Skins News of the Day - Wed 11/18

[Caliskinsfan]

Lulz

 

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Don't know about others but I've got no problem with Cam's celebrations.

 

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Exactly...

 

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Classic shot. Got the attitude...even back then...heh

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Well said DHall

 

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K, this is a depressing stat

 

[Sharkinva]

Well said DHall

And taking a Que from Kirk C.... You KNOW you like that!

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Wat?!

Guessing and hoping it's weed. Stupid regardless

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Hilarious!

 

[Sharkinva]

Wat?!

Guessing and hoping it's weed. Stupid regardless

Look on the bright side, they could have made these guys serve their time in weeks 1-4 of NEXT season. As it stands, their bad behavior only hurts them and not so much the team.

~ Insert Silver Lining~

 

[Caliskinsfan]

Look on the bright side, they could have made these guys serve their time in weeks 1-4 of NEXT season. As it stands, their bad behavior only hurts them and not so much the team.

~ Insert Silver Lining~

Very true.

Just can't believe with the RBs we've got active this season that Silas would be so stupid. Not like he's a shoe in to get on this team...

Aggravates me. These guys have a short shot at getting this chance in the NFL and why they make these boneheaded decisions, I'll never understand.

 

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[Sharkinva]

Very true.

Just can't believe with the RBs we've got active this season that Silas would be so stupid. Not like he's a shoe in to get on this team...

Aggravates me. These guys have a short shot at getting this chance in the NFL and why they make these boneheaded decisions, I'll never understand.

As my Grandfather used to always remind me, youth and good health are wasted on the young. And natures curse for wisdom in some cases is that once you are old and wise enough to know HOW you should have spent your youth and good health, you might be to old to actually do those things any more. LOL

 

[Caliskinsfan]

The Legend of Scot grows... Great read.

The Titanic Wake of Scot Mccloughan — www.hawkblogger.com — Readability

Excerpt

The Midas Touch
Teams that have McCloughan on the payroll go to the Super Bowl. People can debate how much he had to do with it, but the fact itself is indisputable.

Green Bay Packers (1994-1999)
McCloughan was hired as a regional scout for the Green Bay Packers by Ron Wolf in 1994. Wolf was brought on as General Manager in 1992, and hired Mike Holmgren as their coach. The pair helped turn around what had been a 6-10 team in 1990 and a 4-12 team in 1991 into a 9-7 team in their first year, followed up by another 9-7 finish in 1994. Coincidence or not, the franchise had their first season with more than 10 wins (11-5) in 29 years the year after McCloughan joined. The went to their first Super Bowl since 1967 the following year, and won it. They made it back a second time and lost in 1997.

Seattle Seahawks (2000-2004)
Holmgren left the Packers in 1999 to become GM and Head Coach of the Seahawks. He tried to keep the existing front office mostly in place, and it led to a horrible draft that included DE Lamar King in the first round and WR Karsten Bailey in the third. Holmgren talks about how that was one of his first learning experiences as top dog, and corrected it the next year by bringing in "his guys," which included McCloughan as Director of College Scouting.

The Seahawks drafts while McCloughan were there included:

• RB Shaun Alexander
• WR Darrell Jackson
• WR Koren Robinson
• G Steve Hutchinson
• CB Ken Lucas
• FB Heath Evans
• G/T Floyd Womack
• TE Jerramy Stevens
• RB Maurice Morris
• DT Rocky Bernard
• TE Ryan Hannam
• CB Marcus Trufant
• S Ken Hamlin
• DT Marcus Tubbs
• S Michael Boulware
• T Sean Locklear
• WR D.J. Hackett
• DT Craig Terrill

Many of those players would play pivotal roles on the first Seahawks team to ever reach the Super Bowl in 2005.

San Francisco 49ers (2005-2009)
McCloughan was recognized for his great scouting and hired by the San Francisco 49ers first as VP of Player Personnel, and then as General Manager. He once again joined a franchise that had been experiencing a long drought of success, and immediately infused it with talent.

His drafts from 2005-2009 included:

• QB Alex Smith
• RB Frank Gore
• T Adam Synder
• TE Vernon Davis
• DE Manny Lawson
• DE/LB Parys Haralson
• TE Delanie Walker
• LB Patrick Willis
• T Joe Staley
• DE Ray McDonald
• S Dashon Goldson
• CB Tarrell Brown
• WR Michael Crabtree

He was fired just a few weeks before the 2010 NFL draft. He deserves at least partial credit for setting up a draft board that would eventually yield: T Anthony Davis, G Mike Iupati, and LB NaVorro Bowman, even if Trent Baalke called out their names.

 

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For those interested