CJ is a gifted athlete and better than most would imagine playing basketball.
CJ Stroud playing basketball at Snoop Dog's place
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ghostlight
Veteran
I see a knee or ankle injury in his basketball future
Of course he is.
TexansBull
Hall of Fame
Who can argue with that?
Toro Bravo
Rookie
I like guys who are good at BB in the NFL. It means they are athletic - yes it does! I don't care if CJ is good at BB or not, but I dammed sure think he is probably pretty good at football.
TxnsJuggernaut1
Veteran
CJ has no business risking injury playing other sports. His focus should be preparing for his rookie season in the NFL. If he gets injured doing that it is excusable. He is getting paid by the NFL. Not trying to be a hard ass but in my way of thinking he shouldn't participate in any other extracurricular activities that put him at risk of serious injuries.
It was a chill shootaround style pickup game with friends.
What's the line drawn on 'extracurricular activities'? Should he not be allowed to go jetskiing? Go surfing? Ride a mountain bike? Beach volleyball? Ride a big roller coaster? Play drummer in a heavy metal cover band? Can he potato sack race at a family reunion?
Sincerely, where's your very specific line drawn?
Carr Bombed
Hall of Fame
I have a slow moving body. If I can be compared to C.J. (Hell any 20 yo) I'm taking it, don't rain on my parade buddy..
Brisco_County
Texans worthy
Some of my friends in Austin grew up attending Jr High and HS with Drew Brees. They said he was also the best basketball player in those schools. After hearing that I always thought there was a correlation between basketball skill and QB'ing. I would guess it relates to controlling the parabola on the ball and hitting the target precisely.
I'd made a kind of Stroud/Burrow comp in a different thread, so as it pertains to the direction of this topic..
Joe Burrow could have gone pro in a very different sport
Carr Bombed
Hall of Fame
My cousin sacked Drew Brees in high school, trust me.. We hear about it at every reunion
jetskiing? No
surfing? No
Ride a mountain bike? Not on a mountain
Beach volleyball? Hell, no
Ride a big roller coaster? Sure. But not a small roller coaster.
Play drummer in a heavy metal cover band? As long as he doesn't have to wear face paint, yes.
Can he potato sack race at a family reunion? No. Who does that anymore?
If Stroud was actually smart and performed well when under pressure, this would be a good comparison.
sandman
Brexit Advisor
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast
Smooth is fast?
Here, I thought my wife was complimenting me by calling me Mr. Smooth.
It was just a publicity thing and they were just funning around.
He certainly did against Georgia.
Yea, nobody is going to confuse CJ with Isaiah Thomas but he moves a lot better than most give him credit for.
TexansBull
Hall of Fame
TxnsJuggernaut1
Veteran
My line is drawn where activities known to cause serious inury takes place. So I would say no to many of the activities you mentioned. At least when preparation for football season and football season itself takes place. That's just me though. So if the team has no problem with any and every activity that players are involved in I shall say no more in regards to what those players do. Unless of course a major injury takes place then we can revisit this post.
Mr.Scarface
Rookie
Um, No. Burrow couldn't play in the NBA. Scoring 20 points a game in HS doesn't mean much.
sandman
Brexit Advisor
It's deceptive. That's why I said Kyle Anderson. It wasn't a pejorative. I remember the Spurs drafting him and the knock was he was slow, but when you actually watch him play it is just being very smooth and cerebral. Angles, spacing, and so forth. Boris Diaw was the same way. In any video I've seen of him playing basketball, he wasn't overwhelming anyone with raw power or speed. He was just smooth.
TxnsJuggernaut1
Veteran
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sandman
Brexit Advisor
I mean, he was the second leading scorer in the entire state of Ohio his senior year. There are somewhere around 800 high schools in the state that have a basketball program. I'm not saying he was a lock to go to the NBA, but the guy who was a top 5 high school player in two sports and holds the NCAA Power 5 record for TD's in a season probably would have done well at the college level should he have chosen to go that way.
TxnsJuggernaut1
Veteran
If it was more or less a simple shoot around than that is okay.
CloakNNNdagger
Hall of Fame
Is Stroud / Snoop Dog a repeat example of poor choice of association by a Texans QB?
I certainly may have missed it, but did something bad come of him hanging out with Mia Khalifa?
Furthering that, are there some string of bad outcomes from the vast number of people who've spent time hanging out with Snoop recently?
Furthering that, are there some string of bad outcomes from the vast number of people who've spent time hanging out with Snoop recently?
sandman
Brexit Advisor
No, why should it have? Just a pro athlete with a sexual assault/addiction scandal hanging with his close platonic friend the porn megastar.
That is nowhere near as bad as Snoop being introduced to Stroud as a young athlete after his dad was incarcerated and following/supporting his career to the point where CJ calls him Uncle.
That's just bad life decisions by Stroud.
No excuses.
There's already language in NFL contracts that speak to what you're saying..
Yes, there are some things pro athletes aren’t allowed to do
But like the article itself states that's a very vague bit of wording and doesn't really do much to specifically tell any particular player what is actually allowed and what isn't. As the article also further points out there are particular players that have much more specific language making certain activities prohibitive. Which is why I brought up a few examples of what you think should be prohibited.
As well it says that there are also contract stipulation that allows for frowned upon activities, but at financial risk/liability to the player.
It's clearly between the club and the player what the do's and don'ts are when the dotted line is signed, but I think it's important to make those lines clearly drawn without just broadly saying 'hey, you can do stuff in your free time if you might get hurt'.
Carr Bombed
Hall of Fame
..unless you count O.D.ing on funyuns and cheeto puffs.
Nobody knew at the time that he had his oddball habits so that wasn't whatsoever a source of criticism, which is clearly of importance. And also, results matter, in which nothing bad that we're aware of came of it.
Snoop has guided/mentored truckloads of young athletes, is there a track record of this being problematic. Again, results matter, no?
sandman
Brexit Advisor
I was channeling a certain poster...
Texansballer74
The Marine
You need to stop this nonsense. Go listen to his mother’s interview I posted. What’s the purpose of this post?
Mr.Scarface
Rookie
Difference sports for one. You don't know the competition level. You can be all-state at a Class 2A in Texas and not be in the same CLASS, skill level-wise as an all-state 6A player. I've seen Joe Burrow move, he doesn't have the quickness for a 6'4 guard in the NBA. Not even close.
Texansballer74
The Marine
Everyone calls Snoop Uncle. That’s like a nickname.
Typical crap from judgemental people.
Mr.Scarface
Rookie
Bigotry is alive and well on this message board. If you know anything about Snoop Dog at this point and time, you would not be comparing it with hanging out with a porn star. Snoop is corporate now.
Texansballer74
The Marine
So none of y’all would hang out with Willy Nelson huh.
sandman
Brexit Advisor
Things are a bit different in Ohio the way they categorize high schools, but he did play at a Division 1 school which is their highest level. This wasn't a Western Kentucky QB owning the NCAA record for TDs in a season type of stat.
And I didn't say he would play in the NBA. I said he was a top 5 player in two different sports at the highest level of high school in the state of Ohio. That would have garnered him scholarships at good schools had he focused on basketball instead of football.
But I look at Alex Caruso and Austin Reeves as good comps from a size perspective.
Will Anderson and Bijan Robinson were also featured in the video.
sandman
Brexit Advisor
Read post #38
sometexansfan
Blue Bomber
This is obviously a bad choice by Stroud, Snoop is known to hang out with convicted criminals, just look
Why so serious?
When you consider Snoop was in the Texans' post-game locker room with Bill O'Brien as the HC. Some of the posts in this thread is beyond asinine.
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