ISIS has a uniform?I think the outage is that it's not clearly an isis guy, like he's not wearing a uniform or doesnt have it written on his shirt to distinguish himself from other muslims.
ISIS has a uniform?I think the outage is that it's not clearly an isis guy, like he's not wearing a uniform or doesnt have it written on his shirt to distinguish himself from other muslims.
You don't think that that shirt feels upbeat and optimistic?I'm more outraged that someone blatantly ripped off Life Is Good with a complete betrayal of what it stands for.
Lol, you know what I meant man. It's obvious what the graphic is suggesting, but I'm not shocked people might get upset over it. A simple "ISIS" lettering on his shirt may have assuaged some cries from those looking for an easy target.ISIS has a uniform?
It sounds like the design may predate ISIS's existence.Lol, you know what I meant man. It's obvious what the graphic is suggesting, but I'm not shocked people might get upset over it. A simple "ISIS" lettering on his shirt may have assuaged some cries from those looking for an easy target.
This is their color splash for Thursday Night Terror.ISIS has a uniform?
Sure, but this isn't exactly some mass-market shirt. It was likely made by a K9 unit for just their guys.Lol, you know what I meant man. It's obvious what the graphic is suggesting, but I'm not shocked people might get upset over it. A simple "ISIS" lettering on his shirt may have assuaged some cries from those looking for an easy target.
High-quality electronics and home appliances from South Korea?I'm more outraged that someone blatantly ripped off Life Is Good with a complete betrayal of what it stands for.
OK, now I'm outraged.High-quality electronics and home appliances from South Korea?
And as always with ESPN, Don't. Read. The. Comments.ESPN does a statistical breakdown of Belichick's press conference content last year, complete with data and word-count averages and exploration of various topics.
shockingly, Mark Bavaro does not appear in the analysis.
He could have done better in all three phases: Capitalization, line breaks and attribution.
Interesting that the Pats Pulpit story made no mention of Belichick's resposes about the CTE questions that he was asked.From Patspulpit.com:
https://www.patspulpit.com/2017/7/26/16034298/new-england-patriots-training-camp-bill-belichick-joint-practices-detroit-lions-press-conference
The event, which took place 25 minutes behind schedule, featured typical Belichickian non-answers but emphasized the team's general mind-set: “What people have done some other year it’s really meaningless for the 2017 season.”
The final question of the day was a personal one, whether or not the coach still enjoyed the process and starting from scratch. Belichick's answer was today's press conference in a nutshell: “I don’t really think we’re going from scratch.”
No words.
Video here, along with snark meterAbsolutely classic sequence from Friday's press conference:
Q: How do you help a guy along like Cyrus Jones who has had some issues in the return game?
BB: We work with all the players on all of the things that we think that they need to improve on. They work on those. Everybody has things they can improve on out there, every single player, a lot of things and coaches for that matter. We're all working on them – everything that we all need to improve on. Hopefully, we'll be better tomorrow than we were today, better on Saturday than we were on Friday and so forth. Just keep moving ahead. Look, everybody has things they need to work on. In some cases it's a lengthy list, starting with me.
Q: Would you say there are more running backs in this group who are comfortable as receivers than perhaps in other years?
BB: We'll see. I don't know.
Q: Do you know when Joe Cardona and Rob Ninkovich will return to the team from their absences?
BB: Well, when they are I'll be sure to notify you.
And then, BB has had enough:
Q: Austin Carr had a nice grab yesterday in the corner of the end zone. What have you seen from him from the spring until now?
BB: Right. You know, you guys are asking a lot of questions about what have we seen from ‘this' guy, what are we seeing from ‘that' guy. We've yet to put on pads, alright? I understand that this is a pretty talented group of evaluators in this room, but in all honesty our evaluations come more in training camp when we actually practice and we can fully execute the techniques and the plays that we're trying to do. So the main thing we try to get done in the spring and the main thing we're trying to get done in these two days is to teach the players what to do to give them the most fundamental instruction that we can, given the restraints that we have on practice. Then when padded practices and, I would say real training camp starts tomorrow, we'll continue for quite a while after that, including the preseason games, is when the real evaluations start. So I know everybody's all excited when a guy catches a pass, but when the defense doesn't jam him or their not allowed to really, because we don't want heavy contact out there, aren't competing for contact at the end of the play then it's not quite the same as when all of that's going on. I'm not taking anything away from the receivers. I'm not taking anything away from anybody. I'm just saying it is what it is. The competitive level out there is not what it's going to be starting tomorrow, so to evaluate players competitively when they're not on a competitive level, I have a hard time with. But I know a lot of the people are real good at that and they can make a lot more out of it than I can, but due to my personal limitations and my personal inability to make those evaluations, I don't make them. We can keep asking about how everybody does on ‘this' and how everybody does on 'that'. The main thing for me is to see if they're doing the right thing, doing it properly, how we can correct that, and then there will be a point in time where everybody will be able to go out and do it to the best of their ability against very competitive players on the other side of the ball and we'll see what happens. That's when the evaluations really start, other than if a person can't take the instruction and do what you're asking them to do or can't do it properly, you can evaluate that. But in some cases it's hard to evaluate how they're doing competitively against somebody else when it's really not a competitive situation.
