Sione Takitaki
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See my avatar, not all are stupid:
Dudeism advocates and encourages the practice of "going with the flow", "being cool", and "taking it easy" in the face of life's difficulties, believing that this is the only way to live in harmony with our inner nature and the challenges of interacting with other people. It also aims to assuage feelings of inadequacy that arise in societies which place a heavy emphasis on achievement and personal fortune. Consequently, simple everyday pleasures like bathing, bowling, and hanging out with friends are seen as far preferable to the accumulation of wealth and the spending of money as a means to achieve happiness and spiritual fulfillment.[15]
Yeah, well, ah, you know that's just like your opinion man.?
Yeah, well, ah, you know that's just like your opinion man.?
Exactly and I shall abide
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Make a bet right now Mack Wilson starts as our MLB over anyone else on this team by opening day. Bama does not start untalented players in important key positions on defense and they are NFL ready when they leave Saban coached teams. He will understand the defensive schemes from day one.
Make a bet right now Mack Wilson starts as our MLB over anyone else on this team by opening day. Bama does not start untalented players in important key positions on defense and they are NFL ready when they leave Saban coached teams. He will understand the defensive schemes from day one.
Trey depriest??? Started for two years never made an NFL squad. Adrian Hubbard starter for bama in 2012 leading them in sacks tfl and forced fumbles but never made a roster. Reggie ragland is starting to play well in his second season and was a 2nd round pick starting linebacker from Alabama and he didn't even start his first year sitting behind Preston brown and tanner Vallejo. Reuben foster very talented but can't get on the field for off field issues. To say mack will be starting year one for us because he went to Alabama is a bit over the top. I'll take that bet. Note I do really like the pick despite this post. Just think it's a bit presumptuous to say he will start on opening day simply because he went to bama
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Taki Taki ... the guy just sounds like a hitter ... and from what I read, that is his speciality.
Two things here: 1) We're in the middle of the third round. Getting bent out of shape over a third rounder when you don't have nearly the information our front office possesses is futile. As Dorsey would say "we're looking for 'football players' and he has a top notch professional staff to scour them.
2) This is an Elliot Wolf pick, as Pluto points out. Wolf loves the guy. Did his homework. There's a reason Wolf is a highly paid NFL personnel guy and the dudes at Walter Football are writing their opinions on their laptop from a lunch diner while spilling a gyro on their fat belly.
In the third round you are looking for a plug and play guy, and we got one who becomes the fourth linebacker and special teams stud right away. Everyone complains about linebacker depth and special teams. Then we improve both corps dramatically with one pick and the complaining continues.
Guy was a bit of a trouble-maker, settled down, got married, had a fantastic season last year. He is considered a success story at BYU, and I trust Dorsey, Wolf et al to think he'll be a success story in Cleveland too.
Football player! I can see "Taki Taki" covered in mud already as he drills a rb back into the backfield on fourth and one.
Zombo
Zombo said:
Taki Taki ... the guy just sounds like a hitter ... and from what I read, that is his speciality.
Two things here: 1) We're in the middle of the third round. Getting bent out of shape over a third rounder when you don't have nearly the information our front office possesses is futile. As Dorsey would say "we're looking for 'football players' and he has a top notch professional staff to scour them.
2) This is an Elliot Wolf pick, as Pluto points out. Wolf loves the guy. Did his homework. There's a reason Wolf is a highly paid NFL personnel guy and the dudes at Walter Football are writing their opinions on their laptop from a lunch diner while spilling a gyro on their fat belly.
In the third round you are looking for a plug and play guy, and we got one who becomes the fourth linebacker and special teams stud right away. Everyone complains about linebacker depth and special teams. Then we improve both corps dramatically with one pick and the complaining continues.
Guy was a bit of a trouble-maker, settled down, got married, had a fantastic season last year. He is considered a success story at BYU, and I trust Dorsey, Wolf et al to think he'll be a success story in Cleveland too.
Football player! I can see "Taki Taki" covered in mud already as he drills a rb back into the backfield on fourth and one.
