Seeing Is Believing: Red Bryant
by John Morgan
on May 15, 2008 1:43 PM PDT
I'm having all 4 wisdom teeth extracted tomorrow and won't be able to post for a couple days. While I'm recovering, I thought I'd share a link to archived footage of Texas A&M football. Bryant is #85, but because of the poor camera angle, the fact that he shifts around a bit, and that he played beside #95, Henry Smith, he can be a bit tough to track. Despite what you may have read elsewhere, Smith was A&M's primary nose tackle. Funny how when a player is very large, it's assumed he's a wide-bodied blocker stopper, but though Bryant certainly is strong enough to play the two gap, his quickness and agility promise great one-gap potential. See for yourself.
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Whats the deal
with you and your teeth? Seems like you’re always having dental work done. I smell a cover up.
Lazy blogger blames Novocaine for absence, more at 11.
by Nate Dogg on May 15, 2008 2:03 PM PDT 0 recs
Eh.
Well, I’m 26 and still have my wisdom teeth. I have my wisdom teeth because for the 10 years or so before I got my job at UPS I didn’t have any sort of medical insurance. For the last year or so they’ve taken to getting real inflamed every so often and I’ve finally decided to have them removed.
So, if I ever blame my teeth past this point, you can blame a cover up.
by John Morgan on
May 15, 2008 2:24 PM PDT
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Off topic: I was reading Yahoo sports comments
and this made my head hurt
“Shaun Alexander though in my opinion should sign with New Orleans and be an intense tandem with Reggie Bush as well as a mentor cause Duece is not gonna be a factor anymore.”
Coach Owens has no bones
by Scruffy Lefty on May 15, 2008 4:33 PM PDT 0 recs
They need to do way instain Shaun Alexander.
Who killed their rushing attack. It was on Field Gulls this mroing. A poster in wa who had killed their Shaun love. They are taking their Shaun back to new olrreans too kill their offnes. My pary are with their fans…
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phildopip on
May 16, 2008 8:24 AM PDT
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Wow, totally not a big deal.
The last thing I remember saying is “it feels like a heavy blanket is over me.” I had them extracted 11:30 yesterday morning and hardly felt it that day. Today I feel better than I have in months. Between Thursday, Friday, Saturday morning I’ve caught up on sleep – I feel like a million bucks! No nagging cold like symptoms. No kicked in the jaw feeling. A long hiatus from medicine and surgery engendered that sort of weirdo fear of doctors, but after this experience I might just get other things extracted. My little toes don’t seem to be doing much.
Anyway, they’ve got me on Percoset. It’s a little incapacitating, but I think I can do some light blogging over the weekend before kicking off my Football Explained series on Monday. Thanks everyone for the patience, did anyone take a chance to watch Red Bryant? I’m curious about others’ takes on his play.
by John Morgan on May 17, 2008 8:33 AM PDT 0 recs
I haven't been able to get it to play
Is it necessary to sign up in order to see the video, or is something else the issue?
by The Ancient Mariner on
May 17, 2008 1:23 PM PDT
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This might work for you:
This takes you to the A&M football site, in the top righthand corner is this image
that takes you to their “All Access” page, which should be free.
by John Morgan on
May 17, 2008 1:55 PM PDT
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Watched the Texas game
and you can color me not impressed. If I hadn’t been watching the game specifically to watch him I’d have never known he was on the field. Couple things I noticed:
- He used his hands really well to keep blockers off of him when the play wasn’t ran at him. He was able to keep good containment and track the ball across the field.
- His bull rush sucks, bad. And I don’t think I noticed any other pass rush moves. The only time he got penetration was when the o-line was allowing him to flow away from the play (which he didn’t fall for on running plays, but did a few times on roll outs).
- Seemed very concerned with keeping containment, even on clear passing plays. Texas runs a pretty straight forward offense, and McCoy is mobile but is a drop back passer. Either a very odd game plan or lazyness/ineffectiveness on Bryants part.
It’s just one game, and everything I’ve heard about him is that he’s kinda schizophrenic on the field from game to game. But I didn’t see a single thing that said “NFL quality player” to me.
by Nate Dogg on
May 17, 2008 5:00 PM PDT
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