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16 Jul The yes manifesto.
The answer is yes.
The answer is yes.
Yes to this! I'm daring to be more than ordinary! Thanks for all your help along the way Jon. It's nice to follow someone who leads by example.
The timing of this is not something I can overlook. I needed to read this today and I needed to remember that the road to extraordinary brings obstacles like fear and doubt and risk, and that's okay. Thank you for all you do to encourage other dreamers on their journeys to build their dreams and change the world.
That's been a pretty big adjustment for me, but I can't think of a time where I regretted saying yes. Even when something didn't go as planned, I learned and grew. It's almost as hard to say yes as it is to say no…. might say something about me… maybe I need to speak with someone about that… But I'm on a good "yes roll."
"Yes, you will feel unqualified."
Indeed. Even 3.5 years into running my business I feel unqualified, MANY times. There are days I feel completely inadequate to be doing what I am, yet somehow I still keep moving forward and the business keeps growing. I seriously doubt we would have great companies like Apple and Google if the founders quit the first time they felt unqualified.
I'm am most definitely keeping this and making it visible! I need to see my "Yes!"
Thanks, Jon. Simple but so rich. Yes!
Love that word rich, Chandler!!
Agree totally. But the pop up ad read "Overwhelmed? learn how to stop saying 'Yes'"
Ah, the rub of contradictions=the reality of life's tension.
There seems to be a fear with taking that first step into creating your dream. This is the biggest hurdle for most to get over. The fear of not being accepted for what they believe in. However, somebody out there is going to rise up with you and believe in what you're doing. Seth Godin once said "Say what you believe and see who follows." Getting over that initial hurdle of really putting yourself out there is the hardest part. But, when you start to see people believing in your dream it's the greatest feeling in the world. YES!!!
I'll be printing this to had out to our Visioneers at the Dream BIG retreat in September. As always, you nailed it.
Yes! I say YES to my dream. Jon, thanks for continually encouraging me as I move forward.
I hate the word Can't and I've written about how it plagues our culture; The Culture of Can't. Rather than using that awful contraction, I try to turn it into an inspiring question, Can I?
My three kids' lives are ruled by the words, Can I? They continually teach me to push boundaries and break down walls of Can't and No.
Thanks Jon.
You should sell this as a print. Good stuff.
Once you learn how to say yes to those things and take action, some cool things happen!
YES. 🙂 (just practicing)
Yes. Yes. Yes! I love everything you said yes to here, Jon. Yes to the journey! Because saying no isn't really living.
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I like reading this post and substituting "yes" for mmmhmmm.
Last summer I was walking my dogs in the park, listening to your words of wisdom in my audiobook version of "Start :Punch Fear in the Face". I remember exactly where I was in the park when I heard you say that we, as dreamers, need to keep trying and doing and writing because someone may NEED our words.
Today, I Needed Your Words.
Thank you so much for continuing to influence all of us in positive and meaningful ways. Your words are purely inspirational. YES!
"Is working a little toward your dream better than not working at all?… Yes." // Love that point! It all goes back to just starting!!
LOVE this!! It can be tough to say yes to the unknown, but whenever I have said yes and taken a risk it has NEVER slapped me in the face — it has always been a success, even when it wasn't. You learn from mistakes and that makes everything we do a success 🙂
very insightful. love it!
Acknowledging the negatives is so critical. We tend to think that successful authors never suffered from the list of doubts. Being reminded that we are all in that same boat releases the stress and frees the mind to say "Yes, why not me? I can do this." Thanks for the reminder.


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Cyberbullying not reflected fully in survey
A SURVEY showing that 16 per cent of secondary school students have experienced cyberbullying does not reflect the full, awful reality of the situation in Kerry, mental health experts here warned this week.
A SURVEY showing that 16 per cent of secondary school students have experienced cyberbullying does not reflect the full, awful reality of the situation in Kerry, mental health experts here warned this week.
According to those working with victims of bullying, an increasing number of students in Tralee and north Kerry are self harming as a result of cyberbullying, the majority being young girls.
Aidan Murphy, who is project manager and clinical coordinator of Jigsaw Kerry, says that because many victims fail to report cyberbullying, the figures released by the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD) may be hugely underestimated.
"If anything, I'm surprised by the figures as they are probably a bit low, given our experience," he said. "Sometimes, cyberbullying can be very difficult to detect as it often happens at home at night, in the bedroom, and is not as visual as something that may happen on the school yard."
Mr Murphy said that cyberbullying is far more prevalent now than 'traditional bullying' and exists primarily among teenage girls who are being bullied on social media, via text or by the latest mobile phone App, Snap Chat, which allows people to send a message that is automatically deleted after 10 seconds.
"Schools appear to have tackled traditional, school yard bullying extremely well but unfortunately there appears to be a rise in cyberbullying," he said. "We find that young people get abuse over their weight, their appearance or even their family dynamic, for example if their parents are separated or if they have step brothers or sisters," he said.
Mr Murphy says that there is a direct link between cyberbullying and self harm and that unfortunately, in his experience, the incidences of self harm as a result of bullying have become more and more common.
"Because of the secretive nature of cyberbullying, there is a high level of self harm directly linked. That's the worrying reality," Mr Murphy said, calling for more interaction between schools, parents and students to combat the issue.
The NAPD survey released this week revealed that the number of secondary school students experiencing cyberbullying has risen by a third in the past 12 months, with 16 per cent of students admitting being a victim. It also found that almost one in 10 students admitted bullying another, and that only 26 per cent of parents monitor their children's activities online on a daily basis, while 15 per cent never monitor their children's online activity.

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9/08/2009 8:07am, #11
erm I don't wana seem stupid.. but i seriosuly misread the title of this thread
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Well, I couldn't say better. It is quite difficult to say wich style and techniques in HEMA are better when you do not live and train with Capo Fero, Fabris, Giganti, Marozzo and so on. What we can say is that CF's efficiency and highly effective principles of his school has real potential to win the most combat situations.
Well at least, CF has no spare time. Why would you parry and then strike if you can strike during your parry? Thats the way. I personally prefere striking after dodge.


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Trigger Warning- Tom and Jerry and Amazon
You can read about this on any number of sites, but here's USA Today:
Viewers may now be thinking twice before they click "play" on the classic Warner Bros. cartoon, Tom and Jerry.
Amazon Prime Instant and iTunes have posted a disclaimer that warns users that the cat-and-mouse shorts, which ran from 1940 to 1957, "may depict some ethnic and racial prejudices that were once commonplace in American society."
The warning continues: "Such depictions were wrong then and are wrong today."
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Hall of Honor inductee Williams still holds track marks
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(NOTE: Denise Williams-Mitchell, Linda Pickens Price and Laura Switzer will be inducted into Wayland Baptist University's Athletic Hall of Honor during ceremonies at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in McClung University Center. The induction ceremony will precede a doubleheader featuring the Queens and Pioneers beginning at 2 p.m.)
