So, did you hear Greg Paulus is preparing for the NFL Draft? Did you hear this one? You did? You know who else heard about this? Greg's number one fan - Bud Poliquin. Bud likes Greg more than Mel likes Flight of the Conchords. I fully expect Greg to be at the family home opening Christmas presents on Friday morning and Bud will be peering in the window taking photos. It's getting creepy at this point.
Now let me by perfectly clear - we here at T3I harbor no ill-will towards Paulus and we hope he finds his way onto an NFL roster. We appreciate his effort this past year and want nothing but the best for the guy. By all accounts, he's a great person and has been a positive influence on two collegiate programs. Even if he doesn't make it in the NFL, there's no doubt he's going to be successful in life.
By Holy Hell - enough with the love letters already Bud. It's time to give Bud the same treatment Kissing Suzy Kolber gives Peter King. From yesterday's missive:
For reasons beyond my ability to grasp, there was a pack of barking dogs out there who ridiculed the whole Greg-Paulus-as-quarterback project unveiled this past fall by Doug Marrone, the first-year head coach of the Syracuse University football team.
While we were not one of them, you could understand how people would have doubts about a guy who hadn't played football in 5 years. And you could also understand why they didn't put blind faith in a first-year coach of a program that had won 10 games in the past four years. Fans had a right to be skeptical.
Bad idea, they yipped . . . and mostly under the cloak of anonymity.
Yipped? Really? Yipped? My grandfather's 87, he thinks this term is antiquated.
It didn’t matter that Paulus, the imported graduate student from Duke, completed two of every three passes he lofted (admittedly, few of which traveled any length of note).
Of note, he also completed 14 to the other team, many at inopportune times, you know, like overtime. In the end zone.
No, the detractors did their detracting . . . again, for the most part, without the burden of self-identification. And they scalded a young man for having committed the sin of being the best quarterback on campus in the view of the guy who most mattered -- Marrone.
We here never booed Greg. We didn't take any personal shots. At the mid-point in the year, when he was playing poorly, we thought Nassib should play more. So did most of the free world. However, the "cloak of anonymity thing" cracks me up. If you think Paulus should have been benched, what difference does it make if your name is Greg Jones from Syracuse or Jonesy23? It's still a random name on the internet and the internet is a big damn place. Unless you're committing libel it's a pointless argument. My name is Andrew Rush by the way. I doubt that makes my criticisms any more or less valid.
Well, those creatures once more have their rifles to their shoulders and they’re about to shout, “Pull!” because Paulus is back in the news and on the verge of again riling up the naysayers.
They naysayers are being riled up because YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT HIM. You are doing the riling. If a couple of comments on a web site get you this fired up, it might be time to take a few days off and enjoy some egg nog.
Me? I loved the Paulus experiment.
Really? I never would have guessed.....the next thing I know you'll tell me John Daly loves smokes or Tiger loves women.
But still, I wonder about this NFL business. And I wonder how serious either side -- Paulus or the pros -- can possibly be. Knocking around in college and squeezing out one last football fling is one thing; actually thinking that Greg’s arm and Greg’s body translate to Sunday afternoons is something else altogether again.
Wait a minute, Bud's making sense, I'm confused.
Now, the fact of the matter is that nobody is going to get hurt here. Which suggests that there can’t be much harm in Greg’s trying. After all, he has done this tilting-at-windmills bit before, and Marrone ended up giving him the ball. So, why not? What is there to lose?
Exactly, which is why it isn't worth devoting an entire column to the subject. If he succeeds, let's laud him. Until then, let the guy go about his business.
And, sure. Some, while traveling incognito along the internet’s boulevards, will choose again to yip and yip some more. But then, we should all be pretty used to those barking dogs. They've been all around us for a while now.
Well I thought we were - but obviously the 'barking dogs' are being heard, at least by Bud's ears.
Now let me by perfectly clear - we here at T3I harbor no ill-will towards Paulus and we hope he finds his way onto an NFL roster. We appreciate his effort this past year and want nothing but the best for the guy. By all accounts, he's a great person and has been a positive influence on two collegiate programs. Even if he doesn't make it in the NFL, there's no doubt he's going to be successful in life.
By Holy Hell - enough with the love letters already Bud. It's time to give Bud the same treatment Kissing Suzy Kolber gives Peter King. From yesterday's missive:
For reasons beyond my ability to grasp, there was a pack of barking dogs out there who ridiculed the whole Greg-Paulus-as-quarterback project unveiled this past fall by Doug Marrone, the first-year head coach of the Syracuse University football team.
While we were not one of them, you could understand how people would have doubts about a guy who hadn't played football in 5 years. And you could also understand why they didn't put blind faith in a first-year coach of a program that had won 10 games in the past four years. Fans had a right to be skeptical.
Bad idea, they yipped . . . and mostly under the cloak of anonymity.
Yipped? Really? Yipped? My grandfather's 87, he thinks this term is antiquated.
It didn’t matter that Paulus, the imported graduate student from Duke, completed two of every three passes he lofted (admittedly, few of which traveled any length of note).
Of note, he also completed 14 to the other team, many at inopportune times, you know, like overtime. In the end zone.
No, the detractors did their detracting . . . again, for the most part, without the burden of self-identification. And they scalded a young man for having committed the sin of being the best quarterback on campus in the view of the guy who most mattered -- Marrone.
We here never booed Greg. We didn't take any personal shots. At the mid-point in the year, when he was playing poorly, we thought Nassib should play more. So did most of the free world. However, the "cloak of anonymity thing" cracks me up. If you think Paulus should have been benched, what difference does it make if your name is Greg Jones from Syracuse or Jonesy23? It's still a random name on the internet and the internet is a big damn place. Unless you're committing libel it's a pointless argument. My name is Andrew Rush by the way. I doubt that makes my criticisms any more or less valid.
Well, those creatures once more have their rifles to their shoulders and they’re about to shout, “Pull!” because Paulus is back in the news and on the verge of again riling up the naysayers.
They naysayers are being riled up because YOU ARE WRITING ABOUT HIM. You are doing the riling. If a couple of comments on a web site get you this fired up, it might be time to take a few days off and enjoy some egg nog.
Me? I loved the Paulus experiment.
Really? I never would have guessed.....the next thing I know you'll tell me John Daly loves smokes or Tiger loves women.
But still, I wonder about this NFL business. And I wonder how serious either side -- Paulus or the pros -- can possibly be. Knocking around in college and squeezing out one last football fling is one thing; actually thinking that Greg’s arm and Greg’s body translate to Sunday afternoons is something else altogether again.
Wait a minute, Bud's making sense, I'm confused.
Now, the fact of the matter is that nobody is going to get hurt here. Which suggests that there can’t be much harm in Greg’s trying. After all, he has done this tilting-at-windmills bit before, and Marrone ended up giving him the ball. So, why not? What is there to lose?
Exactly, which is why it isn't worth devoting an entire column to the subject. If he succeeds, let's laud him. Until then, let the guy go about his business.
And, sure. Some, while traveling incognito along the internet’s boulevards, will choose again to yip and yip some more. But then, we should all be pretty used to those barking dogs. They've been all around us for a while now.
Well I thought we were - but obviously the 'barking dogs' are being heard, at least by Bud's ears.
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