NeonDeion21;3755676 said:
I really don't understand the hate on Sam Hurd. He plays hard, is a demon on ST, and knows all the positions at WR. The play he made on third down after catching the ball 4-5 yards short of the first down was impressive. I think I just forgot we are supposed to have All-Stars at every spot on the team.
For me, there will always be a spot on this team for Hurd.
Who hates him? I don't hate him. I just felt those were plays he could make, and I have confidence he would/will make. I like Hurd.
l2obert;3755700 said:
+1
Think Hurd had a bad game, because the guy is mostly pretty clutch.
Mostly
A little off but not terrible. It was a first start. But he's a pretty good player who I enjoy seeing on the team.
Zman5;3756005 said:
What the heck do you expect from a 4th WR getting his first start?
Not every 4th WR we have is going to turn out to be Miles Austin.
No one said he had to be.
Randy White;3756222 said:
Perhaps reading comprehension is in oder here. I said that it's a myth that fans have swallowed because it's something they heard it from some players and/or coaches saying it on TV and took it literally, only they don't know it's all for effect, NOT reality.
The reason it's a myth is because if you've ever played any type of football you'd know that just because a ball " hits your hands " doesn't mean you " should have " caught it. That's one of the DUMBEST thing ever said and EASIEST to disprove. It ranks up there with " never taking a play off " and " going 100% all the time " and " player x was unstoppable " or " couldn't be blocked " or " throwing lazers ", or " having a cannon for an arm ", or " doing anything he wanted ". That does NOT happen. Never has, never will as long as the game is played by human beings.
LMAO!
Seriously? You think there are people out there who don't give it 100% of what they have on every single down? Then you're a fool. Plain and simple. Does everyone? No. But there are plenty of people who played who give absolutely everything they have, on every single down. I always did. Always.
It was the only way to stay on the field as much as you possibly could. I simply wasn't nearly talented enough, or good enough, to even dare to take a play off, or not give it everything I had. If I had I wouldn't have been starting, wouldn't have been playing, cause I certainly wasn't the biggest, or strongest, or fastest, or most athletic on the field.
All i had was no quit.
Now I'd slow down in a physical game. Not because I wasn't giving it all I had, but because in really physical, tough, games all i had left in me wasn't the same as all i had on play 1 of the game. But I always left it all on the field. I can't imagine how anyone would think about playing any other way, though I realise there are people out there who do play that way.
And yes I believed in that theory that if it hits my hands I should catch it. Always have and always will. Playing in Junior high, high school, and even now just playing flag football in our local league that's the exact approach I take with it. If the ball touches my hands I have to catch it. It's no the QB, at that point, if the pass is incomplete it's on me.
That's how you're suppose to look at it, how you're suppose to approach it, and how you should go about playing. If someone takes your attitude. or mindset, of "Well the pass was thrown to early, too low, a little high" so it's not really on me, they're the kind of player I simply don't want on any team I'm part of.
If the ball is so far over your head that you can't touch it then, yeah, that's on the QB. If it's so low that it hits the dirt before it gets to you then, by all means, take no credit for that missed play.
If the ball hits your hands, early, high, low, outside, upside down, whatever, then realise that you should have caught it. Are all passes going to be ideal or something? No. So catch it even when they're not ideal.
It won't always happen, never going to, but that should still be your mindset and how a player approaches it.
The cannon for arm and that stuff is sillythat you even brought it up in the same breath as catching passes that hit your hands. Those are silly little ways of describing a persons arm strength or their ability to be very difficult to be blocked.
That has absolutely ZERO to do with rather a person could, or should, catch a ball that hits their hands.
My mind set has always been, and always will be, when playing football that if I get my hands on it I should catch it. To think, or believe, anything different is sad, IMO.
To each their own though.
