2023-2024 NFL Season Thread • Page 1537

dude opens his yap any chance he gets

 

This is not football related

but HOLY FUCKIN SHIT THAT RULES. I am feeling so bewildered right now. A monopoly that pretty much owns exclusive partnerships with every major venue in the country…. Just did something to help the bands? At their own expense?

Capitalism is still corrupt and horrible but wow, someone at Live Nation actually has a conscience. I thought for sure they were gonna be just like Spotify (and every other company!) and be like “fuck those bands, we didn’t sign them to a deal we don’t owe them anything. Our clients are the venues.”

it is a WIDESPREAD problem in the music industry that merch cuts rob bands of what limited profit margins they earn. And I’m not talking about small DIY artists like me, I’m talking about mid-size signed artists that we actually listen to and go see live. A lot of those bands post pandemic - professional bands! - were literally going into debt to tour because LN venues (and other promoters) were taking huge cuts of their biggest profit source.

This is the reason why so many bands are either breaking up, or doing anniversary / reunion tours to make sure they can fill up venues, cause any show that doesn’t sell out could potentially lose them a lot of money vs the costs of tour. So Live Nation doing this is actually really awesome and worth clapping about, much easier to break even when you’re not giving $3 of the $5 net margins you earn on every shirt, poster, and vinyl record to the venue.

 

Jimmy G's 103 QB rating hasn't carried over to Vegas but I bet it's coming!

I'm being unserious. Purdy > Jimmy G

 

the team was 1-2 last year and "went on a run"? They finished 7-10 lol

6-8 is "a run"?

 

We won 4 in a row and then Breece Hall and AVT went down in the same game.

Won 6 of 8 after starting 1-2. That's a run. The team just completely collapsed down the stretch.

 

Bracing for which prices rise to accommodate this (service fee? bar drinks?) because I’m sure corporation won’t actually cut profits out of the goodness of their hearts, but regardless, I’m happy to spend a little bit more if it means that difference is going directly to the artist

 

Kupp made that sound way more complex than it is haha. The code talk of being a football player is so overwrought sometimes.

fire zone is when you corner blitz and drop defenders deep to try to disrupt the big play. theoretically, you’re hoping the QB rushes the throw and gets baited into an INT. It’s a risky but sometimes very effective call on third and long, especially if you know the other team hasn’t been stopping your blitzes.

3 deep means one safety and two corners deep, so they probably had the nickel and the other safety blitzing.

“it wasn’t a replacement fire zone” means they didn’t have a DL or OLB slide in place of the slot CB after he blitzed, so no one was gonna intercept his route.

“I knew we would have 3 pushing” means I had 3 other guys running deep and pushing the coverage out of the way, so I had plenty of space to run after the catch.

basically the Rams called a really good play against fire zone, anything that threatens vertical but has a primary crossing read where the CB was blitzing is very hard to defend from that look, and that’s the risk of blitzing in the red zone. Kupp is good enough to beat whoever he has to beat to get into all that open field.

 

The fire zone concept is when an edge player or an interior player drops into coverage. It's a defensive coordinators way of trying to bait a QB into throwing to their hot read. You show blitz so they throw to the hot, but there's a dropped defender in that zone.

You're showing a five man rush (out numbering the line) but drop a defender.

 

Actually the fire zone is where you're not allowed to park your car

 

Everything I've researched about it is that it IS a five man rush, you're not just showing one. You do rotate defenders (typically like you said, moving an OLB or DE into the hot read) but there's still an additional edge rusher that gets factored in, often a cornerback. The point is to blitz the passer while also confusing them and making it look like downfield throwing windows are more open than they are, right?

"replacement pressure" is the concept you're talking about where a defender moves into the space that another defender just blitzed from, but Kupp said in the clip that it wasn't a "replacement" on his side.

 

There's a fire zone and then a fire zone blitz

 

Yeah it sounded like they were discussing the fire zone blitz, but rewatching it "blitz" was her words not his. So it's possible it was just a regular fire zone and it just looked like a blitz to the reporter because the pressure came from different places.

 

You can run it primarily out of 5-2 and you don't drop any lineman. You just scare the QB shitless into throwing it quickly.

 

Love me a good 5-2

 

Happy to be sober and buy overpriced water instead of overpriced alcohol

 

venues that don't charge for non-alcoholic drinks are great

 

Thankful that the Colts got a draft pick in return in addition to swapping Nyheim Hines for Zack Moss

 

Nice, hope he takes Kareem Hunt’s job

 

...I've never seen this for anything except water haha

 

I've seen it with soda but it was RARE

But yeah I often just drink water at shows anyway

 

I went back and watched tape on the Eagles game last night and I can’t believe how good Jalen Carter is going to be. It’s unreal

 

Yeah, that Eagles DLine is something fierce.