NFL 2014 season

[Flagg]

Dear Tampa,
Please sign Ray Rice so I have an excuse to cut all ties with your organization and can be a fan of a real NFL team.

Yours in Christ,
Flagg

[Elfdart]

It's Mike Shannahan's Zone Blocking scheme. That's why Denver pumped out 1000 yard rushers every year and why Terrell Davis will probably never see the Hall of Fame.

Elfdart could shed some more light on it, but I'm pretty sure the Niners used it too back in the glory days.

Davis would already be in the Hall were it not for a blown out knee that cut his career in half. The Rams in the 80s went through something similar with the I-formation where it seemed like any back could get 1000 yards and 9 TDs behind that line and that scheme. But like Terrell Davis, Eric Dickerson was getting double that (or close to it) for several seasons.

The Walsh-era 49ers (and their imitators) were among the last NFL teams to use the split-back scheme of Paul Brown and Vince Lombardi, where the only difference between the fullback and the halfback was which side of the QB they lined up on. That's why it wasn't unusual to see the FB as the leading rusher, or to see the FB and HB swap places. Walsh preferred split backfields because it put both backs in the ideal position to pass block and run the waggle or flare or wheel routes.

When Dan Reeves was the HC in Denver, he brought the 70s Dallas offense with him (he was OC in Dallas). In that scheme, the backs shifted back and forth between a split formation, the I-formation and in some cases, flexing one or both backs out as receivers (If you ever watch old footage of the Landry-era Cowboys' offense, you'll see the whole line stand up in unison then get set to snap the ball. This was to conceal the motion in the backfield). One thing Reeves, Shanahan and every offensive coach from that lineage stressed is that regardless of what the defense does, each O-lineman is expected to block the nearest man (i.e. zone blocking) and the back is expected to read the first gap and lunge into it full speed, with no dithering or dancing around.

Now the Cowboys' passing game was becoming obsolete by the mid-80s, which is why Tom Landry brought in Paul Hackett from the 49ers to revamp the passing offense while keeping the running game as is. Mike Shanahan and Chan Gailey tried to update the offense in Denver but Reeves wasn't having any of it -the main source of friction between Shanahan and Reeves. Shanahan did a stint as OC with the 49ers and when he returned to Denver as HC, he was finally able to install his hybrid offense, which Kubiak and Kubiak Jr are still using to great effect.

[Havok]

Yeah... that's... basically what I said.

[Elfdart]

I kinda took "glory days" for the Niners to be 81-90, the Bill Walsh era. Shanahan came after, thanks to Crypt Keeper Al's itchy trigger finger.

[Flagg]

Haha that's the Bucs! Even when they have an outright win coming their way just blatantly cheat and rob them of their third fucking win. Cocksuckers.

[Thanas]

Hey, we got fucked by the refs too.
Pass interference called in the endzone, they spot it at the 8. Same thing, spotted at the 3.
But when Chargers get a PI in the endzone called against us? At the 1.


Still, our depleted secondary showed once more how much they suck.

[Elfdart]

Consider it payback for 4th and 29.

[Elfdart]

I can't wait for racist fuckheads to start whining about this:

Rams protest Ferguson decision with ‘hands up’ gesture as they take field



The St. Louis Rams made a silent statement about the decision by a Ferguson, Mo., grand jury not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, last August.

The decision has sparked protests around the country, but especially in Ferguson, which is just a few miles from the Rams’ Edward Jones Dome in downtown St. Louis. On Sunday, as they ran onto the field to play the Oakland Raiders, Rams players raised their arms in a “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture.

Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey, Kenny Britt, Chris Givens, and Jared Cook were the players shown taking part in the protest.

This isn’t the first Ferguson demonstration during a Rams game. The Oct. 13 against San Francisco brought protests and members of the Redskins’ secondary protested during a preseason game.

Great -and not just because they thrashed the Raitards.

[Thanas]

Consider it payback for 4th and 29.

How so?

[Flagg]

I can't wait for racist fuckheads to start whining about this:

Rams protest Ferguson decision with ‘hands up’ gesture as they take field



The St. Louis Rams made a silent statement about the decision by a Ferguson, Mo., grand jury not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, last August.