Denise Williams was honored as an NAIA All-American 22 times during her four-year career at Wayland Baptist. Only one other person in the history of Pioneer track and field has earned more, but what distinguishes Williams' accomplishment is that 21 of those honors came in individual events, a fete unmatched in the WBU track and field record books. She also won four individual national championships, set a national meet record and established 11 school records.
A native of Manchester, Jamaica, Williams was an integral part of the Wayland women's program that won its first two NAIA Indoor National Championships. The Pioneer women also finished as the national indoor runner-up once and as the national outdoor runner-up three of the four years in which she competed.
Williams arrived at Wayland in January 1985. She qualified for the NAIA Indoor Championships that year, finishing fifth in the long jump. At the NAIA Outdoor Championships, Williams was the runner-up in the long jump and set a new school record in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.31 seconds.
The Wayland women won their first national title in 1986, and Williams was a large part of the reason why. She set an indoor national meet record in the triple jump with a winning leap of 40 feet, 0.75 inches. She also was the runner-up to teammate Comfort Igeh in the long jump and was third in the 60-yard hurdles with a school record time of 8.18.
During the 1986 outdoor season, Williams established new school records in the 100-meter hurdles (13.94) and the triple jump (40-6), and was a part of the record-breaking 4x400-meter relay (3:38.87) and shuttle hurdle relay teams (1:00.70). Both relay marks remain school records. At the 1986 NAIA Outdoor National Meet, Williams won the triple jump, was runner-up in the long jump and took fourth in the 100-meter hurdles. She was also a part of the Pioneer 4x4 team which finished second.
Three more school records fell to the swift feet of Williams in 1987. She ran an 8.32 in the 55-meter hurdles and broke her own mark in the 60-yard hurdles with a time of 8.06. The Wayland women's team finished second in both the 1987 NAIA Indoor and Outdoor National meets, and Williams won two more individual titles, taking home first in the indoor triple jump for the second straight year and winning the outdoor 100-meter hurdles for the first time. She also placed third in both the indoor and outdoor long jumps, was runner-up in the outdoor triple jump with a school-record jump of 41-0.25 and was fifth in the indoor 60-yard hurdles.
The Pioneer women captured their second national banner at the 1988 NAIA Indoor Championships. Williams finished as the runner-up in the triple jump, was third in the long jump and fourth in the 60-yard hurdles. She brought home three more all-American designations at outdoor nationals with runner-up finishes in the long jump, triple jump and 100-meter hurdles, breaking her own school record with a time of 13.93.
Williams, a marketing major at WBU, was the 1988 female recipient of the Roscoe Snyder Award presented annually to the top senior student-athlete. After leaving Wayland, she taught for three years at Bellefield Comprehensive High School in Jamaica. She also served as an early coach to Lorraine Graham, who went on to win a silver medal for Jamaica in the 400 meters at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
In 1993, Williams-Mitchell moved to Canada. She has worked as a real estate sales representative for Homelife Aces Realty and as a direct associate for ING Direct since 1996. She and her husband, Carlton V. Mitchell, have three children and live in Markham, Ontario.


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Police: Suspects in murder on Detroit's east side may be linked to other crimes
Kaysha Pitts was shot five times. Her leg took the worst of it with three bullets, but she was also shot in the arm and her back. A little more than 24 hours later, the bullets are still inside her body as the Redford woman recovers. She was one seven people hit by bullets and was lucky.
A 44-year-old man died and police now have several people in custody.
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"I had two choices: let him get in this car and take my life or run for it. I chose to run for it," Yancy said.
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I just saw that my cases using _mm256_loadu_ps show better performance than _mm_loadu_ps on corei7-4, where the latter was faster on earlier AVX platforms (in part due to the ability of ICL/icc to compile the SSE intrinsic to AVX-128).
Does this mean that advice to consider AVX-128 will soon be of only historical value? I'm ready to designate my Westmere and corei7 linux boxes as historic vehicles.
icc/ICL 14.0.1 apparently corrected the behavior (beginning with introduction of CEAN) where run-time versioning based on vector alignment never took the (AVX-256) vector branch in certain cases where CEAN notation produced effective AVX-128 code. It seems now that C code can match performance of CEAN, if equivalent pragmas are applied.
A key to getting an advantage for AVX-256 on corei7-4 appears to be to try reduced unroll. In my observation, ICL/icc don't apply automatic unrolling to loops with intrinsics, while gcc does. When not using intrinsics with ICL, I found the option 'ICL -Qunroll2' helpful. ICL used to unroll insufficiently; now it tends to unroll excessively by default for corei7-4 but probably OK for earlier CPUs.
gcc equivalent '-unroll-loops --param max-unroll-times=2'
Hoping to use last year's "VecAnalysis Python Script..." to see differences between CEAN and C with pragmas:
icl -O3 -Qstd=c99 -Qopenmp -Qansi_alias -QxHost -Qunroll2 -Zi -Qvec-report7 -c loopsv.c 2>&1 | ../vecanalysis/vecanalysis.py --annotate
reports one of the cases where CEAN vectorizes as including 1 heavy-overhead [due to variable stride] and 4 lightweight vector operations, and the C code as not vectorized (but performing better, up to loop count 1000).


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I'm dating this wonderful guy who I really love. I've been a pretty jealous person my whole life, even with the exes, I feel as though I don't even care for that much but I still got jealous. Now with my current boyfriend, I'm really afraid I'd lose him because we've been arguing/discussing about my lack of trust in him. He tells me that he will never cheat on me, but I see him to be a very sexual person. He said that it is his integrity to not cheat, but I'm not sure if its a rehearsed speech. I want to trust him, but sometimes the thought of him going to a strip club with beautiful women around or going out and meeting a hot woman to fullfill his needs haunts me. In fact, its gotten to a point where I've been thinking about it so much, I have nightmares. He's going on a trip soon and I dont know how I'm going to survive these nightmares. My imagination runs so wild it sounds like it came from some pornography and he laughs at it. How can I get myself to believe his words and not strike an arguement suggesting that he's going to cheat?
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Remembering a biblical narrative that shapes our interfaith commitments
By J. Herbert Nelson, II
Stated Clerk of the General Assembly
Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ:
After one month of serving in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Office of General Assembly (OGA) as Stated Clerk, it is clear that there are knowledgeable and committed servants of God in our denomination. I have received calls, cards, emails, letters, texts, tweets, and voice messages offering support and prayers. Thank you for your expressions of support for our denomination and the journey ahead. I feel both privileged and humbled to lead the PC(USA) during this period in history.
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Recordamos una narración bíblica que moldea nuestros compromisos interreligiosos
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No one is advocating violence against Muslims. All people are entitled to equal protection under law. Christ teaches us to love our neighbors. I would assume that to include our Muslim neighbors. But, do not invite them to lead our worship. They would never allow you to represent that Jesus is above their prophet Mohammed. We should strive to live in peace and love with all of mankind and work with any religion that advances that goal. However, Our mission as Christians is to share the good news that Jesus Christ is Lord. To allow someone to contradict that from our own pulpit is unacceptable.
