NSIDE THE WAR ROOM: COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF EDITION
In this week’s Inside the War Room, we take a look at the two college football playoff games, discuss if Robert Nkemdiche is worth the risk of a first round draft pick, talk about whose draft stock is going up and down, and let you know who the top senior offensive guards are in the 2016 NFL Draft.
Orange Bowl Preview
The Capital One Orange Bowl showcases two of the top offenses in college football between Oklahoma, and Clemson. This game also showcases a couple of interesting prospects, including an underrated wide receiver, and one of the best pass rushers in college football.
The Oklahoma Sooners are led by Sterling Shepard, who is currently rated as the third best senior wide receiver
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Ragland is a very savvy football player, who plays the run extremely well yet can still hold up in pass coverage. Defensive tackle Jarran Reed is another senior to keep an eye on. He is another player who holds up extremely well against the run having recorded 53 tackles on the season. He also moves well for someone who comes in at 313 pounds. One more senior defensive prospect to look at is cornerback Cyrus Jones who is more of a developmental prospect at this time, having moved from wide receiver in 2013. While he develops the finer points of his game as a cornerback look for him to make an impact as a return man as he returned three punts for touchdowns this season. The top senior prospects on the Tide’s offense is center Ryan Kelly who shows great consistency, and is also one of the smarter lineman in the 2016 NFL Draft. Kenyan Drake is another offensive prospect who should hear his name called in this year’s draft. Drake is a quick change of pace back, who also excels in the passing game. The last senior prospect to watch is quarterback Jake Coker. The Tide also have a ton of junior prospects to watch including A'Shawn Robinson, and Derrick Henry to name a
He has size, speed, and hands of an elite receiver. During his time at Ohio State he proved to be a reliable target in crunch time situations. His biggest strengths are his incredible speed off of the line of scrimmage, rate of acceleration, ability to catch the ball in traffic, and out-jump opposing defensive backs.
Ezekiel Elliot’s dominance through the first 12 games of the Dallas cowboys 2016 NFL season has been nothing but dominates. He is very quickly becoming one of the NFL’s best backs as he leads voting out of everyone for the 2016 pro bowl. But this isn’t the first time Ezekiel Elliot dominated the sport of football. In just his senior year of high school at John Burroughs High School in Saint Louis Missouri. Elliot had 1651 yards and 37 total touchdowns on just 114 carries throughout 10 games! These numbers are extraordinary as he averaged about 14.5 yards per rush and 32% of the time whenever he got the ball in his hands. This senior year dominance lead to Elliot receiving major offers from big time football schools including Ohio State, Florida State, Notre
Over the next few days we'll rate VandyMania's top five offensive and defensive players. Today we'll take a look at Pinson, Alabama native Zach Cunningham.
3rd round (83rd overall) - Derek Rivers, DE, Youngstown State: Rivers is a 6'4" defensive end/linebacker hybrid who excelled in the FCS under head coach Bo Pelini. A late bloomer, Rivers made a huge jump his junior year, before dominating the FCS this past season as a senior opposite Avery Moss, a fifth round draft pick of the New York Giants.
Kalen Ballage is coming off a very successful Junior season in which saw score 8 total touchdowns against the Texas Tech Red Raiders in Week 2. Down the stretch of the season Ballage showed off that he is more than a solid runner. Ballage also showed that he be a receiving back as he finished the season with 469 receiving yards at season's end.
D. A. Pennebaker’s The War Room is a film about the figures behind the scenes of a political campaign. Given a subject that historically lends itself to drama and narrative tension, Pennebaker makes active choices in filming and editing to find the story within the story. The film becomes a sort of meta-art: a media narrative about the people responsible for controlling media narratives. Pennebaker approaches the film as an appreciation of fellow craftsmen, giving credit to James Carville and George Stephanopoulos’ tactical brilliance. Through the use of carefully thought-out editing, intentional camerawork, and intimate access, The War Room lays bare the hidden layers of communication present within the campaign.
