2013 Combine thread

[Pugger]

Star Lotulelei will not work out at Combine because of a heart condition. Hope his interviews went better than his medical exam.

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap100...ion-at-combine

How unfortunate.

[SkinBasket]

Ever read the short story Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut?

Is that the one with a baby rabbits?

[QBME]

Is that the one with a baby rabbits?

No, it takes place in 2081 and it deals with how the government implements mandatory handicapping to make everyone equal. Funny and sad. It is a lot like your suggestions. A good, quick read.

[SkinBasket]

No, it takes place in 2081 and it deals with how the government implements mandatory handicapping to make everyone equal. Funny and sad. It is a lot like your suggestions. A good, quick read.

I'm currently plowing through Atlas Shrugged, which is about to make me kill myself. I don't know if I can take any more prophetic self-enslavement "fiction" right now, given that practically all the bad ideas from these books are currently being implemented by our fed. We've been warned many times by many people, but we just giggle and fart and continue to think we're special by birthright rather than action while the bloodprice of our forefathers seeps forgotten into the earth. In other words, we aren't getting any smarter.

Anyway, I like this Rontez Miles fellow from the DB crowd today. Seems to have a good attitude despite his rough edges and his aura is spectacular. I can speak about auras because Dion does. Except he basks in the aura of the most niggardly, over-hyped guy on the field while offering the same worn out black excuses for his "troubled past." His childhood. His victimhood (of his own decisions of course, but they don't want to mention that). His quest for redemption through running fast with a "swagger." I get it, the gay samoan and honey badger make great headlines for black people - just like Mike Vick. I'm just tired of listening to Dion blow his load for an hour straight about the guy based on his swagger and aura and troubled history. I'm also tired of watching him stand on the sideline after his drill drinking water while Dion spooges over him while 2 or 3 other guys are running drills. And yeah, I'm going to keep complaining about the coverage because I'm locked in a shitty hotel for two weeks with my kids and could have really used just a little escape via even half assed coverage of this event.

Also, I'm not down with this Milliner fellow. He's too much in his own head. He comes into the league like that, and he's going to fall into a mistake driven failure spiral that could take a season or two to recover from.

[rbaloha1]

I'm currently plowing through Atlas Shrugged, which is about to make me kill myself. I don't know if I can take any more prophetic self-enslavement "fiction" right now, given that practically all the bad ideas from these books are currently being implemented by our fed. We've been warned many times by many people, but we just giggle and fart and continue to think we're special by birthright rather than action while the bloodprice of our forefathers seeps forgotten into the earth. In other words, we aren't getting any smarter.

Anyway, I like this Rontez Miles fellow from the DB crowd today. Seems to have a good attitude despite his rough edges and his aura is spectacular. I can speak about auras because Dion does. Except he basks in the aura of the most niggardly, over-hyped guy on the field while offering the same worn out black excuses for his "troubled past." His childhood. His victimhood (of his own decisions of course, but they don't want to mention that). His quest for redemption through running fast with a "swagger." I get it, the gay samoan and honey badger make great headlines for black people - just like Mike Vick. I'm just tired of listening to Dion blow his load for an hour straight about the guy based on his swagger and aura and troubled history. I'm also tired of watching him stand on the sideline after his drill drinking water while Dion spooges over him while 2 or 3 other guys are running drills. And yeah, I'm going to keep complaining about the coverage because I'm locked in a shitty hotel for two weeks with my kids and could have really used just a little escape via even half assed coverage of this event.

Also, I'm not down with this Milliner fellow. He's too much in his own head. He comes into the league like that, and he's going to fall into a mistake driven failure spiral that could take a season or two to recover from.

Which white players can cover nfl receivers?

[SkinBasket]

Four pound shoes.

[rbaloha1]

Four pound shoes.

Fast twitch muscles.

[SkinBasket]

Is there a point here or you just being racist?

[Old School]

Skin, I was groaning when Dion was talking about swagger as well. I yelled at the TV, "Swagger is steertcorner ghetto bravado that doesn't catch a pass or intercept one. If you think you can get by on swagger, you best go back to the hood where the fools you skipped school with run their nouths ad nauseam because it's all they can do."

I'm hoping TT can find some graduated student athletes who haven't won the tattoed lady look alike contest and aren't wearing a scrub mop on their heads. That would be a good start to replacing a couple class acts we lost this year.

