2018 NFL Draft

Steelers making moves like this is unlike them. They don’t whiff on wide receivers lately, and they just grabbed his QB. Can’t say I know much about either, but it’s bold and narrative-laden.

 

The Steelers spent all three picks today on offense and two of those guys might not even see the field much this season. Apparently, somebody forgot that this team was a contender with serious problems on defense.

 

Ehh, I think sports has always been about our own truths. Fans see what they want in the heat of whatever the heightened emotions are that happen in sports. When the football offense doesn't work, it's play call/decisions. Guys are idiots at year's start, invaluable at year's end. Success is a weight and flexible indicator.

One of the best things I've done is go to clinics. I only stumbled on the idea a few jobs in, but you learn so much about what really matters. You learn that what's called and the decisions that get all the focus matter so much less than folks think.

 

Good post. You should expand on it and give us details and examples from those clinics.

 

The amount of distrust a fan has in a coach (save a few) has gone up considerably in the last, oh, 20 years. I mean, the amount of time spent examining what a coach does has gone up out of Sports talk radio alone.

I’m comfortable - almost uniquely so - saying fan culture has changed dramatically over the last 50 or so years, and the decline in trust for coaches - as it is for any traditional institution - has been steep.

 

I might not be old enough to 100 percent disagree.

 

If Alma' s theory is right, then we would expect to see some statistical correlation in a decrease in the average tenure of managers and coaches in the major sports, including college football and basketball. Or perhaps median tenure would be better, as one thing that has declined in college football is the lifer institution head coach. Even the big winners have itchy feet. And may I add, that is prompted by the rewards of their job, not its risks. I have no idea if coaches and managers aren't sticking around as long, but I doubt it very much.

 

Right up there with the 2003 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 2006 Indianapolis Colts, and 2013 Seattle Seahawks.

 

No one cares about any of those shitholes.

 

The '85 Bears captured the national imagination in sports in a way those other teams did not. That's not a fan statement, it's a history thing.

 

He was projected as a fourth-round stroke coming out of Oriel but quickly proved to be a 1st-rounder.

 

Equanimeous St. Brown. Best name in he draft?