SlyMo, right?

on the jamaal charles post from yesterday, only to realize that as soon as I finished, chris had posted the morning update. if anyone wants to continue that discussion, which i think was great but is still unfinished, please add your comments. i’m interested and hopeful that i’ll get some feedback from my analysis.

FYI – the link for the “these types of articles” doesn’t work, as in it’s not even a link.

And more a dig at Will Leitsch for taking a rather stupid tack in his articles. I think Whitlock was more interested in instigating a better discussion regarding the role of the media than anything else…about all topics, not just racism.

It was one of the problems that Bissinger had with bloggers (the often poor tack they take towards addressing subjects) and that Whitlock (who likes bloggers) had with Leitch in particular. They discussed his remarks in the NPR interview that Whitlock linked to, and after listening to the interview I’ve got to say that I think he’s got a point about Leitch.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18442541

In fairness to Whitlock, he also goes after black writers who make stupid comments about race (Scoop Jackson being his main nemesis). I think he just gets tired of people dumbing down the issue with bad jokes and outdated views…and I can’t say as I blame him because it frustrates me when I hear it too. That said, I do get kind of irritated when he goes off on the tangent for too long and it overwhelms his sports writing (which is what his job is supposed to be), but overall I’ve found most of his comments on racism to be pretty well thought out (if a bit silly when it comes to discussing rap music).

While I have to say that if the Ahmad Brooks thing is true, then it’s sad and unfortunate that the team is riddled with these character issues.

On another hand, the fans there seem to be pretty classy as well. I’m glad the community here seems to have a greater respect for each other. If I wanted to listen to people constantly calling each other “gay” then I’d go read the KC Star user comments.

One big detail that the MHR left out was the progressive reads that are required (with almost every defensive scheme though) Every player on the field, except the safties (they’re always suppose to be deeper than the deepest) has a progressive read much like QBs w/ their recievers. 1st read, 2nd read, 3rd read. Your corners are huge in a cover 2 (though i might just be bias w/ QBs and CBs).

because you don’t take your reads in man coverage. There is no way that a player can take a meaningful read(wr’s actually show what they are doing) without spending enough time looking that his own reciever is gone. He probably left it out because it doesn’t apply to man like it does to zone, and he didn’t really discuss anything about coverages anyways. Reads are something that every defense does anyways, just like a swim move or a juke i guess you could say. Well, probably not but i can’t think of anything else to say.

You can run man and zone with a cover two defense, and when you are in man the only thing you read after the snap is the qb for about a split second. I was saying that maybe the reason he left it out is that he was focusing more so on the cover two as opposed to different coverages and how they are played.

I completely agree with you about LJ, even to the point about the flag planting hah