Alcibiades

When he said it's a one in a million shot, am I the only one that thought he was bragging a bit?

Ayo has great traits. If he could cut the drops and really learn the offense, he'd be a fantastic 2 next to Tate. I think that doesn't happen until next season (barring injuries). But the ideal for the Titans right now is Tate at 1, Ayo at 2, and Robinson in the slot. With Helm as TE. That's a good group, if Ayo develops. Then have Dike be the backup for BOTH Robinson and Ayo.

people say all sorts of stuff during draft times. Once Styles posted at the combine, people thought "Get that guy!". Happens every year. I wanted Tate, and I'm still glad we got him. Obviously, if Bailey had been there...but he wasn't. I think a lot of people around here still think we would have drafted Love if he fell to us. I'm not convinced, but I was prepped for it, since so many mocks had that happening. BTW, I don't see a lot about the Seahawk who ended his season in our joint practice. BOBO or BOLOBO or something like that?

IF Harrell weren't out for the season, would you cut him? In other words, would he have made the roster over one of the above? I'm not sure. I think your list (Martin, Faulk, Femi, Johnson) are the obvious keeps at edge. SO...would we have kept a 5th guy if Harrell hadn't gone down? Maybe. He's a decent player. But he's not a starter on this defense right now. I think we miss him as a guy who could have come in for an injury (via practice squad), but surely we can fill that role. How do I have no idea who Diabate is? He started for us in preseason, and I've never heard of him!

Great win. Only one injury that I know of (non contact...guy jumped out of his knee! Shame). Ummm...next game!

Maybe...it does look more sexy, I guess.

Kind of amazing to think we have a guy this good on our OL, and yet the overall unit can't even reach average. So much wasted draft capital....

Ok, story time. This is all true, BTW. I went on a date with a woman, and on the first date, she told me all this. She had a long term boyfriend, who dumped her in a pretty callous way. As she was spiraling, she met with the ex's mom, who happened to have a booth at the Ren Faire. In the booth, someone was working on a furry costume. She had recently seen a video about furries, so she recognized it and asked about it. The guy said, "Yeah...lots of crossover between furries and the Ren Faire. Anyway, are you curious about it?" She was, but in a kind of intellectual way. Still, she agrees to go to one of the meetings. She befriends all these 20s and 30s aged gay men, who are all furries. They basically make her a den mother (she's in her 40s). And now she helps run their furry events, which includes making sure everyone got tested before the big furry orgies, etc. She even has her own costume and enters contests. She says she doesn't engage in the sex part, maybe because the vast majority are gay men. But that's her scene now. Life comes at you fast...sometimes it comes over and over, while dressed as an animal. And no, I didn't date her again, though not because of that story, which I thought was pretty fascinating.

Ward, of course. But I'll stick to the rookies. I'm looking forward to seeing Tate and Hill out there. I think both will be key parts of this team as rookies, and Hill will be a tackling machine out there. He won't get DROY, but only because that always goes to a pass rusher, it seems. But I think his stats will mean that he should be in the conversation. Tate should be WR 1 from the get, even if Ridley returns to form. I'm actually hoping Ridley DOES look good. Then we'd have that Keenan McCardell and Jimmy Smith type combo that would make Ward look great. Of course, our offense depends almost completely on whether this OL can improve.

Young and Murray are both taller...by like 2 inches at least. They are also FAR more athletic...oh, and accurate. Pavia does have them beat on self-confidence though! Deluded self-confidence, yes...but he has a LOT of it!

I wanted Bowers so bad in that draft, but TE isn't considered an elite need position. Alas. At least we got a LT...sorry, RT...sorry, possible RG. As for Harrison, I think he'll be fine. It's TC. You can't expect him to catch every ball just because it hits him in his...hands.

If we could find a RT to replace him, I'd be fine with that. I think he'd be a very good RG. I know RT has more value, but we did the same thing with Skoronski. It's not ideal for that high of a pick, but let's just get the best five out there in the best fits.

Vince Young can't afford a bucket of ice. He'll eat some burritos in honor of 2k, if someone can front him the money.

