Search results

You are now formally my hero. What a memory.

I am sure he was in his demands, and should have been, but I know what you're saying. As to the "sheer desire," well, yes. He, and Coach N (sorry, I am too lazy to spell that one) and Monken would be of one voice about coaching academy teams: their sheer desire to compete. it keeps you, for...

Ah, whut?

Thanks for that one.

Take away the home runs? Why, per General Custer in Little Big Man, "There is nothing in this world so surprising as the attack without mercy!" And you want to give it up?

And there you have it in two sentences, all the world's football wisdom. Seriously. Because if you can claim time of possession AND shorten the field on the same possession, you probably are going to own the scoreboard, too. You know, I would have liked to be there for one of those Saturday...

Nor would I argue with that. Those times to me were against teams with superior athletes and superior numbers. Just watching them line up told the story. Clemson, Georgia primarily, just dominating us. Good players beat good schemes. They just do. Throw it or run makes no never mind.

Maybe a difference in terminology. I consider the LOS to extend across the field, and when GT gets the edges... now that is the LOS but the width of the field. Those deep throws when the safeties cheated up were to make them defend vertically, whether or not that worked.

Stayed tuned Saturday, Army-Navy. A two possession game. One each. And I really look forward to it. (Really, there has never been a fan watching his team moving down the field play after play after play and then start twitching: how long before we fumble? It has its own dynamics.) Maybe it is a...

We're behind "the chains" but -- and it took me several years to get off the ceiling -- I don't think we were behind the 8-ball at all if we got by 2-3 yards on 1st down. I had to learn to accept part of Johnson's M.O. is to feel out a team while he catches the entire LOS and LB to see who is...

I always enjoy that matchup, and that brief moment on the field afterwards when we are lucky enough to have a camera on them, when Foster and Johnson meet and greet until next year. It was a great matchup while it lasted.

And MSU and Pitt and UNC and ... that is one of those theories that doesn't seem well thought out.

Well, OK. But is it balance if I run over the A gap, then the C gap and then counter it and then ... or is it merely a function of X number of runs vs X number of passes? (One of my irritations over 10 years has been the pass on first down that fails, at which point fans rail that "He put us in...

That's a premise I am not aware of. My understanding from listening to Johnson is that bad things happen when one passes, and he is confident to a fault that if he needs 6-7 yards he won't "dink" it out there but he can run for it, and that he can score on the ground. My assumption, perhaps...

Explain balance, please.

As to coaches, I agree. Too much loyalty and when two QBs are bad option players -- by that I mean recognition and decision to keep or handoff or keep or pitch , that hints to me that the offense must be too complicated or the players must not be smart enough or the coaching is bad. I lean...

Today I read, tech with a small "t" fans, that Swinney has gone into some mumbo jumbo technology with a chip of some sort in the shoulder pads or jersey, unsure which, and it is tracked by (doppler?) radar during the game, and by the next day each player gets an email printout of his various...

Ah, better than Johnson his own self? Or Coach N or Monken? I love Johnson's offense and always have. But the recent record and an increasingly unhappy fan base mitigates against continuing with it. The only question is which diection Stansbury goes. After all, this could be a career killer for...

I am anxious to see which coaches a new guy keeps, and whether as part of his negotiating he gets more salary money for assistants. Johnson already has, I know, but it is an arms race out there. I always thought, without any supporting evidence except the record, that Johnson was too loyal to...

If it is Collins, and I see he interviewed today, I doubt very much from what little I have seen on YouTube (three minute highlights) that you will see two running backs set with the QB very often. More of a one-back set, one in motion or flanked or double-slotted, and the one in motion seems...