When the levee breaks

[mwulf]

everydayshouldbesaturday is a great college football site and this is some really good writing

https://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2017/9/1/16233388/when-the-levee-breaks


I will always be an offensively minded football person. Defense is the thing that snaps legs, maims, nullifies optimism. The defense wants negative yards and the offense wants positive yards and those two things have never been insignificant to me. At its most appealing, defense can be inspired banditry. Most of the time, however, defense is a kind of weaponized strategic despair, a strangulation given out in three-down installments. A good result for the defense is nothing; The best possible result is theft with injury.


Offense is an organized hope. Not an unguarded hope, but one designed to take care of something, to carry it forward. Offense is measured in terms of moving forward or backwards, with the goal being to move forward, live for another series.Offense is the art of solving for hope against endless variations on despair.

 

[Lars72]

...I'll have no place to stay

 

[stonesak]

Terrible article, IMO. At its best, a defense can be "inspired banditry"? No, it can be as deadly as a Mohammed Ali uppercut or a bite from a black mamba. It can sap your will, leaving you dazed, confused, and terrified. A good offense is at best "basketball on grass".

Or it can be the other way around. Us Husker fans lucky enough to remember the mid-90's saw a team that left the other team battered, bruised, and ready to quit on both sides of the ball after the first quarter.