NFL draft

[bamaga]

After trading most of their Alabama players(Tua, Waddle, Minkah), the Dolphins draft Proctor at 10.

 

[bamaga]

Ty Simpson to the Rams at 13

 

[bamaga]

I love all the “surprise” first round draft picks. Maybe, the people that actually get paid to make the picks know more than the people who just write about it.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I love all the “surprise” first round draft picks. Maybe, the people that actually get paid to make the picks know more than the people who just write about it.

I am willing to bet I could guess who is going to be good and who isn't better than kiper.

 

[Padreruf]

I am willing to bet I could guess who is going to be good and who isn't better than kiper.

I quit watching the NFL draft specifically because of my dislike of Mel Kiper. He is an ESPN creation and totally devoid of talent as far as rating players. An untrained monkey could do better...I'll have to repent of these feelings if I tune in so I just abstain and watch reruns of Law and Order...LOL!

 

[DzynKingRTR]

I quit watching the NFL draft specifically because of my dislike of Mel Kiper. He is an ESPN creation and totally devoid of talent as far as rating players. An untrained monkey could do better...I'll have to repent of these feelings if I tune in so I just abstain and watch reruns of Law and Order...LOL!

of course old helmet hair has an issue with the Ty pick. The only reason he hates it is because they didn't pick who he said they should. He loves the raiders pick because that is who he said it should be. How on earth that incompetent foul still has a job and is considered an expert in his field, I will never know. I mean he was supposed to quit when he declared he would if Jimmy Clausen wasn't a successful NFL QB. Clausen sucked and yet he still have that idiot.

 

[DzynKingRTR]

there are a bunch of articles out there letting us know who "won the draft". It is so dumb, we actually don't know that. We won't know who "won the draft " for a couple of years. Based on history, we already know the raiders lost. Mendoza will end up somewhere else in 3 years or less and the raiders will again pick 1st and again a QB.

 

[Ledsteplin]

It was Ty Simpson's dream to be quarterback at Alabama. He achienmved that, and it was enough to get him drafted #13 in the NFL draft. I'm extremely happy for Ty. And I don't give a hoot what the naysayers say. I believe Ty will prove them wrong, and surprise folks with his success in the NFL.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Germie Bernard to the Steelers in the 2nd round made him the first player drafted out of Alabama since 2007 who was never coached by Saban.

 

[bamaga]

I was reading the write ups on the Bama players yet to be drafted on SI. There was a common theme it seems. Most of the comments were, ‘needs to get stronger, needs to bulk up, needs add strength’ . After coach Yeah, Yeah and his power training methods led to perceived injuries, did we go too far the other direction with S&C?

 

[Ledsteplin]

Brailsford to the Browns.
Cuevas to the Ravens.

 

[RammerJammer14]

I was reading the write ups on the Bama players yet to be drafted on SI. There was a common theme it seems. Most of the comments were, ‘needs to get stronger, needs to bulk up, needs add strength’ . After coach Yeah, Yeah and his power training methods led to perceived injuries, did we go too far the other direction with S&C?

I mean….strength prevents injuries, actually. Unless you are doing dangerous movements like squats while standing on balance balls or something, you are pretty unlikely to get injured while strength training. It actually makes your bones and ligaments stronger and more resilient. I don’t know what we have been doing in the weight room but there is a difference between training and exercise. The former builds capacity, the latter gets you sweaty.

Long story short, I don’t really buy the narrative that our guys were getting injured because the had too much strength training.

 

[bamaga]

I mean….strength prevents injuries, actually. Unless you are doing dangerous movements like squats while standing on balance balls or something, you are pretty unlikely to get injured while strength training. It actually makes your bones and ligaments stronger and more resilient. I don’t know what we have been doing in the weight room but there is a difference between training and exercise. The former builds capacity, the latter gets you sweaty.

Long story short, I don’t really buy the narrative that our guys were getting injured because the had too much strength training.

I think the narrative was not enough scientific methods, adding muscle mass without enough stretching that led to injuries, not injury during training . Any way, it’s fairly obvious the team isn’t as powerful as the years into the mid to late twenty-teens. Getting defensive about Scott Cochran isn’t commenting on the lack of strength the last few years. For the record, I love Coach Cochran.

 

[bamaga]

Jam! To the Pats!

 

[bamaga]

Neither Lawson nor Roberts had their names called.

 

[CrimsonTusk]

Pavia undrafted!! Made my day!!

 

[Bazza]

Pavia undrafted!! Made my day!!

I heard he's coming back to Vandy for another year!

 

[TDBama78]

I heard he's coming back to Vandy for another year!

They're always needing custodians at Vanderbilt medical center

 

[RammerJammer14]

I think the narrative was not enough scientific methods, adding muscle mass without enough stretching that led to injuries, not injury during training . Any way, it’s fairly obvious the team isn’t as powerful as the years into the mid to late twenty-teens. Getting defensive about Scott Cochran isn’t commenting on the lack of strength the last few years. For the record, I love Coach Cochran.

I’m not getting defensive about Cochran, I was agreeing that whatever we’ve done to the S&C program the last few years is sub-par. Dudes in this program absolutely need to get stronger. I was also giving my opinion that the narrative that guys were lifting too much weight, leading to injuries, is bunk. I was just expounding upon the point.

I’m not sure what is meant by the narrative that “adding muscle mass without stretching led to injuries.” Building muscle mass through strength training doesn’t overpower the ligaments or something. They get stronger too as part of the biomechanical system. You prevent injuries in lifting by warming up, which is done through doing the lift with progressively increasing weight until you reach your work weight. It doesn’t make sense to say that having too much muscle mass impedes warming up via stretching which leads to injuries.

What does increase injuries is fatigue/overtraining, or not enough recovery time. Nobody gets stronger or faster in the gym or on the field, that happens on the off day. This is not unique to strength training but it’s feasible that the S&C program combined with practices was not/is not providing the players enough time for physical recovery, leading to injuries.

As an aside, I was making a quip about “exercise” because when we hired the new S&C coach he was posting lots of videos about calisthenics and polymeric type stuff. I’ve also seen people point at Tom Brady’s weird regime as an example that strength training is overblown. But Tom Brady was an amazing quarterback because he is Tom Brady, not because doing weird band exercises is particularly useful. I am concerned that our current S&C staff thinks exercising builds better football players.

 

[Ledsteplin]

Neither Lawson nor Roberts had their names called.

Both look to be signing with the Eagles.