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TACOES!

All across the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire there were triumphant Leeds United fans on Sunday after their incredible FA Cup upset, travelling back over the Pennines having turfed out Sir Alex Ferguson's Manchester United.

Leeds took 9,000 to Old Trafford, what a memorable day for those fans. The first away win against Man Utd since 1981, they now face Tottenham Hotspur - away again down at White Hart Lane.

I wonder if they can do it again - with Jermaine Beckford upfront the League One leaders are a handful...a fixture that Harry Redknapp's Spurs will definitely be weary of.

I really enjoyed this matchup last night. Although I plan on visiting TCU during Spring Practices, I don't know if I enjoyed their defensive domination on 3rd down or FOX's gratiuitous shots of the TCU Showgirls during the game....

Somebody else "gets it"....
(I find the utter lack of TCU Showgirls coverage after all that FOX did for them last night rather disturbing)

Probably one of the reasons I LOVE the Air Raid is because of the simplicity and efficiency of the heavy screen game utilized. Nothing gives a defense more diarrhea like an offense that can attack multiple areas of the field in an instant.

Secondly, you don't even have to be able to block to make screens work. Hands down our best play this year was the 41/51 fast screen (and we 'technically' weren't Air Raid), where we would average 8 yards a pop (and we threw a lot of them). It is a simple double-play-at-second-base-baseball-throw (Darin Slack's C4 disc 3 has some great drills for this under center and from the gun), to a split receiver giving a 2-step stem then working back to the quarterback.

Screens are an amazing way for your players to gain confidence in the offense immediately (can master the entire screen game in one practice) as well as establish an intense practice and playing tempo. The viciousness of these fast hitting plays can devastate a defensive line and allow your offensive linemen to dominate with cuts, lateral movement, and otherwise frustrating the beejesus out of the defensive front.

Here are some drills (i.e. "cage drill") for reinforcing the proper footwork for fast (1 step NOW!), rocket (fake 3 step action), and solid (zone run action for 3 steps) screens on the perimeter.

screen @ Yahoo! Video

on Canal Street, New Orleans.....


I'm pretty sure this pet is going to remain lost...

just clips of TD throws from NMSU in 07

Ran into a rather interesting documentary this weekend that is worth checking out. Along the lines of a Niall Ferguson's, War of the World, this is a unique chronicalling of 20th century trends in political ideologies and social control.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Nightmares
(Politics of fear)

You can see most of the film on online.

You can see all of it here:
1/3
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=2798679275960015727
2/3
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=4602171665328041876
3/3
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=2081592330319789254


Trying to get moving on some more football posts, but I've got LASIK scheduled for Thursday (National Championship Game!?! OY!), so hopefully I'll be able to see something different in the game from here on out.