All of us are children of God. God loves each of us
Over the last 7 years, I have become more involved in work with neighbors from other faith traditions in Upstate South Carolina. This interest started at my daughters' elementary school when I noticed my daughter - a Presbyterian PK - eating lunch with Muslim and Jewish classmates. I was reminded that "a little child shall lead them", and was amazed at how these 3 children from different faith traditions were modeling table fellowship, talking and laughing and sharing with each other. My Muslim and Jewish neighbors have become friends, as we have sought ways to strengthen our community and work together to appreciate differences. My experience has taught me that we share the same desires - a peaceful place to worship, work, serve, and play that allows our children and our community to flourish. The Islamic Society has sponsored "Meet Your Muslim Neighbor" events, with food and information that challenge stereotypes and misconceptions. I've learned that building relationships with people from other faith traditions has strengthened my own faith, and made me a better Presbyterian pastor. I'm grateful to our denominational leaders for helping us to negotiate these conversations, reminding us that "Our bond with one another is bridged by an ethic of love." May we as faithful Presbyterians practice such an ethic as we seek to be partners in God's work in our churches and communities.
Dear Mr. Clerk, I appreciate your words focused on love. I was interested to hear that both the "Koran and Bible teach a faith grounded in love." Maybe you could send out a document to the church extrapolating the passages from the Koran which teach a faith of love, comparing and contrasting those with the verses on violence toward others (not Christians early in the writing - but later including Christians). That would be an interesting read, and would also show a good understanding of the Koran as well as Scripture. This was not as concerning to me as when you change the very words of Scripture to make your point seem to hold water. When this kind of thing happens from the leadership of a denomination, there is a problem at the root of the discussion. Let me explain. In your section on "commonality of faith expression", you misrepresent Mark 9. The issue was not that people were casting out demons in "another name" as you state. These others were casting out demons in Jesus' name as Mark shares. There is a big difference here, and you use this misrepresentation to make the point that Jesus pointed to "centrality of purpose" not the "joining of their band." This shows poor exegetical work. The real point Jesus is making here is that not all Kingdom work in Jesus' name happened with the approval or involvement of the twelve. But in both cases, unlike what you point out, the name of Jesus is the source of power being used to accomplish the work of the kingdom. In the future, I would encourage you to practice better exegesis, rather then taking scripture out of context and misrepresenting it to make a point, especially one not seen in Scripture.


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Originally posted on Waiting For Next Year | Last updated 4/9/13
The landscape of how we watched sports has been forever changed by the Internet and social media. Twitter in particular has made sporting events even more of a communal experience, especially with fans spread throughout the country (and the world for that matter). I love being able to see what people inside of a stadium or an arena have to say about the game as it happens. Getting injury updates instantly from sideline reporters tweeting out info has become par for the course. Take last night's NCAA Men's Basketball National Title game for example. Inside of the Georgia Dome were hoards of media, many tweeting out their thoughts and observations of that fantastic action between Louisville and Michigan. Whether it was CBS's Jeff Goodman, SI's Seth Davis, ESPN's Fran Fraschilla, or the local flavor of 92.3 The Fan's Anthony Lima, the tweets were insightful and entertaining, adding to the game-watching experience. Hours earlier, one of the biggest events of the year in downtown Cleveland, Opening Day for the Indians, took place. More than 41,000 fans packed Progressive Field to see the Wahoos take on the Yankees. But again, not every Tribe fan can be there. I lived in Chicago for nine years and did my best to get to a bar and watch the game or had I would buy the MLB package on DirecTV or Digital Cable if I could get it. With Twitter now, my friends in Chicago, New York, LA, and Seattle can all get not only watch the game with one of these services or the MLB At-Bat iPad app, but they can get in on some good insight and back and forth with people inside of Progressive Field. People like me. Because of my affiliation with Waiting For Next Year, I often tweet during Browns and Indians games that I either watch on TV or attend in person. On top of that, I'm usually receiving texts and/or emails from my friends who I am not with. Again, its the communal experience at its finest. Two of the bigger Tribe fans I know – my brother and my close friend Brian – live elsewhere, but so many times the text/twitter/email abilities make it feel like they are next to me. I love interacting with readers of WFNY and my Twitter followers who either agree with me or take me to task on something I may put out there. Then there is the other side of it: uploads. According to a signalshare.com article, at this year's NBA All-Star game, uploads — sending out pics and tweets — actually exceeded downloads. In addition to using their phones to reads tweets and emails, fans inside Houston's Toyota Center were sharing their in-game experience and promoting what was happening on the court, generating buzz for the league and its teams. The home opener is probably the biggest Twitter day for a baseball team. Yesterday was Cleveland's turn. I had my phone fully charged to 100% because as a veteran of sporting events in the smartphone era, I know how quickly the battery can drain. Even before I entered Progressive Field, I couldn't send out an email. My first two tweets came back in error, saying there was a network issue. And again, this was an hour before first pitch and I was walking through the plaza between The Q and Progressive Field. This season, I moved into a new group of shared season tickets. I took a picture with my son in the new seats to send to my wife. The text didn't go through. I tried email. That didn't work either. As the game started and Ubaldo Jiménez reverted back to his 2012 form, I wanted to see what the Tribe beat writers were saying about what they were seeing with him. I tried Twitter, but couldn't get it to work. I went into my settings to search for a WiFi network inside of the Stadium. Their wasn't an open or free one available. Our own Scott, who works three blocks away from Progressive Field, had his signal jammed up at his office! So I went old school, put my phone in my pocket and left it there. The good news was that there was no emergency with my family, because there was no way my wife or anyone else for that matter was getting in touch with me. While my phone showed full bars, you could not make an outgoing call or receive an incoming call if you needed one. This seems to happen every Opening Day at Progressive Field and then it usually goes away for a while, and pops back up on Friday night and Saturday night games during the summer when the crowd reaches 25-30,000 fans. That is obviously no excuse. In today's information-now world, to not have even a semi-strong cell phone service available in the middle of a midwestern downtown area is a gigantic failure. The issue goes on eight Sundays a year down at the Lakefront for Browns games as well. Anyone who has a Verizon phone knows what I am talking about. Like yesterday at the Tribe opener, texts, tweets, and emails go unsent and unread for hours. Phone calls do not come in or go out. The Indians asked their fans yesterday to Tweet out their smartphone pictures with the hashtag #TribeTown and then they would put them on the scoreboard. I didn't see more than two or three images go up, because nobody could get their phones to work. Every in-game tweet, Instagram Photo, Twitpic upload, etc, is all free marketing for the Indians. They are one of the most progressive franchises in terms of their use of social media, yet inside the stadium, their users couldn't get a signal. This will improve when the crowds get smaller, but you miss a golden opportunity on Opening Day of all days. I emailed the Indians Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, the man behind all of the Indians public relations, Bob Dibiasio and asked him for his take on why the cell phone service was so poor yesterday and why the Tribe does not offer free public WiFi inside of Progressive Field. He said, "we do recognize the cell and WiFi service is a concern of our fans; we are working with MLB to address the issue of connectivity not only here in Cleveland but in all MLB ballparks." The NFL has been more out in front of this issue. The handheld FanVision technology is available to all Browns fans and works inside the stadium on a WiFi connection supplied by the team. Patriots Owner Robert Kraft is leading the charge to put free WiFi in all NFL stadiums while taking advantage of its abilities in terms or not just replays on a FanVision handheld device, but with the ability to order food and drinks from your seat from a smartphone app. Said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell last May: "We believe that it is important to get technology into our stadiums. We have made the point repeatedly that the experience at home is outstanding, and we have to compete with that in some fashion by making sure that we create the same kind of environment in our stadiums and create the same kind of technology. …We want to make sure our fans, when they come into stadiums, don't have to shut down." Browns President Joe Banner and Owner Jimmy Haslam have hinted that there will be improvements to the First Energy Stadium WiFi connection in 2013. I just would like to see it get to the point that my phone battery doesn't die in two hours despite not being able to get any sort of data connection to work. It doesn't seem to me to be that hard to solve. Lima, who was at the National Title game last night, told me this morning that he used his phone and the free public WiFi connection inside of the Georgia Dome last night with no problems. He also had zero problem receiving or making calls. That was in downtown Atlanta, with 75,000 plus in the same building. Then again, I attended last year's Kansas/Kentucky National Title game at the Superdome in New Orleans and could not get a signal to work there either. I know this sounds like a trivial issue to some, but this is 2013. We are all slaves to our smartphones. The Indians push their social media agenda about as well as any team in pro sports, yet they have to recognize and take care of a problem that is right in their backyard. Literally and figuratively.
