Post by stonedinvestor on Oct 14, 2019 9:00:01 GMT -5
There comes a time in every football team's season where there is no other fork in the road. No other excuses. Injuries, referees, play calling by the head coach, lack of depth, lack of luck-- there is no other avenue. Your backs are up against the wall, you have still a season to save if you can get this one win. Maybe ahead lays better days. In order to do so you will have to make a last stand. Or maybe two.
There is always a sense of desperation with a Last Stand but the interesting historical fact is that Last Stands almost always end up in horrible defeat... Custer comes to mind. The Lakota destroyed Custer's force within an hour. That's kind of a defensive last stand you are just absorbing slings and arrows until your death. There's also " offensive last stands " they are often misguided and don't usually work out as well. Like The Fetterman Massacre – December 21, 1866.
Not much is known about this brief battle but Captain William Fetterman was a lot like Danny Dimes he longed to get in the game- he wanted the action. In his area of the woods the local Native Americans were fighting back against the ever expanding settlers.
The native warriors, led by such braves as Crazy Horse, laid an ambush by attacking a wood-gathering party away from the camp. This brought out Fetterman at the head of 80 infantry and cavalry... Estimates are about 1,000 warriors attacked and overwhelmed them, killing all the Americans.
We can learn from that: a wood gathering party is maybe not so important and that Patriot loss was our wood gathering party. We are going to leave all of that on film and not waste our resources bickering. It's funny early in the year the fan base was very quiet on the HC, nothing Shurmer did in his weasily ways upset anyone. Now very suddenly the HEAT is on... That is a 180 degree turn... the coach has sent Danny Dimes into battle with some strange instructions.. like the now famous decision to punt.
When it happened initially it didn't really feel like a coach giving up. But further analysis by talking heads has been EXTREMELY negative... I mean what was the coach trying to say there. It seemed to me a message to the other coach.. Bill call the dogs off-- which he did. That's not Giant football. So rather quickly the situation in New York has morphed from Pat has his young Quarterback finally, it's time to see that Shurmer offense fly!! Time for that QB mojo to be turned on by Shurmer... to Wow why's this guy giving up on his team. Ontop of that, the play calling is finally getting some scrutiny. And the more people look the less they like.
After not drafting a back up running back despite the pleas of BBWC regulars, Dave Gettelman also decided not to use any cap money for a decent running back just in case and that decision is being blasted in the press Big time. Why is Dave trying to save money? And before we get all excited about the huge amount of money we are going to have to spend next year lets just remember we have gone through this high spending free-agent cycle before and didn't really make us any better.
Giants sign Bennie Fowler! Big move. ) ) )
At the Siege of Diu in 1538-Portuguese forces, under the command of António de Silveira, withstood a 2-month siege in Diu. Suffering heavy casualties (with only 40 survivors in the aftermath), the Portuguese repelled several Gujarati and Ottoman assaults on the fort.
At the Siege of Giants Stadium 2019- Marauding out of control Cardinals freed from their robes and books of wisdom traveled to dirty filthy Giants Stadium confused by the all the Jets optimism they saw there. With their season on the line the Giants prepare a Last Stand for the incoming Cardinals. And the bloodletting began.
Arizona Cardinals bring rookie quarterback Kyler Murray into New York. Kyler is fresh off a big win in which he used his LEGS as well as his arm. Dany Dimes was watching. Looking. Learning. But will Dimes be allowed the same play freedom?
Kyler raced 5 yards on third-and-5 to a game-clinching first down with 1:45 left in the fourth quarter, as he barely got past the first-down marker on the Cardinals' sideline.
The play, which Kingsbury had taken from another team, was a quarterback keeper with two options: throw it to either the receiver in the flat or coming across the field, or keep it and run while staying in bounds and getting the first down. Murray's first look was the pass, if it was open. But it wasn't -- and it worked out exactly like left guard Justin Pugh had seen on film.--> Remember him!
When Murray took off to his right, he began yelling and pointing for tight end Maxx Williams to start blocking.
"I heard him say 'start blocking,' so I turned and found the first guy I saw," Williams said. "I know what he's capable of doing, so hoping he got the first down."
The Cardinals practice that type of scramble-drill play "all the time," wide receiver Trent Sherfield said....
A Last Stand Already! My God How Has It Come To This.
