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Poll of the Day: What position do you want the Bears to draft?
Last year the Chicago Bears were fortunate to have Wisconsin's Gabe Carimi fall to them in the draft. Offensive tackle was a need position and Carimi was a top prospect on the board. It worked out for them that a player so high on their draft board just happened to fill a need. This season the...
Smart Or Not? A Junior's Decision w/ Tiree Eure, TE, Minnesota
Tiree Eure and his siblings were raised by their Mother in Plainfield, New Jersey, where Tiree could only dream of one day playing in the NFL. Eure a 6’6, 265 pound Tight End was in tremendous shape and had done a tremendous job at marketing his name. After a good junior year, the sure handed...
Boston College Daily Links: Kuechly, Fletcher And The 2012 NFL Draft
Football Mel Kiper's Top Five Linebackers (Bleeding Green Nation)A solid pairing at the top, both Kuechly and Burfict are well-known among evaluators and should crack the first round. Both have a ton of experience and will be able to step in, make calls and help teams immediately. I'm glad to see...
Mocking the Mocks: Who they think the Chicago Bears will take
This time out we'll double dip and take a look at what CBSSports.com has to say about the Chicago Bears 19th pick in the NFL draft. They have two mock drafters making picks and even though both believe the Bears will go with a wide out, both believe it will be a different wide out. First up if...
Luke Kuechly Receives Invitation To NFL Combine, Begins Preparation
The list of players invited to the NFL Combine were released today, and it's no surprise that Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly made the list. Kuechly will have to show his skills against other linebacking prospects such as Arizona State's Vontaze Burfict and Alabama's Don'ta Hightower and...
NFL Offseason Dates to Remember
Well, the Super Bowl is finished, and while the Bears weren't participating, at least neither were those cheeselovers up north (or those Clint Eastwood-backed, Eminem-loving, car-making up and comers from Detroit). So begins another offseason, full of hope and optimism - especially now that Jerry...
Ryan Tannehill - Top 10 Pick?
According to legendary NFL personnel guru Gil Brandt by way of Peter King tweet, Ryan Tannehill could be a Top 10 selection in this April’s draft. That’s, um, a tad higher than I’d have thought he would go, particularly after suffering a fractured foot that may keep him out of the Combine. Oh,...
Potpourri
Item 1 How bad was Texas recruiting on the offensive side of the ball from 2006 to 2009? This bad. In that period Texas recruited 40 offensive players, a number 50% larger than the defense had (27). Here is what an offense made up of the best 11 recruits from that era looks like: WR John...
NFL Owners Granted Permanent Stay: Why This Owner Victory Is Good News
I've avoided discussing the NFL labor negotiations because they're somewhat tedious, touch on byzantine legalities, and most of us just want NFL football and could care less about who "wins" the labor negotiation. Unless you're a legal scholar, a member of the AFL/CIO, or an aspiring billionaire,...
Defining Talent
While watching the NFL Draft, I started reflecting a bit on the ruins of our 2010 season and thinking about the debates that raged as that debacle unfolded with respect to talent, coaching, development and how those things interplay in individual player performance and evaluation. Talent is...
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