Battlehawks against the Birmingham Stallions. The Stallions are unbeaten, and haven't lost in a year, plus were two-time USFL champions...
  4. Alpe d'Huez

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    That is what I weighed in high school, at around 5'9", and I was skinny. Just to give one a comparison, Tyreek Hill is kind of little, and he's 5'10", and 191lbs. Devin Hester about the same. That's now 97% of all RBs now will operate in their career. Play on a rookie contract, hope to make...
  5. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    RGIII that year too. People often remember his horrific knee injury that ruined his career, but he was lights out stellar, and ROY for Washington, taking them into the playoffs too. True! Recall when Sam Bradford and Jamarcus Russell got such absurd contracts they changed the CBA? Well, the...
  6. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    Good posts. Blank is also 82 years old. He has to know the End is near, and the Lord will soon be drafting him. So he's going to be desperate to do something, anything, while he's still on this planet. I think you're pretty much right. Everything you wrote. As I said before, I can certainly...
  7. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    Not that insane. Neither Carr nor Cousins are worth the massive contracts they got. Both received "take us deep into the playoffs" type of money. Carr in his entire career is 0-1 in the playoffs. Blame the Raiders all you like, but he was the same guy last year in New Orleans than he was for...
  8. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    As I watch more on him, read more on him, and look back at previous drafts, he reminds me of these QBs: Daniel Jones, Blaine Gabbert, Kenny Pickett, Mac Jones, Jake Locker. He does not remind me of Drew Brees, at all. I wondered that last year when Jake Haener looked decent in the pre-season...
  9. Alpe d'Huez

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    They might need someone to pray for them. I'm guessing they fight to stay out of last place (again). What will be interesting is if Wilson doesn't improve at all, and Nix isn't ready for the NFL, if Denver keeps or just fires Payton. Remember, he was the, "I can fix him" coach with the last...
  10. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    Matt Millen once said the same. It's basically trench warfare in the interior line, play after play. I think in Seattle's case, Steve Hutchinson is the gold standard. He had a lot of skill but he was definitely a tough player, that "nasty" streak you talk of. In this light I was happy the...
  11. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    What I see is a numbers game, and depth. History shows the best percentage of players who make it in the NFL as starters, and quality platoon players, are in the 2nd through 4th rounds. And none of them are on big $ rookie contracts. Also, Buffalo got killed in the playoffs last year by...
  12. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    But injuries are so hard to predict. Maybe someone in Atlanta did some serious analytical number crunching and figured over the next 2-3 years Cousins was likely to get hurt, and Penix could get hurt, so roll the dice now while Penix is on a rookie deal, and if he turns out to be really good...
  13. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    Raiders drafted Brock Bowers...because he fell to them? Team didn't need a TE at all, but they could have sure used OT Fuaga, who the Saints happily took. This begs the age old question, "do you take the best player available?" Raiders would say yes. Bowers NextGen stats has his production at...
  14. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    Draft underway. I was right in that Penix went in the top 10. But what surprised me is he was taken before JJ, and by the Falcons, who have Kirk Cousins. The Vikings have to be absolutely ecstatic, leaving McCarthey to them, the guy they wanted. But the Penix pick baffles me. This means Atlanta...
  15. Alpe d'Huez

    National Football League

    Dude never played a single down as a Raider. Not one.
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