He does work less than a head coach, but he does work in the off-season. Its not like these guys walk into a booth on Monday night and ask what’s going on. Most of them will look at tape over the summer once they know the schedule that they are going to do, he’s involved in their draft coverage for any QB coming out,…
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The lowest paid NFL head coach makes about $3-4M per year and the top 25% make $6.5M or more, so that is the entire point of his salary.
Stop calling this a “double-reverse”. Where is the “double”? Its a left sweep that is (designed) to reverse to the right.
But who the heck used the right guard to block the left outside linebacker on a play where you are inviting him to come directly into the backfield? Its a crap design.
Because coaches hate finality and put off the final outcome as long as possible. They are taught to avoid risk at all costs vs. making smart risky calls. Say you are down 3 with 2:20 to go and no timeouts. If you go for two and fail at the 50, as long as your aren’t playing the Giants, your best case scenario is you…
A 1 pt deficiet, 10 minutes into the game.... oh how will the team come back from such a huge deficit.
Except intentional targeting will result in fines and suspensions. Not going to get a linebacker to intentionally harm the other team if he loses a $400K game check. Also, pretty sure the Steelers, since they are up 17 at this point will have no problem going for your QBs knees and have him miss half of next year...
If you do that I hope you tell your special teams “Ok the other team will now be kicking from the 50 on every kickoff so they will probably go onside 1-2 times per game”.
Sure. Look at that team. They are James Harden and a bunch of spare parts. Based on pure talent they should not have been anywhere near the 3rd best record (both regular season and postseason), yet they over performed their talent due to forward thinking and strategy
Why do you think that? Remember this is is their 3rd kicker having lost two to season ending injuries. He is the definition of replacement level and to assume he as “about as accurate as most kickers” makes no sense. Now he’s not 75%, but he is 88% on kicks this long for his career (70 for 79 on 30-35 yd FGs and 4-5…
D) All of the above.
So just to sum up your observations on the 49ers...
What I am really curious about though, is how you think this team wins 1 more game than they did last year???
I didn’t even count Gordon since he is out this year... but I did count Thomas (the last 8 years in Pro-Bowl and 5 Time First Team All-Pro), 2 Time ProBowler in (2010 and 2012) Starks, 2 Time Pro Bowler (2013 and 2014) Haden, Tramon Williams (2010) and I also skipped Bowe (2010) since not sure if you considered WR3 a…
Wow, that almost exactly the same number of Pro Bowlers starting for Cleveland (if you include the Punter).... better keep that first weekend in February free.
I thought I saw that as well, but the announcer said otherwise so I thought I was mistaken and that he was telling the guy on first that was probably rounding 2nd what to do, but maybe the announcers were wrong (they didn’t sound like all that plugged in).
Wow, the Nats just walked 6 guys in an inning, all with 2 outs. They gave up 6 runs with a single and double, and no other contact. That is amazingly bad. And for once you can’t really yell at Williams because he did bring in Storen, his best reliever, before it completely imploded and he gave up 3 of those walks.
No. He gave up 2. The guy on 3rd scores on a single. I think the guy on 2nd would have scored on a ground ball single as well (and the announcer said the same thing).
All of that is nice, but immaterial to your comment that “an ace doesn’t give up 5 runs in 6 innings in an important game”. All pitchers, great, average or shitty have good and bad nights, and its up to the manager to react to them. In fact, most great pitchers have their bad nights in big games since that is when…