Dispelling NFL myths, sort of
by David Jacks on Jan 22, 2010 11:00 AM EST
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The NFL is filled with myths and unsolved mysteries. Today I play Robert Stack/the nerds from "Myth Busters" and attempt to dispel these myths and solve these mysteries. Plus I'm feeling very arrogant and judgmental today, so why not.
1) A good defense blitzes as mush as possible -- False. Actually what you really want is to get pressure with the front four and not have to blitz at all. In fact, a blitz is often meant to cover up a flaw in some part of the defense. A good offense, with a smart quarterback and a cohesive offensive line welcomes the blitz, in fact they invite it. That said, a defense with a skilled secondary can put their corners in one-on-one match-ups and get pressure with extra rushers.
2) Zone is bad -- False. If you have corners and safeties with good ball-hawking skills you will come up with far more interceptions in zones. Unless your name is Darrelle Revis. Uggh!
3) Your coach has to be fired up for the team to be fired up -- Undecided. I can't do anything with this myth except to say as a fan it's easier to watch a coach who seems to care externally. That said Bill Belicheck has done just fine for over a decade without any signs of a personality.
4) Kevin Gilbride has to go -- False, and I ask why? He is one of the better coordinators in the NFL. Or at least the stats say he is. Since he has been with Big Blue he has been in the top 15 of total offense every year. More importantly, this is Tom Coughlin's offense and Gilbride seems to be on the same page. Cohesion is a key.
5) Be aggressive on defense -- False. While being aggressive is good, it can also run you out of plays. I think the term "assignment strong" is something fans should be more aware of. It takes a very special player to be able to aggressively free lance, but if everyone on your defense holds their specific assignment you will have a special defense.
6) Dominos is good pizza -- False. Dominos isn't even pizza, it's a different category of food altogether. Just like a McDonald's cheeseburger is not an actual cheeseburger and Taco Bell's tacos are not actual tacos. I enjoy Dominos every now and then but it's just not pizza.
7) Fan rituals and traditions have nothing to do with a teams wins or losses -- Yeah, right. If I actually debunked this myth we'd have to start up thousands of support groups for lost fans everywhere. For the record I did 150 push ups last night instead of 100 because I was convinced it would somehow help the GMEN in 2011. Prove to me it won't help ... see, can't be done.
8) LT is one of the greatest running backs of all time -- Ummm, who? I know of only one LT and he was the greatest linebacker EVA. I call that other guy "unfortunate initials" and the real LT would never cry on the sidelines, although he may have tackled you and the eaten your arm off. Would you really have been shocked if they panned over to LT on the sidelines and a half-eaten arm was sticking out of his mouth?
9) Bill Sheridan was a scape goat -- False. He was awful and deserved the axe. Actually he deserved a guillotine.
10) The off-season is for signing free agent studs -- False. Free agency is certainly a huge factor in today's NFL, but it seems like adding a few smaller pieces is better then going after one or two studs. Football is won and lost with 11 players playing together, not one man rising above the rest. This isn't the NBA (zing, the NBA will be feeling that insult for years to come). Oh, and this myth has already been debunked by the Washington Redskins. Good work Dan Snyder.
11) C.C. Brown is a good tackler -- False. In fact "Cant Cover," cant tackle, either. He is listed in the top seven for Giants missed tacklers. Uggh! Mentioning his name just sent me in to a red rage. I think I killed my cleaning lady. Nope, she was just sleeping.
12) Tom Coughlin is on the hot seat -- Maybe, but Coughlin has been at the center of one of the best runs in Giant history.
13) Ramses Barden and Clint Sintim are busts -- False, and stop talking to me. You clearly have never watched a football game or a team run by Coughlin (wow, that was judgy). Rookies take time to develop, and Barden was a known project. If both players haven't produced in the next two years you may have a point, but right now you just sound silly, so stop it.
14) George Lopez is funny -- What? Who says? What's wrong with them?
15) The Jersey Shore is the greatest show EVA -- No myth here, this is 100% true.
16) Madison Hedgecock has hands made of iron cast steel -- Also true, fact.
