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MarcoVol said:
Some posters on this board need to read this and then read it again

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I am half expecting the next time Alontae steps in front of a pass and picks one off to run backwards and take a knee at our own 10 yard line. Gotta pad dem offensive stats and have a moment to take a leak and get some Powerade 😂
 
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Devo182 said:
Is Neyland Stadium a country?
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Let’s CHAZ Neyland except make it palatable and family friendly. Hog smoking 24/7, bourbon lounge on Neyland terrace, even a little shroom grow in the old troughs for @TrippieRedd and friends. @Ulysees E. McGill can stand at Gate 21 and yell at various passerby's.
 
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I thought of something interesting yesterday. Have any of you thought of the effects that playing a large number of snaps has on the offense? We always hear about how tired the defenses are because of playing so many snaps, but what about the offense? They have to be getting tired too.
 
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74volz said:
Climbing movies are great. Check out Meru. Really shows the exposure and the elements they put themselves in. It’s the most mental sport I’ve ever done. Played team sports my whole life, but when I started climbing it changed everything. The training at a gym then to go outside is night and day. But the mental training is the hardest I’ve ever done over any team sport. I loved bouldering way more than ropes.

I’ve climbed a ton in NC, Looking Glass and Boone, GA, TN, Joshua Tree, Zion and when I got to Yosemite those walls intimidated the hell out of me. Totally mesmerized. I don’t have what it takes to get on those walls at those heights. Mainly bouldered at Camp 4. Midnight Lightning is a beast. Think the highest I bouldered was 30 feet without a rope. That was scary. So yeah, what Hohnold and others can do is flat out amazing. That’s a mental threshold I can’t tap into.
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Even 30 ft is amazing.

I'm convinced of what one of those films briefly mentioned (I think about Honnold), which is that people capable of breaching that mental barrier may be either missing a part of the normal brain activity or have abnormal brain chemistry. Something in their physical brain is allowing them to not fear what the other 99.999999% do. And that's not meant to be disrespect to them at all, as they still put have to have a crazy amount of work ethic, strength, bravery, etc. It just begins to explain how any human can actually brave such absurdities. The Alpinist guy was literally going up a wall many times larger than the El Cap routes...with ice and all. It was just so insane.
 
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As a defense you have to know that if your offense can hang 40 and you can get some stops the game only gets easier. Kentucky never got far enough behind that we could really make them 1 dimensional so we didn't see the benefit.

And honestly I think the 2 weeks to prepare the defensive staff probably went a bit light on contact and that's why we looked the way we did on that side of the ball. Probably part of that was to help make sure everyone was healthy, but it also means you lose a bit of the edge that comes from full speed live tackling.

Hopefully they show up a bit better Saturday.
 
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Adam2014 said:
I thought of something interesting yesterday. Have any of you thought of the effects that playing a large number of snaps has on the offense? We always hear about how tired the defenses are because of playing so many snaps, but what about the offense? They have to be getting tired too.
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For sure. That's one thing I've always pointed out...it's not like only one side of a team is playing. The bigger advantage is schematic...defenses also tend to sub (even if from one possession to the next). Though I would argue it takes more effort to chase than be chased.
 
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Devo182 said:
Even 30 ft is amazing.

I'm convinced of what one of those films briefly mentioned (I think about Honnold), which is that people capable of breaching that mental barrier may be either missing a part of the normal brain activity or have abnormal brain chemistry. Something in their physical brain is allowing them to not fear what the other 99.999999% do. And that's not meant to be disrespect to them at all, as they still put have to have a crazy amount of work ethic, strength, bravery, etc. It just begins to explain how any human can actually brave such absurdities. The Alpinist guy was literally going up a wall many times larger than the El Cap routes...with ice and all. It was just so insane.
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It’s an abnormality, so to speak, in the amygdala, which is part of the basic “emotions” system. The four Fs: fleeing, fighting, feeding and f… you get the picture.
 
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Adam2014 said:
I thought of something interesting yesterday. Have any of you thought of the effects that playing a large number of snaps has on the offense? We always hear about how tired the defenses are because of playing so many snaps, but what about the offense? They have to be getting tired too.
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Mo practice, mo better
 
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Adam2014 said:
I thought of something interesting yesterday. Have any of you thought of the effects that playing a large number of snaps has on the offense? We always hear about how tired the defenses are because of playing so many snaps, but what about the offense? They have to be getting tired too.
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I was curious as well, and I ended up finding this. (long post)

“The offensive players probably practice this way all the time. While the defensive players may only practice this at some times or never.

During a run play the offense has 9 guys blocking, one guy doing nothing (QB), and one guy running hard. On defense you have 11 defenders fighting through blocks trying to sprint to the ball. This is much harder work.

During a pass play you have 5-6 guys standing next to each other blocking (easier than run blocking for lineman). You have 4-6 defensive players trying their hardest to get around these blockers. This may be the most strenuous and tiring activity there is on a football field. At the same time you have WRs running routes - at most 2 of these are deep routes. The defenders are expending more energy covering them because they don't know where they are going. (Equivalent to basketball where playing D is more tiring than running an offense)

These schemes run players off and on the field quickly. I ran one for several years at a high school. I almost felt bad because no matter how good the other players were the coaches weren't prepared and gave their team no chance. Your defensive substitutions need to be spot on. [In the NFL there are rules regulating offensive substitutions, in that the offense must give the defense time to make a substitution without worrying about too many men on the field]

With any offense, even the most sluggishly ran, the offense will wear down the defense faster than it wears down itself. Running at a faster pace just accelerates all of this.

The defensive coaches are so worried about the frantic pace that they don't do their basic jobs. They are worried about their players being tired and substitutions and they aren't seeing how the other team is scheming them. This is really the genius of the up tempo. That people are so quick to blame the quick tempo on the success of the offense that they don't look at the schemes being used to execute.

There are however teams just not with enough coaching/football IQ that don't get it. You run up to the line on a quick snap and the other team LBs are still looking at coaches for signals.”
 
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