Against all odds, we've made it to another day, which means it's time to celebrate with some art:
Superdome 1982 vs Superdome 2015 pic.twitter.com/cAVJU0vTcT
— Michael Thomas (@Cantguardmike) April 20, 2020
Song of the Day: "Surrender" by Natalie Taylor.
Word of the Day: Alluvion.
GOOD ON GOOD. If you want the definition of swagger, Jeff Okudah's not even in The League yet, and he's already calling out the highest-paid receiver in NFL history for a little good-on-good action.
Asked by @notthefakeSVP on SportsCenter which wide receiver he most wants to face when he gets to the NFL, Jeff Okudah said Michael Thomas.
— Dan Hope (@Dan_Hope) April 21, 2020
"O-State on O-State, and right now he's the best, so I want to go against him and see where I stand."
He might want to peep Mike's Twitter handle before tossing out challenges like that, but he'll probably get his shot because New Orleans has a road matchup with Detroit slated for this season.
Get that popcorn ready.
BEST DAMN ROUTE RUNNER IN THE DRAFT. I thought we'd learned our lesson about sleeping on obviously incredible Ohio State receivers, but here we are again with KJ Hill getting third, fourth and fifth round projections.
The fourth round is a funny place for the best route-runner in the draft.
Digging through the archives this AM:
— Keenan Bailey (@CoachKee) April 20, 2020
Id like to see a route runner in this class class who understands, uses, manipulates and attacks leverage like @KayJayHill does..
One lucky franchise is going to hit the JACKPOT this weekend #Technician #DevelopedHere #BuiltByHart pic.twitter.com/2tnylNPYAf
We did this with Michael Thomas in 2016, we did it with Terry McLaurin last year. To the NFL decision-makers who surely read my daily internet words, I implore you to not overthink this. Just draft him and let him be a 10-year starter. Please.
WORK TOGETHER. When it comes to getting football back in our lives, there's a hell of a lot more at play than just the looming very bad virus. There are also hundreds – if not thousands – of logistical, financial and medical concerns that have to be overcome, and the only way we're going to do it is with unprecedented collaboration.
Now, the challenge becomes not only cleaning up the game but getting it back on the field. A coach/trainer/medical collaboration is deemed so essential that one prominent Power Five trainer quoted President Abraham Lincoln in this potential battle: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
"The unprecedented thing would be the collaboration of coaches, medical folks and trainers on the front side," said Randy Cohen, Arizona's senior associate athletic director for medical services. "There is unprecedented planning ahead. … This is no different than the President and the Congress. The best way is, today, to throw out your agenda and work together."
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At this point, just suiting up to play the 2020 season will qualify as a positive.
"I'm cautiously optimistic we can get a season in," said Hainline, now in his eighth year as the NCAA's chief medical officer. "I look at New York as an example. The city was decimated, but we are actually starting to see some light. But it took exceptionally aggressive measures. It's going to take not relaxing them all at once."
Personally, I think "throw out your agenda and work together" should just be how life works in general, but if it takes a global pandemic and an impending financial crisis to get us there, so be it.
I want football. You want football. The players want football. The coaches want football. Television networks want football. College athletic departments cannot survive without football. We're all in the same boat here. So let's all work together not be petty when it comes time to make some compromises.
DRAFT PREP. Joe Burrow will be a multimillionaire by the end of the week, but his life currently just looks like any other recent grad who moved back in with their parents.
Jimmy Burrow says his son, Joe Burrow, has been living at home during this time, playing video games in the basement and watching The Office and Law & Order with his parents. "His mom has been cooking him about four or five meals a day."
— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) April 20, 2020
The best part is, thanks to quarantine, he's not even going to have to move to become the No. 1 overall pick on Thursday night.
NOT STICKING TO SPORTS. Breast implants saved a woman's life from a gunshot... No one wants to buy Michael Jordan's enormous Chicago estate... El Chapo's daughter is using this crisis to portray her father as Robin Hood... Meet the fake Nazi spies who fooled Hitler... What it was like to be followed by a KGB agent in the 1990s... Buying every Instagram ad you see for a month...
