SB Nation User Blog: Nate Dogg

High quality SUH highlights

Nate Dogg — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:33:25 -0000

High quality SUH highlights

Suh has quite the little website going. There's a list of highlight videos on the sidebar and if you scroll down a bit you can find his latest highlight reel from the Big 12 Championship game. You can watch 4 minutes and 14 seconds of bone crunching terror or just skip to the 1:01 mark and get the gist of it.

Stephen Paea and Oregon's Zone Read

Nate Dogg — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:16:27 -0000

Stephen Paea and Oregon's Zone Read

Smart Football takes a look at Oregon's zone read and lends some credence to my suspicions that Paea's excellent performance in the Civil War may have been due in part to the Ducks scheme.

Vote for Justin Forsett!

Nate Dogg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:17:57 -0000

Vote for Justin Forsett!

I saw this on Seahawks Addicts and thought we might be able to throw a few more votes Force's way. It's a stupid award until you're the guy getting it. Do something nice for a Seahawk!

Also while you're there you can vote for Vince Young because screw Drew Brees.

Co-chairmen for NFL Concussion Committee Resign

Nate Dogg — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:12:19 -0000

Co-chairmen for NFL Concussion Committee Resign

I don't know the details of Casson's criticism of long term concussion studies but this looks like a show of good faith on the matter from the NFL.

Mora announces Walt to IR

Nate Dogg — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:04:47 -0000

Mora announces Walt to IR

Not a surprise but still sad.

All Time Sports Experience

Nate Dogg — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:25:57 -0000

On the way to work this morning I heard Jason Smith on Colin Cowherd's show talking about this years ESPN V-Foundation auction. The prizes include different sports "experiences" such as hosting the Mike and Mike show from your home! Or get taken behind the scenes at a college basketball game by Dick Vitale.

The question of what sports experience would you empty the bank account to have? Maybe you want one of the ones actually being offered, maybe you want to shoot a little higher. After some deliberation these were the ideas that came to mind:

- A round of golf with Tiger at Augusta.

- An at bat against Randy Johnson.

- A 3 on 3 pick up game with NBA players of my choosing. I pick first and I pick LeBron, natch.

- Draw and quarter Brian Russel.

- Cross country trip in the Madden Cruiser, accompanied by John Maddon.

- World's largest outdoor cocktail party with Orson Swindle.

What would you spend your one sports wish on Fieldgulls?

More Unger. You really get a feel for his good-at-football-ness. Via SmartFootball.

Nate Dogg — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:31:14 -0000

More Unger. You really get a feel for his good-at-football-ness.

Via SmartFootball.

Seahawks announce training camp dates open to public.

Nate Dogg — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:55:52 -0000

Seahawks announce training camp dates open to public.

A Field Gulls get together could be fun, although it looks like you have to sign up a head of time. That sounds like work...

PFR's "Great Linebackers Playing Together"

Nate Dogg — Tue, 19 May 2009 02:45:51 -0000

Pro-football-reference's blog had a piece today ranking the best linebacking groups of all time. The rankings are based on their Approximate Value system which churns out something like a Madden rating.

I took the list and went and found the teams defensive rankings for the given year. With all the talk about the unimportance of the linebacker position and how linebackers don't make great defenses I thought it'd be interesting to see how these teams graded out.

TEAM YEAR PTS YARDS

BAL - 2006 - 1st - 1st
GNB - 1963 - 2nd - 2nd
CHI - 1987 - 4th - 2nd
KAN - 1972 - 13th - 15th
CHI - 1959 - 2nd - 5th
PIT - 1978 - 1st - 3rd
CHI - 2007 - 16th - 28th
CHI - 1955 - 7th - 12th
PIT - 1980 - 15th - 12th
RAM - 1976 - 3rd - 4th
GNB - 1968 - 4th - 3rd
PHI - 1954 - 4th - 2nd
PIT - 1979 - 5th - 2nd
BAL - 2001 - 4th - 2nd
RAM - 1975 - 1st - 2nd
RAM - 1967 - 1st - 3rd
BAL - 1972 - 11th - 20th
BAL - 1973 - 21st - 21st
CHI - 1970 - 10th - 18th
ARI - 1994 - 4th - 3rd
PIT - 1976 - 1st - 1st
TAM - 1999 - 3rd - 3rd
GNB - 1974 - 5th - 6th
DAL - 1967 - 6th - 7th
CLE - 1952 - 2nd - 1st

There are a lot of really good defenses up there and some pretty bad ones as well. Several arguments could be made for why these teams were good that have nothing to do with their linebackers, arguments like Joe Greene, Merlin Olson and Richard Dent. The only team on the list that had, as far as I'm aware, a great line but performed poorly was the 1980 Steelers. The only good defense on the list that did not have a pro bowler on the defensive line was the 94 Cardinals. Ultimately it looks like the post by PFR does little to counter the idea that great defenses are not built around great linebackers.

Projecting Hasselbeck, forgetting Seneca, evaluating QB value, and can I really trade for Cutler?

Nate Dogg — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:04:37 -0000

Projecting Hasselbeck, forgetting Seneca, evaluating QB value, and can I really trade for Cutler?

Hasselbeck's 2009 using that projection system?
2510 yards, 16 TDs, 11 INTs, 57.5 completion%.

Thats going back far enough to include his 2005 season, using a standard 3 year projection would make those numbers slightly worse.

And oh ya, Cutler is really good.