Incompetent Sports Journalism

[chris heff]

And when did a “shovel pass” become a “shuttle pass”?

[Ralonzo]

[MikePJ76]

The worst modern offender is "arm talent"  

 

The dumbest possible way to talk about arm strength.  Arm talent.  Just ridiculous.

[Big Turk]

3 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Whatever happened to the nose guard. 1 tech, 3 tech, 5 tech…. dumb, all of them.  Everyone knew what a nose guard was. I’m still looking for a halfback.  

 

Noseguard is only in a 3-4

[djp14150]

3 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Whatever happened to the nose guard. 1 tech, 3 tech, 5 tech…. dumb, all of them.  Everyone knew what a nose guard was. I’m still looking for a halfback.  

A full back

half back

or quarter back

 

What is more?

[WhitewalkerInPhilly]

2 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Basically. You don't get many true 0 techs these days, even in teams running 3-4 style Ds but yea, in principle.

 

2 tech essentially has the responsibility of playing both the A gap and the B gap. Rex used to like a lot of two gapping IDL looks.

One of the things I liked about Pettine's time (Rex disciple) was that he knew that he had something special in the Dareus, Kyle and Mario combo but on base sets would roll in a 5 tech (which is a lot easier to find than a 0 tech) to gum up run lanes and give those three one on ones. Plus Hughes rotating in for double digit sacks 

 

Man we had some amazing defensive talent that got wasted.

[UConn James]

1 hour ago, MPL said:

We really have to stop calling anything with words journalism. What's next? This thread is journalism?

Last I know, SI was sold, everybody was laid off in cost-cutting, and it's basically like three guys in their mums' basements, probably with the help of some crappy AI. It's running on the fumes of what its brand recognition once was... which is what a lot of news / media outlets are doing these days.

[Mr. WEO]

5 hours ago, GunnerBill said:

 

Yes, it essentially refers to which gap you play in. A 1 tech plays in the A gap (between a center and a guard) and a 3 tech the B gap (between a guard and a tackle). 

 
left one out..

 

[HOUSE]

This was an amazing find 

[Buffalo716]

6 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Then why not….”Nose Guard”?

One is a general term one is more formal

 

0 1 3 5 7 9 technique have all been used for decades.. something like nose guard is still used but it's more informally used

Edited September 23 by Buffalo716

[Mark Vader]

6 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Whatever happened to the nose guard. 1 tech, 3 tech, 5 tech…. dumb, all of them.  Everyone knew what a nose guard was. I’m still looking for a halfback.  

Didn't the Nose Guard become Nose Tackle?

[Buffalo716]

3 hours ago, MikePJ76 said:

The worst modern offender is "arm talent"  

 

The dumbest possible way to talk about arm strength.  Arm talent.  Just ridiculous.

I don't think the word arm talent correlates with just pure arm strength.. in fact people will still use the word Arm strength 

 

The whole arm talent word describes the entirety of his ability to throw.. can he do it from the pocket and on the run? Can he change arm angles to get it over or around defenders and still be accurate? Can he drop a ball over a linebacker under a safety? 

 

All of that encompasses what they describe arm talent not just the strength of his arm 

 

 not every quarterback has the ability to easily drop arm angles and still be accurate.. not every quarterback throws a good ball on the run.. not every quarterback can make the throw Josh made the Josh Palmer versus the Ravens.. can you deliver a strike while getting hit hard staring down pressure? Can you throw somebody open?

 

Thats arm talent when they talk about it

Edited September 23 by Buffalo716

[frostbitmic]

8 hours ago, Fleezoid said:

 

I'm wondering where the Strong Safety went. 

He was replaced by a second Free Safety to save costs.

[EmotionallyUnstable]

Walker has played a ton of 1T snaps since Oliver has gone out, with DQ Jones bumping to the 3. I imagine he’ll get more 3T opportunities when Ed is back. 

[Ed_Formerly_of_Roch]

9 hours ago, BigAl2526 said:

I ran across this article this morning, and it made me roll my eyes.

 

Deone Walker

 

The gist of the article is that Deone Walker could be a steal at 3 technique.  Fine!  I agree.  He's still young and has a lot of developing to do, but he has certainly made some big plays in a season that is only three weeks old.  Here is the line that makes me wonder what rock the author crawled out from under and why Sports media outlets (in this case Sports Illustrated) hire such incompetence.  Here is the line that blew me away. "Still, many fans wanted the Bills to draft a "big man" and assumed he fit into the 3-technique spot, currently occupied by DaQuan Jones. Walker stands at 6'7" and weighs over 330 pounds. Men that size are typically 3-tech players."  As any serious football fan understands, it is the 1 tech defensive tackle who is typically bigger but may not be as mobile as the (typically) more mobile 3 tech.  Daquan Jones is a 1 tech.  Ed Oliver is a 3 tech all day long, even though injuries forced Buffalo to use Oliver as a one tech some of the time.  Now it's true that Deone Walker will probably be asked to play some 1 tech, but like his college career at Kentucky he probably won't be locked into it.  At Kentucky, he moved all over the defensive line.  Locking him into the 1 tech spot all the time would violate what the Bills say they want to do.  "Enable the players to be the best version of themselves."  The big issue I have is that the author doesn't seem to understand what differentiates 1 tech and 3 tech.  You'd think a guy who writes about football professionally would understand these things.  It's pretty basic stuff. 

 

Looking at the context of it, makes it sound like he understood the role of Jones and Walker and somehow either through editing or someplace else it was mistakenly written as 3-tech instead on 1

 

 

9 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Whatever happened to the nose guard. 1 tech, 3 tech, 5 tech…. dumb, all of them.  Everyone knew what a nose guard was. I’m still looking for a halfback.  

 

And where is the split end and flanker.  At least we still have quarterbacks! 

 

Think Abbott and Costello could do a good bit on football players position/names.

 

[mbs]

7 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

I'll bet you $20 an AI chat bot wrote that entire piece.

This^ except a bazillion dollars. This is exactly the kind of mistake found in AI slop.

[Dan Darragh]

16 hours ago, WotAGuy said:

Whatever happened to the nose guard. 1 tech, 3 tech, 5 tech…. dumb, all of them.  Everyone knew what a nose guard was. I’m still looking for a halfback.  

I'm still wondering what's the difference between a flanker and a split end.

[WotAGuy]

1 hour ago, Dan Darragh said:

I'm still wondering what's the difference between a flanker and a split end.

There’s just one term used now.  Diva. 

[H2o]

There are a bunch of 🤡 reporters who write a bunch of 🤡 articles on a daily/weekly basis. They consistently show their lack of knowledge on whom or what they are writing about. In some instances, they just say the wildest things looking for clicks and views. That's what it has turned into now versus quality journalism as a whole. 

Edited September 24 by H2o

[BillsPride12]

I miss the 90s when the prototype for a Nose Tackle was a guy like Ted Washington, Jerry Ball, Gilbert Brown etc...