CJ Stroud boldly pushes back on "softness" accusations from college career
I'm going to let this quote speak for itself
If there’s a current NFL rule you could change, or if you could create a rule, what would it be?
Stroud: I have two. Can I do two? I would say that everybody has to have a dome if you’re in a cold area. And two, more cool uniforms. I don’t think that uniforms are meant to be so generic. Tradition is fine. (But) I think that would make the game more fun. Every cold game in a dome … but it’s OK; you get used to it. Actually, I love playing in the cold, but it’s love-hate.
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Lol, at least he stays on brand.
Honestly, I think we psychologically damaged him.
It's nice to see those guys broken psychologically for once, we've had to suffer that fate for so long
Did he just troll himself?
Yes. Period
Evergreen Dril tweet:
Why not domes for warm weather too??
The sun may have gotten in his eyes in cbus last year
Hey, the mid-50s are pretty chilly if you're a lizard.
This one is way too easy for us...
I am curious, however, to see how his talent translates to the NFL.
I'm sure it will translate fine if he has 3 or 4 all-pro WR's on his team. Except when he has to play at Green Bay, Denver, both New York teams, New England, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Cleveland or Chicago
EDIT: Forgot about Pittsburg, Baltimore, and Cincinnati (I probably missed at least one or two more)
If he thought AA was cold, Buffalo is going to kill him
This guy is the Stay Puff Marshmallow guy. Won’t take much to rattle him.
Ironically this is exactly what they said when Josh Allen went to Buffalo. Allen hates cold weather but his arm is built for it. It will be interesting to me how it plays out.
He hates cold weather but chose to go to college in… Wyoming?
Pretty sure he didn't have many options to choose from. He sent tape to every and any DI college and Wyoming was the best offer he was able to land, if I'm remembering correctly.
....and give him the flu.
Literally
Or, really, any team with a defense. In the NFL, every defense is the equivalent of Michigan's defense. There are no Toledos or Arkansas States.
Pittsburgh, damn it!
Seattle gets pretty nasty too.
Honestly I think that comment is very telling of the ceiling that is there for a variety of reasons.
He has one of the most accurate arms I recall in college football but so much more goes into it.
He's Jeff George - all the arm talent in the world, but nothing between the ears.
Excellent comparison.
He'll get killed in the NFL. His accuracy drops way off under pressure. In the NFL, he will always be under pressure. And he does not like to run and be hit.
Mahomes he's not.
Rule #3
Only my team gets to win.
wuss.
why, when i was a kid we used to have to ride our wooly mammoths to football practice. then wear skates during agility drills, and repel ice bombs and meteors during scrimmages. it was hell, i tell ya, pure hell.
But did you ride the wooly mammoths barefoot?
barefoot? what, you think shoes had been invented? skates were a radical leap forward.
here is the group of us, on the way to a game.
Oh course! They couldn’t find shoes big enough for a woolly mammoth!!
uphill!
Both ways, of course.
into the wind and under a hail of .50 cal gunfire. and we liked it!
CJ Stroud is the gift that just keeps giving.
Seriously though I am amazed at the lack of awareness on his part.
Even if you think it…Wtf dude
Well, maybe. But he’s no Terrelle Pryor.
That look CJ had after Desmond made the comment about his O-line not helping him was a gift.
When Mr. Whipple pleasures himself, he thinks about Stroud.
He’s ten ply, bud . . .
Savage.
That's actually pretty funny.
He is as soft as he is talented. No telling what this kid does in the NFL, he could be a star, he puts the ball wherever he wants on the field. But I don’t get the vibe he is going to command respect from veteran NFL players…
Nobody is tougher than a guy who tells you how tough he is all the time
Unless the Peach Bowl was Georgia's fluke game this year (a possibility, granted), it's hard to see how OSU played them so well. It's not like Georgia has many roster weaknesses. (I don't buy the idea that OSU "matched up" with them better than they did us.) And, yes, it was in a domed stadium. :)
Georgia's relative weakness was in the secondary. Tennessee gave them some trouble there too. OSU was able to exploit that with Stroud + Harrison + domed indoor stadium. Had Harrison stayed healthy, OSU would have won that game.
They matched up with Georgia way better than we did. We did not have the WRs and QB experience to do to Georgia what OSU did, like it or not. This upcoming year may be a different story if we can take a step up at the WR position . . . and we are willing to exploit weaknesses in the secondary.
We won't
Harbaugh has a knack for making these decisions for game prep. TCU he thought we'd blow up their 3-3-5 with ground and pound when they were literally playing safeties in the box begging for us to take 300+ in the air but the film told him we didn't need to and we waited way to late to try different. Against teams that are stout on film vs the run he has shown the mentality we are taking shots to soften you ie: OSU. The only hole I can complain about with the staff x's and o's wise is quicker in game adjustments when your read was wrong which hasn't been very often. To win it all that is going to have to be better or just go into the game with entire playbook and stop worrying about crippling mistakes cause it happened any way vs TCU.
That raises a question I honestly can't answer and I'm all ears.
I think we can safely assume that Georgia's secondary was all 5- and 4-star players. (Too lazy to look that up now ...) That leaves us with issues of recruiting errors, relative youth of the players, or lousy coaching / player development. Could anyone enlighten me on the details of the mixture?
Domes don’t protect you from excuses about being sick when you lose.
Domes suck. The Silverdome got a pass because it was my childhood and I doubt my da dwiuls have taken me to the late season games and I'd have missed Billy and later Barry...but still preferred the Lions had played outdoors and on grass.