4 Hard Downs: What's A Hip Drop Tackle, Hatch Chile Season & Milton vs Maye
6 plays ain't enough, but...Plus make some butter and WTF is a hip drop
I don’t like Lego. Never have. Never will. I did it because it was a part of childhood but my brother was the legit lego kid in our family. However, when you have a 6 year old and your dad sends you an activity that is lego based, you say fuck it and go.
So we went to Brickfest.
Hello, Woody, who my kid couldn’t remember. However she did remember that a winged horse is a Pegasus because those are my running shoes so what’s important was right on point. My dad called it a unicorn when he got the picture and I was like, “um no,” and he was laughing going, “you’re right that’s a pegasus.”
Now that we got that out of the way, let’s SPOT THE BALL!!!
1st Down: They’re Not Going To Bail On Drake Maye
When you’re invested, you’re invested and not because you love a guy but because you pushed for it and now your job is on the line.
I know this is a thing most people don’t know, realize or care about.
But it is real.
Playing time plays a factor. System plays a factor. Weapons play a factor. So…
This doesn’t mean that Maye is a better runner. It just means there is no evidence that over the course of a season Milton will be better on the hop. Maye is their chief asset, he’s already paid.
Milton is their also.
Obviously between the rumors and the small sample size, Milton looks better, but Maye will be given all the time in the next season to ruin it all.
That’s what happens when you get picked in the Top 5. You get every opportunity to fuck yourself, while they work to prove they’re not all idiots because they want to keep their jobs.
The other part of this is a guy who ran for 403 yards per year vs a guy who went for 109 yards per year. The 109 yard guy is working to make the team. The 403 yard guy is on the team. Which makes us circle back to when you’re already on the team you play 6 snaps, hand the ball off and they put all the work on the guy who has to do heavy lifting.
And Milton is lifting heavy.
2nd Down: Hip Drop Ain’t Horse Collar
This is still a mystery to me. And apparently to other people too. People who have also been around football their whole lives.
The difference between that and this:
Is what?
They’re all roll tackles or drag down tackles. Depending on the size of opponent, speed of both players, urgency to get them on the ground based on down and distance.
It is 3rd and 8 and I grab him at 5 yards and he is 6’3” 245 as a TE and I’m 5’11” 205 I have to use my body weight moving to the sideline to create a 4th down. I don’t agree with JJ Watt on much, but on this, yeah, what are we doing?
These are wrap and roll or wrap and get dragged tackles. Max effort to try to do what you can do to minimize gains.
You know what you can do? Make the offensive player have to stop.
Quarterbacks have to slide or risk what happens next. WRs can just quit on a route when they see a DB with a bead on him. RBs can run out of bounds.
This just seems like asking a corner or an LB to let that RB and TE go because the only way you can get them down is to wrestle them to the ground.
3rd Down: Colorado Edits Controversy Is The Funniest Thing In CFB
This truly reminds me of when my guys Tom Beecher and Sam Gilbert were making “haters will say it’s fake” videos for Bleacher Report with Tua.
Colorado posts their darts only edit and then Arkansas posts this:
This a true Real Housewife moment. Your husband’s in the pool.
Everybody edits thing for time, energy, impact, coaching or player content. What you can’t edit is the trajectory of a ball.
Thirsty is the word.
Clowned is the next word because Arkansas just got in the club off this. They made a hilarious joke.
4th Down: Find your Hatch Chiles and make a Compound Butter
They’re great for burgers. Great for chili. Yet, if you’re like me, you don’t want to just have a month of them.
You want it to last.
A jam, actually a hatch bacon jam is my next task but I always start with a hatch chile compound butter. Roast them on the grill, the smell is intoxicating.
Then rough chop and food processor or blender with softened butter, salt and a little heavy cream and you get this.
Slice it into disks. Freeze and whenever you get the hankering you pull it out.
I’m telling you, get them do this and your friends are going to be like “wow” whether it is on a pizza with some honey, a biscuit with shrimp and grits or, hell, in a buttered noodle.
It is a winner.
Cheers!!!
Growing up in Albuquerque, greatly miss the smell of roasting chiles being omnipresent outside grocery stores. Will have to diy this year.