So, as you may or may not know, I am a lifelong, TV screamin', cussin', throwin' stuff Packer fan. I am also a defensive coordinator, albeit for Middle School football.
There are two things about defense that I know to always be true:
1. You CANNOT play prevent defense with more than a minute on the clock, if you are only up by one score... You will only prevent yourself from winning... I'll bet paychecks on this, and come out ahead every NFL season.
2. You WILL NOT create turnovers playing prevent defense in this scenario. Maybe with less time on the clock, as the offense will be in a more panic-mode state of mind; but without pressure on the QB, even then it is rare.
The problem is this - Three D-Linemen rushing against five O-linemen = no pressure, all day for QB to throw, and receivers to get open. Also, you have linebackers and D-backs dropped into a very deep 4 x 4 zone - LB's & Strong Safety in "shallow" quarters, which are actually deeper than normal; and Corners and Free Safety covering the deep - and I mean DEEP quarters. This is to protect against one big play scoring on you.
The offense only needs one score, and they have time to get there, these loose zones leave HUGE gaps for the offense to move through, just like the Steelers did tonight. This plan by Dom Capers actually helped the Steelers win. By not allowing the winning score until NO TIME was on the clock, he deprived the offense of a chance to mount a drive of their own, to retake the lead and win.
If the Packers had been up by two scores, it would have been a "garbage" TD, which is the ONLY thing the prevent defense is good for - let them score meaningless points, but take all the time off the clock doing so. This was how and why the Packers beat the Cowboys five weeks ago, up 17-0 (three scores), the Packers gave Dallas all the short junk they wanted, and the Cowgirls got A score - with almost no time left - Pack wins 17-7. THREE SCORES Dom, NOT ONE!!!
If anything, this scenario calls for a DC to call his best pressure packages - THEY HAD ALREADY SACKED BIG BEN 5 TIMES FOR GOD'S SAKE!!! - to make the opposing offense extend each play, and run more time off the clock. Linebacker blitzes only, though - you need your best cover guys covering (Jarrett Bush not withstanding). Pressure leads to bad throws, bad throws lead to picks.
Listen to me now, Dom: YOU CAN RUSH FIVE EVERY DOWN AND STILL COVER IN THE QUARTERS UNDER HALVES UMBRELLA THAT IS "COVER-TWO". And if you're smart about it, those blitzes can also plug up every run-gap assignment. Angles are your friend, Dom.
Oh well, I'm just a Junior Tackle coach with an axe to grind - what do I know? Mason Crosby and Jarrett Bush better start checking the want-ads in the Sunday paper - that I know. But a faulty defensive plan is not on them, is it Dom?
Peace, Love, and the 3-5-3 stack,
St00bert
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
What the..?
Yeah, so I'm watching Katie Couric tonight... God knows why... CBS Evening News does a story about Gitmo detainees coming to a prison in Thomson, Illinois; about an hour or so west of my little burgh. CBS's story says the people of Thomson are "overwhelmingly" in favor of this move, as it will bring 3,000+ jobs and over a billion dollars to the area.
LIES
Less than a third of those jobs will be local hires, and the guards who already work at the Thomson prison - LOCAL PEOPLE - are not even close to sure of keeping their jobs; they are State employees, and would have to reapply to become federal guards... Jobs which usually require knowing and/or blowing someone high up on the ladder.
The money will most assuredly go to Chicago contractors, especially if President Barry Osama... Oops... Obama - has anything to say about it. It is my humble opinion, and educated guess, that the Daley Mob is already licking their collective chops over this - imagine the unheard of kickbacks from this gig!!!
Sad, really. I was actually going to praise the Prez for his outstanding acceptance/concession speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was especially delighted and surprised, that he let those smug European pukes know that they owe the United States... well... pretty much everything. Unfortunately, like the high Liberalville USA got from his election, my delight was short lived, and came down hard.