17) Eli Manning isn't worth a 100 million dollars -- False. That is simply the going rate for a franchise quarterback in this market. He will never be Peyton, but when big brother's contract comes up he too will be paid a king's ransom (Did people used to ransom kings often? I don't recall ever hearing about a king being ransomed in history class).
18) 107 receptions, 1,220 yards receiving and seven touchdowns do not make a Pro Bowl year -- False. Congrats to Steve Smith, the first Giant pro bowler since Homer Jones in 1969. Smith got the call a couple days ago after Larry Fitzgerald bailed due to injury.
19) Dropping a lineman into coverage is an awful decision -- False. Coaches don't send 280-pound lineman into coverage just to get a good laugh. Although I'm fairly certain that's why Sheridan did it. The truth is most coaches do it to give quarterbacks more to think about, and occasionally it results in a quarterback throwing it to a lineman he never expected to be there. In Sheridan's case it resulted in large linemen chasing smaller faster receivers, which resulted in two broken plates and 22 different jerseys worn in 2010 in the Jacks household.
20) I just dispelled 19 facts -- False. As usual, what do I know?
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Time on yr hands Ed?
Dominos?
Pepe’s Pizza, Wooster St. New Haven Ct. Best pizza on the planet.
But I for one do not think DL should be dropping into coverage except under very unusual circumstances – like once a game, maybe.
Umm, DJacks wrote this one
I don’t do Dominos, either.
by Ed Valentine on Jan 22, 2010 11:21 AM EST up reply actions
any NYer who even thinks of ordering dominos isn’t really a NYer.
that said, Sally’s makes a good pie. anyway i can get some sent to NC?
by NYer in a strange land on Jan 22, 2010 2:42 PM EST up reply actions
Gabys Pizza
Hillside Ave., Hollis, Queens. best pizza around. you get a slice with 2 toppings, and think your gonna fold it? FUHGETABOUTIT!!!
Benny Tudino's
Washington Ave, Hoboken…
but then I love it when 1 slice is as big as 2 slices and you have it dripping with a great tomato sauce…YUM!
Opus smart , lascivio magis , intereo gauisus...
150 pushups?
David, you’re going to have to prove that one. When do we get the link to the YouTube video of you doing those 150?
He never said how long it took him
150 pushups in 5 minutes is clearly different than 150 pushups between the hours of 6-11pm. I believe Conan O’Brien can do 150 pushups over a 5 hour period.
by BigBlue4Life on Jan 22, 2010 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
to clarify
I do a 100 pushups a night, not in a row, sets of 25. Usually I stop at 100. Although I like idea that a reader may have thought I was some whacked out gorrila caged up in my apartment all offseason wearing a Bart Oates jersey doing 150 pushups every 20 minutes in hopes of a Giants Superbowl appearance in 2011. Wouldn’t this make me a prime candidate for Jersey Shore 2.
Yes
But you would have to do things to Snookie. Terrible, shameful, sloppy things.
by BigBlue4Life on Jan 22, 2010 2:37 PM EST up reply actions
Thats just wrong
And it made me throw up in my mouth… thanks bud, oh if your not on the Vitamin S forget it Mr. Jacks
All's Well that Fewell
Snookers was hard to look at
she had what we used to call “bad body” in college. not that her body was banging bad, but badly put together. too much gut, inverted ass, etc. etc.
God bless you then, though i was pokin'! lol
As a person who has had a broken and cracked collar bone on one side on seperate ocassions, plus a broken shoulder of the opposite, pushups are not my thing! At my best, i was only able to rattle off 36 in one session!
On the other hand for some reason, i could out-bench press everyone else? The total opposite of my weight to the actual weight that i can bench? I’m only 165-170, but i can’t do pushups?
Ok
You lost me, how much do you bench? I do 100 push ups 100 sit ups a night like jacks 25 situps 25 pushups like that until i get 100, also do biceps tris and chest twice a week then back/pull-ups and abs twice a week, roller blade 3 nights a week for legs… I’m 168ish i can max at 245lb although max dont mean anything it still sounds nice.. Interested in what someone my weight does, oh and i had a comprable injury, Broken/Dislocate left Arm it cracked straight through right below where it connects to the shoulder, had 2 5" pins inserted in it scar looks like i was shot in the shoulder, thats what i tell people anyways lol…
All's Well that Fewell
Well if you had that kind of injury you need to be careful..
