mt8thsw9th said:Today I learned how to spell "perfect". Thanks, Dan!
How many gigabytes do you need in your processor to spell like that?
mt8thsw9th said:Today I learned how to spell "perfect". Thanks, Dan!
To his credit, Dierdorf immediately admitted he was bound to reap Internet humiliation out of that particular lesson.mt8thsw9th said:Today I learned how to spell "perfect". Thanks, Dan!
I'd ask Julian Edelman because he's a football player.Reverend said:
How many gigabytes do you need in your processor to spell like that?
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.
What did he want them to do? Down it at the two?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.
NortheasternPJ said:What did he want them to do? Down it at the two?
Remagellan said:
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.
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).Fred in Lynn said: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?
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.
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.Red(s)HawksFan said:
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.
scottyno said: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.