January 21, 2020
The #NFL S&M gap
The #NFL playoffs has been nostalgic – a trip back to high school football. I’ve had flashbacks to the 1980-90’s during my first 12 years of my 40-year coaching career, as high school head coach – the 100/200 Pass-Run Ratio. Three #NFL playoff games have featured my 1980-90’s high school football stats – the 100/200 Pass-Run Ratio, a formula that #WonBig in high school ...January 18, 2020
#NFCchampionship preview – San Francisco 49ers vs Green Bay Packers
#BrawlersAndMaulers win. The San Francisco 49ers are #BrawlersAndMaulers. 49ers will win the #NFCchampionship in a blowout if any of the following 4 things happen: 1. If 49ers QB Jimmy Garoppolo throws for a minimum of 250 yards, minimum 67% completion, minimum of 2 TDs passing and zero interceptions, 49ers win in a blowout. 2. If 49er TE George Kittle catches a minimum 10 passes and gains a ...January 17, 2020
AFC Championship Game: Chiefs – Titans preview
Here’s the key to Sunday’s #AFCchampionship game: Leave Patrick Mahomes alone – dual meaning. First meaning: Let Patrick Mahomes be Patrick Mahomes. Andy Reid and the rest of the Kansas City coaching staff have to get of the way and let Mahomes pass and play for touchdowns, not field goals. Last weekend, the Chiefs had 4th down and 2 on the Houston six, with a 48-31 lead in the 4th ...January 16, 2020
#NFL geniuses
The most dangerous label in sports is the #genius label. The Football Establishment uses genius to describe a coach who leads a #groundbreaking offense. The two Super Bowl had #NFL coaches were called geniuses last year. One genius head coach didn’t even make the playoffs this year. The other got trampled out of the first round of the playoffs, at home against a quarterback who threw for only ...January 15, 2020
#ChokingVictim – #NFL playoff review
#Choker. With all the deepest and most profound love and respect, #Choker sounds like an insult. It isn’t. It’s an accurate title. It fits. #Choking isn’t an insult. Its a condition that has to be prevented to stop playoff dreams from dying. The more you #choke, the more you die. #Choking is a real, life-and-death condition that can be prevented to prevent catastrophe results in ...January 14, 2020
Why Kansas City and Tennessee won.
Right after the Tennessee Titans body-slammed the #1-seed Baltimore Ravens last Saturday, the bullshit piled on higher and deeper. Social media was overrun with the myth about #TheRun, the re-cycled fiction that #TheRun and stopping #TheRun wins championships. For 24 hours, social media was flooded with posts that glorified the good old days where you ran up the gut over and over and over and ...January 13, 2020
Reason why teams get blown out + why your workouts don’t work out
The human mind acts like a broken gas gauge. The mind sends false messages that the body is on empty when there’s plenty left in the tank. Happens in any quarter of any #GameDay, practice, workout. 1st qtr, 2nd qtr, 3rd qtr, and especially 4th qtr. This is why teams choke. This is why teams at all levels lay down. This is why upsets happen. This is why teams blow massive leads. This is ...December 1, 2019
Another reason why I won’t waste time-energy-money watching NFL
Baltimore Ravens 20 San Francisco 49ers 17 The ending of this game is another reason why I will not waste time, energy, and money watching NFL games. The game was on TV in the gym I own, X Fitness. The Baltimore Ravens allegedly have a high-powered offense but chose to play for field goal position as time winded down in the 4th quarter with the game tied 17-17. The Ravens kicked a 49 yard ...September 8, 2019
The Energy Drain of PMS – Post-Modern Sports
My poor illiterate immigrant Italian father Antonio hated pro sports. Not disliked them, hated them. I thought he was crazy. Turns out he was right. Watching pro sports is the biggest waste of money, time, and energy. One reason why I don’t waste money, time, and energy watching pro football is The Superstar Favouritism that contradicts my fundamental coaching beliefs for the past 40 years of ...July 27, 2019
Scary Boss Syndrome
Here’s what I commented on another Linkedin article about scary bosses: If your boss is scary, you allowed it. Fear of boss is the equivalent of junior high fear of the vice-principal. Stand up for yourself and don’t be a human tackling dummy or punching bag. I left two high paying jobs to start my own business to get away from 90% of bosses and constant conflict with them. ...June 11, 2019
Business advice 101
Business advice 101 – giving away for free makes you go broke. I was blessed to have 2 public sector jobs for 35 years. I was a police officer for 15 years and then a college law enforcement professor/program coordinator for 20 years. I never worked for free. No one asked me to work for free. And I couldn’t work for free even if I wanted to. The moment I started a business, we were ...
May 11, 2019