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Flowers may have another option the XFL. If McMahon starts it up again.
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USF's qb Quinton Flowers looks like a protypical CFL qb. An average passer but he can sure run. Although his arm won it for them today over Texas Tech. Great prospect although he's only 6 feet tall. We'll see what kind of NFL interest he gets.
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1 hour ago, Blueandgold said:
Yup, even the leagues in Winnipeg and etc play 7 on 7.
NONE in Calgary that I know. But the US is different. The 7 on 7 leagues down there exist so high school teams can run through their plays in the summer to prepare for football in the fall.
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5 hours ago, Jesse said:
Because we were in high school and our world was just beginning.
Someone like myself & others here who knew players from before your high school days are not decrepit. We are wise to the ways of the world.
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3 hours ago, wbbfan said:
Put em in laser tag type gear that can light up like a christmas tree if they get touched. Have it be 6 on 6. enough for Enough to run power, option and spread offenses. As well as zone and zone blitzes. 3 downs, play both ways with roster room for maybe 3-4 subs. Play in the early spring, maybe on AFL style small fields.
I wouldn't watch. I don't think many people would. If they do it, it'd be 7 on 7 as there are high school leagues in the US during the summer all over the States so most players would be familiar with the rules.
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If Vince brings forward an actual football league that centers on actual quality of play & the athletes without the gimmicks, stupid story lines & amateurish broadcasting crews then maybe this has a shot if it gets off the ground. I just hope it's not full of patriotic **** to get viewers. I still think the NFL will kick its doors off & people won't just necessarily jump to a new league because of players kneeling for the Stars & Stripes. I hope Trump is involved as then it's a guaranteed failure.
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2 hours ago, wbbfan said:
Thanks and good idea.
Yeah it is, some great stories in it.
The qb whisperer - Bruce Arians. HC of the cardinals, former OC/qb coach of peyton manning, andrew luck, carson palmer (current) and ben roethlisberger, Worked for a short stint under bear bryant, one of the all time great ncaa HCs. You come for the football, but stay for the great personal stories.
The score takes care of it self - bill walsh. Taken to the point of compilation and first revision then shelved while walsh returned to football. He passed away, and walshs son helped with finishing the book. This book is more leadership, teaching, and building oriented then strictly football. Its like the 5 rings or the art of war. But based in football and a more modern era. It gets repetitive but the insight, stories, and lil nuggets make it well worth while.
Finding the winning edge - bill walsh. The football bible. more football, but still a strong dose of the character you find in "the score takes care of it self". Its harder to find in physical form, but its some thing that will come up with a huge majority of coaches, and football nerds.
Blood sweat and chalk - Tim layden. Its a very basic Xs and Os book. The real value is the coaching lineage put down, and the history given for the systems contained in it. Especially the spread variants, and option offense.
The big book of Belichick - Alex kirby. The style of this book is very polarizing. Its word for word copied from countless years of interviews with Belichick. The best and most interesting questions and answers. It can be tough to slog through in a single go for some people. I was one of these people. But the insights on every thing from scouting, positional play, Xs and Os, teaching, management and more is incredible.
Football scouting methods - Steve belichick. Before Bill belichick was the envy of coaches all over, his dad was considered the original scouting guru. This book is old (1962) so you have to go in prepared for that and be ready to take some stuff with a grain of salt. Its a whole new world today. But a lot of it, the core, holds true today. This is the Old testament version of the football bible.
Guys with chest hair like this (and no interest in buttoning their shirts) have a 100% percent chance of hitting on your side line reporter.
Ive never much liked al davis. But I allways respected the crap out of him for allways doing it his way and not letting fear of failure impact his actions. I wish I could have seen the old afl vs nfl superbowls. No one lets rivalry like that survive today in the pros.
Lombardi despised Super Bowls I & 2. First, he didn't think that the AFL should play the NFL as he felt the rival league was inferior. Especially when it came to Kansas City Chiefs qb Len Dawson who was a failed starter & backup qb with the Steelers before he jumped to the AFL. Second, even though he believed the AFL was inferior, he still felt he & the Packers were under enormous pressure to represent the NFL & to win. He didn't want to be the first NFL head coach to lose to the AFL. He also said he was miserable the week preceding those 2 Super Bowls because of it.
