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Alabama Football , Auburn Football , Football , NFL , SEC , Senior Bowl » NFL prospects to square off in sold-out Senior Bowl By Tommy Hicks January 30, 2010, 9:00AM G.M. ANDREWS/Staff Photographer Oklahoma State’s Perrish Cox gets tackled by UAB’s Joe Webb (5) as Miami’s Darryl Sharpton runs up during a South squad practice on Wednesday for the Senior Bowl. The final exam for the week-long NFL job interview known as the 2010 Under Armour Senior Bowl takes place at 3 p.m. today at Ladd-Peebles Stadium. After almost a week of being evaluated, players will take to the field for the actual game in front of a sellout crowd and an NFL Network TV audience. The game is a culmination of a week of intense workouts and provides one last chance to make an impression this week. While NFL scouts, coaches and general managers place most of the emphasis in terms of player evaluation on the practices leading up to today’s game, gauging how players perform in game situations is also important. That’s especially true for some players who may be asked to play a different position at the pro level or make adjustments to how they play their position. For the fans, today’s game is an opportunity to see some of their favorite college players perform one last time before they make that step to the pro game. Detroit Lions’ coach Jim Schwartz, whose staff is leading the North team, said choosing who starts at each position doesn’t carry the emphasis it holds in other games. “All these guys are good players,” he said. “All these guys deserve to play, and they’re going to play. Whoever starts or whoever finishes has nothing to do with anything other than paper covers rock.” While many fans at today’s game will be there to cheer on players for their favorite teams — the six players from the national champion Alabama team, Florida’s Tim Tebow and Auburn’s Antonio Coleman and Ben Tate among them — some fans (and NFL personnel) are interested in seeing how the players perform in a different environment and, in some cases, in new positions. Miami Dolphins coach Tony Sparano said it is the overall value of the Senior Bowl week that is important. “I just know that it’s a great evaluator for our league,” he said. “To get to see them compete at this level and see them practice all week is really a good evaluation. At the end of this whole thing, the mental thing is important and how they play is pretty important, too.” The South team will be looking for a third consecutive win. In the previous 10 games, the North and South have five wins each. Detroit Lions staff is coaching the North team,well if they coach anything like they do in the Pro`s in this game the South has this game in the Bag. Senior Bowl / both have 5 wins apiece South has won the last 2 games. South by !0 points ! Football withdrawls.
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Kurt Warner is calling it a career. Two MVP’s and a Super Bowl ring. Pretty good for a guy who would throw up in the huddle during the Green Bay Packers training camp. After getting cut by the Pack and toiling in the Arena Football league and then NFL Europe, he got his chance to shine. After Trent Green went down, Warner led the Rams to a thrilling Super Bowl win that hardly any saw coming. But then his career hit a nose dive when he lost all 5 starts in the 2002 season and then lost his job for good the next season. He showed up with the Giants only to lose his job to some kid named Eli. But then Arizona called and his career got back on track. After Dennis Green was fired, Ken Whisenhunt came in and eventually made Warner the starter for good. There Warner would lead another improbable Super Bowl run that only got derailed by a darn good Pittsburgh team. Kurt Warner’s legacy to me will be one of persistence. He would fall, then rise, then fall, and then rise again. Even though he was hardly consistent in the regular season, He was arguably one of the best postseason QB’s ever. I gave him the name Mr. Indoors only because that’s where it seems his greatest successes occurred. I felt that he was not the same Quarterback when he would play in the bad weather games. That’s why I rank him behind guys like Brady, Favre, Roethlisberger, and arguably the greatest Quarterback ever, Johnny Unitas. Along with his up and down career, he was able to win the NFL’s Man of the year award last year. Well deserved as he would prove his class time and time again. He wasn’t afraid to speak out about his faith in Jesus. I never got the impression that he was holier than thou or the type to shove his beliefs down everyone’s throat. So in conclusion, I want to say congratulations on a great career to a guy I criticized a little too much on here and to anyone that would listen elsewhere. Kurt Warner, you’ve proved alot of people wrong and me especially when I thought you would never duplicate your success with the Rams. Best wishes to your future endeavors!
I don’t about the rest of you out there, but this last weekend was the Super Bowl. The playoff between the Saints and Vikings was one of the greatest games ever. I love Brett Farve, but I love the Saints as well. I will be watching this years Super Bowl between the Saints and Colts, but it will not have the excitement as this last weekends game. I was heartbroken for Farve and excited for the Saints at the same time. I will of course be rooting for the Saints who have never been this far and I know that they will win this games. To Brett, thank you for this years and all the years before. Go Saints
Aren’t we all after all, human? We all have weaknesses. So who’s to say that a Ref who is on a power trip or financially distressed wouldn’t fix a game? Why is this as impossible as walking on the sun in some peoples eyes? How about a Kicker that makes 500,000 and mismanaged his money? Possible target for a fix? Possible? Now I hope against all hope and refuse to believe at this point that the games are anything other than legit. It would ruin football for me forever if a game was fixed. I’d look at it like the WWE. Let’s hope that never happens, but the cynic in me looks at how some of these games are played and the thought crosses my mind….if only for a minute. Discuss….
One particular play in the game was utterly ridiculous how late does a defensive player have to hit the quarterback before it’s considered roughing the passer Brett Favre handed the ball off to his runningback who started his run and was propably a yard away from him when the defensive end completely leveled Brett Favre who just layed there for a minute with his bell rung talk about a cheap shot and no flag ? Some times I wonder if the games are’nt fixed.
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