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April 2009
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Check out my take on the NFL draft here. ...I have heard some folks in the media referencing this Mizzou hoops team as the best in school history. Let's hold on a minute and think this through. Yes, the Tigers won a school record 31 games but teams today play five or six or seven more games per season than Norm Stewart's teams did. And although this club made an impressive run to the Elite 8, it finished third in the Big 12 in the regular season. Yes, winning the conference tour... Would you like to be Mizzou AD Mike Alden? He just watches his basketball team lose a gut wrencher in the Elite 8 and less than 48 hours later, he's scrambling to find enough money to keep Mike Anderson in Columbia. Not an easy sale in these days of economic hardship. That said, I'm betting that Anderson will get enough of a bump to keep him away from Georgia or Memphis. Mizzou fans are turned back on and can put the Quinn Snyder era o... It's becoming apparent that Torry Holt has played his last game in a Rams uniform. That's a shame. But, that's business. Torry understands that. He's still got plenty to offer a team and I wish him nothing but the best. Some at Rams Park last season wanted you to believe that Torry's attitude had gone south. Please. If Torry wasn't his usual upbeat self it's an indication of how fouled up the Rams had become. I've know Torry well--we... Anybody else tired of the way NFL quarterbacks have to be coddled and protected for fear of damaging their psyche? Give me a break. You think Vince Lombardi never got after Bart Starr? I guarantee you that Bill Parcells would unload on Phil Simms. And Chuck Noll would challenge Terry Bradshaw publicly. All three of those QB's won Super Bowls and had great careers. Football is the ultimate team game and a QB is the leader of that team.... That must be the Rams approach to the draft, every round of it, in April. When you draft strictly for need, you get shorthchanged down the road. The Rams are talent-poor from top to bottom of the roster and the way to improve that is to draft good football players, not football players who can fill a specific need. I'm guessing Alabama tackle Andre Smith has played his way off the Rams draft board. This young man let his teammates dow... Do not ask me to root for Bill Bidwill's football team to win the Super Bowl. If you want to, I understand. But for me that request comes two to three decades too late. Let me say this--I understand the Kurt Warner connection for local fans. And, yes, I would be happy for Kurt if he won the big one again. It almost certainly would cement his Hall of Fame credentials. But a Super Bowl for Warner means a Super Bowl for Bidwill and therei... |
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