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Ed Hochuli 3:16

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  1. Exactly. If anything a tipped pass is 50% QB and 50% OL. When a DLineman goes up, that means he was either not being driven back or not engaged enough. If it's a passing down, then the OL should make sure to engage so that the DT's don't just sit back and try to tip balls.

    I rewatched this play 10 times today.

     

    A few things standout:

     

    1) Maneri makes a poor effort to grab it. He and Harrison Smith are seemingly the only two in the area who know where the ball is. Maneri only jumped about 6 inches to grab it. Either he didn't see Smith, he's a bad athlete, or he didnt' give a shit.

    2) The decision to throw it was poor. Maneri was open, but why throw it to that guy of all people? He's there to block, not catch.

    3) His first option was M.Bennett and his second was Fiammetta. Both were covered, although with a perfect pass, he had Bennett for a second.

    4) A run play call might have been the best option. I know they had just scored on a 1 yard pass, but why's Bush even on the team at this point then?

    5) Why was Maneri even on the field at that juncture? It might have been to make MIN believe a run was coming due to his blocking ability, but come on.

  2. What about complaining about complaining about complaining? What does that accomplish?

     

    How about this, try not to look at every play, or even every quarter in a vacuum? Try and understand that football is a game of adjustments, and it isn't going to be perfect 100 percent of the time.

     

    Christ, it was actually suggested to put in McCown. That is hilarious

    :notworthy

  3. Prior to the year, I said 10-6. For the sake of not being too optimistic and sticking with my original pick, I'll go with that.

     

    If they happen to get better play from Melton and Peppers, they could be better than that. If Cutler continues on this 32 turnover pace, they won't win 10.

  4. At what point do the Bears consider dealing Earl Bennett, taking a 5th round pick and making Marquess Wilson active?

     

    I think it'd be difficult for Wilson to do less than what Bennett is right now. That's not criticizing Bennett either. Right now though, he isn't part of the Bears' offense and looks disinterested, for good reason.

  5. He doesn't have one; and I was serious about soliciting your opinion on Melton; part of me is very disappointed in his play and a part of me wants to give him the benefit of the doubt.

    No, I know. Melton had that tackle on MIN's final drive to stop Peterson on 3rd and goal but that doesn't cut it. He should be able to have his way with PIT's interior next week.

  6. For a fact, I know Urlacher and Cutler were never the best of friends. I believe Urlacher turned away from the Bears upon Cutler's arrival, knowing that he was no longer the face of the franchise and that the organization was trying to become an offensive team. It didn't help that Emery drafted a LB and signed a LB, both who had better 2012's than Urlacher and both who are currently better than Urlacher was last year. It happens. Teams move on from players all the time. BTW, Urlacher did tweet the other day that he was impressed with Kyle Long and even tagged him in the tweet.

     

    Brian, we all love you. Just move on to your new role in peace.

     

    :dabears

  7. It's called the read option, hence the "option" part of it, meaning there are choices that involve both running and throwing. The quarterback can take it and run, he can give it to the RB, or in some cases he can fake it and throw it down field.

     

    The 49'ers used a lot of their play action stuff out of that read option package in the game against GB. I don't know how ESPN keeps track of those type of plays, but they weren't watching the same game I was.

     

    I don't see why people think something so difficult to defend is going to be stopped, just because. It's been 3 years since Tim Tebow and Cam Newton started running this play, and it's still working better than ever today. We can say it's been figured out when teams stop using it. People like to compare the wildcat to the read option, but it's a bad comparison because you had RB's who couldn't throw. With no passing involved (or at least no passing that warranted respect), it was only a matter of time before it got figured out.

    Yes, exactly. The read option. The 49ers only ran it the read option 7 times, according to ESPN. I missed the first 20 minutes of the game because I was on the way back from the Bears game. Honestly, I think I saw it done 4-5 times, so they might be right.

     

    Right away, you get so angry. Relax. Just because I think you're wrong doesn't mean you need to start underlining and bolding and shit.

     

    Tebow and Newton are horrible examples. So far, Newton's been a bust and Tebow was the worst QB ever. Next time, use guys like Wilson, RG3 and Kaepernick, because using Tebow and Newton will get you laughed at.

  8. I think I know what the difference between run plays and read option plays are. I wasn't born last year. They ran 7 read option plays, per ESPN. The pistol isn't the exact same thing as read option.

     

    What I'm arguing is that this will be figured out. The wildcat had 2+ years in it. This is now into year 2 of the read option. Give it time.

  9. So you're going to use the first game RGIII comes back from ACL surgery as evidence for how the league has figured out how to stop the read option, and then ignore what just happened with Philadelphia?

     

    The 49'ers ran a bunch of read option stuff yesterday. Kaepernick just didn't take it and run with it much at all. He threw it or handed it off instead. That's why it's called an option. It's the threat of not knowing where the ball is going that's killing defenses. I don't know why people think it's all of a sudden suppose to just go away. Now if they all threw the ball like Tim Tebow.. Then I could see it.

    Uh no, the 49ers only ran 7 read option plays vs Green Bay.

  10. It's not a negative attitude, it's called perspective. If it weren't for the costly brain-dead penalties the Bengals committed, and the miss managing of timeouts at the end, it could have been a different story. Robbie Gould's FG would not have happened had they not been gift wrapped the field position, thanks to Dre Kirkpatrick for being an idiot. That's huge. I give the Bears credit for finishing the game strong, but I feel like they were pretty damn fortunate as well. Most teams aren't that stupid and undisciplined. If you take my entire post in context, I tried to paint an honest assessment from both viewpoints, the positive and negative. There were reasons to be concerned just as there were reasons for optimism.

    And what if Bennett doesn't have 2 holding calls and Trestman elects to kick a FG earlier in the game when they punted instead?

  11. They slowed the tempo down and played not to lose in the 4th quarter. As far as figuring the Eagles out, unless you can tell them to stop running the no-huddle I don't see what there really is to figure out that teams don't already know. The read option was supposed to be figured out, but I'm still waiting for that to happen. Only way to combat against the tempo is to sustain long drives yourself on offense, which is the same thing teams try to do against the Saints. A lot easier said than done.

    How did that read option work for Seattle yesterday and Washington today?

     

    The 49ers run it and they put on a show, but it wasn't read option. It was all dropbacks and on Kaepernick's arm.

  12. My fantasy advice: start the best players. That sounds stupid, but an example would be starting a bad defense because they're playing a bad offense over a good defense facing a good offense. That always backfires. So, do NOT play Oakland's defense this weekend over Seattle's. :cheers

  13. The fact that they had Boggs and Britton as their only 2 reserve OL vs Cincinnati is scary. I can't believe James Brown isn't good enough to be active. Just think, he was potentially going to be a starter before Long roared onto the scene.

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