I’m surprised you can still bench 245..that is pretty damn good..Given the injury you suffered..I am 6’4" 195..I still work out Mon, Wed and Fri..and eat like a pig Tues Thurs and all weekend..I only use free-weights I hate those new gizmos they have nowadays..I start out with 135 and work my way up..Everything is three sets of 10..I used to max out at 335 but now I can only do 275..but everything is three sets and then I go backwards and finish at 135..I can’t do squats anymore because I wrecked my knees in 1973 during a downhill ski race..So I just do light leg curls to keep the knees strong. One you start lifting, you have to stay with it or you’ll look like a fat pudgey dork..I do alot of flys also for the chest and I do deadlifts..My workouts are roughly 3 hours each of the three days..and when I Golf I can never find my ball..there is a downside to everything I guess.
Gobs
For someone that use to be in shape (high school), i was implying that for some reason, i couldn’t do very many pushups. On the other hand, at 165-170, i could bench alot more weight then say someone who was 200+.
Free weights, i maxed out between 250-275, and the universal machine (with the pin and plates) i could do the whole stack.
Please define tits
I think we have a misunderstanding of what that word means
I usaully use an adjective preeceding it such as huge or great and sometimes amazing
but NEVER to describe a cracker covered with ketchup and a cheese like substance.
You can see a lot just by observing-Yogi Berra
Define tits
According to slang dictionary, dominoes pizza is:
breasts, usually a woman’s. (Very old colloquial. Usually objectionable.) : She’s nothing but tits and teeth! Not a brain in her head!
Sounds like fun pizza.
I agree on the Dominos front
I’ve always said you can’t compare it to real pizza, especially seeing how most of us are from the NJ/NY area. However, it still tastes good, its just not the same type of food as real pizza. It’d be like comparing a good hamurger to a good filet. Sure, one is better than the other, but they both are good in their own right. Sometimes I feel like a steak, sometimes I feel like a burger. Same goes for Dominos and real pizza.
Ummm....
Thats just gross man, i can’t eat fast food pizza, and sure as hell don’t put crushed tomatos on a pie and call it pizza sauce, I’m Italian and my parents use to own an Italian Resturaunt/Bar in Middletown, NY… Dominos cant be consider pizza at all, and it taste like a$$.. Of course that is my opinion but still c’mon man!! Dominos/The HUT/Little Ceasars is a poor mans Fake Pizza thats it…
All's Well that Fewell
Damn right, gobs
It’s hard to get decent pizza any place in the country. certainly not in the Heartland (that’s what they call it here in Central IL) where I live these days. There’s supposed to be a few good places in Chicago. I don’t like the Chi style—deep dish, filled cheese crust.
Unfortunately
When you live on the west coast that’s all there is…
by wangstu13 on Jan 22, 2010 8:02 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
What Restaurant? I used to live there when I was younger.
Roma Pizza? Neil’s?
"I'll probably go get lifted right now with Greg. Hey, and come back tomorrow and try to get another win."
-Renaldo
by solanumbrella on Jan 22, 2010 9:43 PM EST up reply actions
LT
I miss watching LT. Your remark of an arm hanging out his mouth just gave me a good laugh. In a bad place, though. I work in an office setting, deep in the center of Philadelphia. No one around here would understand. I am tired of Thomlinson being referred to as LT. There is only one LT. I would love an LT video, 80s montage style, of his best hits (along with some sideline commentary). I could watch that all day.
My daughters
16 and 13 were on You Tube the other day watching the real LT snap Joe T’s leg. I told them same think I always tell them.
“Now that’s a football player. The greatest EVA”
Pizza?
