wtf
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Hauschka is probably not in Kicker of the Decade consideration.
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
gosh brady quinn is having just a ~tremendous~ game thus far
― jØrdån (omar little), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
sorta interesting from the boston.com pats blog:
In another corner of the country, a high school coach named Kevin Kelley approved the move, too. Kelley has gained recognition for his aggressive, and successful, team at Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Ark. He goes for it on every fourth down on every drive, at any spot on field, no matter the distance. And it works. They won the state championship two years ago. His team has a quarterfinals game this weekend. Just yesterday, Kelley sent film of his team to Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, at Leach’s request.
Kelley frames the debate of Belichick’s decision in an utterly novel way: What if we are making a category mistake about punting altogether?
“Let’s say you have never seen another punt,” Kelley said this evening in a telephone interview. “You didn’t know what a punt was. Belichick trots a guy who doesn’t look like he even plays football to kick it down to the other team. He didn’t try to keep the ball. He just gave it to the other team!
“People are programmed to think on fourth down and 2 on your own 28, you punt the ball. If people could grasp the percentages, that would change the mentality.”*
A handful of high-profile college and NFL coaches have reached Kelley to discuss his strategy. (“They don’t want to be named,” Kelley said.) Most of them find it intriguing, some of them find it tempting. They all have a similar ultimate reaction.
“They say, ‘I can’t do this. I’ll get fired,’ ” Kelley said. “It’s rough. When you think about that much money being involved at that level, they’re willing to sacrifice what they think because they don’t want to lose their jobs. Maybe I would, too.
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Just yesterday, Kelley sent film of his team to Texas Tech coach Mike Leach, at Leach’s request.
YES
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
no receiver on the browns knows what is going on, they are confused. c'mon rooks
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I do not know why my mind is so blown by this, but they just showed an ad for Australian PTI:
http://i37.tinypic.com/28m5gm.png
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:23 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa weird
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf is all this pre-snap shifting cleveland is doing
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link
so i bet i missed a lot of great football here?
― C MON MAN (daria-g), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
browns offense makes me nervous
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:30 (fourteen years ago) link
I have spent the past 30 minutes wondering if I would not have been better off watching some of my friends compete for the Intramural championship of grad student flag football. (I would not have seen Australian commercials, though.)
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:31 (fourteen years ago) link
it's like--maybe you should score an amount of offensive touchdowns in the two figures before you let brady quinn and a bunch of rookies run audibles?
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 texas tech, we need to do some brainstorming here about crazy things teams can do & send mike leach some ideas
― C MON MAN (daria-g), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
250k fine for adams damn
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i liked when the browns audibled their WRs into a bunch right and brady quinn got sacked on that sad
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
side i mean, but sad works too
BROWNS :D
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link
chuckie has a point! what if ravens wear throwbacks and thus become the cleveland browns.. wait, somehow i think that happened & explains this game
― C MON MAN (daria-g), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I fully support letting Texas Tech be the only team in I-A football allowed to run the A-11 offense. Really whatever formation Mike Leach devises should be considered legal, and wonderful. In return for this I demand one game per year between Texas Tech and either Georgia Tech or Navy, who are awesome for the exact opposite reason.
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:36 (fourteen years ago) link
why are ravens so bad all of a sudden
― house of flying jaggers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
COLD ZING
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:37 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost to dg
http://i35.tinypic.com/vko74.jpg
― C MON MAN (daria-g), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:39 (fourteen years ago) link
hahah yes!
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:40 (fourteen years ago) link
OK come the fuck on the MNF Spotlight on Brady Quinn is getting Favreian, except that Brett Favre is not a mediocre quarterback for a bad team. (He is a horrible person, but that's not the point.) They would not be showing Age 4 photos of Derek Anderson.
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
he was 24 when he did that drawing its not that funny
― NEW YORK DESERVED 9-11 (cankles), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
what's going on with ravens and their 12th man
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
God I did not even realize that it is almost halftime. I feel like nothing has happened in this game, except that now I want to move to Australia a little, knowing that I will not miss football.
OK now I definitely do because this ad has just happened:
http://i38.tinypic.com/v3d9mu.pnghttp://i36.tinypic.com/29cl660.png
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:57 (fourteen years ago) link
this game
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
it will make mugs of us all
the greatest game
― weatheringdaleson, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Aww Tirico wanted to be all "David Tyree you guys! REMEMBER! He was in a Super Bowl once."
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
hahah yeah he wanted so badly to discuss that
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 02:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"The longer you let the Cleveland Browns hang around...you're in trouble"
WHAT
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:02 (fourteen years ago) link
(I gots mad love Brownie, but...I mean...Eric Mangini.)
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
WHEN YOU LET THE BROWNS HANG AROUND IT'S TROUBLE C-L, THAT IS THAT
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
weathering your brother won a local Emmy- props
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there someplace on the net with clips from that Australian PTI?
I want to watch that thing.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
m4d sk1lllzxp
― weatheringdaleson, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
OK if ESPN is going to show CFL playoff highlights, it is definitely time to put the actual games on ESPN2 or something. Come on, slightly unusual football with announcers making fun of Canada at all opportunities is worth televising.
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually I think there was a website listed the last time they showed the ad. I forgot it, but there is inexplicably another half of this game left, so they'll probably show it again.
― C-L, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:12 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno if you watch 30 rock but the CFL gag they did last episode was teh funny imo
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ESPN needs to turn one of those networks into what ESPN was like when it first started...all Australian Rules Football, Cricket, CFL and Sports Center.
Aussie football could have actually caught on in the US. There is a total brutality in that game that American's can appreciate, plus their referee's are dapper as fxxk.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
the comcast sports network inexplicably plays CFL games sometimes, i'm pretty sure
― C MON MAN (daria-g), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i38.tinypic.com/2yyrrxf.jpg
mangini_smh.jpg
― C MON MAN (daria-g), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
GENIUS AT WORK
― brownie, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
would love to see a Brit Sportnet in the US...cricket, darts, snooker, competitive vomiting, etc
― WmC, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
http://offseasondraft.championdata.com/afl_off_season_draft/offSeasonDraft/images/bnrSquad-0.jpg
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
lol is this actually 0-0
― peed on tree (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 17 November 2009 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link