The decision has sparked protests around the country, but especially in Ferguson, which is just a few miles from the Rams’ Edward Jones Dome in downtown St. Louis. On Sunday, as they ran onto the field to play the Oakland Raiders, Rams players raised their arms in a “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture.

Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey, Kenny Britt, Chris Givens, and Jared Cook were the players shown taking part in the protest.

This isn’t the first Ferguson demonstration during a Rams game. The Oct. 13 against San Francisco brought protests and members of the Redskins’ secondary protested during a preseason game.

Great -and not just because they thrashed the Raitards.

The St Louis posse, err Police Association wants the players fined.

[Thanas]

Hey Flagg, you looked for reasons to cut ties with Tampa. There you go

[Flagg]

Hey Flagg, you looked for reasons to cut ties with Tampa. There you go

[Black women's choir begins singing jubilant song] OH HAPPY DAY!

[Elfdart]

Consider it payback for 4th and 29.

How so?

Because the elevator slugger didn't make 29 yards (the refs moved the markers before the spot could be challenged) and the blatant personal foul (block in the back) was ignored.

[Alferd Packer]

Oh, the Jets.

[Thanas]

Consider it payback for 4th and 29.

How so?

Because the elevator slugger didn't make 29 yards (the refs moved the markers before the spot could be challenged) and the blatant personal foul (block in the back) was ignored.

Oh you are one of those people. Oh well, even if that one wouldn't have happened (but it did), we would always have this.

[Havok]

How so?

Because the elevator slugger didn't make 29 yards (the refs moved the markers before the spot could be challenged) and the blatant personal foul (block in the back) was ignored.

Oh you are one of those people. Oh well, even if that one wouldn't have happened (but it did), we would always have this.

Hahahaha we are all "one of THOSE people" when it is against our team. (Also, you're racist against San Diego fans.)

Remember that blatant no call for Holding and Pass Interference in the Superbowl?

But Elfdart is right. That 4th and 29 call was BS.

Also if they marked it in the 8 and 3 that is because that is where the interference occurred regardless of where the players end up. When the interference occurs in the endzone, then it gets marked at the 1.

[Havok]

Hey Flagg, you looked for reasons to cut ties with Tampa. There you go

Holy fucking shit... only in Flori-Duh.

One of the organization's chief ministers cited as qualification that "he ran a motorcycle gang."

Man, why doesn't my gang club do anything cool like this?

[Thanas]

Remember that blatant no call for Holding and Pass Interference in the Superbowl?

Oh you mean that excellently defended attempted push-off by Crabtree?

Also if they marked it in the 8 and 3 that is because that is where the interference occurred regardless of where the players end up. When the interference occurs in the endzone, then it gets marked at the 1.

Not in this game, it did not.

[Elfdart]

So two years after The Lord of No Rings is dismissed and the Chargers' offensive line still can't protect Marmalard and there's zero pass rush. Oh, and the new OC has receivers running 2-yard patterns. Next season starts today.


Nice dick move by Jeff Fisher in Washington today.

[Flagg]

Wow, The New Orleans Taints are a bunch of fucking pussies. They all but gangrape Cam for... doing his job. They should have to wear superman stickers on their fucking helmets for the rest of the season. Pussies.

[Tsyroc]

Looking at the Playoff Machine it looks like the 49ers can still make the playoffs but I think they need either Dallas, Detroit or the Eagles to do a lot of losing.

The Cardinals look like they are probably in but who knows what they'll be able to do with their third string QB.

[Elfdart]

The Cowboys are like those collapsible fake Christmas trees, only they usually fold up and get put away before Christmas. Detroit? New coach but they look like the same old Lions. Come in off the ledge Hav, it's not over yet!

[Thanas]

Andrew Hawkins from the browns is awesome. Link


And if we make it into the playoffs, here is why John Harbaugh deserves to be coach of the year.

[Elfdart]

Oh fuck me! 28-7 at halftime -and it should be 35-7.

And Harbaugh is the coach being frogmarched out the door?

[Elfdart]

Uh, never mind.