i tend to agree but at some point you need to finish it and create negative yardage instead of a pressure leading to maybe a throw out of bounce
Sure. When you can. Best to suffocate them or even better cause a turnover every down. People should all do this on very long contracts for league mimimum money, but this is an unlikely outcome. So yeah per others' comments, "bend but don't break" is a more robust compromise between dominance and expense than "Not. One. Yard." PS it's "out of
bounds." And welcome to American football. It is an exciting, engaging game that you can follow for life.
Agreed. The fact is, if all posters who ever engaged in a bit of name-calling (whether provoked, due to a bad day at the office, a Patriots loss, a couple of beers, or whatever) were to leave this site, it would be a much, much emptier place.
I'm not sure there'd be anybody left without the forktards, wankers, sheepshaggers, spoons, live action roleplayers, skunkjunkies, and MRI dark spots we so euphemistically call our regulars. The machines wouldn't even hook this place into the matrix, as just being exposed to us decreases the brainpower of anybody adjacent. I could go on but the feckin morons also don't have the attention span for it.
Respectfully.
EXCELLENT - 7 ALL-PROs (two of which must be a WR) + a trade of two JAGs for the Jets #1 pick in the next two years
GREAT - 6 ALL PROs (two of which must be a WR) + one starter who would start for every team in the league
GOOD - 4 ALL PROS (one of which must be a WR) + two starters who would start for every team in the league + one guy taken in the 7th they are able to trade for a #3 in a future draft
OKAY - 2 ALL PROS (one of which must be a WR) + three starters who would start for every team in the league
FAIR - 1 ALL PRO (which must be a WR) + three starters who would start for every team in the league
POOR - Five starters (two of which must be a WR) who would start for every team in the league
PATHETIC - every Patriots draft ever
Am I close?
Spot on but in the spirit of animosity I should add wtf do you know, you grew up watching the Scottish Claymores and telephone pole-throwing contests.
But seriously you know a lot about football and probably more about bagpipes than anybody here. Not that everybody in a kilt plays a bagpipe, how stereotypical. Sorry not to imply you must wear a kilt just because you are a Scottsman, which might or might not mean anything in relation to your consumption of haggis.
Hey seriouslly, what is Scotland's national beer? No punchline I just realized I ddon't know. Okay, fine, punchline, Now that you're a nation again?
The problem with the bend don’t break philosophy is when you’ve had the GOAT QB on your team, that kind of defense keeps him off the field and that’s not a good thing. In a way you’re probably giving up points you would have scored if the defense got a stop…
A defense that gets a 3 and out vs a defense that bends not breaks and the other team misses a FG are not equal even if they both allowed 0 points…
Bill Lee did great on this...
The assets you have to dedicate to defense to get a "3 and out" defense are more than a "bend but not break" defense, so you won't get the same offensive weapons to go along with the "3 and out" defense. Rule changes favor the offense, so getting a "3 and out" defense is harder than ever.
Both these things are true. It really comes down to that old line "Can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
I mean, we have to argue everything, that's why we're fans, but by necessity it always ends up an argument about whether soup is better than playing cards or something.
Okay that is all. Stay in school kids. Don't use drugs.