From: mzimmers@netcom.com (Michael Zimmers)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: **Re: Niners Beat Aints, Refs
Date: 29 Sep 92 16:36:31 GMT
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In article <kely0m_00YV789DWAB@andrew.cmu.edu> Richard Paul Smolen <rs84+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

>from mzimmer@netcom.com (Michael Zimmer)

>>Calibrated to offend, and successful at that...

>Why try to offend people?  What's the point?

Isn't it perfectly obvious what the point is?  I enjoy 
rattling your humorless cage!

>But intentionally insulting another team's fans is alot of bullshit.

Take a chill pill, sport.  If you have trouble with the concepts of
sarcasm and trading net.barbs perhaps you ought to find a remedial
newsgroup.  Come back when you're ready to run with the big dogs...

>Especially when you hardly have a grasp of the game of pro football (as
>evidenced by your ridiculous posts)

Gee, those posts are working better than I thought!

>Some tips:
>
>    You do not say a team played well "except" ....

Oh?  Who says?  Tell us, O Oracle of r.s.f.p, why one doesn't dare
make such an utterance for fear of incurring your lethal wrath.  (Take
some friendly advice -- put some real thought into your answer on this
one.  It will hopefully prevent you from looking even sillier.)

>    You do not question apparently bad play calls without considering
>alternatives.  Example:  you said:

>>...  And WHY were the Niners
>>(nine of them) up on the line of scrimmage when the Aints were 3rd and
>>10 on the Niners 11?!  What a brain-dead call!  You've got to know
>>they're gonna heave it -- I'd have at least four DBs sitting on the goal
>>line.

>So IF the 9ers rushed 3 or 4 and the rest of the players were DBs and
>the Saints completed the pass ANYWAY, you would criticize the 9ers for
>playing a "prevent" defense and not being aggressive enough.

In the first place, there's a lot of room between nine-on-the-line
and a prevent.  Secondly, I'm not sure that a prevent would have been
such a bad play.  The Aints were in a situation where they basically
had to go to the end zone from the 11 (ignoring the very small chance
for a first down without a TD).  Three yards does them no good.
Six yards does them no good.  Nine yards does them no good (I doubt
Mora would go for it on 4th and one that early in the game).

So why play so tight?  Even if the Aints run a trick play like a
draw, the secondary can cut the play off well short of the end zone.

I don't normally second-guess coaches, especially the good ones, but
that was a bad play.

>    Did you ever stop to think why the "bad calls" seemed magnified in
>importance?  No, not because, in your eyes, they seemed to penalize the
>9ers more.  

Well, let's see.  Two indisputably wrong fumble calls that cost the
Niners a TD and reversed possession at mid-field.  A less obvious but
somewhat questionable interference call down the stretch.

Naw, the officiating didn't hurt the Niners that much.

>    Because the teams were so evenly matched that the slightest thing
>could cause one team to lose.

Dry up.  Evenly matched?  On defense, perhaps.  But the Niners, even
without their 1st-string QB, their #2 WR, and their perennial All-Pro
running back (aka the Midget) are far superior to the Aints on offense.
The Niners are on a pace to score 240 points more than the Aints this
year.  Roll that around in the back of your mind.  And two of their
toughest games are behind them.

>    One last thing:  Do you have ANY idea how early in the season we are?  
>    BOOM  catastrophy  Young goes down Bono goes down 9ers go 6-10

You must be on drugs.  6-10 now that they're 3-1?  Never, NEVER, *NEVER*.
Half of the Niners fans are convinced that Young going down would be
good for the team (though I won't go that far).  Musgrave's probably
a better prospect than Bono.  The Niners are about to hit the soft
part of their schedule.  6-10?!  The Niners would have to lose all
their QBs, Rice, Watters, Their entire DL, and have their chartered
plane crash into the San Francisco Bay.

And they'd *still* beat the Lambs.

>    players get traded

Usually trades work in the Niners' favor.

>    players get injured

True enough for all teams.  Advantage to teams with depth.

>    close victories

The Niners hadn't had one of these lately before Sunday night.

>    heart-breaking losses

Now *these* we've had.

>    We have a ways to go.

You must be new to this newsgroup.  I predicted the Niners would
go 11-5 this year.  That hardly qualifies as woofing (especially in
this newsgroup), and I'd say that it looks like a pretty good bet.

>    And then everyone starts 0-0 in the playoffs.

And I didn't make a post-season prediction yet.

>Watch football for a while.  Turn down the volume on the TV, and listen
>to your local radio broadcasters who are lots more familiar with your
>team.

Who is this character?  First he tells me what to and not to say, and
now I'm getting coached on how to watch a game?!

Is everyone at CMU like you?

>And don't insult people.

Physician, heal thyself...


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