Jennings and His Agent Have A Chat
By Aaron Nagler on Jun 23, 2009 with 5 Comments
So on Friday, Greg Bedard wrote the following:
How are things going on Greg Jennings’ contract extension? Likely not great judging by the facial expression he made the other day. I kidded him about buying up all the auction items at James Jones’ recent charity event. Jones and I both said Jennings’ big money must be close to fruition. A dead-serious Jennings replied, “Then you guys must know something I don’t, that’s for sure.”
The next Tuesday morning, Jennings gives us this:
We’ve been working on some things. We’re coming pretty close, as far as my understanding is, to some type of a deal…But when I say close, we could still be far?.?.?. if that makes sense. But I think we’re coming close. You just never know how long ‘close’ can take to actually closing the deal.
Needless to say, I think Jennings and his agent Eugene Parker had a little con-fab on the phone over the weekend.
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“Needless to say, I think Jennings and his agent Eugene Parker had a little con-fab on the phone over the weekend.”
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Or, Bedard just simply isn’t any good at drawing conclusions from facial expressions. -” a dead serious Jennings” or an “extremely sly sarcastic Jennings”. Take your pick.
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When Bedard can prove that he can truly read minds then I’ll believe his embellished reporting. I’m not even going to say the word but it rhymes with the Pack.
Mack? (Daddy?)
Sorry to ignore the subject at hand, but…
The other day, Acme Packing Company posted a Cheesehead TV video showing the D-line doing Dummy QB Drill:
http://www.acmepackingcompany......1245680306
In the video the lineman run around a circle, knock the ball from the “arm” of one of those self righting dummies, and then chase the ball and pick it up.
Shouldn’t they be falling on the ball?? Is it really the better strategy to try and pick up the ball and run with it?
And then there’s the whole shouldn’t the primary goal be to tackle the QB? I love a good fumble as much as the next guy, but isn’t it better strategy to have a primary goal of tackling the QB and a secondary goal of knocking the ball loose?
I was feeling pretty good about next season, but that video doesn’t help. It seems to me that drill is just teaching bad habits.
Someone please tell me why I’m wrong. Please!!
Rich – you have to remember, this is only one of more than 50 drills these guys will run. They prepare the player for different situations. Yes, the tackle/sack is the goal, but there is a time when a fumble is needed (late in the game, down a score, etc) And yes, you’d like them to fall on the ball. However, the linemen retrieving the ball is much more about training their legs, not their game mentality. (think of Rocky chasing chickens…)
OK. I’ll accept that. It does make sense. But you know, if anytime next season we fail to get a fumble because the D-lineman tried to pick it up and run instead of falling on it I’ll be remembering this!!!
Thanks for the response.