[SkinBasket]

I guess that's the distinction that struck me between Honey Badger's punk ass, Dion's got my back and I'm supposed to be awesome, so I must be "swagger" and the quiet confidence that seemed to come from a guy like Miles that only got his drills on TV once or twice while fuckfaces droned on about Mathieu, or replayed Milliner's 40 for the twelfth time, or showed us Honey Badger drinking water, or Honey Badger talking to Dion like they're old pals, or Honey Badger staring into space, or Honey Badger adjusting his balls in that ridiculously atrocious outfit they made those poor fuckers wear.

[smuggler]

No, it takes place in 2081 and it deals with how the government implements mandatory handicapping to make everyone equal. Funny and sad. It is a lot like your suggestions. A good, quick read.

This was also implemented as part of a religion in Vonnegut's 'The Sirens of Titans' which was a novel about fate (and to some lesser extent, inequality of opportunity). It really was a magnificent book, even if Vonnegut didn't quite understand outer space the way we do today.

[Joemailman]

Honeybadger?

He ran a 4.5 40 and had a good workout overall. He's pretty badass. He doesn't give a shit.

[MadtownPacker]

Skin, I was groaning when Dion was talking about swagger as well. I yelled at the TV, "Swagger is steertcorner ghetto bravado that doesn't catch a pass or intercept one. If you think you can get by on swagger, you best go back to the hood where the fools you skipped school with run their nouths ad nauseam because it's all they can do."

I'm hoping TT can find some graduated student athletes who haven't won the tattoed lady look alike contest and aren't wearing a scrub mop on their heads. That would be a good start to replacing a couple class acts we lost this year.

Swagger would be equal to the "It factor" type of comments. I didnt watch dion says this cuz I can't stand him but I highly doubt he meant it the way you interpreted.

[KYPack]

I'm currently plowing through Atlas Shrugged, which is about to make me kill myself. I don't know if I can take any more prophetic self-enslavement "fiction" right now, given that practically all the bad ideas from these books are currently being implemented by our fed. We've been warned many times by many people, but we just giggle and fart and continue to think we're special by birthright rather than action while the bloodprice of our forefathers seeps forgotten into the earth. In other words, we aren't getting any smarter.

Anyway, I like this Rontez Miles fellow from the DB crowd today. Seems to have a good attitude despite his rough edges and his aura is spectacular. I can speak about auras because Dion does. Except he basks in the aura of the most niggardly, over-hyped guy on the field while offering the same worn out black excuses for his "troubled past." His childhood. His victimhood (of his own decisions of course, but they don't want to mention that). His quest for redemption through running fast with a "swagger." I get it, the gay samoan and honey badger make great headlines for black people - just like Mike Vick. I'm just tired of listening to Dion blow his load for an hour straight about the guy based on his swagger and aura and troubled history. I'm also tired of watching him stand on the sideline after his drill drinking water while Dion spooges over him while 2 or 3 other guys are running drills. And yeah, I'm going to keep complaining about the coverage because I'm locked in a shitty hotel for two weeks with my kids and could have really used just a little escape via even half assed coverage of this event.

Also, I'm not down with this Milliner fellow. He's too much in his own head. He comes into the league like that, and he's going to fall into a mistake driven failure spiral that could take a season or two to recover from.

You mean "negro-ardly", doncha?

[pbmax]

I bet Old School meant this kind of hoodlum, from the turn of the Century:

So it was, as he listened to Professor Caldwell's easy flow of speech - the conversation of a clever, cultured man — that Martin kept seeing himself down all his past. He saw himself when he had been quite the hoodlum, wearing a "stiff-rim" Stetson hat and a square-cut, double-breasted coat, with a certain swagger to the shoulders and possessing the ideal of being as tough as the police permitted. He did not disguise it to himself, nor attempt to palliate it. At one time in his life he had been just a common hoodlum, the leader of a gang that worried the police and terrorized honest, working-class householders. But his ideals had changed. He glanced about him at the well-bred, well-dressed men and women, and breathed into his lungs the atmosphere of culture and refinement, and at the same moment the ghost of his early youth, in stiff-rim and square-cut, with swagger and toughness, stalked across the room. This figure, of the corner hoodlum, he saw merge into himself, sitting and talking with an actual university professor.