Mr. Scot

I wonder what position group I should start with

When I say quit looking for "the next" I'm talking more about us than scouts because when it's done here it's more sentimental than analytical. That said, I think Honest NFL is right. It's gotten kind of lazy.

Gotcha

I hadn't looked but one of our resident capologists might have.

No. Just clarifying which active quarterbacks have Super Bowl rings. Not every post has an agenda behind it.

I'm not sure where Rimmer is getting his numbers from.

On the topic of pro comparisons, I've kinda started to feel like this too... It gets worse when it's clouded by lostalgia, i.e. people constantly looking for "the next Cam". That's why I say stop looking for the next this guy, the next that guy or the next whoever and just evaluate the players for who they are. It's about skills, traits and characteristics, not who they wistfully (or wishfully) remind you of.

And now, Broncos writer Mike Klis tries to put a positive spin on things...

Apparently someone thought that nickname didn't sound good, but Mrs Boze responded... As I recall, we previously had a "White Buffalo" too (Andrew Norwell). Now we've gone from buffalo to rhino Seriously though, extend this guy.

Person with a summary article in The Athletic...

That's crossed my mind, too.

Are we getting into the old "just win one Super Bowl and I'm good for the next 20 years" debate again?

Wilson denies the story, but... So both Russell Wilson and Jim Harbaugh are sounding off? Yeah, there's gonna be some interesting reading available for the next few days

A lot of us who played likely have stories like this. Could probably make a whole thread of it We've done a thread on old sports injuries before. Found out loads of us were still walking around with souvenirs from our "glory days".

There's a few more than that, but they're not all starters. Brady retiring (again) took all of his off the table.

Meanwhile Jim Harbaugh tells everyone in Michigan (again) that he didn't really want those NFL jobs, but even so they should consider NFL teams attempting to lure him away a good thing. Yyyyyyeah

Valid, but it's also true the NIL sh-t has pissed an awful lot of coaches off.

It gets better

Ooohhh, this is gonna be interesting

Read about it a little after Peter was drafted but before he was revealed to be a total bust. Not exactly one of my favorite memories Yikes Junior high Coach used to have us running sideways on a moderate incline but your story sounds much worse. And yes, I've puked at practice

Funny, but player positions aren't the only thing we can talk about here. Even the roles and duties on the coaching staff are not so narrowly defined as they once might have been. I imagine a conversation about that sort of thing might go something like this: "What does a quarterback coach do?" "He coaches quarterbacks." "How about a runningback coach?" " He coaches runningbacks." "What does an offensive line coach do?" "He coaches offensive linemen." "What does a passing game coordinator do?" "Wait...a what?" "Oh by the way, the runningback coach is also assistant head coach. What are his duties?" "He assists the head coach?!" "What does that mean?" "Uuummm...I don't know." "Okay" See, there was a time when you could just go down the list of a coaching staff and put what everybody did in a neat little box, but that's not really true anymore. And Frank Reich has made pretty clear that he plans for coaching to be a collaborative effort. This is a game for professionals, and thinkers. It's human chess, and checkers players aren't gonna do well. Why do you think our last head coach got fired?

Eeehhh, not really. To be honest, I considered continuing to give you joke names because you wouldn't know the answer anyway, but in reality there are different terms for it depending on who you talk to. That's not the point, though... The problem is your thinking as if football positions are something you just give a name to and write a job description for. I'm guessing you probably think everybody just goes by the old route tree (if you've ever even heard of that) as opposed to using things like mesh concepts as well. That sort of thinking might work at a youth football or middle school level where you can still just tell one kid to run a slant, another one to run an out and a third to take off on a post route, but we're talking about pro ball. (well, one of us is anyway) The game now is infinitely more complex than it was when I first started watching over fifty years ago. Personally, I think that's great. It's certainly harder to follow and keep up with than it once was, but that's fine with me because the mental exercise is fun. Clearly you don't agree. So feel free to continue acting like you know things that you don't. You're gonna look pretty stupid in the process, but apparently that hasn't bothered you so far. Again, I tried

They called it The Dirty Harry You really don't get it dude, but hey I tried...

Ouch Back when I played, they were still doing things like Oklahoma drills. We also ran something called a "Swedish Trot" that I think was originally conceived as a torture method. I remember our head coach getting hyped up about a piece of equipment he thought called "The Blaster". It blasted us all right Ah, the good old days...

Remember those positionless players? You can also throw in hybrids like what the Seahawks used to do with guys like Kam Chancellor. There's more, but to quote Arthur Fleck, you wouldn't get it Why? Because you're still thinking football is the same as it was decades ago. It's not. The game evolves. Hell, that's one of the things that makes it interesting and fun. If you just want to put everything in a little box and say "this is all there is", you're missing out. Seriously dude, here's an example of something you can take a little time and study to gain some actual knowledge of the game rather than just talking out your ass. Watch and learn. It'll make you smarter if you let it. Considerate a gift And there's plenty more where that came from. Following our buddy John Ellis on Twitter is a good place to start.