Re: SPORTS
Posted: September 23rd, 2023, 7:25 am
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Dean Spanos is too cheap to fire Staley. Staley is indeed an imbecile and has been for the last 2 seasons.laffite wrote: ↑September 24th, 2023, 3:48 pm Brandon Staley's head should roll. Getting lucky and winning that game today does not excuse him for one of the most stupidly idiotic abominable absurd decisions ever possibly in the history of the NFL. He nearly cost the season for the Chargers. Is it fair to the players to have their season gone because a bad coaching decision. Mr. Staley is an imbecile. If I were owner or general manager of the Chargers, I would fire his ass immediately. I would have him clear his desk and out of the building within two hours or have him forcibly removed. He won the game but should be acutely embarrassed in the doing.
That is sad since Brooks will miss watching the Orioles play in the playoffs for the first time since, forever!Dargo wrote: ↑September 26th, 2023, 10:40 pm Brooks Robinson, Baseball Hall of Famer and 'Mr. Oriole' (and "The Human Vacuum Cleaner"), dies at 86.
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I agree that the present trend of many younger head coaches to go on fourth down in their own side of the field has gotten out of hand. On the other hand, it always used to grate on me that coaches wouldn't go for it on fourth and short when their team was past midfield but just out of field goal range and would decide to punt it, and which would and does usually end up just netting only about 20 or so yards after the change of possession because the punters would and will invariably punt the ball into the end zone. There's just doesn't seem to be any punters around anymore who have the abilty to "coffin corner" the ball within the opponent's 5 yard line and like Ray Guy was so good at doing back in the day.
If Bradshaw did that, then he is a HERO of our football times. AND HE WOULD KNOW !!!!!! He played before all the tomfoolery started. I will try and google those remarks if I can find them. And it would take a Bradshaw to speak the truth. He is an "elder statesman" and he can do what others might be reluctant to do. Ask Andy Reid or Bill Bilichick, as well. They would no doubt agree. Brandon Staley is a disgrace.Dargo wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2023, 10:18 amI agree that the present trend of many younger head coaches to go on fourth down in their own side of the field has gotten out of hand. On the other hand, it always used to grate on me that coaches wouldn't go for it on fourth and short when their team was past midfield but just out of field goal range and would decide to punt it, and which would and does usually end up just netting only about 20 or so yards after the change of possession because the punters would and will invariably punt the ball into the end zone. There's just doesn't seem to be any punters around anymore who have the abilty to "coffin corner" the ball within the opponent's 5 yard line and like Ray Guy was so good at doing back in the day.
However and in regard to the part of your post I excerpted here...Didn't Terry Bradshaw call out Staley's decision from last week's game in no uncertain terms?
Funny you mentioning Belichick in this context though, and because you may recall he was one of the first coaches to begin going for it on fourth down in "questionable" field position, and even in the Pats' own territory on occasion. I think he was actually the guy who started this whole recent trend...for better or for worse. He was also the first coach I remember calling a play-action pass on second and short yardage and thus surpising the Defense and often then resulting in a long gain. I still grumble whenever I see any coach (almost all do) decide to just run for the first down in these sorts of situations as I believe they're missing a golden oppurtunity for a big play.laffite wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2023, 2:12 pm
If Bradshaw did that, then he is a HERO of our football times. AND HE WOULD KNOW !!!!!! He played before all the tomfoolery started. I will try and google those remarks if I can find them. And it would take a Bradshaw to speak the truth. He is an "elder statesman" and he can do what others might be reluctant to do. Ask Andy Reid or Bill Bilichick, as well. They would no doubt agree. Brandon Staley is a disgrace.
Thanks, Dargo.
You may be right about Bilichick but I have always seen him as basically a percentage player coach. Remember there are times when going on fourth down makes sense. I don't know what plays you are referring to but I would trust B hands down on whatever he does. That he has been the cause of this newfangled and reckless nonsense would surprise me a lot. But I know for sure that Bilichick would NEVER do anything that Staley has done in the last two weeks. In fact, few coaches (if any) would.Dargo wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2023, 2:50 pmFunny you mentioning Belichick in this context though, and because you may recall he was one of the first coaches to begin going for it on fourth down in "questionable" field position, and even in the Pats' own territory on occasion. I think he was actually the guy who started this whole recent trend...for better or for worse. He was also the first coach I remember calling a play-action pass on second and short yardage and thus surpising the Defense and often then resulting in a long gain. I still grumble whenever I see any coach (almost all do) decide to just run for the first down in these sorts of situations as I believe they're missing a golden oppurtunity for a big play.laffite wrote: ↑October 2nd, 2023, 2:12 pm
If Bradshaw did that, then he is a HERO of our football times. AND HE WOULD KNOW !!!!!! He played before all the tomfoolery started. I will try and google those remarks if I can find them. And it would take a Bradshaw to speak the truth. He is an "elder statesman" and he can do what others might be reluctant to do. Ask Andy Reid or Bill Bilichick, as well. They would no doubt agree. Brandon Staley is a disgrace.
Thanks, Dargo.
Now, my feeling on this whole thing is that the coach must take into consideration how his running game has been doing during the game and especially during the most recent times during the game...i.e. the flow of the game. If his running game has been doing well, then yes and while taking into account the field position, his chances of success would favor him as I've always felt in key short yardage down situations a running play is the best play to call because as ol' "Three Yards and a Cloud of Dust" Woody Hayes used to say "There are three things that can happen on a pass play, and two of them are bad".
(...my basic feeling being that if you can't even get one measly yard by use of your running game when you need it, you don't deserve to win the game)
I'm a Cubs fan who watched the Diamondbacks win 6 of 7 games. This cost the Cubs the wildcard spot along with losing series against the Pirates and Rockies in September.laffite wrote: ↑October 4th, 2023, 12:14 am Despite the Diamondbacks leading the NL West quite a time earlier in the season, they were still much maligned that eventually proved to be a righteous call since they fell precipitously in the second half quite a bit back. Curtains? Not quite, they slipped into the playoffs the second last day of the regular season and now have taken a 1-0 lead in the Wild Card over Milwaukee. Watch out!