Have the entire defense turn their backs to the offense & do the Macarena. The QB won’t expect that either & makes as much sense as dropping a DL into coverage,
Nothing Is Fool proof if you have the right fools.
by GiantsCauseway on Jan 22, 2010 11:57 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Thats a better play than any Sheridan came up with
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi ! Oi ! Oi ! Aiming for ONE medal in the winter Olympics.
by ChuckyofNorris on Jan 22, 2010 6:24 PM EST up reply actions
Disagree with many
1. Some of the best defense utilize the blitz very well. All teams have some weaknesses They attack. The Jets blitz more than anyone. For years the Eagles had one of the leagues better defenses. They also blitzed often.
2. I’ll take a good cover guy over a zone guy. With today’s rules of the game favoring offense teams pick apart zone. Late in each half teams play prevent defense. Prevent defense is zone. Again, a good QB will pick it apart.
3. A coach doesn’t need to be fired up. A good coach does need to motivate players by many different means.
4. Couldn’t disagree with more. KG was very successful outside the RZ. Inside the RZ the Giants have been terrible under both KG and TC. The bottom line. Teams that continue to settle for FGs often lose the games they should win.
5. Agree and Disagree. I agree players can be over-aggressive and over-pursue. I like aggressive yet disciplined defense. Gang tackling.
6. Finally, I agree. Dominos is terrible. It’s not pizza.
hmm
1) The jets actually do not blitz the most, that honor falls to the new orleans saints, but you are right if utilized correctly the blitz is a great weapon. My point was simply you don’t have to use it all the time and playing coverage isn’t a bad thing.
2) Actually the rules are set up making it harder and harder to play man coverage. Theoretically You cant even touch a receiver 5 yards down field. And remember Fewell’s zones lead to the second most picks in the nfl last year. Not every coverage of his is zone but it can work, it’s not just prevent,
3) agreed, tony robbins should coach, but seriously agreed. I think it was Bill Parcells’s best skill, sam goes for Pat Riley.
4) eh, when in rome…I mean, 6 of one hald dozen the other…..i’m still trying to get cliches.
5) aggressive and assignment strong would be nice.
6) no its not. if you ever get a chance try sals in mamaroneck NY, da best yo.
CCE718-I feel your pain
I also work in an office in Philly, the only Giants fan in the building. It was a rough year, but it got very quiet after the Eagles got smoked. Picking the Cowgirls was def the lesser of 2 evils.
And yes Hedgecock’s hands are like iron. Everytime I see him go into the flat I pray Eli doesnt throw him the ball because the next drop could make me break my TV.
OK, what is so bad about Dominos?
The last time i had it was around ‘93, which was like a staple in my diet at the time? Out of memory, i didn’t think it was bad. Did they change their recipe or something?
i found a huge clump of hair in my Dominos once
no, i take that back…i found it in my mouth. ahh, memories….(hurl!!!)
King Richard was captured on the way back from Crusades
leading to Prince John claiming the throne while their mother raised a King’s Ransom to get him out of prison in another country. King Rnaoms’s did indeed occur.
I remember that
From “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”
by BigBlue4Life on Jan 22, 2010 12:32 PM EST up reply actions
A black Sheriff!?
Hey, it worked in Blazing Saddles.
oh yeah…
Did you say Abe Lincoln?
Nah man, I said Hey Blinken!
by BigBlue4Life on Jan 22, 2010 1:23 PM EST up reply actions
HEY ABBOT!!!
I hate that guy.
"I'll probably go get lifted right now with Greg. Hey, and come back tomorrow and try to get another win."
-Renaldo
by solanumbrella on Jan 22, 2010 9:50 PM EST up reply actions
wow
At first i assumed you were quite the history buff, only to later see that you acquired your information from a Mel Brooks movie.
This reminds me. The other day I was at a dinner party with all the girlfriends people and a guest asked why the mad hater was actually mad. The questions was like watching the equivalent of sending an 89 mph fastball to a sweaty roided up McGwire waiting on homerun number 62 (or was it 61, to lazy to google it. I quickly took the floor and was able to explain, quite skillfully, in full detail, that back in the day hatters used mercury based compounds to form the hats. The group was quite impressed and someone then said, wow your so well read, where did you see that? Suddenly it dawned on me how i knew the info. I had seen it the week before on the show “Pawn Stars” and was desperate to use the info in any conversation I had. I think my response was “umm think it was time…or maybe the new yorker?” Yeah right, like i can read.
