Yep. I'd like to hear Belichik or Parcells perspective on this.
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“Voluntarily skipping the bowl game”
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Yep. I'd like to hear Belichik or Parcells perspective on this.
"and the Oscar for best performance in a Bowl Game warm-up goes to..." lol.
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I was listening to ESPN radio last night and they were discussing this. Christian McCaffery is the high profile bowl defector last year, and the feeling was that this could be a widespread practice of the blue-chippers. But they said that it really hasn't happened that much. Josh Allen at Wyoming played last week, and others have and will.
Sitting out a playoff bowl leading to the NC is one thing. Skipping the Bad Boys Mower Bowl or Poulon Weedeater Bowl is another.
Back in the 70s, the NFL annually had a college all-star team (just graduated and ready to go pro) play the Chicago Bears just before camps opened up. Talk about a risk. I had a friend back then who was All-American LB from Arizona, and when invited, he told them he didn't want to play in it because of the injury potential, and was cussed out so bad by the committee that he relented and played. Got beat up in the game, but not enough to keep him from going pro. Notice they don't play that game any more.
Sitting out a playoff bowl leading to the NC is one thing. Skipping the Bad Boys Mower Bowl or Poulon Weedeater Bowl is another.
Back in the 70s, the NFL annually had a college all-star team (just graduated and ready to go pro) play the Chicago Bears just before camps opened up. Talk about a risk. I had a friend back then who was All-American LB from Arizona, and when invited, he told them he didn't want to play in it because of the injury potential, and was cussed out so bad by the committee that he relented and played. Got beat up in the game, but not enough to keep him from going pro. Notice they don't play that game any more.
Sure Myles Garrett last year's #1 has a $30.4M contract with $20.3M signing bonus included.
Patrick Mahomes last year's #10 has a $16.4M contract with $10.1M signing bonus included.
That is sure a lot of money but $16.4M is still a lot of swag.
Players who get concussions in football are in a tough spot. There is no visible injury. The evaluation is essentially all conjecture by the docs. Fortunately, now there is a protocol that ties the coaches hands, so they really can't play anyway if the protocol is followed, YET there is always this nagging feeling that they SHOULD man up and play through this injury just like it was a thigh bruise.
We dealt with this first hand in my house a few years ago when my son had 4 sports-related concussions in a year (two in football, two in wrestling - this was just before all of the "protocols" started coming out). My son wanted to play, but we took the decision out of his hands and benched him permanently. He still to this day has memory issues...
Oh yeah that's still good money, but who wouldn't rather have the #1 contract?
Generation of greedy sissies.
I hate it when people introduce slippery slope fallacies. "If A happens then Z will eventually happen, so A should never happen.
I think there's a kid on your lawn. You should go check it out.
That’s not a slippery slope argument. If UCLAs bowl game is meaningless, all of their games were meaningless.
