Jim Harbaugh won’t coach in NFL, Aaron Donald should be MVP
Jim Harbaugh won’t coach again in NFL
“He’s the type of guy who needs total control. Why leave college when they’re going to let you do whatever you want? With Urban Meyer leaving he has a great shot to win the Ohio State game. There’s no chance he will leave. In the NFL he and the GM will eventually rift. I saw that in San Francisco, and I sided with Jim. The players saw the vision. Sometimes it seemed like Trent Baalke was oppositional just because it was Jim.”
Alex Boone, who played for Harbaugh at San Francisco, speaking on NBCS Pro Football Talk
Aaron Donald should be MVP
Aaron Donald is so slippery. His hands and feet move at the same time. Normally when you hit a defensive tackle, he’s gonna try to swipe your hands, and his feet stop. Aaron’s feet never stop, and you don’t know which way he’s going. The fact that he might not win MVP seems insane to me.”
Alex Boone
Where is Baker Mayfield’s Heisman Trophy?
“It’s at my parents’ house on the dining room table. My dad uses it as a paper holder. He tips his coffee cup to it every morning.”
Baker Mayfield, last year’s Heisman winner
Historian’s view of Cowboys?
“Look at Dallas’ history. They always choke. So we’ll go down there and make them choke.”
Kamu Grugier-Hill, Philadelphia Eagles linebacker, looking to Sunday’s game at Dallas
Newton’s shoulder injury: lots of Luck?
“I feel like there are issues with that right shoulder of Cam Newton that they’re not being completely candid about. We may hear in a few months that he’s undergone successful outpatient shoulder surgery and he’ll be ready to go at the start of the season. Where have we heard that one before? The Andrew Luck tweet from Jim Irsay in early 2017. I feel like that’s where Cam Newton is heading.”
Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk
Sean Payton on the New Analytics
“Where analytics have changed in a positive way is that you can go through these scenarios from all around the league, which we do. We have an analyst here. Each week he will give me a litany of things that happened with other games – mistakes made, or maybe not – and then we get the analytics on the game we’re getting ready to play. I think we’re more educated.”
Sean Payton, New Orleans Saints coach, on Pro Football Talk
O’Brien defines a ‘trap game’
“You have a mousetrap, and there’s cheese in it. And the mouse is going up to it, and the mouse wants the cheese. And then the trap gets him. Did I really just have to explain that to everybody?”
Bill O’Brien, Houston Texans coach, when asked what he meant with, “We can’t take the cheese.”
NHL referees get revenge against players
“NHL referees had no friends and neither did I, so I used to hang out with them, and they would actually talk about players they were going to get even with.”
Woody Paige, ESPN Around the Horn
