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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 16:34:35 GMT -6
My beef is Daryl Johnson. He was the best blocking fullback I've ever seen. He did what a fullback is supposed to do better than anyone. Where he a 300lb lineman delivering such blocks we would have been in the HOF first ballot.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 12:57:05 GMT -6
I'm hearing talk on ESPN (Cowherd) that NO's going for it on 4th and goal near the end of the first half was a sign of a huge change in football strategic thinking. I had to laugh. I'm pretty conservative and never thought that they'd do anything else but go for it. What was there to lose? 4th and 1 with less than 2 minutes left in the half? If they didn't make it, you knew that Indy would do exactly what they did- try to run out the clock and get out of there. Going for it on 4th down there wasn't some "new age" thinking. That's been the "by the book" move for a long time. Yep, still dont know for the life of me why you would try and hit the edge on a fast defense 2 times in a row though. Run right the @#%^ at them.
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Post by windigo on Feb 8, 2010 12:28:06 GMT -6
Being a 6'3 - 6", 215 - 280 lbs player that is explosive, THAT is genetics. That is something no coaching or prodding will 'develop'. I think the 'genetics' argument is somewhat lazy, always deflating, but it is what it is - and genetic freaks are what (90%) DI athletes ARE. I really disagree with that having to do with state levels. I think that dollars to donuts its simply recruiting budgets. I coach in Alaska. We have had some truly great players who never once got recruited. I look at the pop Warner scores from just a few years ago. Our 13-14 yearl odl Pop Warner team crushed the Naperville IL, team 32-0. Now I lived in Naperville I know {censored} well the powerhouses those 2 High schools are. I also trained with a few of their best players as my training partner did strength work with their players and he would invite his elite players into our little circle of powerlifters and bodybuilders to train with the big boys. So I know full well just how talented they are. Now all of this kids I trained with had D1 offers. Now what happened to the kids that beat Naperville 32-0 three years later when they graduated from High School. Not a one of them got a serious look and I can tell you from experience that they were just as talented as the kids I trained with in Naperville. In the end I think it comes down to recruiting budget. The elite schools have the pick of the litter locally so they don’t look far outside of their area except for the 5 star elite recruits and the Midmajors have limited recruiting budgets so they don’t have the money to look far outside of their area. The lest player we had get a D1 offer got it because his parrents could afford to send him to an Oregon St. camp and Oregon St. saw him and offered. We had at least 4 other guys in that senior class who were just as tallented. But we come from a mostly poor area and most of our players cant afford to go to outside camps to get noticed. I'll tell you its down right frustrating. You know that you have talent and that your kids should be going some place but getting schools to give them a look since you are so far outside of their region is like beating your head against a wall. As a general rule an Alaskan player will go to a school if he goes to a school that is at least 1 level below his tallent level. This Kid doesn't have a sinlge offer ATM I saw that football island thing and it was a total joke. If BYU Hawaii or a few of the Pac 10 teams that look that far doesn’t pick those kids up they don’t really get a look in American Samoa. Its the Samoans that are from LA that make up the NFL roster mostly I played flag football with this 19 year old kid from American Samoa who was an absolute freek just as good of a pass rusher as some of the guys I've blocked who got a shot at the pros actually better in some cases and 4 years younger. He should have gone D1 easy but he never got recruited. Troy or any other midmajor really could have used him.
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Post by windigo on Feb 5, 2010 15:37:38 GMT -6
Madden Tourney
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Post by windigo on Feb 5, 2010 15:33:48 GMT -6
The Colts play their 8 in the box 'Ok if you think you can beat Peyton in a shoot out' defense and Brees will ablige them.
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Post by windigo on Feb 5, 2010 15:29:28 GMT -6
This does set a really bad precedent as we all know there is no protection for any offer put on the table. A coach can pull an offer at any time. The protection is us. We high school coaches protect out players from that crap. If a college coach pulls that crap they have burned themselves at our school and to some extent our conference as well. But if they are allowed to get players to commit in junior high that protection is gone. They can just give offers to lots of kids and 4 years latter pull the offers of the players who didn't pan out.
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Post by windigo on Feb 5, 2010 15:07:17 GMT -6
These parasites are becoming all to common in the youth ranks. Dollars to dounts he is just running of Darin's DVDs and other good position coaches work.
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Post by windigo on Jan 30, 2010 17:52:45 GMT -6
Listen to the wise words of OJW and become a master of the doublewing.
Ignore Phantom.
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Post by windigo on Jan 21, 2010 11:17:44 GMT -6
The TV spot seemed to suggest the kids as a group were very coachable. The kids came from hard working families that required obedience and manual labor from the kids. Their practice fields and equipment were appalling. I read a magazine article awhile back where some of these kids practice in pads in bare feet. 200 DI kids playing now and 30 in the NFL from an island of 65,000. Kid in Samoa is 59X more likely to play in the NFL than someone from the mainland- that's just unreal IMO As someone who has played with and coached many many Polynesians the shoes thing is more cultural. You cant get them to ware shoes. ‘Coach why does my back hurt?' Because you walk barefoot on concrete!
