Comments on: Dumbest thing I read today

By: brophy

brophy — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:10:34 +0000

gee….I can’t get over all the fundamentally ‘unsound’ DB play by Alabama in this game…..

what a f***ing joke of a writer this guy is.

By: Friday Links « Leather Helmet Blog

Friday Links « Leather Helmet Blog — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:51:08 +0000

[...] Chris Brown knows dumb when he reads it [...]

By: Cowboy Fan

Cowboy Fan — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:30:20 +0000

Can you write up the Oregon zone read? Saw them for the first time since last year’s Holiday Bowl, and they seem to be running it differently (especially with the pitch option) than OSU did then, or at least more effectively.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:11:18 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out what “chemistry guys” are. Was that their major or something?

I truly believe that sportswriters have somehow all become dumber in the past week…

By: OldSouth

OldSouth — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:22:05 +0000

Much ado about the ambiguous word “unsound?”

Just take its most probable, plain interpretation, which is what Chris did, and lay off the formalistic, masturbatory logicisianship

By: stan

stan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:23:28 +0000

The whole idea of “unsound” is dumb. Can I play cover 3 and rush 6 and be “sound”? Sure, if I understand the risks and play it because of my scouting and an intelligent cost/benefit calculus [e.g. it's 3d and 18, the FB is really slow, the TB has bad hands, the QB doesn't throw hot, they can't protect against 4 rushers weak and I know what patterns they like to throw on 3d and very long]. A coach on the outside simply cannot make an intelligent judgment about soundness by looking at tape.

By: Wide Tackle Six

Wide Tackle Six — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:49:53 +0000

Bama will stop the run. Can Florida successfully throw when they need to against tight gambling press coverage?

MeElroys first read should be Julio Jones, his second read be Julio Jones and his third read should be Julio Jones.

GET YOUR FREAKIN PLAYMAKER THE BALL!!!!

By: TR

TR — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:56:43 +0000

As a logical matter, examples of sound defense are no answer to a guy who says that the defense is sometimes unsound. All you really said is “do you really think Saban plays unsound?,” which is just an appeal to authority. And then you showed some film.

I think it would have been just as good to say that if Saban is unsound, maybe somebody in the SEC would have figured out how to exploit it by now. Or, perhaps, the definition of unsound changes when your guys are just that good. Any coverage that depends on me executing, for example, would be unsound.

By: js

js — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:26:07 +0000

1. The coach in that article sounds so bitter I take that whole thing with a grain of salt.
2. After reading that again, I think he might just be meaning the difference between last year’s Rashad Johnson and this years Mark Barron. Johnson sees the field like a coach, always in the right spot, while Barron might be the best pure athlete on the whole Alabama team and gets away with being in poor position.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:07:19 +0000

To a lot of guys — and i am guessing the unnamed assistant is not at Alabama or Florida — “sound” defense means covering all your bases; even with great athletes, every scheme, coverage or stunt has a weakness than can be exploited. However, when you have great athletes, covering all your bases means something different than it does when you don’t have the personnel. That’s what Stoops was counting on in the cited example, and Saban is more calculating than Stoops.