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jim brown wasn't nearly as elusive as simpson.. didn't have to be. if sayers and brown had a kid - it would be oj - the best i ever saw

leave it be - or try this.. keep it as a 1 point kick, and a 2 point conversion, but: spot it at the 25 for any score that originates from a LOS at, or beyond, the 25 otherwise spot it at the last play's LOS inside the 25

OJ was the most exciting RB i've ever seen - balance, speed, and power. but what i foubd myself watchin, were the guys in Bills jerseys with numbers higher than 49 running laterally and then downfield to block.. jeez.. whadya call them, again? 😏

😊. i like the role Woods plays, the way he plays, and the fact that he's young and signed.. but he can be defended with a CB. a guy like Boldin would make a DC choose where to give Safety help when we line him up with Watkins and Clay. it should definately keep teams from bringing one of their three Nickle Safeties up into the box to defend the run, because if they do, we can force a mismatch in their coverage. as much as we may like a player, if there's a more effective player available - we should consider him

marrone and hackett had a successful collegiate offense that they thought was portable to the pros.. they needed a project QB to step up and rescue their offense, and EJ wasn't up to it.. they failed him as much as he failed them. hopefully, the experience has put some hard bark on the kid, and he's ready to take command. he has all the tools to run this O.

i'd make that deal.. Woods is nothing special, and lacks the qualities and matchup problems Boldin brings in packages with Clay. brilliant..

if we get into pre- season with glenn - mathis - wood - a healthy williams - henderson and incognito, urbik, and kujo pushing to start .. we have the diversity roman and kromer want

frankly.. i don't recall our linemen ever running zbs.. unless their technique was so sloppy, and their execution so poor that i failed to recognize it - and if you've seen it on film, i wont argue that. i'm hoping Williams becomes our most effective guard, but counting on a guy with a history of back problems to line up week in - week out - may be asking too much.. it'll definately be an interesting camp as the line situation evolves

for the love 'o mike.. will you people please learn what a zone blocking scheme is? http://www.fieldgulls.com/football-breakdowns/2014/2/18/5394212/seahawks-marshawn-lynch-zone-blocking-scheme-tom-cable our personnel is too big, too slow and too unathletic to commit to such a scheme. the fact that we dont have guards who are athletic enough to pull on traps and power sweeps, makes me question how Roman and Cromer plan on getting more men playside in their 'power' scheme.. depending on the FB and TE/H-back to engage much larger D linemen is not a sustainable strategy.

perhaps.. but Pegula could hire Bon Jovi to play Van Halen songs at halftime

i think we should be looking at his linemen i saw him play on tv and i've been looking at his internet highlight reels.. didn't see him have to make a play under duress.. i'd like to know how he plays when he doesn't have a clean pocket and the time to toss a high arching pass to a receiver who has beaten his man by several steps. it sure is a pretty pass though.. pours it in right over the shoulder.. just gotta wonder if, and how fast, he can fire it with angry men in his face.. i see a sharp shooter - and sharp shooters don't go early, gunslingers do.

is this Shady?

true.. in an obvious maneuver to invoke attorney-client privilege, he reactivated his legal license and joined the defense team.. real piece of work

Marrone

if you're old enough to remember, it wasn't until there were questions about the mysterious garment bag Kardashian took out OJ's mansion after the murders, that he was included in Simpson's dream team. i'll never forget the look on RK's face when that verdict came in - he knew right then he'd helped a double murderer walk. to try to right things, his wishes were that the bag be turned over to the Goldmans upon his death - guess he was too weak a man to pay for his part in this injustice, while he was alive. as of last June, they've refused.

haha .. thanks for having my back, Pimp2 - but Nanker's gotta point, and i meant to respond to his post before this.. my use of punctuation and capitalization is bad and often non-existent.. i should try to clean my act up when posting my lengthier thoughts.. it's all good

just keep your fingers crossed he doesn't end up with Miami in 2016

all it proves is that the idea of acquiring a QB from Briles' spread offense has already crossed Rex Ryan's mind - which means it was discussed with Roman. what it doesn't prove, is that this staff is interested in the 2015 version of RG3. they'll do their due diligence, and if there's nothing to scare them off, who knows.

i don't know anything about RG3's physical or mental health, and nothing about his ego or his sense of entitlements.. what i do know, is that Rex was working out Baylor's latest QB - who didn't play the position as well as RG3. i certainly understand the concern of the fans, because of the question marks.. but the idea of this staff trying to attain the player is reasonable

there's a lot riding on what he can get done with our guards.. we can't become any kind of offense if we can't get linemen downfield in the run game

yes, thats. very good article, and i agree with what you're expressing regarding the power running game.. but i think many here are confusing the spread offensive philosophy with spread formations. the concepts in that article are the same as those expressed by Meyer when he began developing his offense at Bowling Green. a power running game within a spread offense accomplishes its numbers advantage in various ways - but primarily by movement.. forcing a defense to try to match up where they're obviosly at a disadvantage, and then striking where they've exposed themselves. i really think our lack of athletic interior linemen will be the only reason Roman may have to break the huddle with personnel that limits what he can move in and out of. so yes, we could become less dynamic in some packages edit- good article with a funky link.. just google the football times and meyer spread offense philosophy

