I will respond to this if you can recite any of my observations of JG a few weeks before the trade or even right after Snead traded up to the #1 spot with the Titans?
Even though the data was lost from the Herd board after the server crashed, I have an excellent memory of who was involved in those conversations right before the trade and leading up to the actual selection.
Just to name a few off the top of my memory, I know that laram, Rams43, Kind of Blue/Gold, max, Suh-weet!, ArizonaRamFan, Flipper336, and a select handful of others I left out, were without a doubt heavily involved in those conversations on the the Herd board prior to and after the trade before the Rams traded up and made JG the 2016 number one overall draft pick.
I apologize for not naming all of the others but there is a lot of members posting today that were not involved in those conversations so I won't speak for them how they felt days before the 2016 draft.
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And the thing I think he's going to have to learn in the NFL, he's going to have to learn how to be a lot tougher in the pocket.
Cause that's not all that gets said
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COSELL: He's going to have to learn how to be a lot tougher in the pocket.
COWHERD: You mentioned toughness. I don't think you can teach it. I'm not tough. What you say is what I always felt. I did not have the physical confidence to want to be hit. We all see those kids at 5 or 6 years old. They have brothers and want to wrestle with dad. Then we have finesse kids. I think you can teach virtually anything. Tough is innate.
COSELL: Yeah. It's very hard to teach a quarterback to stand in the pocket and the term we use sometimes is look down the gun barrel. You have to be able to stand there knowing you're going to get hit or at the least be able to throw when there's a lot of people around you.
As I see it there, Cowherd expands on what Cosell said, and Cosell then agrees with him.
If Cosell was actually saying something different from Cowherd, he probably should have taken the opportunity to correct him. And maybe all that happened is that Cosell didn't correct Cowherd, but it looks to me like he agrees with Cowherd.
If he does agree with Cowherd, Cosell's talking not JUST talking about letting plays develop, but also the kind of
innate toughness that allows you to do that. If it's innate you have it or you don't. Cowherd, anyway, takes Cosell as saying Goff doesn't have it.
So IMO that's why there's a difference of opinion on even what Cosell said.
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