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This is the antithesis of what great leadership looks like. Man I miss Mike Slive…
Greg Sankey on the officiating in the Alabama/Georgia game:
"We don't comment on judgment calls... there are going to be tough calls that happen, and we want to get every one right. And I mean that literally but it's a dynamic game with 22 players"
Vikings score two seconds after play clock expires and now a phantom holding call on Noah Fant on a big Saints run. I’ve seen enough with the referees this weekend!
This week we saw more questionable calls than normal. Should referees in the major conferences and NFL be open to post game questions by the media?
92%Yes
8%No
13 votes • Final resultsIf you get your belly full on the praise you will starve off the criticism.
This is why coaching never stops when you leave the meeting room.
Saban wasn’t worried about ESPN being wrong.
He was worried about what hearing everyone tell his players how good they were could do to their edge a few hours before kickoff.
You’re not just coaching X’s and O’s.
You’re constantly coaching mindset.
Another great example of how tight bunch formations and motions can create route combinations that you already use.
Typically the Mills concept is done from WR’s from the same side of the field
Here, Chicago sends Luther Burden on the deep over with Rome Odunze working the post from the backside.
Safety drive’s on Burden and the post is coming behind you.
Gain depth with the post and you’re creating space underneath for Burden.
Coach Saban when on recruiting trips visiting coaches and players had a habit of always looking down at his watch habitually. I never took it as him being rude but his mind was always on the next thing. Chess vs Checkers mentality. It was one of the key ingredients that made his DNA different than 99.999999%.
Nick Saban says he had lived his entire life like he was in a hurry and didn’t even realize it
“When I retired, and I don’t know if I ever shared this with anybody, I spent 50 years of my life being in a hurry and didn’t know it.”
“I retired and the cars are backed up on the bridge and it goes down to one lane. In the old days, I would be the guy that passed all the cars up and cut in at the last minute in front of somebody.”
“I sat there with Miss Terry in the car. She says, ‘You mean you’re not going to pass everybody illegally and cut in?’ I said, ‘We’re not in a hurry.’”
“But it’s the first time when I retired that I realized that I wasn’t in a hurry. And I was in a hurry for 50 years and didn’t know it.”
“I was always hurrying up to the next thing. Solve the next problem, go to the next thing. And you talk about relieving stress, that relieves stress better than anything. I just noticed it in that circumstance. Not cutting into traffic and waiting my turn.”
If I’m Tampa Bay tonight with an undrafted rookie QB making his second NFL start, I’m not asking him to read the entire library.
I’m giving him the Cliff Notes.
-Motion to identify coverage.
-Condensed formations to create free releases.
-Play action to move/exploit the second level.
-Half-field reads over full field.
-Screens and RPOs.
-Move the pocket.
-And most importantly — stay ahead of the chains.
Young QBs don’t always need a “simplified” offense.
Sometimes they need an offense that gives them clearer answers.
I’m really interested to see how Tampa builds the game plan around Jalon Daniels tonight.