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holy hell - in the same thread:
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In case anyone cares:
I was trying to put James in perspective of 'best NBA players ever'
I always thought Jordan was the best I ever saw. I never really saw Wilt play or Elgin Baylor. Saw Kareem a few times in his later years. Kareem changed the game - literally, for a while. But still, there was Jordan, with his incredible ability to make plays, always make clutch shots (even if he needs to push off to get open - :)). But Then James. I don't know how much you guys watch, but as little as invested as I am in the Cavs (I really don't care if they win or not), I can't believe how unreal James is. That guy takes so many fouls that never get called. He's so strong he just shrugs contact off all the time. If he got the calls Jordan got, he'd probably average 4 points/game more over his career. Yet, he still lacks titles like Jordan. Mostly because he only rarely had the surrounding cast of Jordan. Still, Jordan. That guy was amazing. So I think of it this way: If Jordan is Spider Man, James is Venom - who is Spiderman, but with a bigger stronger enhanced physique - overall better, but lacking some little ephemeral thing that only Spiderman retains to make him able to win where Venom, who should win, does not.
The thing he lacks is the killer instinct. He didn't take a shot in OT last night until about the 2:30 mark. You think Jordan or Kobe would have let their team shoot at all over the first half of OT?
As to the fouls, he also gets phantom calls when driving and never ever gets called for pushing his defender 6 feet away. In every sport, blaming the refs for a loss is a loser mentality.
As I looked at this LINK this popped into my head:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMHZh5XlOVA
http://jetlaggin.com/the-worst-nfl-d...r+Report+-+NFL
THE WORST NFL DRAFT PICKS IN FOOTBALL HISTORY
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...m_campaign=nfl
Jamal Lewis Making Most of Post-NFL Life—but Preparing for Darker Days to Come
By: TYLER DUNNE ... MAY 29, 2018
ATLANTA — " The emptiness is inevitable, inescapable and, sometimes, fatal. Once pro football is through with you, count on it spitting you back out into society a concussed and confused man, searching for purpose.
Jamal Lewis remembers the feeling well. "
Please click on the LINK for the rest of this story.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2...m_campaign=nfl
Dez Bryant Deletes Instagram Comment Listing 49ers as Team He Wants to Play For
BY: SCOTT POLACEK ... MAY 28, 2018
How did this thread get bounced into basketball? I can't say anything one way or the other about bad calls in this game, as I really stopped giving a shit about the NBA when the Bucks went out.
I will say, though, Zool, you are dead wrong about blaming the refs or complaining about calls being a "loser mentality". There certainly are bad calls, and the damned NBA is probably the worst major sport pro or college for a pattern of bad calls - obvious bias against some teams and players and for others. For a long long time, the Bucks were victimized more than probably any other team. The past season or two, things haven't been quite so bad, but it's still there certain times against certain teams the league wants to succeed.
The thing he is missing is Scottie Pippen.
Just do a quick google of LeBron James quits playoffs. You’ll have all the video evidence you need.
Eddie House, Dan Gilbert and Skip Bayless. The Jeopardy $200 answer to the question, "Who are three people whose opinions I don't care about?"
He's won 3 championships, one with a team that shouldn't have made it out of the conference semi-finals. The second best player (Love) missed that championship. He dragged a TERRIBLE Cavs team to the final with the Spurs.
Gilbert has the same problem the Bucks do; the idiot owners cannot get out of their own way (Jason Kidd? refuse to hire the GM you have been grooming for 2 years?) and hire competent people.
We should move this to the Bucks thread. I have never been there, do we have a Bucks thread?
https://twitter.com/NFLFootballOps/s...80668089831425
We have video of the NFL's new helmet rule with video and Davante Adams and Danny Trevathan are on there in the ejection section, which seems FAR more clear.
The section on just the penalty comes up with a Colts player where it looks like he is trying to cut down a falling ball carrier (bad form, too late, but he seems to be looking for an easy way out) which points out some of the mundane plays that will draw flags.
The NBA sucks. This thread blows. We have a Bucks forum here.