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Channel 4 is to become the country's first broadcaster to put its back catalog online free of charge.
Due to rights issues, U.S. fare including "Friends" and "ER" will be excluded from the offering that bows next month and gives users access to more than 4,000 hours of material.
These will include such classic titles as gay drama "Queer as Folk" and iconic sitcom "Father Ted." The shows will be available permanently rather than via a 30-day or seven-day window like the BBC's iPlayer.


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The monkey has been well and truly removed from the Gowfers' back after their dramatic last minute victory against Camelon on Wednesday.
Taking the idea of a late finisher to the extreme, striker Mike McIlravey secured Carnoustie Panmure's future in the Superleague with a solo run in the dying minutes of the game to sink the Mariners 2-1.
Asked if he had breathed a sigh of relief at the result gaffer Alan McSkimming told GazetteSport: "I certainly did! It was the best I've slept in a few weeks now!
"I was really happy and just delighted for everybody."
Forewarned is forearmed as they say and playing Camelon in the East of Scotland Cup turned out to be a valuable experience.
Alan explained: "We ended up getting beaten 3-0 on Saturday, but the scoreline didn't reflect how the game went.
"If we had taken our chances we should have gotten something, but we knew how they set up and what we needed to do. So we went to Carmuirs Park with a gameplan that would frustrate Camelon and it worked perfectly."
Partly due to it being a midweek fixture Panmure were short six of their regulars, forcing the boss to bring in four trialists and have two late fitness tests at short notice.
It didn't seem to hold them back too much according to Alan, although it was 48 minutes in before they opened their account.
The boss said: "In terms of the game, it was very even in the first half and we probably just edged it, but in the second half we had a corner goal from Danny Millar and we never really looked back."
That was until the final five minutes when the Mariners had a little help from the 12th man and evened the score.
Alan said: "Then to the amazement of everybody, the Camelon players, management and the spectators the referee awarded a penalty for a challenge from Liam Scott and then it went to one-all.
"We didn't feel the game had gone by though even in the last four or five minutes because we were making so many chances on goal."
Leaving it late, but still very much on time Mike McIlravey salvaged the game and their league hopes.
"Mike McIlravey has been criticised by some of the players recently for not taking his chances," said Alan, "But he's paid them back now.
"He picked the ball up and ran half the pitch before putting it past the goalie, and what a sweet way to go about it!
"We got what we deserved out of the game and it showed the work ethic and character of everyone on the team."
With their league status secure for another season, Alan is hoping to try out a few things in their final game tomorrow (Saturday) as they face the Mariners for a third time in a week, but they certainly won't be resting on their laurels.
"We are looking to take another three points from Camelon. We took four from them last season, but I want to make it six."


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On a related note to the Madden games... I'm a fan of the sport, I understand most of the rules, and I have an idea of how a few of the plays work. I even played it for a while (the real game) but I used to just know what I was supposed to be doing rather than paying attention to everyone else!
Can I play the game without totally sucking? The last one I played was probably about 10 years ago and I'm quite interested in trying another.
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Psychotext 62,692 posts
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By the way, re. David Carr: there's a school of thought that holds that most sacks are the quarterback's damn fault for holding on to the ball for too long. So... so...
GOD DAMN YOU, EUROGAMER. EG ate my lengthy post (... heh heh. I said "ate my lengthy post!") about what the two-gap system is and why it isn't used more widely.
So lemme construct a shorter version of that on the fly, because I'm WAY too lazy to rewrite the whole darned thing. I should point out here, by the way, that typically, only defensive tackles are used as two-gap linemen.
What's a defensive tackle? One of the interior linemen. This is how a four-man defensive front would line up, for example:
End Tackle Tackle End.
In general teams only use one tackle as a two-gap lineman; the idea of a two-gap lineman is that he's big enough, he's strong enough, and he's skilled enough that it's going to be very difficult for a single offensive lineman to make him move if he doesn't want to. He's also quick enough and smart enough that when he DOES decide to move, he goes in the right direction and gets to his destination in time to do what he's supposed to.
Needless to say, this kind of player doesn't grow on trees. So you'll find a lot of coaches who've never really considered having a two-gap defender because they've never had a player who could BE one. And you'll find others who reject the two-gap idea anyway.
The most telling argument that one-gap advocates can bring against the two-gap is that it asks your two-gap lineman to do /entirely/ too much, which results in him being uncertain and, accordingly, ineffective.
Another strong argument in favor of the one-gap system, by the way, is that a one-gap defensive lineman has only and exactly one job, ever, no matter what the play is. Not only does this allow him to spend almost ALL of his practice time refining his skill at /performing/ that one job, but it also renders him more or less immune to any offensive attempts at misdirection. After all, the one-gapper's job is the same no matter WHAT the offense is doing: penetrate into that gap and disrupt the play. Period, end of story.
Two-gappers, by contrast, are very vulnerable to misdirection, deception, and just flat-out mistakes. This is because, as mentioned earlier, they have a lot to do on every play:
- Engage an opposing lineman. Sometimes two.
- Diagnose the play: run or pass?
- If run, figure out WHERE the run is going (easier than it sounds, since the other team's linemen will be trying to push him away from the play -- usually the coaching point is "see where the pressure is coming from, and fight against it." You're trying to stand your ground here, but there are two very strong people pushing you back -- it's not easily done.)
That is indeed a lot for a player to do, and it hints at why a lot of defensive coaches feel that two-gap linemen tend to be indecisive. See, here's the deal on that: if a two-gap lineman commits to one of his two gaps before he's /absolutely sure/ it's the right one, he's running a serious risk of going to the wrong gap and leaving an enormous, gaping hole for the ball carrier to cut through and dart away. So the two-gap system rewards linemen who wait patiently for the play to develop... which leaves /one/-gap coaches tearing out their hair and howling their impatience to the skies, because of course they teach /their/ guys to GATA ("Get After Them Aggressively" or, more earthily, "Get After Their Asses") from the moment the ball is snapped. It just plain looks wrong.