Zombo
Guys that want to bang on a third round pick- well. Not counting the 254 players that got drafted, I was pretty stunned perusing the list Ag originally posted in another thread. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001028811/article/top-undrafted-free-agents-following-the-2019-nfl-draft think you want to be a GM? Got the time to go over game tape and actually scout all these guys? And there's probably a lot more that didn't even make the list.
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If you want a funny religion, check out Rev Bob Dobbs and the subgenius church
Who said I was being funny about Dudeism?
Who said I was being funny about Dudeism?
Good question. Wasn’t me
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Another local connection. Mormons started in Kirkland. Seems like a tough player and a good kid.
Actually New York, then they started moving west.
Actually New York, then they started moving west.
Since we're a little OT here, correct.
The first Mormon church in the US is in Kirtland.. I used to live in Kirtland.. Infact.. Steve Young made a personal pilgrimage there...
True, but that was before they started the great migration west. I do know a little about the Mormons and their history. My brother in law used to live in Keokuk Iowa which is on the other side of the Mississippi river from Nauvoo Illinois where the Mormons wound up next. To make a long story as short as possible, John Smith was essentially the God Emperor of Nauvoo. Seems the Mormons weren't much liked even way back then. The editor of the Nauvoo News had some unflattering things written about the Mormons, so Smith declared the newspaper a nuisance, and had it "abated"- burned to the ground. Obviously, the editor was seriously POed, and appealed to the governor of Illinois about freedom of the press. Which was agreed upon. Things escalated to the point it was decided to take Smith and several other top Mormons into protective custody in the local jail, except a mob figured out where they were, and killed them. Only reason Brigham Young didn't wind up dead was because he was out of town at the time. Thing got so hot- literally, they pulled up stakes for Utah after that. The locals did such a great job of razing & burning the Mormon Temple after they left, much later it took Mormon historians decades to even find any remains of the edifice.
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I simply wished to point out a local connection for our LDS player. I wish him well and hope that he can tear off BRs head a few times.
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He was flying up boards , was an expected round 3 guy
https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/BYU-LB-Sione-Takitak
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I guess we will find out but I can't erase these damn visions of Beau Bell.
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I can't stand when people say things like "In Dorsey I trust" or "analytics driven pick" or even "Dorsey sucks". I prefer it when we value each pick independently of the people behind it, because we don't know if it was Dorsey's, analytics, or Defensive coordinator's pick.
As of today, many people think it is a reach, and as a dummie I am, I'm not the one to judge if it is a bad pick or not (there are some UDFAs in the HOF, IIRC, would you draft them with a 3rd round pick?).
I don't blindly trust in the Front Office as they are humans, but they'll have to convince me with this one.
I can't stand when people say things like "In Dorsey I trust" or "analytics driven pick" or even "Dorsey sucks". I prefer it when we value each pick independently of the people behind it, because we don't know if it was Dorsey's, analytics, or Defensive coordinator's pick.
As of today, many people think it is a reach, and as a dummie I am, I'm not the one to judge if it is a bad pick or not (there are some UDFAs in the HOF, IIRC, would you draft them with a 3rd round pick?).
I don't blindly trust in the Front Office as they are humans, but they'll have to convince me with this one.
Really good points Nero! For example, even a dynasty builder like Bill Walsh drafted Hofstra QB Giovanni Carmazzi instead of Michigan QB Tom Brady. Or the Pittsburgh franchise that drafted their way to a dynasty didn't take Pitt's Dan Marino in the 83 draft when the QBs for the Steelers were Terry Bradshaw (in his final season), Mark Malone, and Cliff Stoudt.
April is way too early for final conclusions on a draft pick. That said, the streets of Nashville just reminded us fan isn't just a prefix of fantastic!
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This is the game Wolf referred to in the press conference.
This is the game Wolf referred to in the press conference.
I'm not sure any 1 game is going to change anyone's opinion that is already skeptical; but thanks for sharing that matchup. Here's another highlight showing clips from throughout his college career that prolly won't change any conclusions already made either.
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Clearly Dorsey has a theme with his linebackers: 2 name guys. First he signed Ray Ray, and now Takitaki. I will henceforth refer to him as Taki squared.
