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    D Personal on Tush Push TD

    in The Stadium Wall

    Posted · Edited by Coffeesforclosers

    11 minutes ago, st pete gogolak said:

    So, the consensus is that the play is unstoppable and if the Eagles are in 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1 you just concede the yard or the TD?  

     

    Not even close. The Brotherly Shove is a rugby scrum, repackaged to be NFL legal.  The big difference is rugby players can hang onto each other so they can pack more bodies and more force into small spaces. 

    NFL players are not allowed to "bind", like rugby players are, so the Eagles line their OL up with their shoulderpads almost touching.

     

    It's just that NFL teams refuse to fight it using rugby principles.  Instead they trot out angled alignments, or some version of "the lowest blocker wins".  And get steamrolled over, and over, and over.

     

     

     

    To even start beating it, the DL needs to match mass and alignment with mass and alignment...like two scrums do in Rugby.  DL have to play heads up on every OL, or squared up in every gap to even have a chance.  Otherwise, you just help create the carpet of downed players for Hurts to slide over.

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    Around the NFL, Week 12 of 18

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    12 minutes ago, boyst said:

    The Steelers are the most Billsy team in the nfl

     

    Apart from the six Superbowl wins, I guess you're right?

    6 minutes ago, UKBillFan said:

     

    Especially if the Pats somehow win.

     

    How awesome would that be?  The personally I want the Pats to end up around the 7 win mark.  That should put them comfortably out of contention for a top QB prospect, but in pole position for a oversized MLB or a scrappy, undersized WR from Rutgers.

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    Democracy’s Fiery Ordeal: The War in Ukraine 🇺🇦

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    3 hours ago, sherpa said:

     

    I'm not having any problem linking to it, either through my original post or your quote, and no, it is not from Michael Koffman.

     

    It's working now, they must have resolved whatever copyright crap was going on.

     

    3 hours ago, sherpa said:

    It strts with an in detail view of the air war, but at the 31:38 mark, gets into a detailed discussion of what is really going on and what is at stake.

     

    Good. I appreciate the clarity of his argumentation.

     

    TLDR for everyone who doesn't have an hour:

     

    The war in Ukraine is an artillery war.  Whoever has access to the most shells for the longest period of time has the upper hand.  Right now, Ukraine has the upper hand, but it's slipping because Russia has shifted to a war economy, and has massively expanded production of artillery shells and rockets. Ukraine uses its upper hand to massacre Russian infantry with artillery fire.  This forces Russia to pack its front lines with barely trained recruits, where they die in droves.  Because so many of Russia's recruits die in droves to Ukrainian artillery without getting much training, the Russian army is too small and too poorly trained to decisively beat Ukraine. 

     

    -For now-

     

    If Ukraine's supply of artillery ammunition can't keep up with Russia's, then Russia gains the upper hand.  It is unlikely that Ukraine will keep up, because Europe refuses to make long term investment in its artillery ammunition infrastructure. This refusal is because Europe views the Ukraine war as a temporary inconvenience that is very expensive, which diverts from the real business at hand which is stability and economic growth. Which is all fine and dandy, except what happens if Ukraine loses, and Europe is suddenly staring at a fully-mobilized Russia, with a large, experienced, modern army, a vast nuclear arsenal, and the notion that all former Soviet states are its rightful property?

     

    And of course, Russia's ally China is achieving its military modernization goals with worrying speed and efficiency.  This new Chinese military can only have one real enemy in mind, the USA, which means America might not be around to prop up European security if Russia successfully disentangles itself from Ukraine with a favorable settlement, or an outright win. Because America has many powerful Allies in the Indo-Pacific that it must defend.  So actually, Russia and China are incentivizing eachother to press forward, either in their current war (Russia), or towards future war (China), because Europe views Ukraine as an expensive incovenience, and does not take defense and defense production seriously on strategic level, and so provides no real deterrent threat to Russia.

    Democracy’s Fiery Ordeal: The War in Ukraine 🇺🇦

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

    Posted · Edited by Coffeesforclosers

    23 hours ago, sherpa said:

    These are the two guys I trust when evaluating the entire situation, and sums up my view.

    I get that it's a one hour video, but well worth the watch.

    The discussion of the value of continuing to pursue this starts at the 31:38 mark.

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmMclP8dlI0

     

    Before that is a detailed air war discussion. Very good and informative for those who are not familiar.

     

      

    This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Alexander Rybalchenko.

     

    Is this work by Michael Koffman?

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    Jets @ Bills Postgame thread

    in The Stadium Wall

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    5 minutes ago, BillsFan130 said:

    Ya Salah talking about embarrassing Josh, Mahomes, Hurts etc 


    Well, Josh and the boys embarrassed his “top D” tonight 

     

    I admit I lost it a little tonight.  When the camera panned over to Salah, I was shouting at the TV "Where you at Salah? You were talking all that good ***** yesterday?"

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    Jets @ Bills Postgame thread

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    The offense seemed far, far less disjointed and far, far less predictable.

     

    Brady called a great game, and whatever changes he and Kromer made to the run game were fantastic. The number of times the OL was able to blast holes in the Jets defensive front was truly relieving.  That Jets DL is no joke and they were getting rag dolled over and over for 4-6 yard gains.

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    Broncos @ Bills Game Thread - 1st half

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    Just now, Simstim said:

    Joined in a bit late this evening. Not the best start I see. First thing that happens is Gabe dropping a fast ball.

     

    Disappointing

     

     

     

    But expected.  Unlike the people in this thread who think a receiver who think it's ok for a receiver to drop a ball that hits him in the hands.

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