Now, I get to worry about terrorist attacks happening less than two hours away from my family - to the West OR the East! Thanks Barry, as if trials at Ground Zero weren't enough of an invitation; "Here Al Qaeda, attack Chicago - Hell, wipe out all of Northern Illinois, who cares?!?! Yeah, a dirty nuke in Rural America should really help our... I mean YOUR cause..."
Yup, government getting bigger, Barry's new friends in Radical Islam getting new reasons to conduct operations on U.S. soil... Soon Barry will have his U.S.S.A. - Union of Socialist States of Amerika. Since H1N1 has turned out to be nothing more than "the flu", Barry will need a new reason to declare a national state of emergency, and eventually (probably around November 2012) Martial Law.
Barry's handlers say that closing Gitmo, and housing terror suspects in the U.S. - proper, will somehow appease Radical Islam. I strongly disagree; Radical Islam will not be appeased until all their men are free to rejoin their respective cells, so they can work on killing Americans and Israelis again. Actually, they won't really be appeased until everyone who isn't Muslim, either converts or dies... It's kinda' their thing, Barry. You see, Barry mistakenly thinks that Radical Islam is the same as True Islam... not so much, Barry. The Quran (True Islam) teaches tolerance between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, it even acknowledges Jesus as a great Prophet, just not the Son of God. Radical Islam says "Christians and Jews DIE!!!"... See the difference?
So I ask you: What good reason can anyone give to bring the suspected terrorists here, for trial or holding? Jobs? Government jobs produce nothing, and cost taxpayers more money. As previously stated, most of these jobs would help local employment rates very little. Money? From what? Prisoners don't exactly spend much, and any new development will cost money before it makes any, and who is to say how many, if any, of these jobs will be permanent or even long-term? They have to put those prisoners on trial someday, then they either go free or get the chair. Besides, I am reminded of all the jobs "created" by the stimulus package... 10.2% unemployment.
Let me know if I am missing something, because all I see is a big target being painted on Northern Illinois.
Peace, Love, and Hardin, Montana -
St00bert
LIES
Less than a third of those jobs will be local hires, and the guards who already work at the Thomson prison - LOCAL PEOPLE - are not even close to sure of keeping their jobs; they are State employees, and would have to reapply to become federal guards... Jobs which usually require knowing and/or blowing someone high up on the ladder.
The money will most assuredly go to Chicago contractors, especially if President Barry Osama... Oops... Obama - has anything to say about it. It is my humble opinion, and educated guess, that the Daley Mob is already licking their collective chops over this - imagine the unheard of kickbacks from this gig!!!
Sad, really. I was actually going to praise the Prez for his outstanding acceptance/concession speech for the Nobel Peace Prize. I was especially delighted and surprised, that he let those smug European pukes know that they owe the United States... well... pretty much everything. Unfortunately, like the high Liberalville USA got from his election, my delight was short lived, and came down hard.
Now, I get to worry about terrorist attacks happening less than two hours away from my family - to the West OR the East! Thanks Barry, as if trials at Ground Zero weren't enough of an invitation; "Here Al Qaeda, attack Chicago - Hell, wipe out all of Northern Illinois, who cares?!?! Yeah, a dirty nuke in Rural America should really help our... I mean YOUR cause..."
Yup, government getting bigger, Barry's new friends in Radical Islam getting new reasons to conduct operations on U.S. soil... Soon Barry will have his U.S.S.A. - Union of Socialist States of Amerika. Since H1N1 has turned out to be nothing more than "the flu", Barry will need a new reason to declare a national state of emergency, and eventually (probably around November 2012) Martial Law.
Barry's handlers say that closing Gitmo, and housing terror suspects in the U.S. - proper, will somehow appease Radical Islam. I strongly disagree; Radical Islam will not be appeased until all their men are free to rejoin their respective cells, so they can work on killing Americans and Israelis again. Actually, they won't really be appeased until everyone who isn't Muslim, either converts or dies... It's kinda' their thing, Barry. You see, Barry mistakenly thinks that Radical Islam is the same as True Islam... not so much, Barry. The Quran (True Islam) teaches tolerance between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, it even acknowledges Jesus as a great Prophet, just not the Son of God. Radical Islam says "Christians and Jews DIE!!!"... See the difference?
