Welcome to the Redskins Terry Mclaurin WR Ohio State

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Terry Touchdown ...

 

 

 ... or Touchdown Terry.

Edited September 12, 2019 by 10

[wit33]

The Terry

[CommanderDOOM]

Funk

[Vanguard]

10 hours ago, skinsmania123 said:

But the problem here is that most of the people on this message board only read certain people's posts, so essentially anything you say gets repeated, sometimes over and over again, nicknames included. 😄

 

Thats why I love the fact that posts are dated and chronological.

 

You may not believe me, but I am the one who wrote probably the most famous Chuck Norris joke of all time.  The one about “Chuck Norris counting to infinity twice.”  I wrote it years ago in my parents basement.  I still have the desktop computer.  

 

I could have copyrighted and created t-shirts.☹️  

[SkinsFTW]

4 minutes ago, Vanguard said:

 

I could have copyrighted and created t-shirts.☹️  

 

[desertbeagle85]

My collection 🔥 😉

[Sacks 'n' Stuff]

23 hours ago, Rogue Jedi said:

T-Mac T-Mac T-Mac

Koko the gorilla.

 

or Scary Terry is fine. It’s a funny character in an episode of Rick & Morty.

 

 

[Skinsinparadise]

 

 

[HardcoreZorn]

1 minute ago, Skinsinparadise said:

 

 

 

Only thing keeping me sane with the Guice news is McLaurin’s awesomeness lol. Probably just jinxed him!

[Skinsinparadise]

5 minutes ago, HardcoreZorn said:

 

Only thing keeping me sane with the Guice news is McLaurin’s awesomeness lol. Probably just jinxed him!

 

One thing about Guice is Peterson had the same injuries in his career, meniscus and ACL and clearly regardless had a good long career.   I think we should see him for the last 6 games or so.  It stinks but I am not crying over it the way most are in part because it gives him more time to rest the ACL.   A doctor said the same.   Usually it takes ironically half a season or so (a year later) for the ACL to feel right. 

 

Yeah McLaurin is looking like a stud.  Harmon didn't get a lot of reps but looked good, too.  If Reed comes back they have the makings of a good passing game. 

Edited September 12, 2019 by Skinsinparadise

[HardcoreZorn]

Just now, Skinsinparadise said:

 

One thing about Guice is Peterson had the same injuries in his career as him, meniscus and ACL and clearly had a good long career.   I think he should see him for the last 6 games or so.  It stinks but I am not crying over it the way most are in part because it gives him more time to rest the ACL.   A doctor said the same.   Usually it takes ironically half a season or so (a year later) for the ACL to feel right. 

 

Yeah McLaurin is looking like a stud.  Harmon didn't get a lot of reps looked good, too.  If Reed comes back they have the makings of a good passing game. 

 

Agree on all counts! 

[slinky]

Instead of waving the Terrible Towels, we can wave the Terrible Terry Cloths

[Always A Commander Never A Captain]

14 hours ago, desertbeagle85 said:

My collection 🔥 😉

 

Honest question, are cards like these worth money?  I know the rookie cards of players from waaay back when are, but nowadays?

[Mr. Sinister]

1 hour ago, slinky said:

Instead of waving the Terrible Towels, we can wave the Terrible Terry Cloths

 

This could have legs.... Expensive legs, but legs nonetheless

[Mr. Sinister]

2 hours ago, Alcoholic Zebra said:

 

Honest question, are cards like these worth money?  I know the rookie cards of players from waaay back when are, but nowadays?

 

I figure most stuff doesnt start to have real value until at least a generation later. Like if you had Deion 49ers card or something it just might now be worth a little bit

[desertbeagle85]

2 hours ago, Alcoholic Zebra said:

 

Honest question, are cards like these worth money?  I know the rookie cards of players from waaay back when are, but nowadays?

 

Yes and his value went up, because of Sunday. Go to ebay all you'll see the market for cards is still crazy. 

Edited September 12, 2019 by desertbeagle85

[RandyHolt]

Terry Allen deserves a say in the matter.

 

It will be interesting to see if Jay goes pass happy again, or dials it back and tries to let AP win it for him.

 

I prefer we go deep early and often with AP in between. **** Dallas.

Edited September 13, 2019 by RandyHolt

[Koolblue13]

7 hours ago, Skinsinparadise said:

 

 

Maybe if he had an injury history we would have drafted him sooner.

