If a team completely dominates another team for 1/2 a game, but still wins, does anybody care? This guy does. While I did enjoy the 38-20 victory over Washington, what was not lost by me was once again the large number of passing yards that were hemorrhaged by the defense. Last year I had written a post about having no confidence in the Badgers against anybody good, today I write about my no confidence in the Packers Defense.
Another game of 300+ passing yards (320 to be exact) given up by a secondary that can not cover and a defensive line that can not reach the quarterback. Some people might say to me that the game was over and the Packers were just not allowing any big plays, but let me say this, how many teams do you know that are playing "prevent" defense blitz? This shows me that Dom Capers was still attempting to play this defense straight up 100% to shut down Washington.
It was another week in which no adjustments were made during the game or at halftime which led to another receive having a monster day against us. This week it was Pierre Garcon, last week it was Anquan Boldin. Dom Capers proves that once again, instead of addressing the issue with maybe something like double converge on the receiver in question, we decide to blitz the hell out the quarterback which leads into my next problem...
The pass rush, the non-existent pass rush reared it ugly head, especially in the second half of today's game. How did we address this lack of pass rush? By blitzing, but this caused the opposite effect because none of the blitzers reached the quarterback and the receivers were more wide open than they already were.
For the above reasons and because of the way the Packers defense has played since 2011 the Packers should put Dom Capers out of his misery now, fire him and start building a new defensive scheme. Most people would think I'm insane to suggest firing an assistant coach, but why waist time on what you already know is going to happen? Why allow us to play the 10 yards off the ball defense?
There is no reason today after the way the offense played in first half that the backup offensive players should not have got some time on the field today, but due to the defense allowing Washington to keep the game within an arms length this could not happen. This cost the backup value experience on the field for future situations.
Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that the Packers did win today, but I can not help it that you can see the car wreck happening while the cars are two miles apart, but the cars keeping going along the same course. It is time for a course correction and fire Dom Capers.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Over the top opening song/video
I could be using this post explain the way the Badgers were sabotaged out of a win Saturday, but that would be too easy and there already too many articles that have or will be written on the subject.
What I really want to talk about is the opening video of Berzer by Eminem with Notre Dame/Purdue highlights integrated into the video before the game on Saturday night. I will post a link to the video if I can find one.
All I have to say about that video is..... Wow. That is not a good wow, that is more like "Oh my eyes" along with a "What the hell?". I'm a person who has never done any drugs, but watching that intro I'm assuming that is what being on acid is like with the stop motion along with the forward and reverse of the video. The video itself was pointless while boarding on driving away viewers. I ask why that type of intro video is needed?
What is wrong with the simple intro video? The people that already have channel set to ABC are not going to say "I really want to watch Purdue, but that intro video is too simple, lets flip on Hallmark Channel instead".
In this era of companies trying to maximize their profit, I would think that the intro video would be one area that television companies would be looking. I'm sure this post will have no effect on future intro video, but I wanted to get my thoughts out there about the intro video.
What I really want to talk about is the opening video of Berzer by Eminem with Notre Dame/Purdue highlights integrated into the video before the game on Saturday night. I will post a link to the video if I can find one.
All I have to say about that video is..... Wow. That is not a good wow, that is more like "Oh my eyes" along with a "What the hell?". I'm a person who has never done any drugs, but watching that intro I'm assuming that is what being on acid is like with the stop motion along with the forward and reverse of the video. The video itself was pointless while boarding on driving away viewers. I ask why that type of intro video is needed?
What is wrong with the simple intro video? The people that already have channel set to ABC are not going to say "I really want to watch Purdue, but that intro video is too simple, lets flip on Hallmark Channel instead".
In this era of companies trying to maximize their profit, I would think that the intro video would be one area that television companies would be looking. I'm sure this post will have no effect on future intro video, but I wanted to get my thoughts out there about the intro video.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Packers: New Year - Same Defense
This was the Packers chance, the 49ers had lost the Super Bowl, they did not have the same team and the Packers had worked on the defense, but all that was just a dream last Sunday. The same old Packers defense reared it ugly head with close loss in the Bay.
I can only sum up the game and team like this:
The scheme of Dom Capers did get us a title, but it does not work any more. We can not continue to play the big yard zone defense games and continue to win. It is time to get rid of Dom and start a new era of the man to man defense and turn this team around. The time is now, not when we have the 4-12 record.
I can only sum up the game and team like this:
- Linebackers = Still Slow
- Corners = Take too many chances
- Safeties = Sound rename themselves the "Un-Safeties".
- D-Line = They do not exist, we rush one person in the middle and two linebackers on the side
The scheme of Dom Capers did get us a title, but it does not work any more. We can not continue to play the big yard zone defense games and continue to win. It is time to get rid of Dom and start a new era of the man to man defense and turn this team around. The time is now, not when we have the 4-12 record.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Brewers: I called it in May
I'm going to take another crack at this blog thing, but not post as often. With summer over I'm hoping to be able to spend more time posting and less time debating what to post.
