JEARED LEMASTERS: THE FAT GUY THEORY OF WINNING AT PRO FOOTBALL STRATEGIES SYMPOSIUM aka: The Fat Guy Theory Football is one of the few things that drives me crazy! Todays players are SO good, so well trained, so physically gifted, that the reason teams lose is rarely because of a lack of effort by the players. If your team loses, its because they are not put together properly. 99% of the time, its the General Managers fault. I cant diagram an offense. Quarterbacks, Wide Receivers and Tight Ends are so complicated now, that its basically turned a 2 chord county song into improvised jazz. Its still music, but they are barely related. That being said, I can stop them cold in their tracks! I have discovered THE formula that guarantees winning seasons. Simply put, its called, The Fat Guy Theory. The principle of The Fat Guy Theory, is simple... Its an inside out, field grid, that neutralizes what is the weakest part of the field, for the defense, and flips it over towards their advantage and generates turnovers... Which is the genesis of winning at football. The idea is simple: I know where the offense WONT go... Up the middle. You cant go up the middle. You physically cant move my guys out of the way. You cant line up, hike the ball, move in unison, and run/pass up the middle of the field for 1-15 yards. It physically cannot be done. If the rules allowed for more than 1 guy in motion, maybe you could move the ball up the middle... Those arent the rules, so you cant do it. Bigger, faster, stronger at the point of contact, changes EVERYTHING. The center has to be smaller to physically make the motion of hiking the ball to the QB. He cant hike the ball AND make first contact. It cant be done. So the Center will always LOSE the battle of first contact. If the offense is to advance the ball, they are going to have to do it horizontally NOT vertically. This is where your fast linebacker takes over the game and dictates what the offense can or cannot do! If some QB or RB tries to get an angle, are youre going to tell me that Urlacher or Lewis cant flatten them at an angle?!? Theyre dead! TEs or WRs catching the ball over the middle... Maybe once. Its simply to clogged and congested. Ask Wes Welker about going over the middle. If the defense KNOWS a pass is coming, the line gets their hands up... NO Screen passes. Every 1st down pass play HAS to come out of a running formation and HAS to be a play action pass. The less time the QB is looking downfield, the more likely there is to be a fumble, interception or a deflection. Hash Marks. The hash marks slant the field. The previous play dictates where the ball is set on the field. If the previous play went out of bounds to the LEFT, then the ball is set up on the LEFT hash mark... not the CENTER of the field. Since the Defense knows this, you simply shade or cheat your skilled position players towards the percentages of the field. Its a turkey shoot! Its fish in a barrel! Down and distance, field position, are used AGAINST the offense! Youre not just sitting back and HOPING the WR doesnt SIT in space and HOPE the QB doesnt see him. No, no, no... The Defense sets the offense up. The Defense tricks the QB into not trusting what he thinks he sees. Hesitation, at this level, kills. THE PROOF First, I present to you Tony Siragusa. I noticed that EVERYWHERE this Fat Guy went... He WON! Indy, Dallas, Baltimore... Also everywhere he went, the MLBs had career years! Dallas it was Norton, BAL it was Ray Lewis. 2nd, Warren Sapp. Tampa Bay was a JOKE! They goy the best Fat Guy, they win a Super Bowl... They havent won one since. The 2003, 13 - 3 Chicago Bears. Whats better than a Fat Guy?... 2 Fat Guys! It didnt matter what hack was under Center at QB, they won 13 games because of The Defense. The Defense was great because of Ted Washington and Keith Traylor. Urlacher was at his best, as well. The Bears did it again with Tommie Harris... The best Fat Guy since Warren Sapp. The Packers didnt win with Aaron Rogers... They won with BJ Raji! They didnt win with Brett Favre, the won with Big, Fat Gilbert Brown. In MIN, they had The Wlliams Boys and teams simply stopped running the ball and picked on their porous defensive backfield. They were the best team in the NFC, but the NFL clearly had a N.O. saints agenda and chose to ignore late hits against Brett Favre. (Bounty-Gate) NE wins because of Vince Wilfork. The Golden Boy Tom Brady went down, they still went 10-6 with the great Matt Cassell. In summation: all I have to know, with todays talent on Defense, is where youre NOT going to go. If they change the rules and set the ball in the center of the field on EVERY play... If they allow multiple people in motion BEFORE the ball is hiked, THEN the Fat Guy guide to winning football strategies has to be rethought. If you could put a 300 pound guy in motion, hike the ball and have him BLAST my Fat Guy off the ball... Then you would put the offense back in control. In Arena Football, the WRs are full out sprinting by the time the ball is hiked... NFL, not yet. When Defensive Coordinators adapt to what works and not what they like... Then the NFL will start to mirror the Arena League. Because the way its set up now, there is NO answer to the Fat Guy theory of defense. Running the ball is simply not worth it when its over 1st and 5. Thank you for letting me educate you bunch of filthy sweat hogs!!! - Rick Rude
Posted on: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 01:27:38 +0000
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