That Aud Smell

holy sh1tballs do i love that .gif - respect @SDS!!

It looks like he was 2 of 6 in his career, fwiw. One conversion came in the playoffs. I have a buddy who used to joke that Ric Seiling would take a penalty shot by attempting a feckless wrap-around.

If a QB looks lost and awful during training camp and/or preseason action, that’s significant. I understand your point about apparent competence during camp or preseason action. Hell, we all saw Peterman look good this time of year in 2018.

I don’t think I visited it. Also, they’re a bit of apple-orange.

Interesting. That said, the article is fairly non-specific.

The local paper has a prominent headline posted online about Allen's solid performance during the 3rd down drills at today's camp. I think this may be about where I get off the bus. It's too much. Admittedly, I was guilty of feeding into this earlier this year when Allen had good reports out of OTAs, and I was all "YASS, KING." It must be that it's late July. I don't want real-time updates on my local football team's QB at this point in time. I just don't.

This says "no." https://www.capfriendly.com/players/evan-rodrigues

My fake internet birthday (the one I give out to the sites that require it) gives me a choice between Steve Larmer and Rick Nash. I think I'm going with Larmer there? My fake internet birth year gives me Grant Fuhr. Or would it be Andy Moog? They sorta platooned at that time. Too much uncertainty to stake my life on any of this.

That'll do nicely. And he's gonna be massively motivated. Tom Golisano may hate those damn geese, but he's gotta love the one-year nature of this deal!

Talking about Hossa there, right?

Yeah, I'll take The L on that one. I heard a regional accent, and I guess she just had the look an SEC network content-creator (which, ironically enough, she was for several years leading up to this gig). Listening again, she would not have been out of place on the old Da Bears sketch on SNL.

A thought I had: I don’t think royal blue would go well with the “true gold” they’re going for. I think a darker blue is a much better fit for that style of gold. Is it on account of all the hockey?

It appears that they went ahead and tried to "pull off" the colour gold on a uniform. Historically tricky, that. Also: That's a lot of stripes. I guess it's 5 stripes for 5 decades?

She sounds like she's originally from SEC country. Good luck to her. At least Russ Brandon's not around to prey on her. Edit: Her Twitter bio says she's from Chicago. My bad. Second edit: But her C.V. has lotsa recent SEC credits.

that thing is all over the Twitter right now apparently screen grabbed from an online adidas store (?)

What is.

I do think there's a fair amount of talking-past-each-other going on here. It's all good.

I appreciate the feedback. I'd effing love for this kid to defy my uninformed, instinctive response to his signing-day photo.

But, gotdam -- LOOK at that dude. I want to buy him a milkshake.

Also, and again, I see little point in comparing Cozens to an elite talent like Dahlin. Reinhart is probably the better comparison. For whatever reason, I have a specific memory of FGMTM talking about what Reinhart's marching orders were following the draft (i.e., focus on getting bigger and stronger, at the expense of putting up buckets of points). And I think Reinhart did a good job with that work. Hopefully, Cozens can do something similar.

Sir! Sir! Please, sir. Civility.

It’s quintessential July hockey talk when there’s a lengthy debate about what the state of a prospect’s game will be in 3 years. I know zilch about the kid - haven’t even watched a highlight reel (well, maybe part of one?). I’m strictly going off a gut take based on how gangly he looks. Now, otoh, I’ve seen the story about how he comes from a remote territory in Canada (the Yukon, is it?). Maybe that backstory, and all that it encompasses, will help fuel and carry him to greatness. I am all for that sort of thing, naturally.

I was gonna respond but @Curt did a much better job of drawing out my position than I could have. Just looking at the gawkish 18 year old — and I’m feeling like he’s 3 years away from being a useful NHL’er (and this assumes he’s gonna make it at all (not all of them do)).

I think I understand this, and, assuming I do, agree very much with it.