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"Complimentary Football" pings my BS meter ...

DonQuixote : 9/19/2017 8:32 am

... I've pretty much had it with unnecessary jargon that adds nothing (e.g. protect the Duke), but "complimentary football"?

I know that if Marshall catches a certain pass, the team will do better and it will percolate down to affect actual things, the attitude of the team, time of possession, etc. I know that if you kick the kickoff out of bounds, we have bad field position, and that is a reality.

But I think saying that a play on offense compliments a play on defense is just stupid, and asking a player to play complimentary football is just wrong. The players on defense don't care if the offense is naked as long as they score points and take time off the clock.

I think our coach is inventing explanations and solutions when the issue is a very basic lack of preparation.

I believe you mean complementary football

pjcas18 : 9/19/2017 8:39 am : link

complimentary football would be something like "wow what a nice whiff you had on the block Ereck Flowers. You almost got Eli killed. Nice job!"

or

"Holy shit Brandon Marshall, it was incredible how you dropped that pass when you were wide open. That forced a punt and the punt team failed and it changed the game. Great work!"

complementary football, BS or not, means each unit doing their job and it has an impact on each other, like specials helping turn the tables with field position or the offense not giving the ball right back after the defense forces a TO.

It's just another way of saying team football

Justlurking : 9/19/2017 8:40 am : link

Not sure why people are picking that to bitch about. It's like Coughlin calling the red zone the green zone. Who gives a shit? The bigger concern is that there's nothing "complimentary" to say about McAdoo and his team.

I don't thinlk the OP is saying this is his biggest

Dinger : 9/19/2017 9:16 am : link

gripe about last night, but after 2 NO SHOWS, he comes up with this new bullshit expression. Yeah if Marshall makes the catch blah, blah blah, complementary.....How bout you game plan, develop our OL or so something resembling couching instead of acting like a bad ass behind the podium and making up new catchy phrases?!!

sorry/ rant off....

I kind of get where OP is coming from

Daniel in MI : 9/19/2017 9:59 am : link

When I hear good coaches, I hear them talk incitefully about the game. Specific, difficult goals. With Big Mac I hear jargon that doesn't add anything. It's like the executives who have "synergy" as a strategy. Ok, but what, specifically, is going to make the whole bigger than the parts? In this case, yes, the various phases of the game are related, but so what? How does that add incite into what happened?

A rallying point

JonC : 9/19/2017 10:43 am : link

which basically tells the team your attention to detail stinks. Too many mental and physical errors, poor techniques, missing the little details that help the opponent more than your own team.

In my opinion, this is what Mac says when he doesn't have a clue

PatersonPlank : 9/19/2017 10:44 am : link

what to really say. He also uses "need to review the tape" for the same reason.