I was looking back at my past posts and say this post dealing with Brewers in May and thought this would be a good post to pick back up on. The first thing I would like to say is..... I told you so. The Brewers sucked for the rest of May, Rickie Weeks has been replaced with Scooter which was then covered up with his "injury", the budget bullpen has given up game after game. The years of trading away the upcoming talent has led the Brewers to be in cellar while Pittsburgh and Kansas City battling for playoff places for many years to come.
The Brewers do not have the benefit like Pittsburgh or KC, we do not have much if any minor league talent upcoming that can step in that has not been called up already. Sean Halton is still a so-so player along with a disappointing season for Hunter Morris plus Mat Gamel tearing something every year leaves the first base position very uncertain.
The third base position is another area of concern, with the possible exception of Taylor Green, nobody has ever stood out as even a remote possibility of coming up since Ryan Braun. I know people will say that Mat Gamel was at third, but we all know that he was going to first base once Prince left.
So, how do you fix the Milwaukee Brewers?
There is no reason that the Brewers could not play winning baseball in a couple years if they did not employee the above suggestions.
Now I can not go an entire Brewers post without saying something about my "favorite" GM in MLB Doug Melvin. Doug has really had it tough this year of all the years with the sort of bait-in-switch Ryan Braun pulled on him this year denying everything about his PED's along then taking the deal from Grandpa Selig. Still that was no excuse for the budget bullpen along with not addressing the first/third base situation.
Its time to let the rookies play and wait until next year!
I was looking back at my past posts and say this post dealing with Brewers in May and thought this would be a good post to pick back up on. The first thing I would like to say is..... I told you so. The Brewers sucked for the rest of May, Rickie Weeks has been replaced with Scooter which was then covered up with his "injury", the budget bullpen has given up game after game. The years of trading away the upcoming talent has led the Brewers to be in cellar while Pittsburgh and Kansas City battling for playoff places for many years to come.
The Brewers do not have the benefit like Pittsburgh or KC, we do not have much if any minor league talent upcoming that can step in that has not been called up already. Sean Halton is still a so-so player along with a disappointing season for Hunter Morris plus Mat Gamel tearing something every year leaves the first base position very uncertain.
The third base position is another area of concern, with the possible exception of Taylor Green, nobody has ever stood out as even a remote possibility of coming up since Ryan Braun. I know people will say that Mat Gamel was at third, but we all know that he was going to first base once Prince left.
So, how do you fix the Milwaukee Brewers?
- New Hitting Coach - This is more of an understatement, the Brewers have been plagued with hitting coaches that fall in love with the long ball with the expense of the strikeout. We need a hitting coach that can relate to the young players and wants to stick around. In recent years, Sveum was the closest to breaking our bad batter habits. This hitting coach has to understand that you can not solely rely on the long ball. Look at St. Louis right now, they are at the top of the league in record and in all batting categories with the exception of Home Runs.
- Invest in the Bullpen - It's time to end the era of the "Budget Bullpen", it is time to invest money in someone who is young and can pitch consistently. I'm not saying go out and get an all star bullpen, but go out and get one good player to help.
- Quit selling the future - The past five years have been like the Stock Market Crash in 1929, a lot of people were getting rich with quick short term gains, but in the end were in the poor house. The same holds true with a baseball team, if you sell off your long term solutions for the short game, you will have a losing club in a couple of years. It is time to stop selling the minor leagues away and start keeping some of these players
There is no reason that the Brewers could not play winning baseball in a couple years if they did not employee the above suggestions.
Now I can not go an entire Brewers post without saying something about my "favorite" GM in MLB Doug Melvin. Doug has really had it tough this year of all the years with the sort of bait-in-switch Ryan Braun pulled on him this year denying everything about his PED's along then taking the deal from Grandpa Selig. Still that was no excuse for the budget bullpen along with not addressing the first/third base situation.
Its time to let the rookies play and wait until next year!
Friday, May 17, 2013
Favorite Bond Movies
A slight change to the mostly sport-centric posting to touch on the topic of what my favorite Bond movies along with my favorite title openings.
First and foremost, I do not believe in the Non-Eon films and they will not be included in the list below.
First and foremost, I do not believe in the Non-Eon films and they will not be included in the list below.
