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Viene dal Boston Globe e parla di allenatori.
A me č piaciuto...
A shift in brainpower is detected
By Bob Ryan, Globe Columnist  |  September 14, 2005
I think the gap may be narrowing.
The great advantage your New England Patriots have had these past few
years was the very simple fact that the coach has been smarter than
everybody else. Oh, I really believe that. I don't know how anyone could
watch the NFL operate in this century and come to any other conclusion. To
borrow a reference someone once made concerning Red Auerbach, Bill
Belichick has been playing chess as all the others have been playing
checkers.
I now have a feeling we may have allowed a couple of chess-playing foxes 
into our little henhouse. Worse yet, one of them is in the Patriots' own 
division.
It's early, of course, and we need a lot more evidence before the official
panic can set in, but the preliminary returns suggest that Nick Saban and 
Mike Nolan will be bringing a little more to the table than the garden 
variety NFL coach.
Saban is supposed to be Bill II, anyway. He worked under Coach Bill in 
Cleveland, one of the 10 stops he has made (Mommas: do not let your 
daughters grow up to marry football coaches) in a career than began as a 
Kent State graduate assistant in 1973. There are hundreds and hundreds of 
bright, eager men capable of running a satisfactory football operation at 
either the college or professional level. But most of them are locked into
orthodox methods, tactics, and schemes, usually ones that are predictable 
and, well, safe. In the right circumstances, with the right personnel,
they 
can win bowl games, national championships, and perhaps even Super Bowls. 
Most will wind up going 6-10 and 4-12 once too often and get fired. They 
retreat to the assistant ranks and another orthodox thinker and planner 
replaces them, only to repeat the pattern.
But every once in a while one of them has that certain ''it" that 99
percent 
of the rest lack. Rick Pitino has had ''it" with every college basketball 
team he has coached. Bill Belichick clearly has ''it." Charlie Weis is 
demonstrating already that he has ''it." And I'm willing to go on record
as 
saying that Nick Saban has ''it." I think Patriots fans will soon be very 
afraid of the Miami Dolphins. A year ago at this time, the Dolphins had
one 
of the most boring, predictable, conventional, and, ultimately, beatable 
coaches imaginable in Dave Wannstedt. Now they have perhaps The Next Great
Thing in charge of their team.
So what does Nick Saban do? I can't X-and-O it for you, but here is the 
explanation once offered by Dean Pees, the Patriots' linebackers coach who
was Saban's defensive coordinator at Michigan State: ''Instead of looking
at 
the overall picture, he gives players something they can really lash their
teeth into, which allows them to play more aggressively. There are a lot
of 
guys who can draw up the X's and O's. The question is, what little things 
can you find to help each player play his position? That's one thing Nick
is 
good at."
Pees has just described Rick Pitino, in case you didn't know. Rick is the 
acknowledged master of individual instruction. Many people don't believe
it, 
but some people really do know more about their sport, and are able to 
articulate their thoughts about every last little thing, than others. If
you 
get past what Coach Bill is not telling you about who's hurt and when 
so-and-so is coming back and all that bookkeeping stuff, and focus instead
on Coach Bill's almost passionate daily explanations about matters of pure
football detail, you discover that he is in possession of a frightening 
amount of empirical knowledge about the whys and wherefores of football.
Not surprisingly, Saban and Belichick are goombahs, of sorts. Saban was 
Coach Bill's defensive coordinator in Cleveland. He shares his old boss's 
disdain for the media (although, to be fair, Coach Bill has come a long, 
long way in recent years), and has made life a basic Hades for the Miami 
press. Like Coach Bill, he has been described as a serious ''no-nonsense" 
coach. Now, here is what Coach Bill once said about his old DC:
''Basically, 
if anybody doesn't want to work hard or be committed the way he's
committed, 
then they're going to have a problem with him. Now, if they like to work, 
they won't have any problem at all."
Miami fans got a glimpse of coming attractions on Sunday. Gus Frerotte,
the 
journeyman's journeyman at quarterback, threw for 275 yards and two 
touchdowns. The Dolphins mixed and matched running backs (Ricky Williams
is 
serving a four-game druggy suspension, remember) to the tune of 151 yards.
Old buddy Keith Traylor blotted out the sky nicely in the middle of the 
defensive line. Zach Thomas was his old marauding self (8 tackles, 6 
assists) at middle linebacker. The great defensive end Jason Taylor had a 
sack, a fumble recovery, and some near-sacks. Tebucky Jones -- remember 
him? -- had a big day at safety. The Dolphins were completely energized.
And . . .
Most ominously, Saban pulled a Coach Bill move that showed he has some 
creativity. Taylor, all 6 feet 6 inches, 255 pounds of him, lined up at 
tight end on a third-quarter second-and-goal from the 2. He ran an inside 
route, taking two defenders with him, and Randy McMichael, the real tight 
end, caught a TD pass going the other way. Taylor explained that it was
all 
about tapping his inner Vrabel. ''I asked Coach Saban to let me play
there," 
he explained. ''I'm going to keep asking to play there until I catch a 
touchdown pass."
Like the Patriots, the Dolphins are going to be good, and they're also
going 
to be fun. These two unsmiling coaches play creative, entertaining
football.
Across the continent, another interesting story is unfolding. The San 
Francisco 49ers, hapless a year ago (their two wins each coming in OT 
against Arizona), upset the St. Louis Rams, 28-25. They did this despite a
puny offensive output that included a mere 12 first downs, 217 yards in 
total offense, and a running game that picked up an embarrassing 1.6 yards
per carry. But Otis Amey took a punt 75 yards to The House, the defense 
stood tall when it had to, and Nolan engaged in all sorts of trickeration.
Among other things, the 49ers used: a lateral from QB Tim Rattay to
wideout 
(and former Notre Dame QB) Arnaz Battle, who threw a 24-yard touchdown
pass; 
a shotgun snap to Battle (didn't work, but what the hey?); a shotgun snap
to 
Battle resulting in a shovel pass to Frank Gore; and an onside kick 
recovered by SF's Terry Jackson. Nolan acknowledged that such plays were
an 
admission that his was the inferior team. Fine. But he didn't just stand 
around and accept his fate by running off-tackle all day. What he did 
instead took the kind of coaching guts we seldom see on display the NFL. 
Except here.
I've been intrigued by Nolan, whose public pronouncements seem to separate
him from the typical cookie-cutter NFL coach we normally encounter. He
seems 
to have, yes, ''it."
Coach Bill is still the resident NFL smarty. But he finally has a little 
competition.
Bob Ryan is a Globe columnist. His e-mail address is 
ry...@globe.com
.
--
Charlie :)
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possiamo dire MAIEMI UOR CEMPION 2007 ?
it's hard to fly like an eagle when you're sorrounded by the chickens

