"My biggest thing going in was development. Finding a place where I could be comfortable in the system and environment, but the most important thing is just getting better. So the next time I take a chance at the league, it's my best shot and I can put my best foot forward. Looking at the resume of the coaching staff, looking at the people they have there, the players and the culture, it was the right place for myself to go and develop. A year, two years ago they had three DBs alone in a single year go to the NFL. One corner, one rover and one safety.
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Southern Conference member Mercer opened spring practice yesterday in Macon, Ga.. The Bears, who finished 7-3 last fall, will wrap up spring ball on March 4.
Dartmouth is tentatively slated to start spring practice on April 5.
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Dartmouth quality control assistant Mickey Grace is central to the latest edition of the NFL series Earnin' It, now being streamed on Peacock. Watch the trailer below. Apparently you can watch this full episode free by signing up for a Peacock account HERE.
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EXTRA POINT
If you've been watching curling at the Winter Olympics you may have noticed there are a couple of small green lights on the "stone." At least the players hope they are green. They change colors if there is a violation. From a story posted by Yahoo (LINK):
The lights are a tracking system to ensure the athletes release the stone before the first hog line - the red line at both ends where both teams must release the stone before passing it.
. . . A heat sensor is embedded into the ice and will be triggered if your hand continues to hold onto the handle while breaching the line, meaning each stone has batteries to power these sensors.
Failure to release your hand before the line will turn the lights red and that team will be forced to remove it from play.
Seriously, if little old curling can have heat-seeking lights in granite rocks sliding down the ice, isn't it time for the deep-pockets NFL to slip something akin to Apple's Air Tags into each end of the football with sensors on the sidelines to give us exact measurement of forward progress under the pile in real time? That technology would make TV's "line to gain" exact and eliminate all the speculation in the booth as well as trotting out those state-of-the art chains ;-)
And please don't tell me the technology isn't available or that it would throw the footballs out of balance. It can be done . . . and should be done.
Now back to that curling nailbiter.