- The Spy Who Loved Me
- Goldfinger
- GoldenEye
- Skyfall
- You Only Live Twice
- Dr. No
- A View to a Kill
- Thunderball
- Moonraker
- Diamonds Are Forever
- Tomorrow Never Dies
- From Russia with Love
- Casino Royale
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service
- Octopussy
- Quantum of Solace
- Die Another Day
- For Your Eyes Only
- The World Is Not Enough
- The Living Daylights
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- Live and Let Die
- License to Kill
Favorite Openings Credits for song and title sequence
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
NHL End of Season Predictions
Back in January I made a couple of predictions about the upcoming shortens season for the NHL. In this post I will review the predictions.
Finals Prediction:
Minnesota defeats Philadelphia four games to two.
While the finals prediction looks in bad now, going 11 for 16 is pretty good given all that was up in the air at the start of the season.
- Eastern Conference
- Atlantic
- Philadelphia - Incorrect
- NY Rangers - Correct
- Pittsburgh - Correct
- Northeast
- Boston - Correct
- Toronto - Correct
- Southeast
- Tampa Bay - Incorrect
- Carolina - Incorrect
- Washington - Correct
- Western Conference
- Central
- Chicago - Very Correct
- Detroit - Correct
- Nashville - Incorrect
- Northwest
- Vancouver - Correct
- Minnesota - Correct
- Calgary - Incorrect
- Pacific
- San Jose - Correct
- Los Angeles- Correct
Finals Prediction:
Minnesota defeats Philadelphia four games to two.
While the finals prediction looks in bad now, going 11 for 16 is pretty good given all that was up in the air at the start of the season.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Brewers have season ending issues
Long time no posting... I had to take a little break from posting, but now I'm back to talk baseball, specifically Brewers baseball. In case you did not notice the Brewers were able to pull one out Monday against the Pirates, but one win in May does not make a season.
The Brewers as a whole and in the long term are all on the 60-Day DL with season ending problems. The most recent series against the Reds and Cardinals go a long way in proving that pitching wins you games in the long term and home runs win you a couple of games.
Brewers GM Doug Melvin and his budget bullpen time over time have caused the Brewers major trouble. Now the starters are getting into the mix when it comes to giving up runs with Burgos giving up a nice 10 spot the other night due to the overused pen. Years of pillaging the minor leagues for the short term victory has now come bite Melvin.
If you look at the trade that essentially won them the division, the Brewers gave up four major league players for a year and a half rental (Cain, Escobar, Jeffress, Odorizzi) and while winning is important while you can, long term success is more important. These guys would have would have all played important parts of the lineup for the Brewers since we would not have Segura.
The next person I would like to zero in on is Rickie Weeks. Whether the numbers the support this or not, Weeks has regressed in the past 4 years overall at the plate and remained level with the defense. Weeks has lost his way in how to bat and what kind of style he played when he was first called up to the major leagues. When he first came up, he was a average power, speed player that would beat out the high chopping play. Now Weeks has packed on the pounds and is carrying a couple of jelly rolls. I really wonder how many half step out plays Weeks would have beat out if he would drop about 10 pounds.
Do not hold your hopes up for this season, the team structure is too far gone to win anything. The overall issues of the Brewers in the end center around them being good, but just not good enough to compete in the division or in the wild card playoffs. The Brewers need to work on establishing the pitching in the minors and the draft. If the Brewers do take their lumps for the next couple of seasons and do not trade away the future, there is no reason this team can not win the division.
The Brewers as a whole and in the long term are all on the 60-Day DL with season ending problems. The most recent series against the Reds and Cardinals go a long way in proving that pitching wins you games in the long term and home runs win you a couple of games.
Brewers GM Doug Melvin and his budget bullpen time over time have caused the Brewers major trouble. Now the starters are getting into the mix when it comes to giving up runs with Burgos giving up a nice 10 spot the other night due to the overused pen. Years of pillaging the minor leagues for the short term victory has now come bite Melvin.
If you look at the trade that essentially won them the division, the Brewers gave up four major league players for a year and a half rental (Cain, Escobar, Jeffress, Odorizzi) and while winning is important while you can, long term success is more important. These guys would have would have all played important parts of the lineup for the Brewers since we would not have Segura.
The next person I would like to zero in on is Rickie Weeks. Whether the numbers the support this or not, Weeks has regressed in the past 4 years overall at the plate and remained level with the defense. Weeks has lost his way in how to bat and what kind of style he played when he was first called up to the major leagues. When he first came up, he was a average power, speed player that would beat out the high chopping play. Now Weeks has packed on the pounds and is carrying a couple of jelly rolls. I really wonder how many half step out plays Weeks would have beat out if he would drop about 10 pounds.
Do not hold your hopes up for this season, the team structure is too far gone to win anything. The overall issues of the Brewers in the end center around them being good, but just not good enough to compete in the division or in the wild card playoffs. The Brewers need to work on establishing the pitching in the minors and the draft. If the Brewers do take their lumps for the next couple of seasons and do not trade away the future, there is no reason this team can not win the division.
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