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I saw a news item with quotes by anonymous pro scouts. They said McCaffrey could alternate with Adrian Peterson on third down or go to New England and "fit in somewhere." McCaffrey is seen as a "complimentary player" by pro football people.

And don't forget 1997, when Peyton Manning was the favorite for the Heisman Trophy. That year the sports media led by ESPN and Keith Jackson ("By golly I think a defensive player should win") came up with the notion a defensive player ought to win the Heisman. An idea I'd never heard before or...

We already know that. Dave Sime was discussed here years ago.

The consensus at the PFRA Forum is Witten will make the HOF.

Christian McCaffrey received a lot of publicity from last night's game and his performance in general. He's been compared to Reggie Bush at times, for what that's worth. J.B. Cash wrote a few years ago that on a pro team, a star RB is often The Man more than the QB, and the physical embodiment...

One of Robert Loggia's best performances was in the 1958 film, Cop Hater. He played a detective tracking down a cop killer. It's rarely shown on TV but is available on DVD.

I recall Skip Bayless calling for the Cowboys to draft Johnny Manziel on the grounds he was ideal for Dallas.

I ran into an acquaintance who is a big liberal and doesn't like this kind of coverage. "CNN is getting as bad as Fox News," he wailed.

He has to have a stupendous game Saturday with Stanford winning.

Yes.

Today at the Pro Football Researchers Association Forum there's a long thread lamenting the low quality of play and poor defense in particular.

Freddie Steinmark was a DB on the 1969 Texas National Championship team. This team has a kind of infamy as the last all-white consensus Number One team. Steinmark played the big game with Arkansas with a cancerous tumor in his leg, which had to be amputated a few days after the game. He died...

"I agree with what I saw." Do you ever disagree with what you see? A 27-year old man beat a 39-year old man. Something not entirely unexpected. By the way, when Ali was champion (and retrospectively with Johnson and Louis) you would hear incessantly that the Heavyweight Champion of the World...

I suspect Manziel wasn't demoted only "for drinking and dancing one night."

If you allow me, I'll play Devil's Advocate. What do YOU really know about Johnny Manziel? Have you ever met him? Have you been in the locker room, practice field, or game huddle with him? What proof do you have "the coach at Cleveland wanted an excuse to bench him?" For what its worth, the...

Do you think Brady and Aikman gave a higher priority to partying than being a great QB? Wouldn't it be nice if Manziel showed the dedication necessary to be on the level of Brady and Aikman?

And Manziel probably wouldn't understand what you were talking about if you told him this face to face. We've noted before how white players seem unaware how thin the ice actually is for them. Manziel probably thinks the system is just fine, along with an attitude of doing whatever he feels...

Baseball owners have been the same way. They were very upset when Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season HR record in 1961. "Too easy to hit home runs," they wailed. In 1963 they had the bright idea of widening the strike zone, resulting in less hitting, home runs, and scoring. Attendance...

The bottom line on a QB is it's up to him.

Don has often pointed out black QBs don't produce the astronomical passing yardage (with longevity) white QBs do. The only black QB who has been comparable was Warren Moon, who not only had consistently high yardage but played into his forties.

P C Roberts is a loon.

There were a lot of these "protests" in the late 60's, usually for "racism" concerning the coaches or athletic department, sometimes petty, idiotic grievances. Demanding the university president's firing is a new one. If the coaches are joining in, this is a case of coaches on a losing team...

You will remember the so-called spread offense was put in to benefit Kaepernick.

Don, Did you know Vermeil wrote the Forward to Jerry Sandusky's book "Touched?" Speaking of McCartney, his daughter was impregnated by his starting black QB. A couple of years late she got pregnant again by a black lineman.

The fifth season of The NFL Network's "A Football Life" program has had nearly all black subjects; Okoye, Owens, Bettis, Page, etc. There's been only one white football player, Steve Largent. Dick Vermeil was the subject last week. You can guess how that went--Vermeil worked his players hard and...