Mr. Scot

Meanwhile Jim Harbaugh tells everyone in Michigan (again) that he didn't really want those NFL jobs, but even so they should consider NFL teams attempting to lure him away a good thing. Yyyyyyeah

Valid, but it's also true the NIL sh-t has pissed an awful lot of coaches off.

It gets better

Ooohhh, this is gonna be interesting

Read about it a little after Peter was drafted but before he was revealed to be a total bust. Not exactly one of my favorite memories Yikes Junior high Coach used to have us running sideways on a moderate incline but your story sounds much worse. And yes, I've puked at practice

Funny, but player positions aren't the only thing we can talk about here. Even the roles and duties on the coaching staff are not so narrowly defined as they once might have been. I imagine a conversation about that sort of thing might go something like this: "What does a quarterback coach do?" "He coaches quarterbacks." "How about a runningback coach?" " He coaches runningbacks." "What does an offensive line coach do?" "He coaches offensive linemen." "What does a passing game coordinator do?" "Wait...a what?" "Oh by the way, the runningback coach is also assistant head coach. What are his duties?" "He assists the head coach?!" "What does that mean?" "Uuummm...I don't know." "Okay" See, there was a time when you could just go down the list of a coaching staff and put what everybody did in a neat little box, but that's not really true anymore. And Frank Reich has made pretty clear that he plans for coaching to be a collaborative effort. This is a game for professionals, and thinkers. It's human chess, and checkers players aren't gonna do well. Why do you think our last head coach got fired?

Eeehhh, not really. To be honest, I considered continuing to give you joke names because you wouldn't know the answer anyway, but in reality there are different terms for it depending on who you talk to. That's not the point, though... The problem is your thinking as if football positions are something you just give a name to and write a job description for. I'm guessing you probably think everybody just goes by the old route tree (if you've ever even heard of that) as opposed to using things like mesh concepts as well. That sort of thinking might work at a youth football or middle school level where you can still just tell one kid to run a slant, another one to run an out and a third to take off on a post route, but we're talking about pro ball. (well, one of us is anyway) The game now is infinitely more complex than it was when I first started watching over fifty years ago. Personally, I think that's great. It's certainly harder to follow and keep up with than it once was, but that's fine with me because the mental exercise is fun. Clearly you don't agree. So feel free to continue acting like you know things that you don't. You're gonna look pretty stupid in the process, but apparently that hasn't bothered you so far. Again, I tried

They called it The Dirty Harry You really don't get it dude, but hey I tried...

Ouch Back when I played, they were still doing things like Oklahoma drills. We also ran something called a "Swedish Trot" that I think was originally conceived as a torture method. I remember our head coach getting hyped up about a piece of equipment he thought called "The Blaster". It blasted us all right Ah, the good old days...

Remember those positionless players? You can also throw in hybrids like what the Seahawks used to do with guys like Kam Chancellor. There's more, but to quote Arthur Fleck, you wouldn't get it Why? Because you're still thinking football is the same as it was decades ago. It's not. The game evolves. Hell, that's one of the things that makes it interesting and fun. If you just want to put everything in a little box and say "this is all there is", you're missing out. Seriously dude, here's an example of something you can take a little time and study to gain some actual knowledge of the game rather than just talking out your ass. Watch and learn. It'll make you smarter if you let it. Considerate a gift And there's plenty more where that came from. Following our buddy John Ellis on Twitter is a good place to start.

Few notes from Detroit... So wait, the Lions want more what they saw on the defensive side of the ball last year? Well...good luck with that Also... Brockers was drafted 14th overall in the same draft as Andrew Luck, RG3, Trent Richardson (yikes ), Ryan Tannehill, former Panthers Stephon Gilmore, Bruce Irvin, Matt Kalil and a certain middle linebacker who retired a few years back.