So I ask you: What good reason can anyone give to bring the suspected terrorists here, for trial or holding? Jobs? Government jobs produce nothing, and cost taxpayers more money. As previously stated, most of these jobs would help local employment rates very little. Money? From what? Prisoners don't exactly spend much, and any new development will cost money before it makes any, and who is to say how many, if any, of these jobs will be permanent or even long-term? They have to put those prisoners on trial someday, then they either go free or get the chair. Besides, I am reminded of all the jobs "created" by the stimulus package... 10.2% unemployment.
Let me know if I am missing something, because all I see is a big target being painted on Northern Illinois.
Peace, Love, and Hardin, Montana -
St00bert
Thursday, December 03, 2009
What now, Mr. Gore?
All over this crazy internet community, I see story after story about how some of the world's top environmental scientists may have - shall we say - modified some of their inputs, to show a greater amount of human influence on the Earth's climate than is actually there.
Of course, the legitimacy of the emails and documents in question is being refuted by the people most damaged by this outing. And yet, the man whose tinkering was exposed - Phil Jones - stepped down from his lead post at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, in England. If its not real, why step down Phil?
My wife and I watch Robin Meade (short pause for drooling) every morning on CNN's little sister, HLN. The ONLY mention of this story was about ten words scrolling across the bottom of the screen. I only caught it because at the time, Robin was not on screen. If global warming does exist, its because Robin goes outside at least twice a day.
Many people blindly walk through their own conspiracy theories about these eco-quacks; but few have given good reason for this hoax to perpetuate. Some say grant money, some say bureaucrats after big fees, fines and expensive "studies". These are OK theories, I guess, but not big and bold enough for the scope of this scenario.
Who suffers if "they" convince us that global warming is the danger we are told it is? Who has to change everything they do and how they do it? Who gets the bulk of the blame? Manufacturing in general, and specifically, the automotive industry. A very large portion of the jobs in this country are tied to the automotive industry, one way or the other. If you can effectively blame one segment for the decline of our environment, you can also - in theory - shut that segment down. That's a lot of people out of work... dependent on the government... Sound familiar?
Removing large chunks of people from the ranks of the gainfully employed, puts that much more power in the hands of the governing bodies of those people. Making it very difficult and expensive to operate a manufacturing firm is a good way to shut it down, no? I could go into how the healthcare reform act is also partly aimed this way, but that's another conversation.
Look at a satellite photo of the county you live in, even the city you live in, zoomed just to show that area. If you were standing in the most wide open place, wearing a bright red clown suit, would you be visible in that satellite photo? We don't get, for the most part, how small we are. How insignificant we are, and how easily Mother Earth could flick us away like flies.
Why is there no ozone hole above Los Angeles? Has every bad emission EVER floated down to Tierra Del Fuego, where THE ozone hole is? The fact is, the Tierra phenomenon is probably caused partly by the ozone hole; which means it has been there since at least the 1500's... Sorry Al. Another funny thing about that ozone hole; it is situated such that, it may have been punched through by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs... Bet you never thought of that, did ya' Al? Another theory about the ozone hole, is that we need it as kind of a safety valve, but I don't buy that one.
Bottom line, the big finale to global warming is another ice age. So what caused the last one... Wooly Mammoth farts? Everything is cyclical, peeps. Back in the 1950's, scientists were concerned about global cooling... Look it up, really. Mother has been around for a few billion years now, I'm fairly certain she may jave a few routines we haven't caught on to yet.
