Epenesa Declares
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HawkGold
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Putting your kid up top creates snowflakes..... Special..
iloveyoularrystation
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you and me both
iloveyoularrystation
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actually if they trade up it would be for delpit the safety, but. they're not trading up. they'll be fine taking the last pick in the first round after winning the super bowl.
iloveyoularrystation
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so ummmmmm, aj is unblockable one on one wherever you put him on the line. I do actually think wirfs will go before him, because I think wirfs will be the first offensive lineman taken after the combine, but, I don't see aj falling to 20's by any stretch.
SpiderRico
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I love the Hawks too, but I think your fandom is clouding your analysis. Up until the last 2 games, AJ had a total of 5 sacks and only a handful of tackles for loss. So yeah, he was pretty blockable most of the year. I certainly think it took him awhile to figure out how to play as a fulltime player and once he did, he did awesome. But he's not a guy that's going to just blow by guys in the NFL like a Chase Young can. His strength is his strength where he can bullrush guys....he's not going to have that same advantage in the NFL. Saying he goes 27th isn't like I'm totally demeaning him. There's only 32 guys in the entire world that can go in the first round of the draft. I just don't see him going as high because he just doesn't have the speed that others have.
trj
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Clowney walks in free agency, Seattle would definitely have a need. If teams draft on need, instead of best player available I can see the slide.
okeefe4prez
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Stat is misleading. Welch missed some time and AJ was trying to hold the defense together. He wasn't going ballz to the wall pass rush every play like Young. Young is clearly more physically gifted, but I think AJ's awareness and football IQ make him and Young a lot closer than people realize. Wisconsin and Clemson had no problem going right at Young in the final two games of the year. AJ, on the other hand, is a guy whose value to NFL teams will be pretty high. He can pass rush and he can sniff out when he's getting baited on a screen or needs to play contain to keep the QB from taking off if the pocket busts. I don't watch a ton of NFL (playoffs and couple of games only) but it seems that the adjustments teams are making to the dominant pass rush of adding more mobile QBs and basically throwing out the run game for short passing and misdirection type plays favors high IQ guys who are physical freaks like AJ. I think he'll be good in the right system, but if someone drafts him strictly to pass rush, I don't think he'll do well.
hawkeyesgonewild
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Good luck aj you always be a hawkeye.now tear it up on sundays
hawkdrummer1
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Yet one more person who doesn't understand the term snowflake
proudhawkfan21
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"Your grandmother's boyfriend is a first class ass sniffer" -Robert Duvall, Four Christmases
Lol this reminded me of that movie quote.
proudhawkfan21
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Gotta go Shawshank for this one....
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone."
Thank you AJ, Tristan, Toren, Geno and all of the Hawkeye seniors that are about to soar. Thanks for some great football!
"I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone."
Thank you AJ, Tristan, Toren, Geno and all of the Hawkeye seniors that are about to soar. Thanks for some great football!
HawkGold
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I understand it quite well. I raised a number of them. You might want to check it out. (slang, derogatory) Someone who believes they are as unique and special as a snowflake; someone hypersensitive to insult or offense, especially a young person with politically correct sensibilities.
The key word is especially. I now understand it is not just liberals. It's a whole generation of hypersensitive young people be they liberal or conservative. I never fully understood it until recently. My conservative and republican kids are no different. My own were outstanding athletes. Good grades. Hard workers. But now I see it. I work with a bunch of 20 somethings to around 30 and all of them are Republicans. Bunches of spoiled rotten brats. I understand that young people in every generation are considered spoiled, but it has gone way beyond that.
Another more accurate definition: The term "snowflake generation" was one of Collins English Dictionary's 2016 words of the year. Collins defines the term as "the young adults of the 2010s, viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence than previous generations".
My advice. Stop setting up your kids to feel overly special. Stop spending money on marginal to pretty good athletes to "travel". Stop paying for college. Stop "guiding" them at every turn.
I'm guilty as charged. My boys were outstanding athletes...seriously. However, they didn't have the mental make up of a top notch athlete. Now I'm paying the price and so are they.
Healzya
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What are they going to do with the corner opposite Sherman? Seems like a huge weakness for them?
hawkdrummer1
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Ok, you get it. Agreed...and I'm guessing we agree on most of the above in principle. I still think wearing your kid's jersey to support him on game day is still a big leap from the type of comprehensive enabling behavior which creates snow flakes.
I'd suggest that a kid who's coached well, practices hard and is a good team mate is quite a bit LESS likely to become a snowflake. He learns to take responsibility for his own outcomes, knows how to get knocked down and bounce back up and learns how to win and lose cause things aren't always gonna go your way.
There are certainly spoiled athletes who get an inordinate amount of attention and it can inflate their ego and mess with their perspective.(that's nothing new) But in general, I think you'll find fewer snowflakes on athletic fields and courts than in theatre. <insert Captain Obvious photo> This coming from a guy who loves the performing arts and majored in music (for a year anyway).
iloveyoularrystation
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they like Moseley. and I think there's a shot they go get a free agent here. the other possible scenario is they do draft a corner 1st round and go get a safety in free agency like adams from the jets whose available. they need a safety more than a corner, but they need both.
HawkGold
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Not sure I agree about athletes. Think about how many kids have teams centered around them that don't deserve it.
It happens at the high school level as well. Some of it has to do with living through the school of hard knocks. Musicians generally earn their keep though not much is worse that a person singing a solo at church because of how they are rather than being good. Theatre, maybe.
My boys were very well-coached and hard workers. They have terrific jobs. They have a sense of entitlement that drives me nuts. They wouldn't have gotten where they are without their parents (hard to explain). Their lives are near perfect and they are really hard to get along with now. Not just my kids, their friends are just as bad. My daughters had it tougher with learning disabilities and being really small. One has health issues. They are so much easier to get along with and just plain nicer humans. Not nearly as much entitlement. One of the boys is coming down to earth having had a couple of real hard knocks in life, but before that he was about impossible. It wasn't parenting in that they had nice and good parenting. Not enough hard stuff.
One of my boys would be known by playing against a current NBA player getting significant minutes. I used to be rather proud about that. Now I see it as a source of ego. Just seeing parenting things I never expected.
Anyway, I need to go play my guitar...seriously.
This. Such an incredibly tired narrative used by fans thinking Ferentz players getting drafted means some recruiting bonanza magically ensues. Has never happened and never will. Completely and totally overblown narrative. One has zero to do with the other. At least in a ferentz led program
But they haven’t through history (ferentz history). And iowa has never had trouble pulling in tight ends as that’s what is grown in the Midwest. But he absolutely never gets skill players to any degree and that’s the separation between ho hum iowa and real teams that play in high level bowl games and win them annually along with playing outside their state borders in September
