Brian Russell is Seattle's Starting Free Safety (and why that's not so bad)

the most amazing sport hunting I’ve ever seen.

Is it fishing just because it’s fish?!? Me-thinks it isn’t bow-fishing, it’s fish-bow-hunting….

He has an awesome attitude, work ethic, and skills. But I don’t think he is consistent, probably because he does not have the height and leverage an NFL DE needs to excel. Last year, he played against SF twice and St. Louis twice and never got a sack.

He had that famous 4 sack game in 2007, but review that game sometime and I think you might agree that was a very pathetic performance by the OT. In other games, Tapp often gets handled by average OTs. He seems to disappear at times, and I think that is not surprising since he’s a 6-foot-1 guy going against 6-foot-5 OTs.

I like to watch Tapp play though, and I think rotating in at RDE to give Kerney a blow periodically may be a great role for him. Two RDEs rotating and staying fresh should help the pass rush.

I guess the recent influx of more Brian Russell related ‘comedy’ has been revived with the public training camp and potential competition for his job.

Rec’d.

It’s a strategem, and a slow one at that, only to be employed when your opponent can do nothing about the buildup. See Alekhine, any.

I can’t even really visualize the board until half of the pieces are gone.

Those weren’t really definitions, they were the links to related articles. The articles, themselves, may be more correct/precise/informative (I’m no great judge). Here’s an excerpt from the article on tchess actics:

In chess, a tactic refers to a short sequence of moves which limits the opponent’s options and may result in tangible gain. Tactics are usually contrasted to strategy, in which advantages take longer to be realized, and the opponent is less constrained in responding1.

The fundamental building blocks of tactics are two-move sequences in which the first move poses a double threat. The opponent is unable to respond to both threats in one move, so the first player realizes an advantage on the second move. This includes forks, skewers, batteries, discovered attacks, undermining, overloading, deflection, and interference2. Pins also fall into this category to some extent, although it is common for a defending player to relieve neither of the two threats posed by a pin, in which case the attacking player commonly maintains the pin for a longer period of time. A pin is therefore sometimes more strategic than tactical.

Often tactics of several types are conjoined in a combination. A combination, while still constraining the opponent’s responses, takes several moves to obtain an advantage, and thus is considered deeper and more spectacular than the basic tactics listed above.

Chess computers are considered superhuman at tactics, but rather poor at strategy. Computers do not think about tactics in human terms (fork, skewer, etc.); rather, they apply very simple rules to evaluate hundreds of thousands of sequences, the vast majority of which are spurious.

I’m a 1300 level. Played probably 600 games on gameknot, a couple years ago, just couldn’t get any better, but I sure enjoyed getting destroyed by the 1800-2400 level guys from time to time. From my perspective saying 1900 isn’t great is like saying Rivers or Roethlisberger is not a great QB.

I have an old blog from 2007 or older that I never post at and I found myself just editing all the old posts the other day (spelling and grammar mistakes mostly). Weird how we spend time doing stuff even though nothing will ever come of it.
It might be easier if we couldn’t go back and edit things, but then I guess people be more neurotic before posting things.

My OCD may now raise it’s ugly head to correct your rare mistake without fear of feeling like a jerk.

(Yes, that was intentional.)