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Post by windigo on Dec 28, 2009 17:55:16 GMT -6
Here is a write up i did a while ago
We use a cannon GL2. When the game is over I take the camera home and import the video to my external hard drive as a .wmv using movie maker. My external is formatted NTFS so I'm free to keep the quality as high as possible without exceeding the file size limit like you can with FAT32. Then I edit the game film with Roxio Creator 2009(yes its licensed) putting chapters at each offensive and defensive series as well as special teams. As I'm editing I keep a look out for the good plays and write down the time they happen, pretty easy since most good plays occur at a change of possession anyways which is what I'm looking for when I'm editing chapters.
When the chapters are edited I save and close out my current project then open a new one, using my written markers as a guide I splice together a highlight real with music(no music on the youtubes of course {censored} recording artists) and make the file usually as a high quality avi. Then I open back up the main project, put the highlight real as the menu background, burn the whole thing to disk, and make an ISO for quick new disks.
When I'm cutting for youtube I make a new wide screen project with the AVI highlight real, mute it, use zoom to fit the wide screen window, and create an MPEG2 that goes on youtube. I like MPEG2 it comes out clear at about 100MB and has a HQ option in youtube. Mind you as far as the youtbue goes I figured this out yesterday. There might be a better format but I haven't found it yet.
The one thing I would like is a new HD camera that outputs to a SD card. That would save me a whole hell of a lot of time. The importing is the longest part of the process. An HD camera that outputs to a SD eliminates that process.
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Cutting
Dec 28, 2009 12:38:15 GMT -6
Post by windigo on Dec 28, 2009 12:38:15 GMT -6
Cut cut cut cut cut.
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Post by windigo on Dec 28, 2009 12:32:47 GMT -6
not sure it's good for the debate, but we once had a team win the toss and defer, then in the second half (they were winning by 6) choose to kick the ball so they could pin us deep with their kicker and establish/maintain dominant field position. the conditions were extremely sloppy and windy, worst field i've ever seen. proved to be a great call, as field position won the game..... just some food for thought That must have been us. College game?
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Post by windigo on Dec 24, 2009 17:23:40 GMT -6
We actually passed on Tecmo Bowl in favor of Mike Tyson's Punch Out. I remember when I first beat Tyson. I ran through the neighborhood screaming my success to any kids that would listen. Thats the thing about those old Nintendo games some of them were really really really really hard. Today games just flow. They might take a while to play through but they are all pretty easy to beat. But remember kids are kids Madden tournament.
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Post by windigo on Dec 22, 2009 17:40:20 GMT -6
One word
MaddenI dunno... We did an NCAA 07 tournament last year... I was out after 2 games (both OT losses) You did an 07 tournament last year. How poor is your school? Did you play tecmo as well? All jokes asside. Madden and NCAA tournements are a great way to build the family.
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Post by windigo on Dec 22, 2009 13:06:10 GMT -6
One word
Madden
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Post by windigo on Dec 6, 2009 2:37:26 GMT -6
I coach high school. There is always a chance that the 16 year old captain on the other team will absolutely insist that they want to kick. Had it happen more than once.
Never deny a teenager on the other team the opportunity to do something stupid.
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Post by windigo on Dec 6, 2009 2:31:07 GMT -6
This was certainly a down year for the Big 12 and the Mount West has been on the same level as the BCS conferences for years. The only reason that Texas will go is purely reputation. This year and this season they do not deserve it.
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Post by windigo on Nov 20, 2009 13:43:09 GMT -6
I agree with that assessment. This is a system the players have to buy into lock stock and barrel. If they don't like the Xs and Os of it or worse yet cant understand it they will not fit in the system.
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NE Game
Nov 19, 2009 17:54:59 GMT -6
Post by windigo on Nov 19, 2009 17:54:59 GMT -6
I'd love to hear people's responses to that article I liked the article but do you think that it was a good play call because I don’t.
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Post by windigo on Nov 17, 2009 17:05:59 GMT -6
If I am the other coach..I'm saying to the wr recruit....man your going to be rollin around on your belly 60 plays a game..do you know how to cut block Ahem cutting people is fun ... really fun.
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Post by windigo on Nov 17, 2009 16:56:01 GMT -6
I find it hard to say that its an easy offense to stop. He does so many things to screw up your keys. You tell the DE to tackle QB every time, now hes pulling a guard, logging the DE and no one is on the QB as he is creasing the seam. right when you tell a kid to tackle such and such a player, he blocks that player leaving no one on the guy that was supposed to be tackling. If all he ran was Inside veer, or midline then yes, it would be easy to defend. He gives a lot of different looks, counter options, traps, midline iso/follow. He does too many things to say, its easy to stop. And he does them well. And that is the problem with playing assignment football. The flexbone team has many different blocking schemes and can pick and choose who they use as a dive read and pitch read. The other team almost always has one set of assignments. You block their dive, QB, or pitch defender and force someone else who hasn't practiced it to do it the end result often ends up looking like a chicken with its head chopped off.
