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Chocolate Lab said:
But we wouldn't have drafted George. It did cost us Cortez Kennedy or Junior Seau.

Trivia, do people know who we drafted with the picks we got from New Orleans? One was pretty great, so it worked out. But the other two I barely remember hearing of.
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Oh definitely no way we draft that mulleted retard, but I think we’d have traded the pick to the Colts and taken ‘Tez.
 
ravidubey said:
Oh definitely no way we draft that mulleted retard, but I think we’d have traded the pick to the Colts and taken ‘Tez.
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Splitting hairs between HOFers, but if you have the opportunity to take Kennedy you take him. Pre 1990 draft, that was a critical position of need-- the foundation of the defense. If you had to draw up a DT from scratch he'd basically be Cortez Kennedy.

There's also the Miami connection with Jimmy.

Both had HOF careers their biggest impact with one team, though Seau, more flamboyant overall, had a better career and gained a second life in New England after a stint in Miami.
 
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ravidubey said:
Splitting hairs between HOFers, but if you have the opportunity to take Kennedy you take him. Pre 1990 draft, that was a critical position of need-- the foundation of the defense. If you had to draw up a DT from scratch he'd basically be Cortez Kennedy.

There's also the Miami connection with Jimmy.

Both had HOF careers their biggest impact with one team, though Seau, more flamboyant overall, had a better career and gained a second life in New England after a stint in Miami.
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Yeah you'd have to wonder how it would have all turned out if Jimmy had made the trade to move up to draft Cortez in 1990 instead of trading up to draft Maryland the following year, of course not giving consideration to Emmitt.
 
ravidubey said:
Splitting hairs between HOFers, but if you have the opportunity to take Kennedy you take him. Pre 1990 draft, that was a critical position of need-- the foundation of the defense. If you had to draw up a DT from scratch he'd basically be Cortez Kennedy.

There's also the Miami connection with Jimmy.

Both had HOF careers their biggest impact with one team, though Seau, more flamboyant overall, had a better career and gained a second life in New England after a stint in Miami.
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Yeah, Kennedy was way better than Maryland. Maryland was solid enough but kind of meh for a #1 overall pick.
 


Since he came into the league, I have told y’all he was the kid who showed up to school every day with dried snot on his nose.
 
Horrifying details emerge from mysterious death of Aldon Smith
Story by Chris Rosvoglou • 1d • 3 min read

Former NFL star Aldon Smith passed away unexpectedly last Saturday at the age of 36. His death has left the football community searching for answers over the past few days.

Smith played for the 49ers, Cowboys and Raiders during his career, racking up 228 total tackles, 81 quarterback hits, 52.5 sacks and five forced fumbles. His family announced this week that his brain would be sent to medical experts at the Boston University CTE Center for testing.

“As with anyone who dies so suddenly at such a young age, we understand that there is a great deal of interest in and speculation about Aldon Smith’s passing and we intend to get to the bottom of it,” attorneys Harry Daniels, Bakari Sellers and Wayne Kendall said. “To that end, we have taken a number of steps including sending his brain to Boston where medical experts will examine it for CTE as well as other damage caused by years of concussions and additional trauma. In the meantime, we simply ask you to keep Aldon’s family in our prayers and respect their privacy as they struggle to come to grips with this terrible loss.”

While the Smith family is still searching for answers, former 49ers safety Donte Whitner provided some disturbing information this week.

Whitner revealed on "The Grit Code Podcast" that former 49ers players Anthony Davis and C.J. Spillman were with Smith before his death.

"The day that Aldon died, I received text messages, phone calls, FaceTimes from some of our ex-teammates. And some of the shit that I saw was [expletive] disgusting," Whitner said, via Pro Football Talk. "Now, I’m gonna go ahead and say it. C.J. Spillman called me. Six a.m. Bali time. And he put me on FaceTime, and he was showing me pictures of Aldon slumped over in the front seat. Aldon, laying on the ground in front of the vehicle that he was traveling in . . . with all the [expletive] hooked up to his body, pretty much deceased. And I want to say that it’s disgusting, because if you call me and we barely talk, and it’s circulating around, there’s more than just me that saw those videos and those pictures

Whiter was understandably disturbed when Spillman showed him Smith unresponsive in a vehicle.

"[C.J. Spillman] called me, and he said, ‘Did you hear what happened to Aldon?’” Whitner said. “I said, ‘No, call me.’ He called me on the phone. He said, ‘Well, Aldon was — he was unresponsive, and they said that he might not survive and he’s on his way to the hospital.’ And then he said, you know, ‘FaceTime me.’ And then I FaceTimed him and . . . he showed me, and the man’s body, leaning over in the front seat, then he swiped to the side. Then he showed him in the front of the vehicle, the SUV that they were traveling in, on the ground with the EMS, with everything hooked up to him, and then he . . . told me, ‘I think that Aldon is dead,’ right? After showing me that. And then I’m thinking, like, ‘Why the [expletive] do you have these pictures? Who the [expletive] is taking these pictures?’ And then you see Anthony Davis . . . in there, you see everybody else in the EMS, and [Aldon] laying on the ground is [expletive] disgusting."

It's unclear if Spillman will be investigated by the authorities at this time.
 
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