Having said that, the great advantage of the two-gap system is that, when it's working, the gap the ball carrier is heading for is pretty likely to be plugged up by a linebacker. See, because a two-gap lineman is so strong, he's likely to command the attention of two offensive linemen, not just one. And because his goal is just to stand his ground until he knows where the ball is going, he's probably going to KEEP their attention until the play is at least somewhat developed. That means that neither one of those opposing linemen will be able to break away from our two-gapper and move into space to try to block or disrupt a linebacker -- which in TURN means our linebackers are free to simply read where the play is going, then run towards it and try to blow it right the hell up.
Most defensive coaches would agree that that's a danged nice luxury to have. But, again, a two-gap lineman is a special kind of player. Not many teams will even have one, and he'd still be a disruptive force in a conventional one-gap scheme -- so some coaches say, why should I tell my best lineman to let the opposition take the fight to him? I WANT this guy to GATA.
So, yeah. That's what a two-gap defensive lineman is: huge, quick, and strong Also a rare, rare breed.
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Heh! Quality thread this )
I *heart* American footie but cannot stand the amount of adverts so have drifted away the last couple of years.
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JYM60 wrote:
I'd like a bit of an explanation on laterals. You can, like in rugby throw behind at an time. Right? Assuming this is the correct, why isn't it used more? I've only seen it used on 4th quarter kick returns really. Surely it could be useful to use it more often.
Also. Can you fake fumble, and does this happen often? I mean dropping the ball on purpose so a teammate can pick it up and continue the play. I think I maybe seen this before, any rule on it?
Isn't a 'lateral' the same as the shotgun passing set-up? It's been used for decades to qive the QB more time to pass. As has been pointed out it's relitively difficult to achieve effectively compared to being handed the ball and taking a few swift steps backwards.
Similarly a 'faked fumble' would be immensely risky for very little gain compared to a hand-off/pass. I'm not even sure what the rules are governing what a player can do after recovering a fumble from their own team since it's essentially an incomplete pass.
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I *heart* American footie but cannot stand the amount of adverts so have drifted away the last couple of years.
TiVO, dude. TiVO! You need never watch another ad again.
And, re. my promised post on laterals: that'll be delayed. Rewriting the two-gap stuff ate up all my time, and I have to wander off and do some real-life crap now.
Before I go, though: Psychotext, you'll be fine -- Madden is DEFINITELY designed to be casual-gamer-friendly. The lower difficulty settings will be a breeze for you, and if you're enjoying the action but you want a bit more of a challenge, you can eeeeeeeease yourself into the medium and high difficulties. Or just use the sliders to create hand-crafted difficulties! That's always a good approach.
And, Price, I like the way you think -- seriously, risk vs. reward is the right way to assess /any/ offensive play, not just off-the-wall ideas. By the way, re. the rules, a player can recover a fumble from his own team and carry it forward normally, so far as I'm aware.
But actually, the "fake fumble" idea has already been tried... and outlawed. It was called the Fumblerooski, although coaches occasionally come up with new twists on it right up to the present day.
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And why do girly men wear padding? I'm damn skinny and didn't need that rubbish while playing rugby.
Well, [link=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5L2HksEBNc&NR=1">these clips might answer
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But actually, the "fake fumble" idea has already been tried... and outlawed. It was called the Fumblerooski, although coaches occasionally come up with new twists on it right up to the present day.
Actually the whole "fake fumble" thing stemmed from the Holy Roller play back in the 1970's.
Not a great vid I'm afraid but you can get the jist. Cheating Raiders as usual.
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Wait.....I think this must be a Turing Test! Well done DAL9000, you have passed with flying colours!
A mate used to play this, for Glasgow Tigers AFC ("Are Fucking Crap" we used to say before he chased and hit us). To demonstrate the effectiveness of the padding, he would make you wear the shoulder pads, then smash you over the shouders with a dumbell - you didn't feel a thing!
I think you may need to explain the positions for some people here, who may not get it.
Are the dillon panthers a real team?
if not, why not!
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I think you may need to explain the positions for some people here, who may not get it.
Right you are. That's actually a pretty important thing to do, so my post on laterals will be delayed AGAIN -- it's a-comin', though, I promise.
So, without further ado, the positions.
A typical offensive formation might look like this:
................................RB (also called HB)
What do all of these fancy-pants letters actually /mean/? I'm glad you asked!
WR means wide receiver: guys whose basic job is to run fast and catch the ball. The details of exactly where they run and why they run there are extremely complicated, but really it all boils down to "run fast; catch ball." I'll be coaching this position this year, because it's the least complicated for a newbie coach to learn and teach.
These are, as mentioned in an earlier post, the offensive linemen. From left to right, they're the: tackle, guard, and center. (And then the guard and tackle again, but on the other side of the center.)
The offensive tackles (so called to differentiate themselves from defensive tackles) anchor both ends of the line. On a passing play, the tackles are probably the most important members of the line, because they're typically facing off against the defensive linemen who are /most/ adept at getting to the quarterback. Accordingly, you want your tackles to have size, strength, and a LOT of technical ability -- and you don't really want to compromise on any of those fronts.
The guards, on the other hand, probably need the least technical skill of any of the linemen. Accordingly, at the NFL level anyway, guards tend to be big, strong sumbitches whose main job is to block the equally big, equally strong guys across from them. They also have to have a fair amount of short-distance speed, because they'll sometimes be asked to move off of the line of scrimmage and block smaller, more agile defenders.
The center is typically the lightest and often the most agile member of the offensive line. As mentioned earlier, he's the one who snaps the ball to the quarterback at the beginning of each play. He's also usually responsible for analyzing the opponent's defense before the play, and figuring out what (if any) changes to the offense's protection scheme need to be made. So, if you see the center calling out signals and pointing to defenders before the snap -- that's what he's doing. It's very much like a quarterback calling an audible, except it only applies to the offensive line. The rest of the play is unaffected.
TE This is the tight end -- so called because he's at the end of the offensive line, but, unlike the wide receiver, is pulled in tight to the offensive tackle. A tight end is basically meant to be a hybrid between a wide receiver and a lineman. Since the ideal wide receiver is about 6'3", 230 pounds, and runs the 40 yard dash in about 4.4 seconds, whereas the ideal lineman is about 6'6", 320 pounds, and is, uh, a LITTLE slower... well, the plan of mixing 'em works just about as well as you'd expect.
That's actually a little bit unfair to tight ends -- they can certainly be very valuable members of an offense -- but the plain fact is that most of the time, a team's #1 tight end will have FAR fewer receptions and yards than a team's #2 wide receiver, and sometimes fewer than the #3 or 4 wideout. At the same time, they also almost universally lack the run-blocking (and pass-blocking) skills of offensive linemen -- and they also lack the size and strength of a lineman.
You should, however, bear in mind that a LOT of coaches who are a LOT smarter than me are firm believers in the value of a good TE.