One of my childhood heroes, Jason Becker, is a guitar player who has lived a LONG time with ALS. He's beaten the odds and still makes music. But yeah, it's really unusual to see longer than 5 years once diagnosed, and CJ's progression is shockingly fast already.

Older women are great at HJs. They know what they are doing. Let's be honest Most of the people on this board couldn't do better than Russini

Unless you have a particular fetish....but yeah, the babymoon seems more likely.

Idk...if Glazer WERE a gay man and were sleeping with a coach, I think that would probably be worse than inviting them over for a BBQ. I mean, sure, all (or a lot..most?) journalists suck up to players and coaches, for sure. And they do that to get scoops. And that's problematic when it leads to quid pro quo exchanges. But actually having sex with them seems a bit further. But I'm still not fully convinced that's what happened here. I mean, maybe it STARTED that way (or maybe not). I think they were actually having a loving relationship of some sort. However, the Julio stuff sure makes it seem like part of that relationship included some favoritism that I'm not sure a coach that wasn't having an affair would have gotten. Russini, from her own comments elsewhere, including the "My mom wanted me to marry Jimmy Garrapollo!" comment, seems into athletes. So, it would not at all surprise me if she initially just wanted a fling with Vrabel, and then it became more.

Some of you act like Vrabel is a major get and Russini was punching out of her weight class. I disagree. He's a meathead. He's likely terrible in bed. She probably is magic. Now, I'm kinda jealous of Mike.

Reporters are supposed to be impartial. Coaches are not. The fact that she's a woman is definitely playing a part, but the respective professions are playing an even bigger part. If a reporter was the brother-in-law of a coach (different relationship...but now they are both men), then he would likely have to recuse himself from stories about the coach. Whether she actually used the relationship or not doesn't matter, because the perception will be there. It already is, and not just because she's a woman. I'm not going to assign blame to either of them for the affair. We don't know enough info there. But the professional aspect definitely hurts her career, even if they had both come clean from the start. Actually, her denials were not as bad as Vrabels But whatever. Her ROLE means that she will suffer greater career consequences, most likely. However, the funny thing about this is that Vrabel has made everything so much worse with how he's responded. The media on this is blowing up way more than it usually would, and that might actually end up causing him problems.

Do you have some clips of that? I'd like to see them. Also, I think Styles and Reese will be great backers. I hope Hill will be too. I just didn't get to watch UT much.

Bullshit. I have never called her a whore. I do not think that having an affair makes a woman a whore. That's YOUR hangup, not mine. And it's rich that you accuse people of reading into your words, when you do shit like this all the time.

It can be, yes. But here's the thing. There are different levels of evidence needed for certain claims. In a criminal court, that level is 'beyond reasonable doubt', which is a very high level. However, in a civil court, and in most areas of life, the level is 'preponderance of evidence'. That's what most of us were using in the original situation. Yes, I skipped 'clear and convincing' because that's for actionable cases of serious punishment. What we had FROM THE START was enough evidence to say that the chances of an affair was greater than 50%. So, most of us ruled accordingly. One person decided that we were doing a criminal case investigation, and thus could not convict until we were certain. I'm not sure where that point came for Jamal. But I do think that such a high level of evidence standards is not laudable skepticism, but willful denial.

Great! Like I said, I didn't see those contacts in the videos I watched. If the scouts say he can do that, then he could be a better version of Bulluck. That's hard to imagine though. Bulluck was amazing.

I'll give Jamal credit for one thing, though. He's right that those initial pics don't look like someone having a sizzling affair. And that's because they weren't. They were several years into a full relationship. They were well past the honeymoon phase. The sparks are no longer there, but the love remains. And you get pics like the ones we saw. Two people, just being in life together at a couples resort.

We'll see. Hill does a lot of drag down tackles too, in the clips I've seen. That was the one thing Bulluck did, too. He rarely popped people and stuffed them back. But he also rarely missed a tackle, and he also made some great breakups, INTs, etc. He's one of my all-time fave Titans players, too.