The Giants are in for a very tough test here. How to control a QB who has options. Kyler Murray reminds one of the little known gunfighter James Leavy... who after Collapsing on a dusty street in downtown Tucson, Arizona Territory, in June 1882, gasped his last words: “My God! Has it come to this?” Riddled with bullets, Leavy’s body bled out as curious onlookers rushed to the scene seeking answers. Who did the shooting and why? Was it Danny Dimes? or DJ? or are they the same guy!! As rumored. ~si
There is always a sense of desperation with a Last Stand but the interesting historical fact is that Last Stands almost always end up in horrible defeat... Custer comes to mind. The Lakota destroyed Custer's force within an hour. That's kind of a defensive last stand you are just absorbing slings and arrows until your death. There's also " offensive last stands " they are often misguided and don't usually work out as well. Like The Fetterman Massacre – December 21, 1866.
Not much is known about this brief battle but Captain William Fetterman was a lot like Danny Dimes he longed to get in the game- he wanted the action. In his area of the woods the local Native Americans were fighting back against the ever expanding settlers.
The native warriors, led by such braves as Crazy Horse, laid an ambush by attacking a wood-gathering party away from the camp. This brought out Fetterman at the head of 80 infantry and cavalry... Estimates are about 1,000 warriors attacked and overwhelmed them, killing all the Americans.
We can learn from that: a wood gathering party is maybe not so important and that Patriot loss was our wood gathering party. We are going to leave all of that on film and not waste our resources bickering. It's funny early in the year the fan base was very quiet on the HC, nothing Shurmer did in his weasily ways upset anyone. Now very suddenly the HEAT is on... That is a 180 degree turn... the coach has sent Danny Dimes into battle with some strange instructions.. like the now famous decision to punt.
When it happened initially it didn't really feel like a coach giving up. But further analysis by talking heads has been EXTREMELY negative... I mean what was the coach trying to say there. It seemed to me a message to the other coach.. Bill call the dogs off-- which he did. That's not Giant football. So rather quickly the situation in New York has morphed from Pat has his young Quarterback finally, it's time to see that Shurmer offense fly!! Time for that QB mojo to be turned on by Shurmer... to Wow why's this guy giving up on his team. Ontop of that, the play calling is finally getting some scrutiny. And the more people look the less they like.
After not drafting a back up running back despite the pleas of BBWC regulars, Dave Gettelman also decided not to use any cap money for a decent running back just in case and that decision is being blasted in the press Big time. Why is Dave trying to save money? And before we get all excited about the huge amount of money we are going to have to spend next year lets just remember we have gone through this high spending free-agent cycle before and didn't really make us any better.
Giants sign Bennie Fowler! Big move. ) ) )
At the Siege of Diu in 1538-Portuguese forces, under the command of António de Silveira, withstood a 2-month siege in Diu. Suffering heavy casualties (with only 40 survivors in the aftermath), the Portuguese repelled several Gujarati and Ottoman assaults on the fort.
At the Siege of Giants Stadium 2019- Marauding out of control Cardinals freed from their robes and books of wisdom traveled to dirty filthy Giants Stadium confused by the all the Jets optimism they saw there. With their season on the line the Giants prepare a Last Stand for the incoming Cardinals. And the bloodletting began.
Arizona Cardinals bring rookie quarterback Kyler Murray into New York. Kyler is fresh off a big win in which he used his LEGS as well as his arm. Dany Dimes was watching. Looking. Learning. But will Dimes be allowed the same play freedom?
Kyler raced 5 yards on third-and-5 to a game-clinching first down with 1:45 left in the fourth quarter, as he barely got past the first-down marker on the Cardinals' sideline.
The play, which Kingsbury had taken from another team, was a quarterback keeper with two options: throw it to either the receiver in the flat or coming across the field, or keep it and run while staying in bounds and getting the first down. Murray's first look was the pass, if it was open. But it wasn't -- and it worked out exactly like left guard Justin Pugh had seen on film.--> Remember him!
When Murray took off to his right, he began yelling and pointing for tight end Maxx Williams to start blocking.
"I heard him say 'start blocking,' so I turned and found the first guy I saw," Williams said. "I know what he's capable of doing, so hoping he got the first down."
The Cardinals practice that type of scramble-drill play "all the time," wide receiver Trent Sherfield said....
A Last Stand Already! My God How Has It Come To This.
The Giants are in for a very tough test here. How to control a QB who has options. Kyler Murray reminds one of the little known gunfighter James Leavy... who after Collapsing on a dusty street in downtown Tucson, Arizona Territory, in June 1882, gasped his last words: “My God! Has it come to this?” Riddled with bullets, Leavy’s body bled out as curious onlookers rushed to the scene seeking answers. Who did the shooting and why? Was it Danny Dimes? or DJ? or are they the same guy!! As rumored. ~si