The Civil War caused a shift in the ways that many Americans thought about slavery and race. Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over helps readers understand how soldiers viewed slavery during the Civil War. The book is a narrative, which follows the life of Union soldier who is from Massachusetts. Chandra Manning used letters, diaries and regimental newspapers to gain an understanding of soldiers’ views of slavery. The main character, Charles Brewster has never encountered slaves. However, he believes that Negroes are inferior. He does not meet slaves until he enters the war in the southern states of Maryland and Virginia. Charles Brewster views the slaves first as contraband. He believes the slaves are a burden and should be sent back to their owners because of the fugitive slave laws. Union soldiers focus shifted before the end of the war. They believed slavery was cruel and inhumane, expressing strong desire to liberate the slaves. As the war progresses, soldiers view slaves and slavery in a different light. This paper, by referring to the themes and characters presented in Chandra Manning’s What this Cruel War Was Over, analyzes how the issue of slavery and race shifted in the eyes of white Union soldiers’ during Civil War times.
The film The War Room is a documentary about Bill Clinton that has very little to do with Bill Clinton himself. The primary focus of the film is devoted to the team of campaign strategists that got Clinton to the presidency. The two main players the film focuses on are James Carville--the Lead Strategist for the Clinton campaign and George Stephanopoulos the Communications Director. The film follows them and their team of campaign strategists and experts as they try to get Arkansas Governor, Bill Clinton, to the presidency. The documentary highlights many key moments in Clinton’s campaign, for example the Gennifer Flowers scandal. However, the film showcases what was happening behind closed doors in the War Room, where Clinton’s
As a freshman, Berry replaced fifth year senior Jarod Parrish after a strong showing in his first collegiate game against California. Berry turned in several big plays during his freshman season en route to being named the SEC Defensive
How many of you watch sports? The SEC(Southeastern Conference) and the rivalries between different college teams are fun to watch, the rivalry I am going to talk about today is the Auburn and ‘Bama rivalry. It may just be the biggest and longest rivalry in College Football. This rivalry is +100 years old. The rivalry is most likely the craziest rivalry in college sports. From the way, they earned their slogans to what the fans have done to each other.
Alabama has had success of recruiting players, for example some of the Hall of Famers Ozzie Newsome, Joe Namath, and Derrick Thomas (Heos p.25). They have had some other players that are not yet Hall of Famers Julio Jones and Amari Cooper (Heos p.32). The reason most of these top players they getting to go to their school is because look at how they have had. They have won the most Championships and some of the best coaches (Maisel p.1). They have also had some of the best players have played there and went into the NFL (Heos 1). This year Alabama has had the top-rated recruiting class for the past five seasons, according to 247Sports Composite rankings (Burnett p.1). Alabama is currently credited with nine commits (five four-stars and four three-star prospects), according to 247Sports Composite rankings (Barnett 1). They have just got the second best player in the ESPN top 300 that is number 1 Running backs. It is also a good school for players to be looked at by NFL coaches (Heos 1). In 2011 Hoes stated “That Alabama had sent 39 players to the NFL. That is why Alabama has had success in recruiting some of the top players in the
Escape from a War Zone Phasebook By: Frank Sacco P4 8/19/16 In Zain Shouman’s article ,written by Kim Trannell,“Escape from a War Zone” from Junior Scholastic, he tells about his life in Syria.
Throughout history, protests have been proven to be the more effective methods of getting a message across, whether it’s to express disdain for the misdeeds of police officers, or to protest the U.S.’s involvement in war. This was seen especially during the Vietnam War, one of the more recent wars this country has been involved in. Many people around the country expressed their opinions about the idea of war, in several forms, including riots, protests, and draft dodging. Along with this form of expression and practicing of free speech, several music artists, including Creedence Clearwater Revival, Marvin Gaye, and Edwin Starr, joined in the anti-war movement by conveying their own two cents about the matter through the lyrics of catchy, impassioned songs. In the song “War” by Edwin Starr, Starr attempts to portray his negative view on war, through the use of pathos to create a more intimate bond with his listeners, a very aggressive, yet passionate tone, and the song’s close resemblance of a protest, in auditory form.
Don't even start me with the football. I truly, deeply love the game of American football. Nowadays, my Saturdays are spent on college football on the whole, right from the 11 am match, till the last match on ESPN that day. It's so beautiful to watch! And of course, OU sucks.
War is a dangerous game, many people would likely agree to this, however, very few have ever seen a battlefront. The truth is that war, no matter how awful we can imagine it, is always exponentially worse. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Robert Ross, the protagonist, faces a situation that he finds difficult to come to terms with, and when faced with a similar situation later on in the novel, he must take drastic measures to reconcile the uncertainties of the past situation. Timothy Findley suggests, through the life of Robert Ross, that one’s need to reconcile the uncertainties of past experiences dominate our actions when such situations come up again in our lives. In the words of Hiram Johnson, a US Senator during the First World War,