Posts Tagged ‘football players’
Tennessee Titans Daily Links: Barrett Ruud Is The (Second To The) Worst Edition (Music City Miracles)
The PFF breakdown for Sunday's game hits a lot of the same areas Jimmy and I covered on MCM Radio, but the numbers are so absurdly bad that it's worth checking out. Here's their takedown of the horrendous play of Barrett Ruud : To say it was a tough da... Read the rest of this entry »
Will The Packers See The Start Of The Christian Ponder Era In Minnesota? (Acme Packing Company)
... It wasn't exactly his fault. Due to injuries on the offensive line, the Bears were seemingly unblocked on a couple sacks. It didn't help that the Vikings couldn't run the ball. While he led them on a couple of longer drives, the Vikings also went t... Read the rest of this entry »
Film Study: The Broken Running Game (Music City Miracles)
This week will be a little different. At least for this edition, we will be breaking down a play that highlights what's wrong with the run game, instead of breaking down a major play from the week. Pictures are worth a 1000 words (but less than 100 yar... Read the rest of this entry »
Don’t worry about that ringing sound in your ears, Matt Schaub. Wait until you get to be my age. (SportsJustice)
It’s a game of inches, and if you don’t believe me, ask Gary Kubiak about a couple of things that happened in Sunday’s 40-33 loss to the Saints. For instance: • Once in the second half, the Saints left Mario Williams unblocked as Drew Brees dro... Read the rest of this entry »
Recap: Green Bay Packers Defeat Bears In Chicago, 27-17 (Acme Packing Company)
The game had a funny ending with a touchdown return by the Chicago Bears called back by a holding penalty that no one except the official saw, but the Bears didn't protest it either. Overall it was a dominant performance by the Green Bay Packers with o... Read the rest of this entry »
Week Two Offensive Metrics – Cardinals vs Redksins (Revenge Of The Birds)
Week two offensive metrics are here, it was a game that looked ugly for most of the game outside of the third quarter and one or two other plays the Cardinals offense really struggled. This week I have added a couple of new items to what I will be reco... Read the rest of this entry »
Arizona Cardinals Game Breaker: Week 2 versus Washington Redskins (Revenge Of The Birds)
... blitzing their two young OLBs, Brian Orakpo and Ryan Kerrigan , who caused havoc to the passing game all day. While the tradition is to have one single play that was the game breaker when the Cardinals suffer a loss, I felt inclined to offer two sh... Read the rest of this entry »
Play of the Week Vote: Week 2 vs the Arizona Cardinals (Hogs Haven)
... very simple. Play man-coverage on the receivers, and send everyone else on a blitz. Its a numbers game, sending one more player on the blitz than the offence can protect. We line up showing potentially 7 blitzers, while the Cardinals have two playe... Read the rest of this entry »
Charting Seahawks Tackle James Carpenter vs. the Vikings (Field Gulls)
DK Edit: please welcome Davis to Field Gulls! For his first post he did some game charting of RT James Carpenter for the Seahawks preseason game against Minnesota from Saturday. Enjoy. First off, this was a very unusual quarter with the pick-six throug... Read the rest of this entry »
Bengals Player Report Card: Nate Livings vs. Lions (Cincy Jungle)
... of the night. The run was to go between RG-RT. The Bengals let the RDE (Vanden Bosch) go unblocked and slid the blocking to the right. Andrew Whitworth took the DT (Williams), Cook and Bobbie Williams took the other DT (Suh), and Andre Smith took t... Read the rest of this entry »