Clearly Dorsey has a theme with his linebackers: 2 name guys. First he signed Ray Ray, and now Takitaki. I will henceforth refer to him as Taki squared.
That or he borrowed Gipper's cell phone...
I welcome the only Defensive Coordinator to earn a Superbowl Ring in New Orleans while understanding Revenge of the Nerds is a sequel. "Come get some!" -
What is amusing is the people who are making these picks are paid $$$$$$ to make them, if we all could do better we would be in jobs doing it
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We should all apply for the next available GM job that comes up and we can show our board draft on our resume and the posts we have made regarding picks
What is amusing is the people who are making these picks are paid $$$$$$ to make them, if we all could do better we would be in jobs doing it
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We should all apply for the next available GM job that comes up and we can show our board draft on our resume and the posts we have made regarding picks
I heard an interesting spin from Peter Schrager about what Seattle is trying to do. They just made Wilson the highest paid player so they prefer to build around the mid-late rounds of the draft (even drafted Russell Wilson in the 3rd rd the 1 year all the mock drafts only had eyes for Luck and RG3 in gotta-have round 1 territory). Not only that, their GM is either the next Jed Clampett striking oil by accident with all the late round gems he landed or he's pretty freakin good at doing that.
Applying this to us as much as we can, we've been signing the rock star FAs in the last 2 years while we also found our franchise QB at the 1st pick overall (who's going to demand a much bigger contract within the next few years if the success continues). If you can draft in the mid-late rounds and find the buried treasures that went undrafted - you can perpetuate a healthy salary cap like Seattle did for a decent length of time. Let's hope we do something like that this year.
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He was flying up boards , was an expected round 3 guy
https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/BYU-LB-Sione-Takitak
He was flying up boards , was an expected round 3 guy
https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/BYU-LB-Sione-Takitak
Flying up the boards to "Page not found"??
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https://www.chron.com/sports/texans/article/BYU-LB-Sione-Takitaki-visits-Texans-others-13778990.php
Try again, if it does not work I dont know whats up
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Make a bet right now Mack Wilson starts as our MLB over anyone else on this team by opening day. Bama does not start untalented players in important key positions on defense and they are NFL ready when they leave Saban coached teams. He will understand the defensive schemes from day one.
Trey depriest??? Started for two years never made an NFL squad. Adrian Hubbard starter for bama in 2012 leading them in sacks tfl and forced fumbles but never made a roster. Reggie ragland is starting to play well in his second season and was a 2nd round pick starting linebacker from Alabama and he didn't even start his first year sitting behind Preston brown and tanner Vallejo. Reuben foster very talented but can't get on the field for off field issues. To say mack will be starting year one for us because he went to Alabama is a bit over the top. I'll take that bet. Note I do really like the pick despite this post. Just think it's a bit presumptuous to say he will start on opening day simply because he went to bama
To say mack will be starting year one for us because he went to Alabama is a bit over the top. I'll take that bet. Note I do really like the pick despite this post. Just think it's a bit presumptuous to say he will start on opening day simply because he went to bama
You're on for a beer next time I go to a Browns game.
Guys that want to bang on a third round pick- well. Not counting the 254 players that got drafted, I was pretty stunned perusing the list Ag originally posted in another thread. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000001028811/article/top-undrafted-free-agents-following-the-2019-nfl-draft think you want to be a GM? Got the time to go over game tape and actually scout all these guys? And there's probably a lot more that didn't even make the list.
And another beer with you too Larry. Then we can go split a bottle of decent red.????
EDIT And if either of these guys ends up the starter I'll be happy as a pig in slop. ?It means there was fierce competition for the right to run through RBs and QBs.?
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Clearly Dorsey has a theme with his linebackers: 2 name guys. First he signed Ray Ray, and now Takitaki. I will henceforth refer to him as Taki squared.
That or he borrowed Gipper's cell phone...
That or he borrowed Gipper's cell phone...
I may have to start going back to doing the double tap!
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I may have to start going back to doing the double tap!
Please don'tPlease don't
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I may have to start going back to doing the double tap!
Double tap?Double tap?
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I may have to start going back to doing the double tap!
Double tap?Double tap?
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I love these draftees as lockerroom additions - and their meanness on the field.
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