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By kungfoodude · Posted
If we can get more draft capital, we should be dipping at WR in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd. -
Very true--I saw it in high school. I coached TA McLendon. I liked him, but he learned that he could miss practice, did not have to work hard in the classroom, and there were people who could get him out of trouble (I talked to an attorney who told me some stories). The town went crazy over the team (state champs). When TA took the SATs, he drove to South Carolina to a testing facility 100 miles away when they were offering the SAT at the high school he attended. (Reason? Believed that the head coach had "a guy" who could help--his scores were very good.) I might be the only teacher/coach who ever disciplined him (A teacher asked him to be quiet during an assembly and he told her "I talk if I want to. I am famous.") I took him to the office and told him that his attitude sucks, and they are not preparing him for success. etc. I was at a track meet that spring, and I talked to TA--he was being recruited, and he was appreciative of the time I took him to the office. I talked to a scout from Tennessee who was there, asking him if he was there to talk to TA. He said, "TA needs a babysitter. We don't do that at Tennessee." Amato, however, signed TA and the HS coach's son to babysit TA at State. I saw that attorney again, and he told me that he (while TA was at State) had to get him off a DUI charge. I told him that the town ruined TA--he agreed. When TA was a JR at NC State, he never went to a class--he told me that. He thought that he would be drafted. He was not. Atlanta signed him as an UDFA. Gave him $10,000 to sign. TA took his buddies to ATL and they partied during OTAs. I ran into a guy I knew who was with an Atlanta assistant coach in Charlotte. The Assistant coach for the Falcons said that TA would come to film sessions/meetings hung over, late, and he would sleep during the meeting--as an UDFA. The scout said that TA was allowed to do the same thing at State. I saw TA about 5 years late and he was about 280 and supposedly has several kids from different mothers. He was very nice. Told me, "you were the only one who gave a poo about me. I did not like you." TA was a good kid who was ruined by the people who somehow benefited from his play--so they tolerated him and created a double standard that became his norm. Again, I do not blame TA. He was naturally a stud and was always better than others. I watched him play basketball in middle school--he was beast. They were babying him then too (I knew his coach). These small town enablers ruined him, in my view. To your point. -
By TheSpecialJuan · Posted
Exactly. This vibes with what Joe Person has said, we're not interested in a WR or TE @8 Assuming we stay at 8 (which I think we will) it's guaranteed we take a defense player probably Mykel Williams
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