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'23 TNFR WR Jimmy Horn Jr. (Signed to COLORADO)
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The idea that you can’t have fun while working extremely hard to be your best is absurd.
They see a 15 minute video of these kids joking around in between sets and decide that's all they do. Apparently expectations are for these players to be robots.
BuffLuke80
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It absolutely is. The hard work is what makes it fun. Hell, you even forget it is hard work after awhile.
Don't know the back story on his dad being in prison and frankly it is none of my business but this is powerful far beyond football.
Incarceration tends to become multi-generational. I had students who do to their family upbringing fully expected to end up doing time, that was the norm in their families.
Even in families where the father is the first one to go there is a high tendency for the son's to follow. Incarceration rates correspond directly to a families socio-economic situation and incarceration almost always pushes families into a much worse socio-economic situation than they would be otherwise.
What Prime is doing in this specific situation is taking a kid who has a lot of factors that could lead to negative outcomes and instead giving him both opportunity and more importantly guidance and support that is very likely to result in him not only not following his dad into the criminal justice system but to put him into a socio-economic situation where his kids are highly unlikely to end up there either.
We get excited about winning football games and I enjoy us being good on the field as much as anyone but it never hurts to remember that these players are real human beings with whole lives outside of football.
When Coach Prime finally does retire and sit back to look at this accomplishments all the things he accomplished as a player and a coach and even a broadcaster will be significant but I hope and expect that he will be able to enjoy even more the fact that he changed a bunch of lives for the better as he was doing all that.
Incarceration tends to become multi-generational. I had students who do to their family upbringing fully expected to end up doing time, that was the norm in their families.
Even in families where the father is the first one to go there is a high tendency for the son's to follow. Incarceration rates correspond directly to a families socio-economic situation and incarceration almost always pushes families into a much worse socio-economic situation than they would be otherwise.
What Prime is doing in this specific situation is taking a kid who has a lot of factors that could lead to negative outcomes and instead giving him both opportunity and more importantly guidance and support that is very likely to result in him not only not following his dad into the criminal justice system but to put him into a socio-economic situation where his kids are highly unlikely to end up there either.
We get excited about winning football games and I enjoy us being good on the field as much as anyone but it never hurts to remember that these players are real human beings with whole lives outside of football.
When Coach Prime finally does retire and sit back to look at this accomplishments all the things he accomplished as a player and a coach and even a broadcaster will be significant but I hope and expect that he will be able to enjoy even more the fact that he changed a bunch of lives for the better as he was doing all that.
ATONEMENT!!
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Definitely not something on your announcer bingo card
Definitely got his holidays mixed up. Yom Kippur is 2 weeks away.
Okay Rebecca
That dude had a serious vocabulary. I think he might have been making up some of those words but I can’t be sure.
Love this for Jimmy
When I die, I want NFL Rookie Watch to write my obituary
I'll always wonder what would have been possible for Jimmy as a Buff if Shedeur didn't pat the ball.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
I mean…I would hope a 5’9” guy was quicker than a 6’5” guy.
I’m happy for Jimmy. Hope he carves out a nice career in the slot.
JMBuffs
Well-Known Member
Coach Prime instills the "work ethic" trait in his players. Something we can begin to market to NFL teams and recruits.
I thought he made them all entitled prima donnas? These stories that they get to practice early, leave late and work hard can’t be true.
BuffLuke80
Well-Known Member
He has a chance to be really good at the slot position, mainly. Look at Wes Welker, he played a long time and sure as hell wasn't 6'5".
Exactly.
So much of being a receiver in the NFL, whether wide-out or a tight-end, is having a feel for the movement of the game. You don't necessarily have to be insanely straight-line fast to find the subtle ways to get open: re Kelse, Gronk, and Welker. Sure, it helps a ton to be quick in the small spaces as well as the bigger cuts, but knowing the why and how may be the greatest enhancement of raw talent you can have.
That's part of what I love in watching HCPrime work on drills with DBs and Receivers. It's about the tiny details and understanding what it means when I guy makes a particular move or shift, and how to exploit that moment. Similarly, sure HCPrime was super-fast and talented, but he is a HOF'er because he took the time to understand the game and his opponents. He worked hard at his craft.
Watching coaches come and go over the years, I am convinced that most coaches don't teach the level of detailed understanding that we are finally getting here. I would bet that's also true in the NFL, at a slightly different percentage.
That's the part of HCPrime's coaching that's as important as his brand and ability to recruit. To me, anyway.
Jimmy has a backstory that also provides a lot of motivation, so if he is dialed in and healthy, he will give it his all.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Yeah, if you think I said anything mean or offensive, you need to grow thicker skin.
This was a compliment to Jimmy.
Your engagement proposal to your wife must've been a real panty-dropper.
While some may say that breaking from the traditional dropping to a knee and instead dropping his panties was unorthodox, it obviously worked. Don't be a hater.
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Actually we dated so long, it was just kind of like…well let’s get married.
"You'll do. Despite your shortcomings, I'm reasonably confident we'll have an unremarkable but stable marriage."
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Honestly…that’s a good way of putting it"You'll do. Despite your shortcomings, I'm reasonably confident we'll have an unremarkable but stable marriage."
lol I don't think with it was mean or offensive. Just an odd thing to comment after someone posted a pretty glowing & unbiased review of Jimmy. You picked one thing out of it to be like "well duh" rather than just being happy for the former Buff.