[Conn]

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It was the spring of 2018, and there Terry McLaurin went again, running pass routes through the empty silence of Ohio State’s indoor football building. Before him wobbled a tall, red tackling dummy with protruding fake arms. A few yards away whirred a pitching machine. A graduate assistant fed footballs into the machine’s wheels until they spat out with a thwuck! that echoed off the walls.

What had the school’s coaches said was his weakness? Contested catches? Those plays they called 50-50 balls, where the receiver and defender both seemed to have the same chance to catch the pass, fighting for control? No way he was going to have any weaknesses, so he had invented a drill in these months before his senior season, pretending the tackling dummy was a defensive back that he had to find a way to twist and jump around to catch the ball as it shot from the machine.

The machine hummed, the balls burst from its spinning wheels and McLaurin kept running into that dummy, catching passes until dozens of those balls had burned into his hands and his arms ached. But he would be back again the next day and the day after that and the day after that, running more drills with the same dummies and the machine, until every weakness was a strength, because someday it would all matter.

Then on Sunday, in his first Washington Redskins game, it did. More than a year after those days alone with the machine and the dummies, a pass was flying toward him and Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Ronald Darby. They jumped together, the ball landing, for an instant, in each of their hands — a classic 50-50 ball — then at the last second, McLaurin yanked it from Darby’s grasp, falling to the ground with the ball pressed against his chest.

And later, after a game in which McLaurin announced his arrival with a dazzling 69-yard touchdown catch, the play he cared about most was the catch that didn’t make the postgame highlights.

“I worked extremely hard behind closed doors to improve that and to see it come to fruition …” he said, his voice trailing off.

He smiled. It was still early in the week after the whirlwind of a first game, which came after the whirlwind of a summer in which he went from a third-round pick the Redskins hoped could be a good special teams player and reserve wideout into one of their top offensive threats. A few days before they had released Josh Doctson, a wide receiver picked in 2016’s first round, because they thought McLaurin could be good. And then he turned out to be better than they imagined.

For many young players, this would have been a lot, moments for which they weren’t ready. But on the day after announcing himself to the NFL, McLaurin stood in the hall outside the Redskins’ locker room and looked as if he had been waiting forever for this day to come.

“I feel like I have a maturity that is beyond my years. I hear that from a lot of people — my teammates, coaches, not just people here but people in the past,” the 23-year-old said.

Brian Hartline understands. The former Ohio State and later Dolphins and Browns wideout had returned to his college as an interim receivers coach in 2017 and was later promoted to the full-time job in 2018. He was the one who told McLaurin, during one of their many long talks, that he needed to get better at contested catches. He suggested drills, but it was McLaurin who did the work. Hour after hour, alone with that machine and the dummies.

It didn’t take Hartline long to understand McLaurin was different from other college athletes. How many players graduate in 3½ years and decide to stick around for another 1½ because they think it will make them better? How many players at a place such as Ohio State are named team captains not just one year but two?

“He’s very diligent and has a clear focus,” Hartline said.

Hartline spent years in the NFL watching players jog through individual workouts in practice. He hated that. Anyone can catch 100 passes from a pitching machine, he believes. But he likes to re-create situations, making obstacles that replicate the unpredictable things that happen in the games.

“Do you play with your mind?” Hartline asks his players. Often, he asks himself, “How do you create a situation where something occurs in a game and you already did it in the arena?”

In McLaurin, he found he had a player hungry to know, too. He had another drill at Ohio State where he’d stand behind a line of those tackling dummies, unable to see the machine shooting out passes, until at the last minute he’d slap one of the wobbling dummies aside and reach out to grab the ball just as the dummy crashed back into his arm. He did it again and again until he no longer cared if he could barely see the quarterback and defenders knocking into him as he tried to catch the ball.

“People think you drop the ball because of your hands,” McLaurin said. “Mostly it’s your eyes. You got to train your eyes. Rarely do you catch the ball cleanly.”

When the pro scouts came this past winter, they brought a list of the things they were sure McLaurin couldn’t do. He was fast, they said, but his routes weren’t perfect. They didn’t think he could block. He wasn’t great at those contested catches. Hartline listened, and then he laughed.

“I can’t tell you what he can’t do well,” he kept telling the scouts. “I can’t tell you he can’t catch. I can’t tell you he can’t run. I can’t tell you he can’t block. I can’t tell you he isn’t smart. I can’t tell you he doesn’t work hard.”

What about this did they not understand?

So far, the scouts with doubts look wrong. Two days before the Redskins’ first game, offensive coordinator Kevin O’Connell was talking about McLaurin and the way he runs his routes.