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NE Game
Nov 17, 2009 14:14:00 GMT -6
Post by windigo on Nov 17, 2009 14:14:00 GMT -6
I don’t think playing press coverage in 4th and short is a tough decision. Its pretty much a no brainer.
I absolutely hate the quick out in press coverage. I'm not questioning the decision to go for it but I sure as hell am questing the play call.
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NE Game
Nov 16, 2009 17:08:39 GMT -6
Post by windigo on Nov 16, 2009 17:08:39 GMT -6
I think he made a mistake. I would have punted the ball. The play call was horrible in my opinion. #33 was all over Faulk. \ Which is whay I dont get the throw. If that is the call I'm reading #33. If he jumps the quick out I'm throwing the drag. Still it wasn't a very good short yardage play. I know that we have been on the NFL offense for bing a little to generic for a while and this kind of proves it to me. This was not a desinged short yardage play. This was a genaric 3X2 play even coverage beater to the 3 side odd coverage beater to the 2 side. How you dont have some desinged 4th and 1-3 plays is beyond me.
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NE Game
Nov 16, 2009 14:07:57 GMT -6
Post by windigo on Nov 16, 2009 14:07:57 GMT -6
i dont mind the call. FAulk had the first down if he didnt bobble the ball. i think its more execution rather than call. good job by Melvin Bullett, Bob Sanders' back up on breaking that up just enough. I dont agree. I coach spread and I've pulled my hair out over quick outs for negative yardage or no gain. Its not my go to route in a short yardage situation because even if I complete it a lot of the time the pass and the receivers momentum takes him back the LOS. Look at the play. This was not even a designed short yardage play. It was a standard NFL one side beats odd the other beats even play. Now I love the vert quick out combo as much as the next guy but it sucks in short yardage. And you cant zero in on one route. Brady was throwing the quick out come hell of high water. Welker coming across in the drag should have been where he went with the football.
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Post by windigo on Nov 9, 2009 13:20:34 GMT -6
I'm a linemen when I hear if you aint cheating you aint trying I think about cheating by technique. Grab the pads. Quick jolt to the face mask. Hand underneath the face mask. Sink the hooks. Swat teh arms when he release to throw him off ballance (fantastic move by the way seldom coached). I've never agreed with plays that are designed to break the rules. Its one thing for a player to stretch the rules to gain an advantage on his opponent. Its another for a coach to flat out ignore the rules and designed an illegal play.
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Post by windigo on Oct 27, 2009 14:50:13 GMT -6
The kids care. The parents care. Lets play out a scenario. Varsity has a stud QB and WR. JV has a Stud RB. Varisty throws the ball 50-70% of the time. JV has to throw the ball just because varisty throws the ball. JV gets blasted game after game. Stud JV RB quits, parents are fed up with the program. Players are less dedicated for their varsity season because their team is getting beat bad. Weight room starts to empty. Parents don't buy as much team apparel. Hell, even the kicker goes back to soccer. yeah, use the exact same terminology, same holes, same cadence, same practice...but if varisty isn't running a 26 trap because their HB sucks...does that mean JV can't run it? Now, no, JV DW coach shouldn't be running DW when Var runs spread...but there has to be some give and take. Uh wingt74 given your name you should understand the importance having all levels run the same system. Take my state. This years state champions run the Wing-T and the 4-3. They run it at all levels. 4 seasons ago they got the crapped kicked out of them as freshmen on C-team, next year they got the crapped kicekd out of them on JV. Two sesons later they run the Wing-T to a T and are state champs.
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Post by windigo on Oct 26, 2009 12:02:51 GMT -6
Win one for the gipper is all I can say. A major injury can devastate your team or it can unite your team. A lot of it comes down to the player. If he disappears from the team its usually a bad thing. If the stays around and encourages his teammates to win for him it can be a great motivator. We had a case where a kid got a spiral fracture with the bone protruding. It messed up the team all season and part of the reason it did was because he disappeared.
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Post by windigo on Oct 18, 2009 12:58:18 GMT -6
Just watching the Giants-Saints game and I have to say that would love to have an official like Ed Hochuli ref our games. He is knows the rules and he explains his calls and he commands the respect of the players. Football players are athletes they don't tend respect out of shape referees. Ed "Hochules" is a freak for a 58 year old man and the players cant help but respect him.
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Post by windigo on Sept 8, 2009 13:19:11 GMT -6
Its a real problem up here. The pop Warner teams in our state are national power houses, you've seen them on ESPN, and the parents are fanatical. Just about every last one of them gets held out a grade so they can play their pop Warner when they are 14 and then get their 4 of high school.
As a freshmen coach for a district that doesn't have a pop warner team its annoying when so much of the other teams freshmen team are all 15 while my kids are all 14.
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Post by windigo on Sept 7, 2009 18:03:18 GMT -6
Got the rest of the season done and up.
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