Dierdorf to retire from stating the obvious

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Today I learned how to spell "perfect". Thanks, Dan!
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How many gigabytes do you need in your processor to spell like that?
 
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CBS color commentator Dan Dierdorf provided detailed analysis of a player’s shoe falling off during the Jets-Panthers game Sunday, speaking on the subject for several minutes as he determined the factors that caused the cleat to become detached from the foot. “A shoe just popped off, right at the 25-yard line, and it’s still on the ground, lying motionless,” said Dierdorf, who methodically scrutinized several angles of the broadcast footage in slow motion, establishing “that guy’s shoe fell off during the play.” “Wow, unbelievable. If you look closely, it appears that a teammate stepped on his left heel and it comes loose. And the guy keeps going without a shoe.” At press time, Dierdorf was sharing an anecdote about a shoe falling off during his playing days with the St. Louis Cardinals as the Panthers scored a touchdown.
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http://www.theonion.com/articles/dan-dierdorf-provides-indepth-analysis-of-players,34836/
 
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If you thought you heard the last of Dan Dierdorf calling a Patriots game, think again. He and Greg Gumbel will call Jan 11th tilt.
 
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Not sure about NFL, but for MLB tv was about 4 seconds ahead of the radio.  I have a DVR, so I could pause the tv to synch with the radio.  McCarver and Buck were killing me.
 
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He went out in style tonight. His insistence that the Pats shouldn't have taken the safety was like Ted Willams' final at-bat at Fenway.
 
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Kliq said:
He went out in style tonight. His insistence that the Pats shouldn't have taken the safety was like Ted Willams' final at-bat at Fenway.
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What did he want them to do? Down it at the two?
 
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Here's to this thread getting a little more action and then soon progressively sliding down the thread queue screen, onto the next page and never being heard from ever again.
 
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Yes, because you have to give your defense a chance to make a stop instead of just handing the other team 2 points!
 
That position wasn't "obvious", although it was obviously stupid.
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The safety was probably the right play there, yet Dierdorf missed the one plausible thing....Allen was trying to throw a forward pass, which, if incomplete, would have given the Colts the ball at the line of scrimmage (40 or so)?.  That would have give the defenne a chance.  Maybe not the best move under the circumstances...he was getting crushed.....but a better move in theory than just getting tackled at the 2, like Dierdorf suggested.
 
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And just falling at the ball at the two or trying to run it out was absolutely the worst idea. Couldn't someone have pointed that out to him?
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I think they did during the break which is why he semi-backtracked. He didn't say he was wrong before but he did admit that taking the safety was a reasonable line of thought(or some such claptrap).
 
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Wow, I just heard this on F&M. "get tackled at the 2 and atleast you make the other team work for the points"
 
Wow, even for DD, that was awful. Best case scenario is they stop them 4 times at the 2. Most likely they get a TD or a FG. So they likely get 1 more point than a safety.
 
Good riddance.
 
I was one NOT cheering for him at the game on Saturday when they showed him on the big screen.
 
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joe dokes said:
 
The safety was probably the right play there, yet Dierdorf missed the one plausible thing....Allen was trying to throw a forward pass, which, if incomplete, would have given the Colts the ball at the line of scrimmage (40 or so)?.  That would have give the defenne a chance.  Maybe not the best move under the circumstances...he was getting crushed.....but a better move in theory than just getting tackled at the 2, like Dierdorf suggested.
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Belichick just said on WEEI that the ideal play for that situation is to have the punter pick up the ball and throw an incompletion, so what you say is not only plausible, it's probably exactly what Allen was trying to do.  Belichick added that the next best thing, especially if defenders are near, is to take the safety.
 
Good that Dierdorf is going out on some perfect Dierdorf analysis...dead wrong.
 
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Belichick just said on WEEI that the ideal play for that situation is to have the punter pick up the ball and throw an incompletion, so what you say is not only plausible, it's probably exactly what Allen was trying to do.  Belichick added that the next best thing, especially if defenders are near, is to take the safety.
 
Good that Dierdorf is going out on some perfect Dierdorf analysis...dead wrong.
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To be fair to Dierford a little bit here, both espn and nfln in their highlight packages showing this play had their studio guys laughing and questioning what Allen could possibly have been thinking.  None of them picked up on the intentional incomplete pass option and they had hours after the fact to figure it out too.
 
Obviously going down at the 2 instead of a safety is insanely stupid though.
 
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To be fair to Dierford a little bit here, both espn and nfln in their highlight packages showing this play had their studio guys laughing and questioning what Allen could possibly have been thinking.  None of them picked up on the intentional incomplete pass option and they had hours after the fact to figure it out too.
 
Obviously going down at the 2 instead of a safety is insanely stupid though.
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Then they are worse at their jobs than [fill in the blank for the archetype shitty job performer]. Drunk and stoned it occurred to me during the first replay.....as soon as I saw there was a chance that he might have been throwing it, I next thought, 'gee what happens if that's a pass....' "oh, its just an incomplettion, Colt ball at the 40. Hmmm, i wonder if he was *trying* to do that?" And that was followed immedialtely by Dierdorf saying he should have let himself get tackled at the 2 to give the defense a chance. So I just had another beer. (Really, I;m not trying to pat myself on the back here for some insight........it just seemed ovious after the replay that he was *trying* to throw it. Its as though all the "experts" were too busy laughing at him while trying to pronounce "Yepremian" to consider what would have happened if he had been able to get his arm moving forward. (incomplete.....interception...intentional grounding, etc.)
 
 
regarding BB's comment...I suspect they practice that sort of play when the line of scrimmage is upfield like this play, but botched snaps dont usually travel FORTY yards, so it brought the safety/TD into play. 
 
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