I got my info from my history classes
in high school.
oh
Well then excellent work and you should consider getting on the game show “are you smarter then a fifth grader.” All I remember from that age is that when most kids wanted to play Face or BA, I wanted to be Murdock in the A-team. Makes sense now.
I can hear Coughlin now.....
I love it when a plan comes together.
Every now and then...
I crave Dominos……
then again, up here in this hole of a city…I crave REAL pizza and Papa Johns/Ginos is as close as it gets!!
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there- Yogi
7) Fan rituals and traditions...
I have tried sitting in the same seat with the tv remote in my left hand and my lucky penny in my right pocket. Guess I need to come up with some new ones.
21) David Jacks is funny
That was a strange post. Anyway, a few caught my eye:
4) Kevin Gilbride has to go
Finally, someone that backs KG with me — and I don’t mean simply not blaming KG for our issues, but giving him credit for being one of the best coordinators in football, which he most certainly is.
2) Zone is bad
Agree that this is false. Nothing worse than a good QB who’s 100% POSITIVE that a team is in man coverage. Zone may leave holes and soft spots, but a well-executed zone causes the QB to hesitate for that extra second while they open up — if you have a front 4 that can get to the QB before that happens, it’s a nightmare for the offense.
6) Dominos is good pizza
The problem is, we’re not all from New York, so we don’t have the good stuff to compare it with. If you’re gonna make a statement like that, you’ve gotta at least give us one national chain that you think is BETTER than Domino’s (or, if you think they all suck, that’s fine too).
Papa John's is probaby the best National Commercial Chain
not sure how national it is…I know the locations are listed on their website…
Opus smart , lascivio magis , intereo gauisus...
Wrong on some
King’s Ransom was a term that originated when King Richard I(the Lion Hearted) was kidnapped in the 13th century. The population of England paid heavy taxes to have him returned.
Dominos pizza isn’t good, but the XL Brooklyn Style with extra sauce and italian sausage is the closest thing to NY Style you can get from a chain store and actually is better than most Pizza purchased outside of NY.
Zone coverage may result in more interceptions(albeit, only with the right personnel, which we don’t currently have) but it also results in more big plays. Check the stats and you’ll see that I’m right. We already gave up enough big plays recently. I couldn’t stand to watch another season like that.
The “Jersey Shore” is a stupid and repulsive waste of airtime, even for the knuckleheads who love it.
Bleeding Blue since 1962
Any "reailty" tv is a waste
outside of sports.
by brisulph on Jan 22, 2010 1:47 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Zone
That’s kind of surprising — I’d think the average gain on a pass play vs. zone would be higher (since players are more likely to catch the football), but amount of huge plays would be less, since defenders are more likely to be in front of players catching the ball. Maybe I’m way off, though — do you have an actual stat?
+100000
for the jersey shore statement, i cant believe people watch that crap.
by donnybaseball23 on Jan 22, 2010 3:41 PM EST up reply actions
Heard about it, never watched it
Pre and during WWII, my mom had a business there. It was quite the place. Many of the beach cities attracted wealty socialite types. Some of the best hotels and beaches in the country were there. It all changed after the war when those wealthier types morphed into jet setters to destinations like the Riviera, etc. The hotels in Asbury Park started going downhiil during the war when the govt took them over to provide R&R for British. Mom was always an Anglophile, but the drunken escpades of those sailors changed her mind.
As far as LT is concerned....
there was and always will be only one LT
He is responsible for my favorite sports quote of all time- “I know I’ve laid a good hit on a guy when he blows a snot bubble out of his nose”.
Please pass the “mutton” leg, LT
Bleeding Blue since 1962
I think some of these need some clarification ...
1) Not the most blitzes, but effective blitzes, using the element of surprise and disquise. If the O knows you’re dialing it up every down, or who’s coming all that time, that is bad. But with so many 3-5 step drops these days, you can’t just rely on the front 4 beating their guys.
