
Originally Posted by
schoolofruckus
I'm tickled that you make this so easy for me.
First of all, you don't know more about anything than I do. Even in areas where you should have a clear advantage - such as "How to live one's life as a helpless, unloved, homophobic human irritant" - I could probably give you a few pointers. Case in point: the Chargers. Your team. It wasn't "just one accidental supplement". Even if you take Merriman's word on it (and I don't), what do you have to say about Luis Castillo's flunked steroid test before the 2005 draft? He admitted to taking androsteindeione - the same steroid that hangs over Mark McGwire's head to this day - to "help him recover from an injury". The same excuse that Rodney Harrison used for his HGH bust. Also - it's very reckless for you to assume that the Chargers don't use similar sign-stealing tactics simply because they didn't get caught. Although if they are, they must mysteriously stop doing it for all the big games they've lost over the years.
And how many other players use steriods to recover from injury? At any rate, Castillo included in his contract that should the Bolts ever find anything in his system again, they can release him and ask for a good chunk of money back. I don't think it's reckless at all? Are the Patriots that dumb as to assume that they wouldn't get caught by having their camera guy, very blantently, point that thing at their coaches all game long?
Before the season started, Goodell very explicitly sent a notice to the league about that very thing. Innocent until proven guilty, yeah?
What's most mysterious about your claim here is that your football knowledge is....well, actually, it's that you have any football knowledge at all. A "cheap time-out"? Have you ever watched a game before, or did you just let some ugly beast of a girl in a Raiders jersey complain to you about the end of the game last Sunday? There's no such thing as a cheap time-out. Time-outs are a part of the game. They are given to teams for strategic purposes, be it in the middle of one's own drive or to ice a kicker. The chop blocking....say what you want. If it were something the NFL considered inappropriate, they would legislate against it, and Denver would have to re-do their entire scheme. Blocking low isn't popular, but if you do it at the line of scrimmage, it's entirely legal.
Cheap timeout. Yes. He could've called his timeout earlier. Putting my Bronco bias aside, I will say that it was a very shrewed and smart call.
"One of the less famous ways for the defense to be blocked is with a technique called the cut or chop block.
The cut block is when an offensive football player attempts to get a defensive player to the ground by diving at his feet and ankles rather than his upper body. This technique, however, borders the thin line between making a good block and maybe injuring someone."
Most of the time, Denver employs this scheme they get away with quite a bit. Especially when double-teaming for the run plays. It's a very quick block by one lineman followed by a dive at the knees by the other. I consider it to be dirty. Sucks the Broncos can't be real men and stand up to the other defenders.
And Bud Luster's dead fucking right. I used to have enormous respect for LDT until he started that whole "the Patriots have no class because they did Shawne Merriman's dance" bullshit. Let me get this straight: the Patriots shouldn't show up the Chargers by doing a dance that Merriman uses to show up every single one of his opponents every time he sets foot on the field? He - like you - is either a hypocrite, or an unbelievable dumbass, if that's how he really feels.
Don't tell me you wouldn't be upset. Merriman is a douche. I'll admit that and I"m glad he's kept his show boating off the field. But LT has the right to say things like that. Why? Team pride. Call it crying or call it standing up for his team pride, but I don't think you'd want your opponent dancing right in front of you and very blatently making fun of you.
And what a fine climax to your outpouring of thoughts that any human being of even slight intelligence would be embarassed to lay claim to. I'm an ugly douchebag? Really? Did you think that one up before or after Buzz Aldrin and John Glenn played golf on the surface of your face?
One last thing - on your way to go grab your shinebox, pick up some Johnson + Johnson "no tears" shampoo for your boy LaDainian.