Patriots and Belichick coaching tips:
http://www.espn.com/blog/new-england...t-of-my-career
1. Reduce volume of information for players.
2. Present game plan (again, it seems) 30 minutes before game to players. To concentrate on big picture.
3. Work smarter, not just harder (OK, that one you could have picked up in a seminar at the airport Sheraton)
4. Has Shea Mcclellan retired? Because he seems to be campaigning for a job as Patriot player personnel development.
McClellin is not officially retired, but is prepared for possibly never playing again because of concussions. http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...ct-concussions
Pettine has talked about players reaching a "saturation point". You throw information at players, but when you get to a point where you sense they can't absorb any more, you have to take a step back.Quote:
1. Reduce volume of information for players.
https://packerswire.usatoday.com/201...ckers-defense/
Quote:
According to Bedard, Pettine believes in what he calls the “sponge theory,” a philosophy based on feeding the players more and more content until you get “feedback,” meaning the players have been saturated with as many calls and adjustments possible before it affects communication, aggressiveness and – most importantly – execution.
In Silverstein’s report, Pettine allegedly has simplified his system based on his time with the Seahawks, a team who’s notorious for its simple Cover 3 system.
“One of the rules we had was you never wanted to be limited by your least intelligent player,” Pettine said, via Bedard’s story. “You have to do it that way because if you have a guy that can be elite but he can’t be cluttered.”
I just hope Pettine doesn't simplify things too much. The scheming of Capers - which may or may not have been too complicated - probably was the only thing keeping our D from being even worse in the past, given the overall mediocrity of talent. I hope talent is good enough now to justify the simplifying, but even optimist that I am, I wouldn't bet on it.
Time will tell. Some of us have been calling for a KISS system for quite a while. Pettine's KILL system sounds like the answer. I think you've always overestimated Capers and his "scheming." First of all, if a player fails in Capers' scheme, is it lack of talent or lack of knowledge of the scheme? If a "scheme" fails, is it because the players didn't execute properly or because the scheme was old and tired? When you read stories about opposing QB's knowing which Packers were going to blitz, you have to suspect that maybe Capers' and his schemes were old and tired. Like I said, time will tell. I'm expecting the Packers D to be top 10 this year.
Yeah, and I bet those people correlated very well with the Capers haters and the defenders of Ted Thompson. I remember the bad ol' days of plain vanilla D, which handicapped the Packers even when they had good D talent and really messed things up when we did not. I'm not saying Pettine will go back to that, but my take on it is he will (hopefully) have just as good scheming as Capers combined with better teaching so as to eliminate the confusion. If Capers' blitz schemes were all that predictable, you'd think opponents woulda just shut up about it instead of telling the world.
I think both the complexity and the varying level of talent are major contributors to the problems of the last few years.
There is no reason to have communication breakdowns as often as they have them. Everyone and their beat writer brother is talking themselves into circles about whether it was young players last year that caused the confusion (both Randall and seemingly Martinez all but said Jones was unreliable) or the defensive structure.
But the confusion was evident going back to the much earlier days of Tramontana and Charles. So young players (a problem if you work under Ted) only explain part of the problem.
That is inexcusable.
More in question, to me, is Tramontana's claim last week that Capers system was outdated. I believe it if Tramon meant that adapting the baseline Capers' defense to modern offenses meant almost unending adjustments. Much less sure of he means the defense can't work. Its not rocket science to determine how you are getting beat. But rebuilding your defense to eliminate the obvious complexity and shortcomings has defeated great men before.
The base 3-4 that worked so well in 09 and 10 had a monster front (Pickett, Raji, Jenkins, Kampman, Jolly, Green, and I am sure I am omitting a couple). Without Jolly and Green, the duo of Pickett and Raji got less and less effective especially, it seemed, when they switched to the over front with Raji as a 3 tech (sometimes a 5). This was also the time at which they switched to a nickel and the majority time base defense.
mychal kendricks signs with cle.
I think you have to keep it short because some people’s attention spans are
Don't forget that touchdown machine, Ol' Alligator Arms Dean Lowry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B1bUQw-tk0
The weird part is that they were run dominant for 2 years and pass rush was OK. The 2-4-5 nickel emphasized pass rush from people other than DL and it worked for a while, but the run D fell part. Then they ran out of edge rushers. I don't think there was a Top 10 D that could have been constructed out of the personnel from the '12-'13 years. Still unsure why the '11 defense fell apart completely.
