Lawrence Phillips sells couch

NeGgaPlEaSe

Dead at 40 what a waste of talent and human life

creepycoug

Not as sure about the talent part as many. His time represented the end of the golden era of cfb for me. right around that time, I had to get a job and be a real person, with schedules and shit.

So I knew THAT Nebraska well. And while there were some glaring exceptions, they had a lot of guys come through that were good at being Nebraska I backs - strong, physical guys with good straight ahead speed - but couldn't transition their game to another offense.

Many of them struggled to make a living in the NFL, where you had to play between the tackles and guards and make a good first read VERY quickly and then make the first level guy miss. Nebraska I backs took pitches, made one cut into an alley they could plainly see and ran straight until they were caught. Different thing altogether. I always said Rich Alexis would have been a good Nebraska I back.

I was a Dolphin fan back when I had a life to call my own. Nobody wanted that group to succeed more than I did. I loved Marino, I loved the fish and I loved Jimmy. Huge disappointment it didn't work. Anyway, when they picked up Phillips from the Rams, I was so fucking stoked ... finally, I thought, Marino has a running game.

It wasn't that Phillips couldn't keep his hands to himself in Miami any better than he could in St. Louis and Lincoln (and anywhere else he happened to be). That was still a problem, but it wasn't THE problem. The real issue before he smacked some chick at a night club in South Beach was that he wasn't producing.

He just wasn't a very good back. That's the trufe.

RaceBannon

creepycoug said:

Not as sure about the talent part as many. His time represented the end of the golden era of cfb for me. right around that time, I had to get a job and be a real person, with schedules and shit.

So I knew THAT Nebraska well. And while there were some glaring exceptions, they had a lot of guys come through that were good at being Nebraska I backs - strong, physical guys with good straight ahead speed - but couldn't transition their game to another offense.

Many of them struggled to make a living in the NFL, where you had to play between the tackles and guards and make a good first read VERY quickly and then make the first level guy miss. Nebraska I backs took pitches, made one cut into an alley they could plainly see and ran straight until they were caught. Different thing altogether. I always said Rich Alexis would have been a good Nebraska I back.

I was a Dolphin fan back when I had a life to call my own. Nobody wanted that group to succeed more than I did. I loved Marino, I loved the fish and I loved Jimmy. Huge disappointment it didn't work. Anyway, when they picked up Phillips from the Rams, I was so fucking stoked ... finally, I thought, Marino has a running game.

It wasn't that Phillips couldn't keep his hands to himself in Miami any better than he could in St. Louis and Lincoln (and anywhere else he happened to be). That was still a problem, but it wasn't THE problem. The real issue before he smacked some chick at a night club in South Beach was that he wasn't producing.

He just wasn't a very good back. That's the trufe.

I could narrow this down to if he were a great talent in the NFL he would have stayed out of prison until he retired

Cougzz

If he had not dragged a girl by her hair down three flights of stairs, I would not have wanted him gone twenty years ago.

RoadDawg55

I would typically find the couch selling joke about someone dying insensitive, but in this case it's fucking awesome.

fivehundredmileDAWG

I think this more like.... he had his couch put on the curb by his roomie....



Of course he did this for another roomie a while back...

NeGgaPlEaSe

fivehundredmileDAWG said:

I think this more like.... he had his couch put on the curb by his roomie....



Of course he did this for another roomie a while back...

Wasn't he in isolation?

ThomasFremont

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2016/01/15/lawrence-phillips-brain-donated-cte-boston-university/78872916/?hootPostID=401ef6fcf105b9046c79a68737af5a29

He had a brain?

RoadDawg55

ThomasFremont said:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2016/01/15/lawrence-phillips-brain-donated-cte-boston-university/78872916/?hootPostID=401ef6fcf105b9046c79a68737af5a29

He had a brain?

He would have been a great guy if it wasn't for all those hits to the head.