Re: Williams - Overweight & overhyped Author: Frank Serpas III Date: 1999/03/27 Forum: alt.sports.football.pro.no-saints SiteMan wrote: >Ditka and Kuharich need to have their heads examined! Offering their entire >draft for one player is insane! Perhaps, but not for the reasons you give... >This upcoming draft is QB and RB rich so why in the hell throw all of that >away for one player who has shown that he is not dedicated to working out >but IS dedicated to the buffet line. He has ballooned to 22 pounds over his >playing weight since his last game in January. Reminds me a little of >another Saints first round mistake Ironhead Heyward. Keep in mind that they don't weigh players before every game; the oft-cited 225# figure comes from the start of the '98 season. See- http://austin360.com:80/sports/hookem/stories/1999/03/19ricky.html >He played in a soft conference (Big 12) and saw the ball over 40 times a >game to pad his stats. Many of the yards he gained came in the fourth >quarter vs. the likes of Baylor, Oklahoma, Iowa St., Rice and New Mexico St. >when teams were beaten down. Kansas St., Nebraska, and Texas A&M don't equal "soft" in my book. Ricky had only two 40-carry games in his career. Also, in '98 UT trailed Baylor late in the 4th; Ricky carried the team to victory. See- http://www.texassports.com/teams/fbc/ricky/stats.html >The icing on the cake was hiring a rapper Master P to be his agent. Is this >the kind of individual on which to gamble our future on? I say HELL NO!! All this Master P theatre makes for good copy ("squeaky-clean Ricky goes gangsta!"), but No Limit is a respectable entertainment empire. I could be weaselly and point out that in my previous post I said only that I didn't think the big trade would happen, not that I wasn't in favor of it. I'll go ahead and say it though- I think the trade is both unlikely and undesirable. Though I am a big RW believer, I think the Saints need more help than just Ricky's considerable talents, and losing *all* those picks would put the team in a dangerous position. ******************************************************************************* Frank Serpas III serpas@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu ............................................................................... >>>>>>>SAINTERNET- http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~serpas/saints.html