“I think the biggest thing is just the details,” O’Connell said.

The routes that Washington’s receivers run often start the same but split into different directions. There’s a lot to know, and everything has to be precise.

“The detail he takes [from] the meeting room to the practice field and the game field allows us to ask him to run various parts of the route tree,” O’Connell adds.

Standing in the hallway outside the Redskins locker room this week, McLaurin said that worrying about the details was easy. Everything he knows about work and diligence and desire came from his parents, Terry Sr. and Grace. His father sells cars back home in Indianapolis, which is a grind in itself. If you don’t sell any cars, you don’t make any money — and the only way to sell cars is to always be in the dealership, ready when the next customer walks through the door.

McLaurin grew up watching this hustle, his father leaving early and coming home late. He noticed that as his father became more successful there was money for private schools for him and his sister, and then college tuition for his sister after he got a scholarship to Ohio State.

“They taught me faith and hard work,” he said. “If you have those two things, you can do anything.”

Then on Sunday he was in the place he always imagined, on an NFL field for the first time, and everything seemed normal. The stadium felt smaller than the one at Ohio State. He ran past the Eagles defenders the way he blew by defensive backs in college games. He had five catches for 125 yards and the long touchdown, and while that seemed like a lot to everyone else, it was what he expected to do.

He had put in the work, hadn’t he? He doesn’t want to sound ****y, he said, because his parents told him to always be humble. And while humble is hard when you’re an NFL receiver, he does not like bragging.

But he is sure there is a reward for all his time spent trying to create an unexpected moment that others might not have imagined, so that when that situation comes, he will be the one who is least surprised.

“I try to go about my life on a consistent basis so everything else can fall in line, so I’m not scrambling,” he said. “The way I study my plays, the way I do my routine outside of football, the way I try to have balance in my life — my family, my friends — it really allows me to mitigate the crazy things that happen.

“Obviously, not everything is going to go as you planned,” he added.

Which is why you spend hours and hours trying to invent those instances when it won’t.

Edited September 14, 2019 by ConnSKINS26

[Nerm]

On September 10, 2019 at 1:18 PM, redskinss said:

The guy has the same name as one of the fastest sports cars in the world and his game is built on speed.

 

Doesn't seem like it'd be too tough to come up with an appropriate nickname. 

 

I'm sticking with f1 the true classic.

 

Makes a lot of sense, but I'm not sure most fans would get the reference.  I like it though.

[PartyPosse]

Maybe let’s see what he does after more than ONE WEEK before anointing him the next Jerry Rice.

[Conn]

7 minutes ago, PartyPosse said:

Maybe let’s see what he does after more than ONE WEEK before anointing him the next Jerry Rice.

Who is doing this? Why are there fans always trying to build up and knock down strawmen like this. 

[Koala]

On 9/12/2019 at 3:37 PM, Skinsinparadise said:

 

 

90% of me knows Gruden was joking was this comment, 10% of me wants thinks we may discovered why he is so adept at stealing defeat from the jaws of victory.  

 

He probably looks back at WW2 and thinks it woulda been smart to let Hitler deal with Soviets for us....

 

 

 

[bakedtater1]

6 hours ago, Nerm said:

 

Makes a lot of sense, but I'm not sure most fans would get the reference.  I like it though.

 

Hi nerm..dont recall seeing ya round these parts..maybe so but dont recall lol..looks like ur a cowboys fan..I absolutely love that pic thing next to your name..wrong color/logo..lol but it's way awesome..love it..how ya feel about the game sunday?..I'll spot Zeke 126 and two scores...how do ya feel about ur secondary against our wr's..who's your fav lb from the cowboys?

[Nerm]

2 hours ago, bakedtater1 said:

Hi nerm..dont recall seeing ya round these parts..maybe so but dont recall lol..looks like ur a cowboys fan..I absolutely love that pic thing next to your name..wrong color/logo..lol but it's way awesome..love it..how ya feel about the game sunday?..I'll spot Zeke 126 and two scores...how do ya feel about ur secondary against our wr's..who's your fav lb from the cowboys?

 

Nothing would surprise me, as far as who comes out on top.  I do think that both teams passing games will be less prolific than they were last week.  I also feel like both teams should expect better defense than they showed in week 1. If I had to guess, I would say Dallas 20 - Washington 13.  I really see Allen being out as a big advantage for Dallas, as I think he is a real difference maker.

 

I wouldn't spot Zeke that kind of production.  I don't have a great feel for the secondary.  My favorite LB from Dallas is LVE, he has the tools to be great.