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CB Denzel 'Hurt! My! Feelings!' Ward (All B1G, All-American, Pro Bowl, Cleveland Browns)

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My bad, didnt see you write that about coaches.
And yes bowl games have a meaning, to line pockets of schools, coaches and sponsors and allow fans one more game to cheer. The ridiculous number of bowl games has made them next to irrelevant at this point. We can make the Pnut-RB Speedway bowl in Richmond, VA and it'd be as relevant as most of the bowls right now. And no, I don't watch bowls outside of OSU and maybe the CFP. But to each their own
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If part of fandom is enjoying the history of the program and the game of college football itself and trying to figure out where the program fits in the hierarchy of the great programs over time, then bowl games mean something more than "one more chance to see the team play." That doesn't really have anything to do with Denzel, but you seem to think that bowl games are essentially equivalent to NFL preseason games and many, including me, as well as anyone who lived through the Cooper era, disagree.

As for the future of football, which has been commented on in this thread, I don't think there is one over the medium to long term. Human bodies aren't meant to play it at a high level and eventually it will either be banned, turned into a contact rather than a collision sport, or simply die off by virtue of parents not letting their kids play and middle and high schools no longer having programs. I'm forty-eight and may well not be around to see that sad day, but I do think it's coming.
 
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I have always maintained that the 1998 OSU secondary was the best complete secondary unit I have ever seen at OSU (too young to have seen Tatum and the super sophs). That team had two first round draft picks at corner (Antoine Winfield, Ahmed Plummer) and a freshman Nate Clements at nickel who went on to be a 1st round draft pick. It also had two very good safties in Gary Berry (4th round) and Damon Moore (4th round).

The 2016 secondary had 3 first rounders at corner/nickel with a first round, generational talent at safety in Malik Hooker.

I am going to have to reconsider my position.
 
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