That's awesome. How long as the Snark Meter been a thing?Video here, along with snark meter
Maybe since this?That's awesome. How long as the Snark Meter been a thing?
That was definitely a chart topper. Where would the Mona Lisa rant rate?Maybe since this?
The long answer may be snarky but it's very thorough and informative. It covers what they want players to accomplish before the pads come on and how the coaches evaluate that, then how that changes with "real" practices.Absolutely classic sequence from Friday's press conference:
Q: How do you help a guy along like Cyrus Jones who has had some issues in the return game?
BB: We work with all the players on all of the things that we think that they need to improve on. They work on those. Everybody has things they can improve on out there, every single player, a lot of things and coaches for that matter. We're all working on them – everything that we all need to improve on. Hopefully, we'll be better tomorrow than we were today, better on Saturday than we were on Friday and so forth. Just keep moving ahead. Look, everybody has things they need to work on. In some cases it's a lengthy list, starting with me.
Q: Would you say there are more running backs in this group who are comfortable as receivers than perhaps in other years?
BB: We'll see. I don't know.
Q: Do you know when Joe Cardona and Rob Ninkovich will return to the team from their absences?
BB: Well, when they are I'll be sure to notify you.
And then, BB has had enough:
Q: Austin Carr had a nice grab yesterday in the corner of the end zone. What have you seen from him from the spring until now?
BB: Right. You know, you guys are asking a lot of questions about what have we seen from ‘this' guy, what are we seeing from ‘that' guy. We've yet to put on pads, alright? I understand that this is a pretty talented group of evaluators in this room, but in all honesty our evaluations come more in training camp when we actually practice and we can fully execute the techniques and the plays that we're trying to do. So the main thing we try to get done in the spring and the main thing we're trying to get done in these two days is to teach the players what to do to give them the most fundamental instruction that we can, given the restraints that we have on practice. Then when padded practices and, I would say real training camp starts tomorrow, we'll continue for quite a while after that, including the preseason games, is when the real evaluations start. So I know everybody's all excited when a guy catches a pass, but when the defense doesn't jam him or their not allowed to really, because we don't want heavy contact out there, aren't competing for contact at the end of the play then it's not quite the same as when all of that's going on. I'm not taking anything away from the receivers. I'm not taking anything away from anybody. I'm just saying it is what it is. The competitive level out there is not what it's going to be starting tomorrow, so to evaluate players competitively when they're not on a competitive level, I have a hard time with. But I know a lot of the people are real good at that and they can make a lot more out of it than I can, but due to my personal limitations and my personal inability to make those evaluations, I don't make them. We can keep asking about how everybody does on ‘this' and how everybody does on 'that'. The main thing for me is to see if they're doing the right thing, doing it properly, how we can correct that, and then there will be a point in time where everybody will be able to go out and do it to the best of their ability against very competitive players on the other side of the ball and we'll see what happens. That's when the evaluations really start, other than if a person can't take the instruction and do what you're asking them to do or can't do it properly, you can evaluate that. But in some cases it's hard to evaluate how they're doing competitively against somebody else when it's really not a competitive situation.
The chuckling heard off camera through that clip is great.That was definitely a chart topper.
But at the same time, you wouldn’t necessarily start from scratch and teach a player who has kind of a blank slate to do it that way because fundamentally you see some flaws in it. I’d say the biggest lesson or experience I learned on that was with Everson Walls when I had him with the Giants. He came from Dallas, and he had a very unorthodox way of covering in man-to-man coverage and his footwork was unorthodox, his eye control was, again, not something that you would teach. That’s probably because not a lot of guys could do it.
But he had his way of doing it, and he could do it pretty well and one of the first things I told Everson was “I’m not going to try to change your style but you have to understand what your responsibilities are on the defense and you have to perform those responsibilities, but I’ll give you some latitude in the technique and the style as long as you can get the job done.”
He said, “OK, I fully understand that. I want to meet the requirements of the position on the defense on a particular call, but let me do it my way and I’ll get it done. I don’t know if I can do it your way because I’ve been doing it this other way for so long.”
I said “That’s fine,” and the guy had—whatever he had, 60 interceptions—or however many it was. It was a lot. He played very well for us and, as I said, I learned a lot from Everson because he just did things differently than any other defensive back on the team, or in all honesty, really any other defensive back I’ve coached.
I've actually decided this to read as Belichick has begun colonizing the rest of the league with his own coaches so he has other guys he can trust to run proper joint practices with him that give him a leg up on competition who hasn't figured an equally effective way to train up players under the new "less contact" rules.All a reporter need do is ask a good, on point question. Just one.
You get good answers:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/08/14/belichick-unfazed-by-joint-practices-with-a-familiar-foe/#comments
Of course, this is not click bait, and that's the talking heads' issue with him.
Hahaha, and they say the man doesn't have a sense of humor.Belichick is running through his history with Crennel: "We worked with the Patriots together, then another team, then back to the Patriots."
Bill Belichick explains trade of Jacoby Brissett for Phillip DorsettWhen asked why he traded Brissett, he replied, “To acquire Dorsett.”
He later added: “If you want something you have to give up something. That’s what trades are.”