Hot Carl

Not watching. Wouldn’t know. You seem to be, though. Perhaps you should be the one telling us. :dunno:

I’m not sure they shouldn’t retire 56 for the entire NFL. Or every sport on earth. You ain’t wearing it at the Meadowlands, young man. :lol:

Unalive yourself

PFF guys really surprised right now that Swinson from LSU hasn’t gone yet. Wondering if there’s any off the field stuff that may be hurting him. Have not heard anything like that, just trying to make sense of all these edges going before him.

6th-year-SR continues the pattern of drafting older guys who are mature and more ready to contribute early. Ready to be professionals. I bet Sheuder wasn’t even on our board.

PFF guys like him as an outside corner. Fast and quick hips, maybe not strong enough to play nickel. Said he had a great ‘23, but not as good a ‘24, but said that could be blamed on Louisville’s defense. Said something funky was going on last year, especially in the secondary. Were talking too fast for me to pick up everything.

2 guys thought he’s best fit for man scheme, but other guy said he thought he was strong enough to play zone, too. Said Staley must like him and see how he can use him in his system.

WR or CB?

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We got hosed but Busch league shite like that is what Vawl Baseball is all ab

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We won the game, so we didn’t get hosed. If he has to change pitchers there, maybe it doesn’t turn out the same.

But it would have been Busch league to have demanded he get charged with a visit there and make a change. Jay calls more offensive timeouts in a weekend than I think I’ve seen in just about all the baseball games I’ve ever seen put together. :lol: Vitello waited too long, but it was just a bit of gamesmanship like Jay often uses when he calls an offensive timeout. Nothingburger. Move on.

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That swing in the 9th inning last night to get the strikeout was as ugly

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In fairness, I think it was 0-2, and that pitch was absolutley filthy to a LHH coming off that fastball. Not many guys are gonna be able to put a better swing on it or be able to lay off of it.

It’s not those swings, it’s the missing the fastballs over the plate early in the count and fouling them off. But he looks like he’s putting better swings on them, so I think we may break out of it soon.

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You remember the Florida beat down of LSU at the CWS at game 2 and then the LSU win at game 3.

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Not just that, but Florida won Game 2 after losing a heartbreaker in Game 1. I don’t believe in day to day momentum in baseball, really. There’s the old saying “momentum is only as good as the next day’s starting pitcher.”(Now, I do believe in it for longer periods if you start running off a win streak, that can really build confidence and snowball).

But Tennessee is really good, and I’m sure they’ll be ready to play tonight. Didn’t somebody get run-ruled last week or the week before in Game 1, and came back and swept a double header the next day? I just think with good teams and as many games as you play, baseball is the one sport where it’s easiest—for good teams—to put yesterday’s game behind them.

That said, I think it’s much less to do with Tennessee than it is with us. Can we take the juice from that win and the juice that will probably have the Box rocking tonight at its peak and put together some better ABs earlier in the game? Can our pitchers (would be nice to only have to use 2 again) channel the energy from the Box and raise their performance or will they be too hyped and not quite as sharp as they have been?

I’m not sure Frey doesn’t beat that ball out btw imo fwiw. Maybe not, but it would have been close per the replay. He’s pretty damn fast.