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DC Jim Knowles (Official Thread)

Honor&Glory
sparcboxbuck said:
I’ve been so hesitant to call for a head. If I’m in a forced choice situation here, I’m asking for LJ’s. Too much talent on the DL to have it play like that. Especially the DEs.
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I think Knowles’ scheme and philosophy holds back LJ’s group. Just my opinion. But JK is about as aggressive as a sloth crossing a street.
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B1G (Official Thread)

Gizmo
cincibuck said:
One of my more insane assignments was to manage the Military Desk at SEATAC, January - May 1968. Planes bringing troops home from Vietnam would land at McChord, Air Force personnel would be cleaned up at McChord and sent to SEATAC, Soldiers to Ft. Lewis, Sailors and Marines to Pier 19 in Seattle. They'd come to my desk to get TRs (Travel Requests), then get their airline ticket, then hit the bar about 20 yards from my desk. I could always count on fights between the 101st Airborne and the Marines. If that didn't work, a jarhead would call the USS Forestall a "boat" and the squids would get highly agitated.

So there they are, kids with CIBs, Silver Sars, Bronze Stars, Purple Hearts, Combat Ribbons and I walk in to break up the fights with a butter bar on my shoulder and the NDSM on my chest.
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It's stories similar to this that make me always think, "If you only knew", when they thank me for my service. I was about as chair force as it gets in my time in the Army. In fact, if I were still in, I'd be Space Force. Which I'm a contractor for now, so I basically am, just don't have to put on greens and stand in formation. Not to mention, no one is approaching me about extra duty or sticking around for some random training.
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Cleveland Guardindians (2024 AL Central Champs)

buckeyemania11
Bestbuck36 said:
The Yanks are really good situational hitters. I haven't watched them all that much this year except for a lot of highlights but they are doing what the Tribe are struggling at mightily. Still time but it doesn't feel great right now.
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They are better hitters all around in any situation because they have patience and wait for pitches they actually can hit instead of just wildly hacking at about anything.
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DC Jim Knowles (Official Thread)

1926Buckeyes
ochre said:
I think it would be interesting to look back to see how the hell Hafley was able to make it all work...

I'm reasonably sure Coombs was doomed (probably at least partially because he and LJ had been on the staff together previously) from the start. That's not to say he might not have had issues anyway, but I don't think there's any way it could have worked.
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Hafley gets a lot of credit for not crashing the race car. With the best DE/CB combo of the decade, he let the DL do its thing, didn't have to blitz much, and did a great job improving the DBs and mixing in zone. In a cursed game against Clemson, the defense was good 95% of the time, but you started to see some of the holes in the defense. The LBs outside of Werner were a liability, the back 7 took some bad angles and they didn't have an answer for losing Wade and Young being negated (either by double team or egregious hands to the face penalties jamming his head backwards). That happens against elite teams, though. The problem was the other 5% of the game was spent giving up the easiest 95 yard drive I can remember.

What I'm getting at is Hafley was a good DC and teacher that didn't exactly do anything special other than let Chase wreck stuff and keep everything in front of the DBs. If he tried to use that style today without a pressure cheat code, they'd get picked apart.
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