The consequence to getting so much praise for all those straight-arm highlights

[Sierra Foothills]

19 hours ago, strive_for_five_guy said:

He definitely deserves a stern talking to

 

Agreed.

 

And even though I would advise against corporal punishment in this case (him being a respected veteran), maybe the implication of corporal punishment... maybe have a group of linemen take him into a small, dark room to have that stern talking to. Maybe have one of  them holding a truncheon or a black jack...  perhaps have a thumb screw on a table... just to drive the point home.

 

2 hours ago, Buffalo03 said:

You confuse me when you say "straight arm". It's stiff arm. If I heard more people say "he for straight armed" my first response would he "he got what?"

 

From Brittanica:

 

straight–arm  /ˈstreɪtˌɑɚm/  noun

plural straight–arms

Britannica Dictionary definition of STRAIGHT–ARM

[count] American football

: the act of pushing another player away from you with the palm of your hand while your arm is fully extended

— called also stiff-arm

— straight–arm

 verb straight–arms; straight–armed;straight–arming [+ object]

The ball-carrier straight-armed the tackler.

 

Both terms are acceptable.

 

[FireChans]

An absolutely absurd premise from start to finish.

 

woof

[Jon in Pasadena]

Perhaps "Little Ed" is so little that in the heat of the moment Henry thought he was a safety?

[Thrivefourfive]

Speaking of straight arms. Jackson straight arms inside a collapsing pocket WITH HIS RIGHT ARM. He switches the ball to his left to do this. Now how’s he gonna throw with his left.. From this point forward, the league can’t say they haven’t been told. 

[ChronicAndKnuckles]

2 hours ago, Augie said:

 

 

….except they don’t make MLBs that way any more. Hence, the mismatch. 

I feel like Buffalo was one of the last NFL teams with the prototypical old school middle LB Brandon Spikes. 
 

compare Spikes 6’3 255

 

to Terrell Bernard now 6’1 220 

that’s all you need to know about the total change in philosophy 

Edited September 13 by ChronicAndKnuckles

[Augie]

7 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

I feel like Buffalo was one of the last NFL teams with the prototypical old school middle LB Brandon Spikes. 
 

compare Spikes 6’3 255

 

to Terrell Bernard now 6’1 220 

that’s all you need to know about the total change in philosophy 

 

Yep, different times, and a different game. Imagine Spikes trying to keep up with Cook out in space. That only ends well for us if Cook is wearing the Bills jersey. 

[FireChans]

33 minutes ago, ChronicAndKnuckles said:

I feel like Buffalo was one of the last NFL teams with the prototypical old school middle LB Brandon Spikes. 
 

compare Spikes 6’3 255

 

to Terrell Bernard now 6’1 220 

that’s all you need to know about the total change in philosophy 

Jack Campbell is 6’5 246.

 

Edmunds was around there too.

 

You simply can’t live in the NFL anymore if you can’t cover. 
 

Those old Panthers teams had their fair share of smaller LB’s. Thomas Davis was an excellent coverage off ball LB and he was in that same size category as Bernard. He was drafted in the first round in 2005. 
 

Our very own Shaq Thompson, a first round pick in 2015, also fit that mold.

 

2 down players have gone the way of the dodo just like big 2 down 1Ts. You can still be a big hulking MLB, you just can’t be a zero in coverage.

[skibum]

I don’t think Henry is giving stiff arms for the attention. 

[nuklz2594]

5 hours ago, Augie said:

 

 

….except they don’t make MLBs that way any more. Hence, the mismatch. 

Hamlet and coolant would've killed Lamar and Mahomes

[Pharaoh716]

No choice but to release him

[NoSaint]

10 hours ago, Thurman#1 said:

 

 

Nobody's asking for him to change his style. Or to eliminate all straight-arms. 

 

But yeah, when they get to you in the backfield, and it's a DL that's on you, that's not the time for him to be straight-arming. It just isn't.

 

I'm very very sure they will coach him up on that. But  it should never have happened. IMO this is partly a result of the fawning he hears when he gets a highlight play from a straight-arm.

 

 

 

Heh heh. This.

 

 

 

It's not nothing. It's a bad play, a mental mistake. A bad play that probably cost his team the game. Elite players make them too. And then do their best to iron out the problem.

 

 

 

 

Can you point out where I used the word arrogance? I did chuckle at RochesterLifer's joke there. But I wasn't trying to imply arrogance so much as a bit of wanting to see himself on "Angry Runs" again this week, maybe allowing his excitement about the great feedback he usually gets about that tactic to twist his sense of when it's good to use it.

 

And I would argue that "it" doesn't almost always work, if "it" refers to using the straight-arm in the backfield when already in the grip of a DL who's larger than him. I'm sure his coaches won't be telling him never to use the straight-arm again. But almost surely they've already told him there are times when it's just a bad idea, and he's got to better figure out when those times are.

 

Still a terrific runner, though. 

 

 

obviously he will watch the rep and try to do better. 
 

constructing some out of thin air narrative is silly though.