QB This is the quarterback -- the glamor position. His job is to pass the ball to his receivers, hand off the ball to his running back, and (as mentioned earlier) figure out what the defense is doing and change the call to a different play if necessary.
FB This is the fullback -- which is confusing, because he's actually lined up /closer/ to the line of scrimmage than the halfback. Fullbacks are mainly used as run blockers; their job is to go through the same hole that the running back's about to use, find a defender who's trying to /fill/ that hole, and hit the sumbitch. Hard.
Coaches who love physical, hard-nosed football tend to make heavy use of fullbacks, but the truth is that you can run the ball successfully without having a fullback. Accordingly, over the last decade or so, many NFL teams have moved away from using the fullback, preferring to put an extra wide receiver on the field -- many college teams have followed suit.
RB This is the running back, also called the halfback. As the name implies, he's your team's running specialist -- running backs account for the VAST majority of most teams' rushing attempts and rushing yardage. As such, you want a guy who's fast, strong, and very, very quick -- good running backs are made in the weight room, not on the practice field. (The premise there is that doing hard work in the weight room will make you more athletic -- stronger, faster, more flexible -- and practice, y'know... won't.)
So that concludes the offensive positions. What's next? The defense!
A typical defense might look like this:
FS, SS These are the free safety and strong safety, respectively. The strong safety is so called because he lines up over the "strong side" of the offensive formation -- the side with the tight end. If there's no TE, he... uh... I actually don't know what the rule is for which side the SS lines up on in the absence of a tight end. I've never asked. Huh. I'll put that on my to-do list.
Anyway, the safeties' primary job is to defend against deep passes, which is why they start off so deep. Typically, the free safety is the better pure pass defender, while the strong safety is better against the run; this is because teams who /are/ using a tight end run the ball to the tight end's side (i.e., the strong side) more often than they do to the weak side, so the SS will frequently be your last line of defense against the run.
LBs These are the linebackers. They have responsibilities against both the pass AND the run, and in fact they're expected to read a play within the first half-second to full second after the snap as either a pass or a run, and then react accordingly. They typically do this by watching what certain members of the offensive line are doing.
Sometimes linebackers will be assigned to rush the passer. Sometimes they'll be assigned to PRETEND, before the ball is snapped, that he's going to rush the passer, but then fall back into coverage. When a linebacker (or anyone except for a defensive lineman) rushes the passer, it's called a blitz; when a linebacker /pretends/ he's going to blitz (typically by walking up to the line of scrimmage), it's called "showing blitz." Of course, you can never know in advance whether a 'backer who's showing blitz is faking or actually WILL blitz -- there's a certain amount of cat-and-mouse at play there.
CBs are cornerbacks. Their job is to cover the wide receivers (or a certain space on the field), and accordingly they need to be fast and fluid athletes. The cornerbacks and safeties are collectively referred to as "the secondary" or "defensive backs."
DEs are defensive ends. They're the smaller, slimmer, quicker cousins of defensive tackles; they're primarily used to try to rush the passer (i.e., generate pressure on or tackle the quarterback while he still has the ball), and aren't usually expected to be quite as good in run defense.
These are the guys who are supposed to get by the offensive tackles -- and, just as the tackles tend to be the most athletic members of the offensive line, DEs are the most athletically gifted members of the D-line. Certainly you'll almost never see a defensive end who's sloppy-fat, and the days of DEs who are even a /little/ fat are coming to a close; what you want in a DE is a combination of size, speed, and strength -- and, while fat does add to size, it subtracts from speed and strength.
DEs also need to have a lot of technical skill -- or at least enough that they have three or four different techniques that they can try to use against the offensive tackle over the course of the game.
DTs are the shakes, the trembles -- the pink eleph... oh. Right. Ahem. I MEANT TO SAY that DTs are defensive tackles. This is the only position on defense at which you'll find a player who's sloppy-fat; DTs, unlike DEs, DTs don't really have to be fast, just big and strong.
I've already talked a fair amount about what defensive tackles are expected to do, so I'll spare you that.
That concludes the "let's go over the positions" talk. Joy!
Ah ... saw a madden trhead yestreday but I couldn't find this one anymore.
Good stuff since I last checked in.
One practical Madden related question.
I have madden'08 on the Wii. It's good fun but as a game, I enjoy the offense a lot more than the defense.
Pick random play that looks good, try it, pick next play. Etc.
When it comes to denfese though, it's useless. You can choose to control one of te defenders yourself but if you pick one of the DTs you just end up in the scrum after the snap. Maching buttons doesn't make a lot of difference.
If you pick a DE you can try to make him run in from the side to get behind the line and either go for a sack if they pass or interrupt a run if they are running.
This usually fails as the Tackle or TE starts grappling with you.
So overall, the defensive side of the game feels very uninvolved. You best pick a team with good defensive stats and hope that the AI will do a good job at it. Your influence seems minimal.
I've also not really figured out the plays on defense.
On Offense, I'll try to vary the formation a bit and choose a run or pass and try to complete as planned in the play.
On defense, the formations don't sem to make much sense really and I usually take Madden's suggested formation (cue fat, drunk voice going "THis one will stop them for Shuuure!" followed by a 60 yards touch down run as it uttely fails to stop them at all) sinc I really aren't sure what I'm looking at or looking for.
Any info on defensive plays, formation variation and how to play them in the Madden games?
Oh an unrelated issue I always have.
When on defense, I always make the mistake of trying to take over from the AI.
I'll mash the button to give me control to the player who's closest to the ball. The AI will usually have him well on his way towards the ball carrier and in position to make a swift stop to the play, then I press the button, take control of the player and inadvertedly send him runnin in the opposite direction, away from the carrier who then runs of for x more yards.
And I do it every fucking time!
Just me?
Shamelessly yanked from a post I made last year in the Madden 08 thread, but seems to cover what you were asking about Sal
Corners are the defensive players that cover the offensive wide receivers (the guys who play on the wing effectively).
Offensively the squad is made up of the Offensive Live (the huge guys stood in a line, a mix of guards and tackles). Then you have the Quarterback (the guy who chucks it), the Fullback (in some formations, he pretty much there purely to block for either the QB or the Running Back), the Running Back (he...well.....runs with the ball), the Tight End (sit's on the end of the offensive line and will either block or can peel of and catch passes) and the Wide Receivers (on the wing, are the primary targets for the QB to chuck the ball to).
Defensively the squad is made up of the Defensive Line (the other huge guys stood in a line, a mix of tackles and defensive ends). You then have the Line Backers (stand behind the defensive line and are there to either stop the guys running with the ball or can drop back to aid pass defense), the Corner Backs (as described earlier, man mark the wide receivers) and finally the Safeties (last line of defense, will either move up to aid in stopping a runner or will hang back to defend the pass).
Play wise, offensively there are various formations, but they all break down into either run plays or pass plays. A mix of both is pretty much required to be succesful as it keeps the defense guessing.
