Defensively, I wanna see Raiders '70's nasty, modernized inasmuch as required for 2018 CFB officiating. The Autumn Wind is a Pirate attitude. Lean into the grey areas with legal hard hits and playing through the whistle, gang tackling. Demoralize offenses - like the '85 Bears "D" which allowed a paltry 12 ppg - to the point they want to just physically survive, or "live to punt" ($1 to Steve Ensminger 2008 Iron Bowl week).
Hit like Jack Tatum, nicknamed “The Assassin", who liked to think that his best hits border on “felonious assault.”
(Hey T.D.) Forsake your body like Ronnie Lott, whose claim to fame occurred in 1985 when his left pinkie was caught between the shoulder pads and helmet of Cowboys running back Timmy Newsome, shattering the bone. When Lott’s finger didn’t heal properly, he told the doctors to cut it off, they amputated his pinkie at the third knuckle, and Lott played on.
Be as old school tough as DT Ernie Stautner back in the day. “Ernie Stautner comes in the huddle, and his thumb is broken back against his wrist. There's a tear near the break, and his bone is sticking out. He has a compound fracture of the thumb. He takes his thumb in his hand and wrenches it down into his fist. Doesn't show it to anybody. Doesn't say anything. So he stayed there for the rest of the series, and then we came off, and I'm watching him because I'm the only guy who saw that he had a compound fracture. I saw the bone. So I'm figuring now he's going to ask for the doctor, and he may have to go to the hospital because this thing could get infected, and he says, “Give me some tape.” So they throw him some tape and he just starts taping this huge ball. He makes this big fist. Then we go back in. He plays the entire game. Never misses a down. I'm just astounded, and he's using this hand that is broken as a club. He's beating people with it. After the game, we go into the locker room and he says, “Hey Doc, I think I got a problem.” —Andy Russell, linebacker
Someone on the AU "D" become the Butkus of college football 2018. Butkus has bitten officials, bitten opponents in the groin, scratched, punched, everything. Steve Sabol had the following to say about Butkus: “His career stands as the most sustained work of devastation ever committed on any field of sport, anywhere, any time.”
If our defense is baptized in that level of nasty, like their forefather Takeo played with, it's a matter of time it bleeds over into our offense's identity, and you see Gus / Lindsey stomping the gas pedal and draining the brake fluid out of the machine.
Best way I can think of to expunge the 'Benz misery this Saturday afternoon.
(Note: must click YouTube for the Autumn Wind clip)
Hit like Jack Tatum, nicknamed “The Assassin", who liked to think that his best hits border on “felonious assault.”
(Hey T.D.) Forsake your body like Ronnie Lott, whose claim to fame occurred in 1985 when his left pinkie was caught between the shoulder pads and helmet of Cowboys running back Timmy Newsome, shattering the bone. When Lott’s finger didn’t heal properly, he told the doctors to cut it off, they amputated his pinkie at the third knuckle, and Lott played on.
Be as old school tough as DT Ernie Stautner back in the day. “Ernie Stautner comes in the huddle, and his thumb is broken back against his wrist. There's a tear near the break, and his bone is sticking out. He has a compound fracture of the thumb. He takes his thumb in his hand and wrenches it down into his fist. Doesn't show it to anybody. Doesn't say anything. So he stayed there for the rest of the series, and then we came off, and I'm watching him because I'm the only guy who saw that he had a compound fracture. I saw the bone. So I'm figuring now he's going to ask for the doctor, and he may have to go to the hospital because this thing could get infected, and he says, “Give me some tape.” So they throw him some tape and he just starts taping this huge ball. He makes this big fist. Then we go back in. He plays the entire game. Never misses a down. I'm just astounded, and he's using this hand that is broken as a club. He's beating people with it. After the game, we go into the locker room and he says, “Hey Doc, I think I got a problem.” —Andy Russell, linebacker
Someone on the AU "D" become the Butkus of college football 2018. Butkus has bitten officials, bitten opponents in the groin, scratched, punched, everything. Steve Sabol had the following to say about Butkus: “His career stands as the most sustained work of devastation ever committed on any field of sport, anywhere, any time.”
If our defense is baptized in that level of nasty, like their forefather Takeo played with, it's a matter of time it bleeds over into our offense's identity, and you see Gus / Lindsey stomping the gas pedal and draining the brake fluid out of the machine.
Best way I can think of to expunge the 'Benz misery this Saturday afternoon.
(Note: must click YouTube for the Autumn Wind clip)
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