If you missed Tuesday's Army Football Preview, it's here. Let's get it on!Thanks to 5-time NFL First Team All-Pro @SteveTasker89 for talking to the team tonite. #GoArmy pic.twitter.com/1y2GfY6jVN— Army WP Football (@ArmyWP_Football) September 29, 2018
Tulane Engages In Trench Warfare With Overmatched Memphis, Wins 40-24 (Forgotten 5)
“Throughout the week I was just walking around like ‘this is a win or go home situation.’ We gotta play like we win or go home. We were saying, ‘this tells the whole season right here, this game right here, if we lose, we know what the season’s gonna be like. If we win, we know what the season’s gonna be like...’”
That was junior wide receiver Darnell Mooney after the game, on the importance of a win for the team, and oh what a win it was.
Tulane snapped an 11-game losing streak to the Tigers with authority. I watched nearly every snap of this game, and it was unbelievable. Tulane runs an inside-zone version of the triple-option out of a spread set from which the base play is an inside hand-off. With that, they repeatedly exposed Memphis's defense.
It wasn't pretty at all. They absolutely crushed the Tigers on the ground.
For those keeping score at home, Memphis has now seen versions of the triple-option twice this season and gotten smoked both times.
Army showed the way but Power Five schools still won't embrace the triple option (USA Today)
Last Saturday, [Army] marched up and down the field against the Sooners, controlling the football for almost 45 minutes with a steady diet of fullback dives, quarterback keepers or pitches to halfbacks. The triple option potential was in full effect in its postmodern role as an equalizer. And even though Army fell just short in overtime, the performance prompts up a question we’ve wondered for a while now:
Why doesn’t anyone else try it on for size?
Once the scourge of defensive coordinators all over football, the triple option has nearly faded from the college football scene. At the FBS level, Army runs it. And Navy. Air Force runs a spread-based variant, as do Tulane and New Mexico. Among Power Five schools, only Georgia Tech – coached by Johnson, the former Navy coach – employs the scheme.
It's a fun article, but it's basically one of those, "Let's get Jeff Monken to Kansas" pieces that has become a bane of college football writing.
You know who needs to go to Kansas? Lance Leipold. His resume is at least as impressive as Monken's, and Leipold's not already coaching at a major college football program.
Army's good for the first time in forever. Why can't people just be happy about that?
Netflix Debuts New Interface For Marvel Shows (Comicbook.Com)
Last Saturday, [Army] marched up and down the field against the Sooners, controlling the football for almost 45 minutes with a steady diet of fullback dives, quarterback keepers or pitches to halfbacks. The triple option potential was in full effect in its postmodern role as an equalizer. And even though Army fell just short in overtime, the performance prompts up a question we’ve wondered for a while now:
Why doesn’t anyone else try it on for size?
Once the scourge of defensive coordinators all over football, the triple option has nearly faded from the college football scene. At the FBS level, Army runs it. And Navy. Air Force runs a spread-based variant, as do Tulane and New Mexico. Among Power Five schools, only Georgia Tech – coached by Johnson, the former Navy coach – employs the scheme.
It's a fun article, but it's basically one of those, "Let's get Jeff Monken to Kansas" pieces that has become a bane of college football writing.
You know who needs to go to Kansas? Lance Leipold. His resume is at least as impressive as Monken's, and Leipold's not already coaching at a major college football program.
Army's good for the first time in forever. Why can't people just be happy about that?
Netflix Debuts New Interface For Marvel Shows (Comicbook.Com)
Woah! Check out the new Marvel Netflix interface! from r/marvelstudios
The update fits right in line with Netflix and their attempt to double-down on original programming. According to a new study by Ampere Analysis, the go-to streaming service has currently commissioned upwards of 250 new properties original to the company. In contrast, Netflix currently has 229 movies and television shows listed as a "Netflix Original."
Well yeah. Everybody and their brother has either started or is trying to start a Netflix-style streaming service of their own--HBO, Amazon Prime, Disney, ESPN+, DC Comics, CBS All-Access, etc--and that leaves Netflix starving for content. They either develop stuff that people like, time now, or they die.
I don't give two shits about this new interface, but I certainly understand why they built it.
Also: the article says that Marvel's "best" TV shows are all on Netflix. That is incorrect. The best Marvel show by a mile is Cloak & Dagger, and that's on Freeform. The others are okay with occasional spots of brilliance. Cloak & Dagger actually improves on the original source material.
Like the guy from Tulane said, this is one of those games that will determine what kind of season Army's gonna have. A strong win today will put the actual Fear of God into the rest of college football, making a Power 5 bowl game matchup will be a legit possibility. Meanwhile, a loss might still see Army sneak into a bowl game, but the team will still be fighting for respect for the rest of the season, and the bowl matchup--assuming they even make it to the postseason--will almost certainly be against a middling Group of 5 school.Traditional road uni tomorrow. #GoArmy pic.twitter.com/787Wlxp3X0— Army WP Football (@ArmyWP_Football) September 29, 2018
Last I heard, the game was nearly sold out. The Bulls get at most tepid support from the local community, so what're the odds that half the stands are filled with Army partisans from Ft. Drum?
Folks, I want to win this game in the worst way. And I'll tell you what: if I was swimming today, I'd be dominant. I was always at my very best in exactly these kinds of situations. Alas, I'll be watching from my couch just like the rest of you, but today, I actually miss it.
Go Army! Beat Buffalo!!!
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