Defensively, there are again numerous formations, each mainly having different numbers of line backers and corner backs. Ideally you want to have the same number of corner backs as the offense has receivers. There are then either 'man' formations or 'zone' formations. Man formations literally man mark player for player, whereas in a zone formation each player defends a particular area of the field (highlighted by coloured blobs in Madden). If you want to try and murder the QB too, go for a blitz package as it will send players charging at him screaming.
There. Longest post ever Should cover the basics anyway. I haven't read through it mind you and it may make no sense whatsoever.
When playing defense I usually select a safety, as this gives me control of a player who is involved in both run and pass plays.
Great thread by DAL9000, I love American Football and think this provides the basics to understanding it. Of course there is so much more to learn about this game, I could write a massive post for each of the individual positions but I can't be arsed. Don't get me started on all the different formations!
You should get into American Football if you're interested in team sports, brutal hits, great skill, inhuman athleticism, tactics, strategy, intelligence etc etc Basically you have no excuse not to watch this!
PS They wear pads because the hits are just so fucking hard. The "spear" tackle is outlawed in rugby, while it is standard procedure in American Football... you do the math.
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When playing defense I usually select a safety, as this gives me control of a player who is involved in both run and pass plays.
Cool. I'll give that a go.
Might take a while as I haven't touched madden in probably a year.
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I've also not really figured out the plays on defense.
On Offense, I'll try to vary the formation a bit and choose a run or pass and try to complete as planned in the play.
On defense, the formations don't sem to make much sense really and I usually take Madden's suggested formation (cue fat, drunk voice going "THis one will stop them for Shuuure!" followed by a 60 yards touch down run as it uttely fails to stop them at all) sinc I really aren't sure what I'm looking at or looking for.
Any info on defensive plays, formation variation and how to play them in the Madden games?
Defence is all about anticipating what the opposing offence's next play will be. To choose your defence you have to consider many things (in no particular order);
Opposing offence's fromation: Put very very simply, if the opposition has 5 wide receivers in a shotgun it is more likely to pass the ball, however if it has the I-form with 2 tight ends on the strong side it is more likely to run to the strong side. Of course this is all part of the tactics and strategy, a massive part of the game is misdirection.
Number of downs left: On first down, the opposition is more likely to run, beyond this it really depends on the next factor...
Distance left to achieve 1st down: In general, the shorter the distance left the more likely that it will be a running play and vice versa. E.g. 3rd and inches: expect run, 3rd and 12: expect pass.
Time (and situation) of game: If the opposition is leading by a great amount of points, expect run as this will run down the clock. If the opposition is well behind expect a lot of passing plays. However the time of game is also important in terms of the two minute warning and also how many time outs the opposition have remaining.
Opposition's strengths and weaknesses: Before every game I look at the opposition's line up and look at each individual player. E.g. Is this offensive lineman a runblocker or a pass blocker? How strong is the QB's arm? What kind of receivers, quick or possesion? etc etc All of these things will not only give you an indication of the opposing team's likely strategy but will allow you to plan to exploit their weaknesses.
Your own strengths and weaknesses: Very similar to above. For example if your defensive backs are all really good, you can afford to play more man to man coverage and send more linebackers to blitz more often. Or if your defensive line is full of monsters you can afford to have more players in coverage to defend the pass.
Know your roster: Some teams are built around a 4-3 defense while others built around a 3-4 defence, stick to these formations as much as possible as the roster will be designed to excel when in these formations.In the same vein some teams are built around zone-coverage or man to man coverage, try to understand what the unit's identity is and put it practice.
These are just a few things to consider. Also never listen to Madden!
Latin is right! (About all of the above.)
But if you MUST listen to Madden, select the second-, third-. or fourth-choice plays, never the first. The first-choice play tends to be a high-risk, high-reward kind of play... which would be fine except that the game is deliberately tilted in favor of the offense (because scoring touchdowns is awesome and fun), so Madden's #1 suggestion is more of a high-risk, LOW-reward play.
You're right, though, Salaman, that defense is kinda boring. That's really the main problem I have with Madden -- but if you're like me (horribly impatient), you can just sim past the defensive plays from the pause menu. Yay for Super Sim!
Anyway, I came back to /finally/ post what I, y'know, said I'd post about nine days ago: the reason why laterals (i.e., rugby-style pitchbacks) aren't used more often. I was pleasantly surprised to see the thread still active. So if you do still have questions, feel free to sling 'em at me -- I'll answer as best I can.
Random silly question.
What are the chances of the any European team beating an NFL team?
JYM60 wrote:
Random silly question.
What are the chances of the any European team beating an NFL team?
Way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, WAY under one percent. Maaaaaybe... one in several hundred thousand?
I know that sounds dismissive but I'm being completely serious here. From my conversations with coaches who've been overseas, the highest level of competition in Europe is basically equivalent to very good high school football or possibly a lower division of college football, though there a few standout players who could play at a substantially higher level. There's a Swedish guy playing for Stanford in I-A football right now, for instance -- the highest level of college football and, thus, the highest level of competition below the NFL.
There are three basic problems that European teams have: 1) lack of weight-room facilities and/or lack of time to use them; 2) lack of practice time; 3) lack of a large coaching staff that can provide big chunks of specialized instruction during practices.
By contrast, most high-school programs in America have: 1) a conditioning schedule that goes something like: "lift weights and run 3 days a week; just lift 2 days a week; lift and play a game one day; rest one day.", at least during the season; 2) five or six practices a week in-season, usually each about 2 hours long; and 3) at least four or five assistant coaches to help run things during practices.
Still, the most dedicated players in Europe -- youth and adult -- find ways around those obstacles, which is why I think a team of European all-stars could compete at the collegiate Division II level, and do very well. (Basically, college football goes, from best to worst: Division I-A, Division I-AA, Division II, Division III, NAIA, although the latter two are basically interchangeable.)
But the thing is, the NFL gets its players from the very /best/ athletes at /all/ of the collegiate levels (mostly I-A because that's where the best athletes /go/), and makes football their full-time job. They're already bigger, faster, stronger, and more technically proficient than any team you'll ever find at the collegiate level. When you get them in an NFL weight room and give them the best coaching money can buy... yeah, they'll steamroll any opposition outside of other NFL teams.
Anyway! JYM writes: "I'd like a bit of an explanation on laterals. You can, like in rugby throw behind at any time. Right? Assuming this is the correct, why isn't it used more? I've only seen it used on 4th quarter kick returns really. Surely it could be useful to use it more often."
Yep! It is indeed legal to throw the ball behind you at any time, and in fact there are two specific kinds of plays (outside of, as you mention, kick returns at the very tail end of the game) that hinge on doing exactly that. However, you'll almost never see either kind of play in the NFL.
The first of these is called the hook-and-ladder, or the hook and lateral depending on who you talk to. It's a trick play, and it demands great precision and a lot of luck in the execution, so it's certainly not a staple of anyone's offensive arsenal. The basic idea is that you throw a deep pass to one receiver, and /he/ then tosses the ball back to ANOTHER receiver who's running a route that takes him RIGHT behind receiver #1 after the reception. This was most famously used in Boise State's 2006 Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma -- that's probably what you'll find if you do a YouTube search for "hook and ladder play," and it will show you what I'm talking about MUCH better than a big ol' collection of words can do.