 possiamo dire MAIEMI UOR CEMPION 2007 ?
Possiamo dire che sarebbe il caso di mettere un fottuttissimo separatore 
standard per la tua firma?
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Saluti
Gabriele
Tessera ISPA #106
"Dodgers back to Brooklyn Club" #2 subscriber
HAIL TO THE REDSKINS! & GO TRIBE!

standard per la tua firma?
Quale firma? Io non ho visto nessun nome.
Forse dev'essere out firmare i messaggi...
--
Charlie :)
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"La partecipazione ai newsgroups è libera.
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 Quale firma? Io non ho visto nessun nome.
Ah Sissio... vale pure per te...
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 A me č piaciuto...
Anche a me. Immagino sia assolutamente casuale che tu sia tifoso dei
Dolphins ed io dei Niners :-)
--
Roberto Ricca
2006: GO GIANTS (Anybody but the Dodgers) [Magic Number: 163]
[vista l'annata, meglio portarsi avanti col lavoro :-(]


E' piaciuto anche a me, il caso continua a seguire il suo corso :-).
Andrea 

Ah Sissio... vale pure per te...
Colpa tua e del tuo fottutissimo separatore standard (cit) che tanto hai
richiesto.
Fai una guglata e poi sappimi dire
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standard per la tua firma?
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it's hard to fly like an eagle when you're sorrounded by the chickens
cosi va bene ingeniiiiiiiiiiiiiiierino ?

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Assolutamente no.
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Assolutamente no.
cmq cuoti di mmerda ... sarà l'età ?

Essi' e' l'eta....
Che dici adesso ho quotato bene?
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