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    Diggs' Drama

    in The Stadium Wall

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    4 minutes ago, hondo in seattle said:

     

    Weirdly, Brady reminds me of a pinball player I knew 40+ years ago.   

     

    I can't sing, dance, carry or tune, or much of anything else actually.  I'm a man of remarkably few talents.  But in college I took to pinball like a duck takes to water.  Pinball was a big thing back then and I set the campus records on several of the most popular machines.  Bring on that deaf, dumb, and blind kid - I was the real wizard!


    But then one day, I saw a small crowd around a new player and instantly disliked him.  This was the late 1970's and the kid dressed like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.  I dressed in jeans and a t-shirt.  He played with a cigarette dangling from his lips.  I was an avowed anti-smoker.  He probably went disco dancing at night with girls crowded around him (besides being stylish - in a way I detested - he was good looking).  I spent my nights alone in my room listening to flannel-shirt wearing Rory Gallagher play bluesy rock.   We were opposites.  

     

    But one by one, the freaking Disco King starting breaking my records.   When I watched him play, I couldn't figure out how.  His slap-save was pretty good but he didn't even try to execute the fancy passes or combination back-handed shots I did.   When we started playing together, he beat me 7 or 8 times out of 10 despite having no discernible skills besides keeping the ball in play.  

     

    Finally, irked, I asked what his secret was.  He expained that I had no rhythm.  My play style was stop-and-go as I set up shots.  While he didn't have my fancy shots, there was a rhythm to what he did that wasn't discernible to me at first.  I couldn't compete with him until I learned that.  When I finally did, it was like I was finally seeing & understanding something that had been entirely invisible to me before.


    And that's what I think about Brady's offense.  We may not see a lot of explosive plays.  We may not see lots of long passes.  We may not see a lot of fancy Daboll stuff.   But there's a rhythm to Brady's that includes few turnovers, good time-of-possession, some boring cloud of dust stuff, and - for all its dullness - points on the board.  

     

     

    What a great story. By chance was the guy who beat you blind and named Tommy? (Side note, if you're ever in Vegas you need to visit the pinball hall of Fame! Incredible place for pinball fans)

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    THIS TEAM

    in The Stadium Wall

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    3 minutes ago, Savage said:

    This was my original post.

     

    wasn’t overly critical, just my opinion.

     

     

    “This team will never win the SB with this coach.

     

    Too soft, too weak, too scared, too much of a pu$$y.

     

    The Bills should run as fast as they can from the stadium, because the dodged a bullet”

    You sound like a guy who says not to be offensive, before you say something wildly offensive

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