I think more than anything, the RB position has always been for the "star" player...and paid accordingly. Now with all the advanced stats and change to the passing game...not too long ago offensive lineman rarely got large contracts. Now you have teams putting a large chunk of their payroll there.
Just to clarify...ELITE LEFT tackles get money. There are 3 levels of linemen. The elites who get huge money. The solid 8-10 year starter that we never hear anything from unless they are hurt or bad, and the regular guys that just bounce from team to team.
Dang you covered a lot of ground on that assessment of the running back. Injury seems to take its toll on that position faster than any other. And frankly, with the better option for one more reciever in a game designed to pass, we dont need that great back as much as we used to need them. Still, a great back can take much needed pressure off of the corners and make the tight end and receivers look much better.
I saw that, someone fell asleep at the wheel, including Cowherd. One thing we don't put enough stock in is these talk show hosts are good at DELIVERING opions, not necessarily their own. They have a prompter and staff of people that feed them information all show. It's not like they do alot of homework. Heck Tony Kornheiser is reportedly in bed by 8PM EST every night. He misses most sports until the next day.
Good points, not sure running backs have more injuries than any other position, it's just the "value" of a feature back may not be as important as taking those dollars and putting it in other position. My team the Titans, has Derrick Henry, may be one of the last backs that gets that 2nd contract. The Titans are still a run first team, and rely on the play action. Henry is very large, takes a pounding and is pretty healthy overall. But in a few years, the Titans may be doing RB by committee.
Agree, and I almost give him a break if he just accidentally said it. How does it end up on the screen graphic? Seems like a big miss by a few people
He doesn't do the graphics, and it clearly wasn't checked over well. When you have 24 hours a day of nothing but sports content, things are going to get missed. Now I agree, this was a BIG MISS and it's interesting to me that so little has been said about it. I mean could you imagine if it was Skip Bayless.
It was probably blamed on Covid...
It's because gun violence has become part of everything we do. Go to school...shootings. Got to church...shootings. Go to the store...shootings. Go to movie...shootings. Go to the local family diner...shootings. Youth events...shootings. Go to a sporting event...shootings.
Gun problem, or an overall attitude problem? I think we've already determined that you simply can't take guns away from law abiding citizens. That would only increase the problems. These regular, everyday shootings in cities across America would not be solved by having more gun laws, or having tighter restrictions. The two kids in KC didn't own their guns, they got them from someone. Doug Gotleib, Nick Wright got on their shows and pleaded with people that more gun laws are needed. They have no idea what they are talking about.
So this is a chicken and egg debate. There are many, many people who do not trust our government, or frankly anyone else. So if you do anything to curtail production. people WILL find a way. Disarming or limiting the ways people can protect themselves isn't a way to go. The legal gun owners who accidentally kill themselves is a small price to pay for the overall good. But guns aside, we need to start working on PEOPLE from the inside out. There was a time when student and teachers probably had guns in their vehicles. Most everyone had some kind of firearm and yet we had few shootings. Why? There was a value of human life and a respect for life that's not a prevalent.
There are way more guns and manufactures of guns than when you were younger. There's been ways to make ghost guns for decades but only easier now. Illegal but not like criminals care about that.
*fired because he got mad a HIGH SCHOOL basketball coach was fired...called a kid on the team a meth head, said he was going to go there and beat the hell out of all the school board members and said the town was nothing but meth, AIDS and needles.