dumb ideas

[3irty1]

Here is a question to fry your noodle:

Is Clay Matthews a worse ILB than Brad Jones is an OLB/SAM?

Way too small of a sample size to tell. In their respective best games at the position Jones is better, in their respective worst games Jones is worse.

But this season the hyperbole originally crafted to fit Jones has been reality for Matthews: Oft injured and error prone with a team-crippling contract.

[call_me_ishmael]

Ok here's mine. Let Julius Peppers play tight end.

1) 6'7" 290 lbs
2) Its been done a little before. Mike Vrabel and Jason Taylor come to mind. Especially in the red zone.
3) He's got the basketball background that has been proven to work with guys like Gates.
4) It could extend his career by a couple of years.
5) Its a huge need.

This will happen at some point this season. He'd be un-guardable.

[TravisWilliams23]

To get Lacy going, let use the toss sweep more. Just handing the ball off to him going wide isn't doing the trick. If MM adds a toss to the equation, it just might work.

[channtheman]

To get Lacy going, let use the toss sweep more. Just handing the ball off to him going wide isn't doing the trick. If MM adds a toss to the equation, it just might work.

I like to call it a handoff toss because it doesn't quite reach the outside like a sweep does, and in reality only goes about as far as Rodgers reaching out and handing the ball off. In fact, it almost looks like the idea is to go off tackle with this ridiculous play call. The plus side to tossing the ball to the RB is that he has to look at the ball and secure it before attempting to find a hole to run through. By delaying the ability of the RB to locate the seam to run through, MM has also successfully allowed all the OL to drop their blocks by the time the RB has secured the ball. This play often results in a loss of at least 3 or 4 yards. A great success by any measure!

[pbmax]

He doesn't have to go wide. Many of them have been an Outside Zone run. He needs to pick a hole and cut into it. Or Starks should get in the game.

They also are running a center pulling play to run off the guard. Gives you a lead blocker between the Guard and Tackle with a 1 RB set.

[Maxie the Taxi]

Dumb idea... Have Hawk and Lattimore play closer than 6 yards from the LOS.

[Noodle]

Well, the Peppers INT return for a TD confirms the brilliance of 31's idea to use the big fella as a redzone terror TE. Simply awesome.

[Tyrion Lannister]

Well, the Peppers INT return for a TD confirms the brilliance of 31's idea to use the big fella as a redzone terror TE. Simply awesome.

Anyone a physicist here? I wanna know why and how Peppers outran #84 and his 4.3 speed.

[pbmax]

Anyone a physicist here? I wanna know why and how Peppers outran #84 and his 4.3 speed.

Not a physicist, but 84 had further to travel, so even faster might not have been enough.

Peppers had a truly deep LB pass drop. He is a freak.

[Tyrion Lannister]

Not a physicist, but 84 had further to travel, so even faster might not have been enough.

Peppers had a truly deep LB pass drop. He is a freak.

Good explanation.

I saw 84, and I immediately thought of Randy Moss. Moss tackles when he wants to tackle.

Watching the clip provided noodle mutiple times, it looked like Patterson did put a lot of effort in trying to chase down Pep. I am glad Pep scored.

[Joemailman]

Dumbest idea:

Tyrion Lannister's doing the winners and losers thread.

[hoosier]

Peppers even got to do a mini Walter Payton high step there.

[Guiness]

Watch Mathews on the return, he starts out going back, realizes Peppers has almost reached him, turns around and stumbles, then does a good job of getting in the way of 2 guys.

[Pugger]

Watch Mathews on the return, he starts out going back, realizes Peppers has almost reached him, turns around and stumbles, then does a good job of getting in the way of 2 guys.

I wonder if Julius' speed surprised Clay there?

[Cheesehead Craig]

I kept hearing how RB McKinnon is such a speed demon and he never would have caught Peppers. Lattimore blocked him but at that point McKinnon was trying for a diving tackle as he knew he couldn't catch him.