Peace, Love and Aqua Net,
St00bert
Of course, the legitimacy of the emails and documents in question is being refuted by the people most damaged by this outing. And yet, the man whose tinkering was exposed - Phil Jones - stepped down from his lead post at the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, in England. If its not real, why step down Phil?
My wife and I watch Robin Meade (short pause for drooling) every morning on CNN's little sister, HLN. The ONLY mention of this story was about ten words scrolling across the bottom of the screen. I only caught it because at the time, Robin was not on screen. If global warming does exist, its because Robin goes outside at least twice a day.
Many people blindly walk through their own conspiracy theories about these eco-quacks; but few have given good reason for this hoax to perpetuate. Some say grant money, some say bureaucrats after big fees, fines and expensive "studies". These are OK theories, I guess, but not big and bold enough for the scope of this scenario.
Who suffers if "they" convince us that global warming is the danger we are told it is? Who has to change everything they do and how they do it? Who gets the bulk of the blame? Manufacturing in general, and specifically, the automotive industry. A very large portion of the jobs in this country are tied to the automotive industry, one way or the other. If you can effectively blame one segment for the decline of our environment, you can also - in theory - shut that segment down. That's a lot of people out of work... dependent on the government... Sound familiar?
Removing large chunks of people from the ranks of the gainfully employed, puts that much more power in the hands of the governing bodies of those people. Making it very difficult and expensive to operate a manufacturing firm is a good way to shut it down, no? I could go into how the healthcare reform act is also partly aimed this way, but that's another conversation.
Look at a satellite photo of the county you live in, even the city you live in, zoomed just to show that area. If you were standing in the most wide open place, wearing a bright red clown suit, would you be visible in that satellite photo? We don't get, for the most part, how small we are. How insignificant we are, and how easily Mother Earth could flick us away like flies.
Why is there no ozone hole above Los Angeles? Has every bad emission EVER floated down to Tierra Del Fuego, where THE ozone hole is? The fact is, the Tierra phenomenon is probably caused partly by the ozone hole; which means it has been there since at least the 1500's... Sorry Al. Another funny thing about that ozone hole; it is situated such that, it may have been punched through by the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs... Bet you never thought of that, did ya' Al? Another theory about the ozone hole, is that we need it as kind of a safety valve, but I don't buy that one.
Bottom line, the big finale to global warming is another ice age. So what caused the last one... Wooly Mammoth farts? Everything is cyclical, peeps. Back in the 1950's, scientists were concerned about global cooling... Look it up, really. Mother has been around for a few billion years now, I'm fairly certain she may jave a few routines we haven't caught on to yet.
Peace, Love and Aqua Net,
St00bert
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
I'm Baaaack: Part Deux
Yes, it has been approximately three years since your last shot of Common Freaking Sense. Now, out of college twenty years or so late, Stu is back with a vengeance. Armed with my high-fallutin' AA in IT/Networking from the University of Phoenix, I have returned to wreak havoc on the Donkey people, Hollywood, and anyone else who needs a CFS injection.
Speaking of Donkey people... Doesn't President Osama... ooops, I mean Obama's - plan for Afganistan sound eerily similar to a plan he opposed in Iraq? Troop surge to speed up completion of the objectives..? Man, Just sounds familiar to me... Wierd...
Shout-outs to:
Alayna - for reminding me I have a place to rant -n- rave
Cole - My nephew, who Left for USMC boot camp yesterday... Semper Fi - Be safe
Peace, Love, and Naughty Kittens
St00bert (CP's big Little Bro)
Speaking of Donkey people... Doesn't President Osama... ooops, I mean Obama's - plan for Afganistan sound eerily similar to a plan he opposed in Iraq? Troop surge to speed up completion of the objectives..? Man, Just sounds familiar to me... Wierd...
Shout-outs to:
Alayna - for reminding me I have a place to rant -n- rave
Cole - My nephew, who Left for USMC boot camp yesterday... Semper Fi - Be safe
Peace, Love, and Naughty Kittens
St00bert (CP's big Little Bro)
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