Monday Links 25Jan
Photo from Run the Damn Ball - Florida Hostess
It's common in a
3-4 defense to have two linebackers coaches – one for the inside linebackers and one for the outside. There's a difference among the responsibilities of the linebackers even under Georgia's old 4-3 system, but the difference between the ILBs and the OLBs in a 3-4 is even greater – the outside linebackers have to manage everything from hand-down pass rush on the defensive line to run support to pure pass coverage. The best outside linebackers (think Lawrence Taylor classically or DeMarcus Ware / James Harrison in the current NFL) are very much like the dominant weakside defensive ends in a typical 4-3. So if Georgia was going to split up the defensive front among two coaches in the old system, it makes sense that they're going to coach the linebackers differently under Grantham's system. Rodney Garner will remain to handle the entire defensive line now.
«He eats one meal a day, at night,» he said. «He has salad, soup, maybe chicken soup, and bread, and he's not afraid to put butter on it. He eats no meat and no fish.»Walker, who said he never sleeps more than four hours a night, doesn't make any claims about finding a secret diet that keeps his body looking like a remarkably fit 217-pound competitive athlete in his 20s, even though his last high-level sports competition was the 1997 NFL season. He doesn't lift weights but still does a ridiculous amount of pushups and sit-ups every day.
...from 3,000 miles and a different conference away, Kiffin continues to play the annoying gnat to Meyer's head. You know how the old saying goes: the more things change, the more Lane Kiffin remains a punk.
I think it is worth putting the blinders on and just looking at how Spurrier's scheme helped propel the Gators into the national elite, where they remain despite a tradition of pre-Spurrier mediocrity, and why that hasn't been so easy the second time around.
Before the ink dries on the contracts for the new coaches and NSD comes around, I thought it would be a worthwhile endeavor to look at the season ending stats...



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