The other kind of play involving laterals is a LOT more common: it's called the "option," and is a running play instead of a passing play. Again, you almost never see it in the NFL, but it's incredibly common at every other level of football, from the highest to the lowest. I'll explain it more fully in a post of its own, because: 1) it /deserves/ a post of its own; aaaand 2) we're getting close to a new page in any case, so my hope is I can throw the option up in a block of text that's /separate/ from my /other/ blocks of text, and thus causes people's eyes to glaze over a teeny bit less.
Nice responses.
When I was in america last month I seen on ESPN's top ten plays there was a play (from a college game I think) with loads of laterals. Was pretty awesome. Tried finding a youtube vid of it but couldn't find it.
OK, so. Continuing our previous discussion -- and by "our discussion" I pretty much mean "my lecture," because that's just the kind of super-awesome teacher that I /am/ -- the question that was posed was: why aren't laterals (i.e. rugby-style pitchbacks) used more often?
The answer, which didn't actually answer the question itself (this, again, is how you know I am a super-awesome teacher) is that there actually IS a kind of play involving laterals that's widely used. It's just not used at the NFL level.
This play is called the "option," and, although there are about a bajillion variations on it, the key feature is this: the quarterback keeps the ball and runs towards the end man on the line of scrimmage, and the running back runs to his side and a couple yards back. The aim is to attack ONE defender, while blocking everyone else, and make that defender choose: will he try to tackle the quarterback, or will he try to contain the running back?
If he goes for the quarterback, the QB laterals the ball to the RB. If he plays the RB, the QB keeps the ball and plows ahead himself. In diagram form (assuming the play is being run to the left):
is how they'll look as they run. Again, the goal is to isolate the defender and make him choose. The beauty is that whatever choice the defender MAKES is going to be wrong no matter what: if he goes for the ball-carrier, the QB pitches it out to the RB, and suddenly, hey presto! The lateral RIDES AGAIN.
Now, why would you run the option at all when you can just hand the ball off to the RB? It all goes back to what i mentioned waaaaaaaaay back on my first post: game theory. Specifically, /in theory/ the offense has a serious problem on any given play: at most, there are only 10 offensive players available to block 11 defenders-- because one of them has to carry the ball.
In practice, it's even worse: on a typical, non-option running play, there are only NINE offensive players available to block 11 defenders. The quarterback hands the ball to the RB and then he's done. The RB is still carrying the ball.
Except... if you just hand the ball off and then pat the QB on the head and say "Good boy, now take a break.", you're /wasting a player/. Everybody else is either carrying the ball or neutralizing a defender via blocking; the QB is just standing around wondering which cheerleader to bang that night. Not cool.
So the option gets around that problem: it lets the quarterback neutralize a defender, in effect making him a blocker -- because whatever the option defender does, the quarterback will render that decision useless. And suddenly it's 10 on 11 again instead of 9 on 11, and the play has a better chance at succeeding.
You may also wonder why the option isn't used MORE, if it's so wonderful. There are two reasons: one is that the quarterback is, after all, your passing specialist. You don't /really/ want him to get beaten up running the ball; he's usually more valuable as a passer than a runner. (The one case where this doesn't apply is if your offensive system is built entirely around the option and you only ask the QB to throw it maybe 5 or 10 times a game; in that case, your QB is basically another running back who just happens to throw the ball from time to time.)
The other reason is that, on a purely practical level, there are a TON of other ways to have a successful running game. The option is NOT the only way to skin that particular cat, and in fact it may not be the way that's best suited to a given team's personnel. If you have an offensive line that's five 300-pound maulers, you're going to do MUCH better with a straightforward power running game (conventional handoffs, RB attacks holes at the line of scrimmage) than with the option. After all, the option runs the ball outside the line of scrimmage, but if you have an advantage /at/ the LoS, you want to get the ball in there.
This is why the option is widely regarded as a very good weapon for teams that are small or weak along the offensive line, by the way -- it lets you bypass the interior of the line, where your linemen are most likely to be getting their asses handed to them.
JYM60 wrote:
Nice responses.
When I was in america last month I seen on ESPN's top ten plays there was a play (from a college game I think) with loads of laterals. Was pretty awesome. Tried finding a youtube vid of it but couldn't find it.
Here y'go! The Miracle in Mississippi. My college actually played the losing team in this game the next week, and got thrashed pretty soundly. Taking out their frustrations, they were.
DAL9000 wrote:
JYM60 wrote:
Nice responses.
When I was in america last month I seen on ESPN's top ten plays there was a play (from a college game I think) with loads of laterals. Was pretty awesome. Tried finding a youtube vid of it but couldn't find it.
Here y'go! The Miracle in Mississippi. My college actually played the losing team in this game the next week, and got thrashed pretty soundly. Taking out their frustrations, they were.
That is fucking brilliant! Looked like the QB was even getting involved.
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DAL9000 wrote:
JYM60 wrote:
Nice responses.
When I was in america last month I seen on ESPN's top ten plays there was a play (from a college game I think) with loads of laterals. Was pretty awesome. Tried finding a youtube vid of it but couldn't find it.
Here y'go! The Miracle in Mississippi. My college actually played the losing team in this game the next week, and got thrashed pretty soundly. Taking out their frustrations, they were.
Wow! Is that legal then? You never see the ball move between players in the NFL. DOn't think I have ever seen it.
It's legal, yes. Another famous example along those lines, and it pains me SO VERY MUCH to send you this, is: The Play, also known as The Band Is On The Field. Or, to Stanford fans like me, it's called: OH COME ON THERE WAS A FORWARD PASS IN THERE.
Which brings me to the point of /how/ it's legal: you may, at any time, pass the ball backwards or horizontally. But, on a play that starts from scrimmage (i.e., NOT a kickoff), there are two restrictions on forward passing: 1) you may only make one forward pass per play, and 2) you may NOT make a forward pass once the ball has advanced past the line of scrimmage.
On a kickoff, you may not make a forward pass, period.
So, in both cases, the only reason it was legal is that the ball was being passed backwards and/or sideways on each lateral. And, yes, you're right that you'll almost never see it in the NFL-- the only time it happens is, as JYM said, during kickoff returns in the waning seconds of play when the receiving team is down by a touchdown or less.
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If you are ever in America try to make a trip to Buffalo, NY and wave a banner around town that reads "what does it feel like to win a Super Bowl?" Then videotape it and see if you make it out of their alive.
I was an exchange student in BFLO and for fundraising, our local group of the exchange organisation had a concession stand at Rich Stadium in Orchard Park. We'd go each week, set up, do the pre-game and half time rush of customers and then me and my friend would sneak off to go watch the second half from some vacant seats we found.
It was in 94, the 4th consecutive superbowl loss for the Bills I think.
Aaaah good times.
i am going to see Miami Dolphins @ NY Jets at Giants on 28th December!
Excellent! I am very jealous indeed.
Got to see my Dolphins last year at Wembley. Unfortunately they were shit! Good news for you though is that the Jets vs Dolphins always tend to be cracking games.
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