Alfie Dogs

A defensive TD from a turnover is a play of monumental importance. What I found notable about this play was that only two players won that play on Defense and both players where equally responsible. Bain and Barrow.  Immediately after the snap, Barrow gets double teamed, #52 attacks the single team guard but immediately loses balance and is escorted away from the running gap, and Bain has the left tackle 2 yards behind the line of scrimmage and the runner hasn’t even touched the ball yet. Bain has overpowered and slipped the Left Tackle!! And Barrow is fighting to split the double team, everyone else in the interior is completely out of position. Barrow slips the double team and occupies the gap, and Bain from the RE position is the first to make contact with the runner and basically makes the tackle before the runner reaches the line of scrimmage   Almost simultaneously the runner, after Bains contact, stumbles right into Barrow who has split the double team and stone walls t...

  The greatest TE QB of all time just so happens to be the greatest QB of all time. Among the countless accolades he amassed during his mythical career, I would like to add another career record which DWARFS his competitors. Tom Brady has 100 career touchdown passes to the Tight End position, second in that stat is Rivers with 42.  Last year when analysts marveled at the short timing excellence of Tua, I got nervous. You see, it is all gravy when you can go through two reads and release before the timing gap expires, but once it expires the QB is forced to buy time. Buy time with pocket presence, buy time with athleticism, buy time with poise. The complete TE lives his pass catching career during this window of time. I feel it is important to qualify “a complete TE” so lets use metrics. Qualifications  Must be Good or above at both blocking and passing. PFF grades above 60 in both. A TE that can’t block is a slow WR, and a TE that can’t pass-catch is a small offensive lin...

  MUST READ. Kavanaugh Concurring Conclusion. “….The NCAA nonetheless asserts that its compensation  rules are pro-competitive because those rules help define the product of college sports. Specifically, the NCAA says that  colleges may decline to pay student athletes because the de fining feature of college sports, according to the NCAA, is  that the student athletes are not paid.  In my view, that argument is circular and unpersuasive.  The NCAA couches its arguments for not paying student athletes in innocuous labels. But the labels cannot disguise  the reality: The NCAA’s business model would be flatly il legal in almost any other industry in America. All of the  restaurants in a region cannot come together to cut cooks’  wages on the theory that “customers prefer” to eat food from low-paid cooks. Law firms cannot conspire to cabin lawyers’  salaries in the name of providing legal services out of a “love of the law.” Hospitals cannot...

As I watched Barkov carry the cup as the captain of a championship team I had an epiphany. The thing is, I have always had my issues with his game. Despite winning the cup, all the very same issues occurred, costly turnovers in the defensive zone, clumsy puck creativity in the offensive zone. Just then I remembered how I view Basketball, how it offends me that a two-way sport is only perceived from an offensive lens. Barkov is the Giannis Antetokounmpo of Hockey, a devastating athlete with size, speed, and length, playing a two-way sport. The two most demanding two-way athlete sports are Basketball and Hockey. The size of their playing field and the pace of the sports punishes inferior athletes eventually And Yet The NBA and the NHL do not obsess over athleticism, there is no NBA/NHL RAS Score. I believe that a RAS score for NBA/NHL players would be far more valuable than that of the NFL. The narrative of ELITE athleticism in the NFL is OVERWHELMING. A Perspective that pollutes all...

During this years voyage of evaluating draft prospects, I was not impressed by any RB, Everyone I evaluated I felt where JAGS, including Wright.  In my notes: Long Strider Fights the ball as a pass catcher Played in 10 personal shotgun basically his whole career in Tennessee. I HATE 10 Personal (5 linemen, 4 Receivers, 1 RB, 1 QB) I thought to myself, "of-course he leads the NCAA in yards per attempt, he is running behind empty boxes ALL THE TIME." I will admit that I am jaded by my love for Achane, but Wright IS NOT Achane! That being said, Achane couldn't be the primary back in a 10 personal offense. That is the variable I ignorantly combed over. .  Although I stand by my evaluation of his inert ability as a pure runner, I have come to realize that to run 10 personal as your primary offense the HB must be able to BLOCK!! Jaylen Wright is an exceptional blocker, best blocking HB I have seen in A LONG TIME. Wright was benefitting from what I call the 'Gronk Equation...

I understand that Fallout is a popular video game, my sister in law regales me with her love of the game. However, besides the general knowledge that it takes place in a post apocalyptic world, I had absolutely no knowledge of the plot.  The plot is everything, the plot is the seduction that captures your attention and keeps you engaged even through fantastical disturbing oddities. I won’t lie, the show is a hard watch. Inhumanity, savagery, ghoulish behavior, and gore adorn the chaos; but the sacrifice to suffer through is worth the squeeze. I am confident that most people would hate it, and I sort of hate it too. I hate that I was captured. Nevertheless, as a person watching the show with absolutely no knowledge of the video game, I understand the popularity of having a first person experience with that video game world.