Still doesn't excuse communication issues though.
LOL watching that play. Winston reminds me of Hundley there for some reason. As for Lowry, he got beat pretty good on the play and was lucky. A delayed blitz by Ryan and a nasty spin by Clark set that up on a plate for him.Quote:
Don't forget that touchdown machine, Ol' Alligator Arms Dean Lowry.
Clark could really have a good year -- he's a young and ascending player IMO. Seems like Pettine is going to lean on the DL to provide pressure more, so maybe the OLB depth is less of an issue.
Really curious about Adams. They liked him enough to spend a R3 pick on him and seems like he's a good athlete for his size...but he was hurt/invisible last year so maybe that's a redshirt for him. They'll need him to show up this year.
I agree on the communication issues -- they shouldn't happen. I think some of those guys are better at making checks and calls on the fly -- it seemed Burnett was better than HaHa, for example.
Charlie Peprah could get things done back there -- he was smart and had some experience. M.D. Jennings or Jerron McMillian were not the answer back in the day.
I got the impression the safeties are making the calls in the secondary, not the CBs. I recall seeing some issues with people getting lined up or covering the right person.
I'm not overly surprised Jones had issues last year as a rookie trying to learn S and LB while drawing flags as a gunner. Thank goodness they finally pulled him from ST, but he'll have a lot to prove this year.
Yes we need to see OPPONENTS PLAY Green Bay with 'their eyes wide open'; bring back the mauler hard tackling 'D' we used to see and not the head spinning what should I do pathetic 'D' we've seen for the past six Seasons.
We're now aware that once a star defender leaves Green Bay he excels in a better Defensive System Defensive backs the went into the AFC and Buffalo and Safety Micah Hyde and The LA Chargers and CB Casey Hayward.
Should the blame be with the GM Ted Thompson or the DC Dom Capers and his Defensive Backfield Coaches or the man that retained DC Dom Capers far too long and (still retained some of the defensive coaches going into the 2018 Season; or Head Coach Mike McCarthy.
Mike McCarthy needs his comfort Zone. We're still seeing that status quo exists today with his hires and the Packers Coaching Staff. We know he blamed TT for not giving him the talent he needed to make a bigger impact and be a certain Super Bowl contender by comments he's made after the completion of the 2017 Season. We saw Packers HC Mike McCarthy Fire arguably the best Position Coaches we had in DL Coach Mike Trgovac ( I think he went to the Oakland Raiders) and **come on...Scott McCurley – Assistant Linebackers Coach who Coached an NFL leading tackler LBer Blake Martinez and was with the Packers in his Coaching Career for a dozen Seasons .
** Subsequently the Packers brought back Scott McCurley
https://247sports.com/Bolt/Green-Bay...rley-113937717
Report: Packers bring back assistant coach Scott McCurley
By: BRIAN JONES Jan 19, 1:52 PM
It's stuff like this that makes me happy that MM is reporting directly to the Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy. I would keep MM on a very short leash. He's certainly erratic. Without Aaron Rodgers he's be tending Bar somewhere in Greater Pittsburgh and wringing about 300 lbs and charming customers with all his Coaching exploits in the NFL.
Ghessh but MM is and will remain as Packer Head Coach absolutely THE WEAKEST LINK.
Count on it !
Julian Edelman getting 4 game suspension for PED's. http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/2...ame-suspension
The Packers defense will have a Pettine patina to it.
You can't play past 40 and not have a plan, of course.
That health guru of his (Alex Guerrero) that is involved with TB12 has to be near the top of shakiest people to hang on to a player since Paul Hornung was playing and hanging out in casinos.
The cynic in me has been turned into a hopeful 8 year old hoping he gets indicted for something so I can see pictures of the Grit Room in a court filing: https://www.mensjournal.com/health-f...ainer-w479755/
Its not a healthy way to live.
I will say this: I know people with auto-immune diseases that do much better avoiding wheat, tomatoes and dairy in some cases.
My suspicion is that underlying these cases is a disease itself (celiac, lupus, OA, RA) or specific traits (carrying one of the genes for a disease that is not fully expressed). So the advice is probably not applicable to all (or even most) but can help specific groups. Buts its a common phenomenon that people reading and advocating this stuff ignore the population its speaking about.