2) Zone is bad, if you don’t get pressure (see # 1 above). A good QB will pick you apart if he has too much time, no matter how good the DB’s.
4) LOL! “KG must go” has risen to an NFL – level myth. Well, that does tell you something.
5) Being aggressive is the key to just about any sport I can think of. Reacting to the opponent will only get you killed unless you are far superior talent wise. And if you are, you will kill them even more if you’re aggressive. Aggressive doesn’t mean being reckless or taking unnecessary chances, but rather putting physical and mental pressure on your opponent, to generate “forced errors”. Let them worry about what you’re going to do and not vice versa.
19) Dropping a DL into coverage is a normal part of the zone blitz, designed to capitalize on surprise and disquise (see # 1 above), which is fine. But the DL has to drop by back-pedaling, usually short and out in the flat, to guard against the screen or swing pass, and generally obstruct throwing lanes. In 2009, we had DL dropping back and chasing receivers as if they were in man-to-man with their back to the QB 25 yards downfield. That is what is retarded.
+1 Shof
Good clarification of terms. I like to call Sheridans defense the think and rethink versus the agressive act and react defense.
more like..
the think, pause, rethink, stumped…and just plain dazed & confused…did that just happen…
Opus smart , lascivio magis , intereo gauisus...
HA
Everyone please read number 19 again. It states that Steve Smith is the first Giant pro bowler since 1968 – ABSOLUTLEY FALSE. Dispelling my own Dispels.
What i meant to say was first wide out pro bowler.
Actually
I was not aware of any professional bowlers on the Giants
You can see a lot just by observing-Yogi Berra
I don't think anyone from the Tri-State Area
should even acknowledge the existence of chain pizza.
I live in the South, now, and pizza is always the first meal I have when I go back home.
Oh, and Killdrive's gotta go
He’s thrown too many times down the field on third and short w/ a 264 lbs RB at his disposal. I wish that was my only gripe.
how about the 264 RB runs like a 164lbs one?
Would that be a reason to throw deep?
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there- Yogi
by FreeBradshaw on Jan 22, 2010 3:06 PM EST up reply actions
i like #7
i wore my eli jersey at the end of the 07 season the entire 08 season and i actually only wore it 10 times this year, that is 25 and 9, and they are 0-10 when i dont wear it. i like to believe it works. and through the superbowl 42 playoffs i made my entire family sit in the same spots each week. i am as superstious as it gets.
by donnybaseball23 on Jan 22, 2010 3:37 PM EST reply actions
Free
I dont think anybody she kill Jacobs for this year. The OL was terrible, Hedgecock was hurt, and apparently he injured his knee at some point. Let’s see how he does this year. I think he bounces back.
When i say
Jersey Shore is great what i mean is this. it may be the best train wreck ever put on Television.
they dropped the ball tho...
when they showed “the punch” all week in commercials designed to get us to watch, but then when the show aired, they pulled it due to protests. weak. they get no fist pumps for that.
I'm Italian and it takes a lot to offend me
but that show is offensive . . . I mean terrible if they had a show that was as steriotypical of other ethnic groups it would be pulled off the air in a heartbeat. The sad part is going to the Jersey shore for my entire life Sea side hights has a lot of dirt bags like the guys on that show. I perferred Belmar thats where I met my wife . . . LOL!
Seaside Heights...that brings back memories..
Me and a buddy used to spend our weekends there…We stayed at a place called Rosalynnes Guest House, where you could rent basically a bed for 7 bucks a night..It was funnier than shit because even after 2 years of going there every weekend we had to listen to “Mrs C” give us a lecture about not bringing girls in her house nor mingling with girls staying there for sex (we broke that rule regularly!!..never got caught..after they hit the hay that frigging place would be like musical chairs with the girls and guys pairing up..To this day I don’t know how they didn’t hear the noise of creaking beds and moans..haha)..Her Husband “Mr C”..Was a big Steelers fan..He would sit on a chair in the middle of the living room with his beer in a pilsner glass..It was an older TV set..Well, one night before we went out we sat on the couch watching a game with him Steelers/Jets…After several beers, he got up to fuss with the tuner dial and tuned the fucking Steelers game out and the Dolphin/Raiders game in !!..Then he sat back down in his chair..I swear almost a full quarter went by before he realized he was watching the wrong fucking game !!..He was actually cheering for the Raiders I forget who the running back wearing 32 was, but he broke off a run..and “Mr C” was hollering: “Go Franco !!!” (we were laughing our asses off)..He then sat up straight as an arrow , turned to me and my buddy and said:“Which one of you little bastards changed my channel !!”..Well we laughed so hard my buddy literally flipped off the back of the couch howling..Neither one of us will ever forget that and to this day still laugh about it..You had to be there kind of moment..
