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I love tracking language change, and it's especially fun in football. There have been big receivers, long receivers, and tall receivers, all of which might be the same thing. If you're rangy you could either have a lot of range because you're fast PLUS have a good reach or something, and I think you're mainly a DB if you're rangy. Imunno. Then there are vertical receivers (properly, vertical threats at receiver), who are actually longitudinal not vertical, which would just be "tall" again. In fact, if I were in charge of terminology, I'd say receivers are longitudinal or transverse, seems simpler. But what do I know. Then there are guys who are so vertical they take the top off the defense, which means they take the endcap off the longitudinal dimension, but I digress.
What I'm finding fascinating this year is that everybody has their own ROOM. They used to be a corps. Not a core, a corps. Like the Marine Corps, if instead of taking Iwo Jima you played a kids game for millions of dollars. Semper ChChing mothr****, this is my contract, there are many like it but this one is mine. So you used to have this corps, but no morps. Now you have a "room." There's a Quarterbacks room, an offensive line Room, a linebackers Room.... etc.
Where did the damn rooms come from? Are there actual rooms in the stadium where guys break off for film study, linebackers and film study, O-line, etc., are there? Or is this just this year's terminology exercise? Or maybe something having to do with Zoom?
I seriously need your help, you whose brothers-in-laws know the barbers of the plumbers who worked in Gillette last year or something. Tell me what the rooms are.
Thank you in advance for your consideration of this matter.
What I'm finding fascinating this year is that everybody has their own ROOM. They used to be a corps. Not a core, a corps. Like the Marine Corps, if instead of taking Iwo Jima you played a kids game for millions of dollars. Semper ChChing mothr****, this is my contract, there are many like it but this one is mine. So you used to have this corps, but no morps. Now you have a "room." There's a Quarterbacks room, an offensive line Room, a linebackers Room.... etc.
Where did the damn rooms come from? Are there actual rooms in the stadium where guys break off for film study, linebackers and film study, O-line, etc., are there? Or is this just this year's terminology exercise? Or maybe something having to do with Zoom?
I seriously need your help, you whose brothers-in-laws know the barbers of the plumbers who worked in Gillette last year or something. Tell me what the rooms are.
Thank you in advance for your consideration of this matter.