"the best Roman can do is to take elements of the spread philosophy - primarily the idea of getting the ball to your most gifted players where there's a number advantage at the point of attack - and implement them to whatever degree of risk he and Rex are willing to take with their QB. the acquisitions of McCoy, Clay and Harvin are a means to this end - giving Roman the ability to design the QB out of the spread offense's numbers game. having more than enough talent to over match your opponent in the run game without incorporating your QB is essential in the pros. he now has the ability to answer a defense willing to put 7 or 8 in the box with a sprinkling of elements taken from a spread Air Raid attack using Watkins, Goodwin, Woods, and Easley or Hogan - along with Harvin."

agree with everything but the bolded.. as you say - Roman has shown he can use spread concepts to shift in and out of power formations with the use of a H-back, or use traditional double tight or unbalanced formations to force the defense to account for the numbers advantage he creates to the strong side. the point you raise about McCoy is valid - i read the same thing about McCoy's inability to hit the hole as designed in Kelly's offense. this becomes problematic when - for example - Roman's pulling the strong side guard to come back and lead McCoy to his cutback on the weakside. if Roman has to make allowances for McCoy's lack of discipline, it will become known. just as Roman having to use his strong side TE or H-back in the pulling guard's role, when he realizes his guard can't get weakside quick enough to lead the play. this is what i was talking about when i talked about Roman and Cromer tinkering with combinations of schemes to use in the power game.

yes - my bad.. i was trying to research which players learned from what coach, and picked up Polian rather than the old coach, Ault. hopefully, i didn't make too many factual errors.. i didn't mean for it to become a 'gonzo' post.

it's become obvious that Greg Roman is building Rex a spread offense born out of the 'run first' variations he incorporated for Harbaugh while at Frisco. his success in translating A Smith's experience in Urban Meyer's Utah spread option offense into something familiar enough for him to run in the NFL, was critical in Smith's resurgence as an NFL QB. and after taking Smith as far as he could, he then employed the same idea of making another young QB comfortable, when he installed elements of the offense C.Kap had learned running Brian Polian's (yep - Bill's son) Pistol version of the spread option at Nevada. although i'm not a fan, it's no surprise that Rex was working out B.Petty the other day. Baylor's Art Briles has been running a 'pass first' - Air Raid version of the spread down at Baylor with a lot of success. as a matter of fact, both Briles and West Virginia's Dana Holgorsen have sent recent QBs to the NFL, the latest being WV's G.Smith - when Rex chose him as the Jets QB of the future. now, there's been a lot of talk about 'ground and pound' around here, and it's no fault of the fans or the team's media for repeating the chant - as that's how Rex has chosen to describe his offensive philosophy. but one shouldn't think of a spread offense running attack as three succesive double TE, FB led, dive plays. the pounding that takes place in a spread run game is usually being done to out-numbered, second level defenders. this style of offense does have it's fair share of problems in the pros. as Roman and C.Kelly in Philly have discovered - it's difficult to execute many 'run first' spread offense plays in the NFL without the threat of the QB keeping the ball. personally, i believe this is what's kept Meyer out of the NFL - if he can't risk running his QB, then many of his bread and butter run options - whether it's his outside zone, inside zone, or inverted veer - become empty bluffs. Chip Kelly is running into this wall in Philly, just as Roman - to an extent, did in Frisco. the best Roman can do is to take elements of the spread philosophy - primarily the idea of getting the ball to your most gifted players where there's a number advantage at the point of attack - and implement them to whatever degree of risk he and Rex are willing to take with their QB. the acquisitions of McCoy, Clay and Harvin are a means to this end - giving Roman the ability to design the QB out of the spread offense's numbers game. having more than enough talent to over match your opponent in the run game without incorporating your QB is essential in the pros. he now has the ability to answer a defense willing to put 7 or 8 in the box with a sprinkling of elements taken from a spread Air Raid attack using Watkins, Goodwin, Woods, and Easley or Hogan - along with Harvin. i am concerned with the lack of athleticism on our O line. much of what can be run without the QB - counter trey, power sweeps - require trap and pull techniques that will challenge our current roster of guards. i'm under the impression that picking up Felton gives Roman an alternative in his blocking schemes, should we go to battle with what we've got. i'm sure there will be a lot of tinkering in camp, and perhaps into the season, before Roman and Cromer can come up with a nice blend of personnel packages that get the job done, without tipping things off. as far as the QB situation goes, Roman will build an offense that takes as much pressure off the QB position as possible, but this is the NFL., and QBs have to make plays when they present themselves. the fact that neither Cassel, Manuel or Taylor came from collegiate spread offenses puts them all on even footing in that regard - but you can't dismiss what Cassel's years of experience bring - including the fact that his most prolific season was under Belichik in NE, after Belichik and Meyer got chummy, and started swapping strategies. but i'm sure in Cassel's time in the pros, he's seen his fair share of spread concepts in multiple stops. also, and not too surprisingly, considering the proliferation of spread offensive philosphies in college, is the fact that Tuel was coached for a year at Washington State by the man who taught both Briles and Holgorsen the Air Raid spread offense - Mike Leach. that may help Tuel pick up some of it's concepts quickly, but i don't think Roman will install enough of it, that it will be a factor in the QB competition - but you never know. so i do believe our base O will be what's commonly referred to as spread offense, and that it will definitely try to spread out the front six in those heavy nickle defenses (335/425) being discussed elsewhere - in order to run through them. it will have a 'run first' philosophy with enough weapons to attack however the defense responds. it will also employ some risk by exposing our QBs to limited contact, but only enough to establish the threat of the QB as a runner - to set up some spread option plays. it should be fun to see how everything comes together.