Domino's
better than Papa John, worse than Pizza Hut, none of them should be placed on the same scale as real NY Pizza. I also occasionally am in the mood for Chicago Deep Dish style pizza, but that’s not real pizza either.
2009 Did Not Happen
Kevin Gilbride has to go
most of giants win is due to awesome defense! when our defense can’t perform, the offense rarely does its job vs when the offense sucked, the defense has a better impact on helping win the game.
we don’t know which offense will show up.
offense is not consistent
gilbride is just riding on the success of the defense (spag, fox,…, so is coughlin (and fassell) and skilled players we have on our offense.
if gilbride was so good, he’d be a headcoach somewhere else!
you do realize...
that without Gilbride being the OC…if we had a OC the caliber of the DC…and he actually had no clue…that the Giants would be 2-14 and be drafting Big Suh (YAY!!)
If the defense was mediocre this season…the Giants are in the playoffs with a chance this season…
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there- Yogi
by FreeBradshaw on Jan 22, 2010 7:36 PM EST up reply actions
Nice post Jacks
the blitzing D is the best. The Giants won a SB and Philly never did becasue we could pressure with 4 or 5 and keep the rest of the guys back in coverage vs big O’s. Philly needed to sent 6 or 7 guys to generate pressure and would get burned with over blitzing and not being able to cover (Screens vs NE in SB or Fitzy and ARZ in NFC Champ game)
Domino's is terrible
I’m in NJ I never eat at a Domino’s or Pizza hut or even for sanwiches subway. . . .way too many Italian pizzaria’s and Deli’s that are better. Seriously every town in NJ has 3 to 5 Italiain deli’s and Pizzaria’s that are great. . . I’m sure NY is similar, hell parts of PA are like that. I don’t know who eats Domino’s, people from the midwest or south?
that's my only choice up here in Mass.....
I only have Pizza every now and then…I just can’t do it…
Definitely..soon as I go back home. gotta get pies from the local pizzaria.
You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there- Yogi
by FreeBradshaw on Jan 22, 2010 8:25 PM EST up reply actions
Thats what sucks
I live in a rural area and thats what i’m stuck with, locals pizza! Sounds like Landeta has it made with his options. Thats what i would like, something authentic, whether it’s pizza, lasagna, spaghetti etc.
Yeah I'd rather eat horeshit than that..
When I moved South to Florida I asked one day why the bread was as soft as a sponge..They told me people complained that it was stale..You can’t find a damn crusty hardroll down here..The shit they make down here is like chewing gum..You can’t even have a conversation at lunch with anybody because your too busy chewing on that shit so ya can swallow it..If you want to talk you have to communicate by writing notes on the napkins and pass them back and forth.
Pizza Hut
My only compaint would be that it tends to be somewhat greasy, though i could tolerate it every once in awhile.
And you know what, i think your right about Dominos and the south. When i lived in Ft. Lauderdale, it seemed like there was a Dominos parked right next to a 7-11!
Try thin crust, jacks.
Great post.
here is another myth you may want to bust.
“The Cowboys can win with Tony Romo”
on second though, let them try and figure it out themselves
LarryHarryCarlPepper
by gr8kicks on Jan 22, 2010 8:21 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Well, Ed...
Another sign that we are in the off -season..We’re starting to talk about where you can obtain a good Pizza..After your finished teasing us with position breakdowns…I suggest we canvass our fellow fans on how they feel about “Five-Dollar Footlongs”.
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