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1 hour ago, tracker said:
Lets not leap to conclusions here.
No kidding. Millennials only think that the world existed after 9/11.
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Back in January of 1969, it was like two generations going at it in the Super Bowl. The conservative Baltimore Colts led by Earl Morrall & Johnny Unitas representing the NFL vs the upstart, new & brash New York Jets led by Namath representing the anti establishment AFL. You had to be alive back then to really, truly appreciate the clash of styles between the 2 leagues & just how huge this upset was in professional sports. It sent shockwaves that were felt for years & paved the way for the merger just 2 years later.
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1 hour ago, Mark F said:
I remember Elmore crazy legs Hirsh.
used to see the Rams on the tube when I was a child in Vancouver B.C.
have to go have a nap now. all that typing you know.....
I remember Earl Morral & Johnny Unitas. The Colts has 2 qbs with 50's styled brush cuts & high top boots playing for them when they played the (then) ultra cool long haired, Fu Manchu moustache & white shoes Joe Namath & the Jets. I was 13 when that Super Bowl was played. The first one I actually watched.
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1 hour ago, mbrg said:
I remember an interview with Arians from the latter half of Manning's time with the Colts. The reporter observed that Manning got 100% of the reps in practise. He asked Arians what happens if Manning gets injured. Arians said "Then we're ******". The reporter offered the suggestion they spend some practise time with the backup in. Arians reply: "Why would we practise being ******?"
That seems to be Marc Trestman's attitude as well. Play the starter no matter the score. Give little or no reps in practice to the backup. It's a great philosophy until the starter goes down. Then coaches like Trestman & Arians get fired.
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Kavis Reed has a Joe Mack kinda respect. Oh hey, they work together. LOL!
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6 hours ago, Goalie said:
Its the reason hes alive today but... Scott needs to actually want to not drink also. Honestly Hall is a feel good story.. Not quite Jake Roberts feel good but Hall was a bloody mess for years... Hell maybe even decades... He cant change overnight. But IMO, hes done lots of good the last couple of years.
Killing that guy outside a bar would mess up anyone.
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Mike Sherman seems like a good man but knows absolutely nothing about the CFL. I feel sorry for him having to work for Kavis Reed & Joe Mack. You know he won't get a lot of help from those 2 & they'll be so busy covering their butts if the Als get off to a bad start.
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56 minutes ago, wbbfan said:
It can vary a lot, from staring down their hot route, patting the ball on deep passes, the way they try (or dont) to sell the play action fake, small hand/leg/head moves pre snap can be a gigantic advantage as well. After a while you have enough tape to pick up tenancies like preferred target zones to pass in, especially on certain routes. You can pick up the inflection change of their cadence to get a read on hard counts and allow you to cheat the rush (similar to hand/leg/head movements just before the snap)
You also have enough film to say for certain if a guy has the touch to complete a certain pass / to a part of the field, the strength to another etc. If a guy always throws behind the wr on crossing routes the DB can play a trail position, bait a pass and jump it.
The best specific guy who fell victim to this imo is rick mirer. Once dubbed as the next great QB, 2nd overall pick, one of the first starting rookie qbs and set tons of records for a rookie qb. And just like that the next year he was hot garbage. He could hardly complete a pass to the right side of the field. He couldnt read or pick up the blitz and had shell shock built in. Teams figured out he was only running 4 or 5 passing plays total. Its easy to blaze a trail as a new guy, but in pro sports you can only fool teams for soo long.Teams will adapt, the question is can you answer it. NFL teams adapted the 3-4 for speed backs like OJ simpson. Blocking schemes evolved (and the value of blind side tackles) with dominant jack lber rushers like LT.
In the cfl, Banks returning, chris williams and as bomber fans weve seen a TON of dbs who are good as rookies and done soon after.
Imo, part of jennings and the leos fall last year was play calling, OL and teams figuring him out late the previous year. Most of the last 2 games against us the leos could hardly pass. The offense was one dimensional, and teams started forcing the leos to beat them with some thing other then the deep ball. And they never adapted to win with some thing other then the deep ball.
Great post wbbfan. You Da Man!
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Game 37 : Bon Copp @ Bad Ladd
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Well, so much for being elite.