Yeah, actually they did But even if they hadn't, those positions all have different techniques and nuances associated with them. Hence, why a defensive end in one scheme might be a very different thing in another. See dude, all I'm actually doing here is thinking. The reason why it feels like overthinking to you is because frankly you're not thinking at all. And if you think I'm the only one who's noticed that, think again. (or, you know, for the first time) It's a pretty simple concept. If you don't understand the details of the modern game, don't act like you do. Ask questions and listen to people who do have an understanding of the things that you don't. That, or continue to look like a dumbass. The choice is yours

I remember former Bengals DL coach Tim Krumrie once went over to a young prospect and engaged him in some hand fighting to test him. That drill became part of the Combine for a while too after it impressed a lot of coaches and personnel guys. Unfortunately for us, that little event also helped convince a then Panthers executive that we should draft the player Krumrie had tested. The player in question was Jason Peter

Yeah...wrong. In fact the league has seen quite a few of what's been called "positionless players" over the last several years. This scheme lends itself to some of that. As to debating, the problem is you don't study anything yet you come in acting like you know stuff. Listening to you makes it quite apparent that you don't, and thus you come off looking dumb and arrogant. If you actually want to be able to have a decent, informed discussion here, you seriously need to read, study, watch videos and learn the game. If that feels like it's not worth the effort, fine. But continuing to come in and make bold proclamations about things you don't understand just makes you look really silly. What you do on here is roughly equivalent to writing an extensive review of a movie you've never seen, then trying to convince all of us that despite never watching a single second of it you still know everything about it...even when it's painfully obvious you don't. I've given you plenty of good advice on how not to look like a nitwit on here. Whether or not you take any of it is up to you.

If you watched the Staley presser today, you probably heard him talk just a bit about the Combine drill that bears his name...though he calls it the "T Drill". Staley even challenged Sheena Quick to try running it. She says she will sometime next week...after training This tweet includes a clip of it being run...

Had a chance to listen to this on the way back from an appointment today. Wasn't planning to but got intrigued after reading your comment. Yeah... He unironically refers to himself in third person something close to half a dozen times over the course of the presser. Between that and other things, I could definitely see where he might put some people off. I'd say the biggest reason for the "odd vibe" that you and others have mentioned Is that it sounds like he's absolutely convinced he's much much smarter than you and so he needs to talk down to you just a little. It was definitely a contrast from what we got here. About thirty seconds into hearing both Thomas Brown and Duce Staley, I felt like I'd happily (hell, eagerly) run through a wall for either of them. With Bieniemy, I think if I werr one of his players I'd be kind of quietly nodding my head and saying "Sure, coach" while wondering whether or not this was actually gonna work out. My two cents...

Appreciate this comment from Sheena Quick...

Not all 3-4 schemes are the same. There are some specific details to how Evero runs his. Also helps if you remember the comment from Reich, "I hired a man, not a scheme". And it's not overthinking. It's knowing what you're talking about, which you potentially could if you spent more time asking questions instead of making bold pronouncements despite your own admission that you don't study the game.

I would have no issue at all going with pretty much the same triumvirate we had last year. Staley made it pretty clear in his remarks that he wants a stable of backs, not one star back.

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Linebacker is actually pretty important to the kind of defense we're going to be running. If you listened to Jourdan Rodrigue's breakdown of Evero's defense, you'd know that.

I should throw in that while he also doesn't need to be introduced to us, I'd love to see a James Campen presser. But to be clear, I want his remarks to be delivered in the form of a wrestling promo (we already know he's familiar with that style)

Wouldn't bet on "big money" but it wouldn't exactly be shocking to see us check on him and / or others like him. As far as what "mode" were in, Reich has made that pretty clear in previous statements. It's neither "win now" mode or "win later" mode. It's "win all the time" mode.

To clarify, everybody who spoke this week has an elevated title above the level of position coach: Brown - Offensive Coordinator Evero - Defensive Coordinator Caldwell - Senior Assistant Capers - Senior Defensive Assistant Staley - Assistant Head Coach Basically the executive level of our coaching staff...minus Chris Tabor who, as the saying goes, needs no introduction. Whether any of the individual position coaches will also be giving press conferences or not? My guess would be no, but I suppose it's possible.

Guys like that have value in that they can teach the younger players some of their methods and tricks. Will we look at him? Unknown.