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Minnesota now too. So how did we get to 10-3 a year ago? Maybe coaching?23 big ten picks so far - most of any conference. What I find interesting is that Maryland, Rutgers, Indiana, Illinois had more than Iowa and NU.
It's amazing that he won so much. I assume whoever gets him today will be at least as happy with their selection as the Jets will be with Hack.Cook is a douche and he can't hide it...wouldn't surprise me if teams are uneasy about taking him because no one wants to play with/for him.
Minnesota now too. So how did we get to 10-3 a year ago? Maybe coaching?
So how did we get to 10-3 a year ago?
Coaching continuity, our guys stay 4-5 years, and a very favorable schedule.
Coaching continuity. We rarely have to replace any coaches. That means our players don't have to adjust to new schemes or new techniques. I think that our coaches are competent at worst and very good at best. We don't seem to have any awful coaches, even if we don't have any studs that get poached by other programs.
Our guys don't leave. We have most of our players for 4 to 5 years, so that's a lot of development opportunities.
Favorable schedule. If you look at our 1995 or 1996 season or 2000, and then look at 2015, you'll notice we didn't play OSU.
Minnesota now too. So how did we get to 10-3 a year ago? Maybe coaching?
Special teams. Specifically, punting and kicking.
Nfl teams are lemmings. Someone smart will draft Cook today, safe in the knowledge that too many teams would be scared off by the publicity surrounding his apparent douchiness.
We would have gone 13-0 if our QB wasn't a jerk.
Seriously, if Cook is that much of a tool, it's worth scouts noting in their evaluation. The hard part is evidence, and perhaps thw quotes in the article are not revealing locker room or on campus sources of data on Cook, or any QB. Ryan Leaf was a colossal jerk. Tim Couch was a tool. Cade McNown was a butt head. These are picks that any GM would have wanted to do over.
Perhaps, but one could just as easily cite thw weakness of this year's QB class as the reason the Browns got out. They have been burned enough, and may have decided that Wentz was no better than RG3 for them. I could certainly buy that argument. It's not a good class at all.Here's an interesting tidbit that may explain in part why the Browns traded out of the 2nd overall pick. The consensus pick was Wentz, but some scouts view him as arrogant and cocky. Other scouts say that he is confident and a born leader. That's the problem with quarterbacks and why it's difficult to assess personality traits: there's a thin line between confidence and arrogance.
Hack had better perform well or the NY fans and media will eat him alive. Especially with his ego and smugness.
Perhaps, but one could just as easily cite thw weakness of this year's QB class as the reason the Browns got out. They have been burned enough, and may have decided that Wentz was no better than RG3 for them. I could certainly buy that argument. It's not a good class at all.
The Jets are the graveyard of quarterbacks.
I live in NY and have watched NFL football with a huge Jets fan for a large number of Sundays during Hackenberg's PSU career. He went to Vandy, so follows the SEC more closely and also knows that I follow the B1G very closely. I have been preemptively mocking whoever wastes a high round selection on him for about 2.5 years, and laughing every year at the preseason Big Ten projections that continually say "this is the year" he finally lives up to his potential. It was too funny when the Jets took him, and with a second round pick no less. Hilarious.Hackenburg + NY JETS = Definitive Failure
He was a great looking prospect under the first HC, he and Franklin didn't get along and he was sacked mercilessly.Hackenburg has that thing that coaches are often mystified by- physical attributes. They always feel that they can coach up any deficiencies.
I live in NY and have watched NFL football with a huge Jets fan for a large number of Sundays during Hackenberg's PSU career. He went to Vandy, so follows the SEC more closely and also knows that I follow the B1G very closely. I have been preemptively mocking whoever wastes a high round selection on him for about 2.5 years, and laughing every year at the preseason Big Ten projections that continually say "this is the year" he finally lives up to his potential. It was too funny when the Jets took him, and with a second round pick no less. Hilarious.
At some point when you've been through that many different offenses and still haven't figured it out, it's not just the lack of OL. He just doesn't have the ability to read defenses (which can be taught to some extent) or make good decisions under pressure (which I don't think can be taught in his case). Even under Bill O Brien, a great offensive mind, and with Allen Robinson (!!) and other excellent wideouts on the perimeter, his best play was basically look for 1 on 1 coverage presnap and then throw up a fade to that side. Good luck to Christian representing the conference in the NFL, but I just don't see it...
At some point when you've been through that many different offenses and still haven't figured it out, it's not just the lack of OL. He just doesn't have the ability to read defenses (which can be taught to some extent) or make good decisions under pressure (which I don't think can be taught in his case).
I like Hackensack much better after it became apparent he didn't like Franklin.He was very good under his first HC, wasn't in the right system under Franklin, didn't like each other either, supposedly.
Connor Cook is a fifth year 23 year old, Hackenberg is 21 and played for three years.In most college QB situations, Hackenberg would be coming off of three years of QB study and would be playing his first season as a starter this upcoming season.
His dad is even worse, apparently--a xenophobic, homophobic, bullying hot head. At least based on his tweets.Cook is a douche and he can't hide it...wouldn't surprise me if teams are uneasy about taking him because no one wants to play with/for him.
Why is he xenophobic? did he make some outrageous comment like, " In my opinion , the immigration laws of the U.S. of America should be enforced and I, for one, am worried, about letting in terrorists and millions looking for free Medical, which is bankrupting our system OR did he say, "I hate foreigners!"His dad is even worse, apparently--a xenophobic, homophobic, bullying hot head. At least based on his tweets.
Among other things, he's a Trump supporter.Why is he xenophobic? did he make some outrageous comment like, " In my opinion , the immigration laws of the U.S. of America should be enforced and I, for one, am worried, about letting in terrorists and millions looking for free Medical, which is bankrupting our system OR did he say, "I hate foreigners!"
Just curious.
Aha, as usual, no answer.Among other things, he's a Trump supporter.
C'mon man.Aha, as usual, no answer.
Just same ole, same ole.
In case you don't want to click....Why is he xenophobic? did he make some outrageous comment like, " In my opinion , the immigration laws of the U.S. of America should be enforced and I, for one, am worried, about letting in terrorists and millions looking for free Medical, which is bankrupting our system OR did he say, "I hate foreigners!"
Just curious.
Lmao. I see you know nothing about the NFLSorry, didn't come back until now.
I was defending Trump, don't know anything about Cook , except It isn't unusual for the second rung of QBS to go in the late third and early fourth RD.
The last MSU QB went in the fourth also, if I remember correctly.
I didn't think Cook was much better than Stave and Stave didn't get drafted at all.
Additionally, no team passes on a player because their dad called somebody a foreigner. LMAO.