4 Hard Downs: Forgetful Parenting, Anthony Richardson & More

We've got new friends, we forgot a birthday party and how do you call plays for Anthony Richardson?

We are in the process of getting a new door.

Our renters, when we were gone for 4 years, basically stole things and destroyed stuff, one of which is our exterior door. Rooted in, basically, based on the contractors assessment, kicking or slamming into the door.

So, we are getting a new one.

Done right.

It is also a slow push to get into the black-white housing trend, lolol. Instead of the red back door, that matches our red front door, we’re getting a black door. I am campaigning for painting the brick the stylized white that looks weathered. My wife says no, but I will continue the push. Will update in the future.

Now, for what I can control…SPOT THE BALL!!!

1st Down: Toy Box is in the final stretch

I have got a lot of feedback from people who like to see the little projects that I do and the weird rad dad shit I do, in addition to cooking. So here is the latest:

We are going from this, my wife’s childhood toybox with a particle board backing:

To this, a plywood backed and bottomed toybox that was sanded and primed then painted black:

The primed space you see? That is where my kid is going to do her own art to really own the space.

Rainbow Soon Come With A Pot of Gold

The finish line is so close and I cannot wait to show the finished product after showing the wall art nook that we have:

I am a dad who likes projects and doing them for or with my kid means a lot.

2nd Down: Broken Brain Birthday Bash

While I was doing the toy box project, I got a text from some of our best couple friends (we were the witnesses at their wedding, like I got off a flight from New York and went right to the courthouse with them so they could get married). We weren’t at their kid’s birthday. I didn’t write it on the calendar and while my girls went to the pool, I was working on the toy box and totally forgot their son’s birthday.

That is parent brain.

We had drinks together the week before and I knew about it but I didn’t put it on my calendar and so, your boy fucked up. Luckily, because I was at home trying to finish this toy box, I could stop, take a shower and get there. We made it in time. They are dear, dear friends and our kids are friends, it was a truly embarrassing Felder Flub.

But it also made me start to think about this season.

Football season.

My kid starts kindergarten. I’m working every free lance job I can. I’m doing college and the NFL. I have to come up with a good scheduling metric that isn’t just me knowing when I have a show; but also when my kid has a party, practice for soccer, swim lessons or when my wife (who is going back to work) has a thing. Suggestions?

We did stick around to help pack the car and clean up so, I know you’re going to read this, and I am sorry but I tried to make it up to you. Love Y’all, M & A.

3rd Down: Media Days Are Coming Up

I just did a Big 12 Media Day show for B/R. I am going to ACC Media Days with Learfield and going to link up with my folks from the Triangle, too. Myself and Michael Surber did ask, for an offbeat question, following the Wemby-Spears incident, do players currently have a favorite Britney Spears song?

What is the thing we should ask?

Me? Personally, I’d like to pick specific plays or trends and ask about football with respect to coaches. Content producers like to ask things to go viral. Sports media likes to fill the hopper with nuggets for a broadcast.

How do you marry those things? We are about to find out.

4th Down: Anthony Richardson Play Selection

Jim Irsay said that Anthony Richardson, “has to play,” and that is tough. The play above are the type of plays that he is best at. Ones that use his legs as a decoy to make linebackers and safeties chase him until he resets and throw it to the backside.

However, this isn’t a playbook.

This is a play you can run once, maybe twice every few weeks. Your playbook has to come with actual plays that make you have to make decisions. You have to know what the defense is doing so that you can figure out who your open man is and how you are going to use play-action and run-action to find space. Dropping back, not using play-action or run-action is critical to a QB’s success and plays like this are treats, not a diet.

If the Colts have to play him, they gotta play him. But his entire offense can’t be special plays. They have to be staple plays where the WRs, TEs and RBs are the wrinkles not him maybe running.

We’ll see.

Cheers!!