tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post5214744821874080509..comments2024-02-16T02:12:08.305-08:00Comments on Fire Jay Mariotti: WMTMQR: From a TMQ Column That's Hot Off the PressesLarry Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16141943214237719821noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-9894401606575412112010-11-19T08:18:24.712-08:002010-11-19T08:18:24.712-08:00Agreed Jack, there's running a cheap play and ...Agreed Jack, there's running a cheap play and there's being a douchebag. If a high school got away with that, that's their fault for not paying attention. Middle schoolers aren't taught to go after the qb even when he's innocently wandering over to the sideline.<br /><br />Aside from that, another perfect storm of bullshit from Greggggggg.Frigidevilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17535546187956275984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-80226234511718298192010-11-18T07:42:13.547-08:002010-11-18T07:42:13.547-08:00If you're not cheating, you're not trying....If you're not cheating, you're not trying. That middle school coach obviously has a bright future as a defensive coach for Cal.Elliotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-41094268406812881552010-11-17T13:27:49.331-08:002010-11-17T13:27:49.331-08:00I actually have to agree with Greggg on the issue ...I actually have to agree with Greggg on the issue of the middle school trick play. In that situation, the offense wasn't trying to deceive with regards to the intent of the play, they were just running such a lame and cheap trick play that the defense didn't think it was possible that a real play was actually going on. The defense should have known that once the ball is taken off the ground the play is live, but the quarterback talking to the refs was meant to intentionally muddle that issue. I don't know if it's legal or not by Gregggg's standards, but I, for one, think it's not very sportsmanlike, and I'd be embarrassed if I played on a team that could only score using amateur hour shit like that.Jack Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16520633081010336438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-3149797851739517402010-11-17T08:13:44.657-08:002010-11-17T08:13:44.657-08:00It seems far more insulting to me to completely st...It seems far more insulting to me to completely stop trying to score with a big lead. I'm not saying you should run trick plays and shit when you're up 30+ points in the 4th quarter, but just running standard plays shows more respect to the opposition than purposely not scoring. Take the Georgia-Vandy game earlier this year. Georgia was up 43-0 at the start of the 4th quarter and ran their big slow fullback at the tailback position all quarter. That shows a complete disdain both for the other team's ability to score and their ability to stop your normal running backs. As a coach or player that would be far more insulting to me than a team putting in their backup QB and letting him try to throw the ball some.Biggus Rickusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-57316083336878187272010-11-17T07:28:36.046-08:002010-11-17T07:28:36.046-08:00These uncertain postmodern times, AngeloThese uncertain postmodern times, AngeloChris Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12152452626681072765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-56429781417738361782010-11-17T07:19:00.112-08:002010-11-17T07:19:00.112-08:001. Gregggg was definitely being pretentious about...1. Gregggg was definitely being pretentious about computer rankings not being polls.<br /><br />2. I actually liked his reference to Friday Night Lights this week (Jacksonville winning on two last-second plays = TV football), but I love that he thinks Quin did exactly the right thing. How about you realize where other players on the field are, and not smack the ball ten yards forward (and three down with gravity's help).<br /><br />3. I had the exact same thought when he tried to tell me those schools weren't obscure.<br /><br />4. Scoring a touchdown and then forgoing the extra point is a double slap in the face. I can't believe he thinks that the solution is to win 80-20 instead of 83-20 to show some sportsmanship by saying "hey, we don't need that extra point. Just take the ball."<br /><br />5. Chris W what the what?Angelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13565602337634280524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-89522114295224214412010-11-17T04:37:49.818-08:002010-11-17T04:37:49.818-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chris Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12152452626681072765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-41990230920274461222010-11-17T04:37:31.860-08:002010-11-17T04:37:31.860-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chris Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12152452626681072765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-26976138210378781662010-11-17T04:37:10.272-08:002010-11-17T04:37:10.272-08:00Perhaps something has occurred in the history of t...Perhaps something has occurred in the history of the concept of structure that could be called an "event," (BILL WALSH'S WEST COAST OFFENSE) if this loaded word did not entail a meaning which it is precisely the function of structural-or structuralist-thought to reduce or to suspect. (IS WALSH'S WEST COAST OFFENSE REALLY AN EVENT RATHER THAN A COMPLEX EVOLUTION OF A CONCEPT?) But let me use the term "event" anyway, employing it with caution and as if in quotation marks. (MIKE HOLMGREN'S WEST COAST OFFENSE) In this sense, this event will have the exterior form of a rupture and a redoubling. <br /><br />It would be easy enough to show that the concept of structure and even the word "structure" itself are as old as the episteme (FOUR YARDS AND A CLOUD OF DUST) -that is to say, as old as western science and western philosophy-and that their roots thrust deep into the soil of ordinary language (football PLAYERS MAKE football PLAYS TO WIN THE football GAME), into whose deepest recesses the episteme plunges to gather them together once more, making them part of itself in a metaphorical displacement. (MAYBE WE DON'T HAVE TO RUN TO WIN?)<br /><br />Nevertheless, up until the event which I wish to mark out and define, structure-or rather the structurality of structure (SINGLE WING OFFENSE) -although it has always been involved, has always been neutralized or reduced, and this by a process of giving it a center or referring it to a point of presence, a fixed origin. (WISHBONE!!!!) The function of this center was not only to orient, balance, and organize the structure-one cannot in fact conceive of an unorganized structure (I-FORMATION!!!!)-but above all to make sure that the organizing principle of the structure would limit what we might call the freeplay of the structure. (WHAT'S A FORWARD PASS???)No doubt that by orienting and organizing the coherence of the system, the center of a structure permits the freeplay of its elements inside the total form. (I RUN SIX PLAYS, SPLIT VEER, IT'S LIKE NOVOCAIN. JUST GIVE IT TIME IT ALWAYS WORKS) And even today the notion of a structure lacking any center represents the unthinkable itself. (OLIN KREUTZ?)<br /><br />Shotgun offense!<br /><br />Point, Gregg.<br /><br />(Apologies to J. Derrida, who is dead. But what does dead really mean? Question everything!)Chris Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12152452626681072765noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6300012139741038635.post-66598446531278262302010-11-17T04:29:38.874-08:002010-11-17T04:29:38.874-08:00These would be the successive phases of the image:...These would be the successive phases of the image:<br /><br /> <br /><br />1 It is the reflection of a basic reality.<br /><br />(The HB Dive is called as such because it is a halfback diving)<br /><br />2 It masks and perverts a basic reality.<br /><br />(The Half Back Counter is a halfback pretending to dive and then going off tackle)<br /><br />3 It masks the absence of a basic reality.<br /><br />(The Shotgun is called as such because it is meant to resemble a non-football item [viz. a Shotgun] and its erstwhile properties [viz. launching a projectile a great distance)<br /><br />4 It bears no relation to any reality whatever: it is its own pure simulacrum.<br /><br />(The Statue of Liberty is the simulation of a football symbol [i.e. moving one's arm forward signifies a quarterback passing] yet involves the negation of such a play as a pass becomes a run)<br /><br />GREGGGGGGG was close!!!!<br /><br />(apologies to J. Baudrillard, who is dead. But what does dead really mean? Question everything!)Chris Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12152452626681072765noreply@blogger.com