Back in the back, Of a Cadillac Number one with a bullet, I'm a power pack Yes, I'm in a bang With a gang They've got to catch me if they want me to hang 'Cause I'm back on the track And I'm beatin' the flack Nobody's gonna get me on another rap So look at me now I'm just makin' my play Don't try to push your luck, just get out of my way
Not Metallica but those lyrics fit this team right now quite well. That last bit runs thru my head when I see the replay of Landry's TD run last game.
Never been to that one. We are hitting them in expanding concentric circles of increasing radius with Venice as the center. We've made it as far as Westwood. Culver City is next up. Then El Segundo.
there is a line you have to walk. you need mostly solid reliable we know what to do and how to do it. However too much of that makes it alll stale and same old thing. A little bit of crazy lets mix things up, like the oklohoma drill and rugby drill this week are good. Gives people energy and enthusiasm. But when there's too much crazy you lose focus. You want the players surprised when you do something a bit crazy, and this team needed it after Philbin, but you don't want them coming to practise womdering what bat**** stunt is the coach going to make us do today.
exactly. and wanstadts crab traps and stuff like that. So far Campbell seems to have the right balance.
Needs more Aqua and orange for a game jersey. Otherwise we'll look too much like North Carolina. If it looked right I could see a black alternate for a night game in the future. I don't think we can change out uniforms this year.
No, I don't think you're crazy. If you have to use a gimmick like this to get any team fired up for what they are supposed to do in the first place, you have the wrong players on the team. Gimmicks only last so long, as do motivational speeches. Professionals draw their toughness and desire from inside, not from outside gimmickery. Eventually, whatever one needs to face the obstacles ahead and not be thwarted by them has to come from inside. Ask any veteran - as in armed forces veteran - notably combat vets. The ability to stand against the horribly long odds and under intense pressure comes from within, not from somebody jumping up and down shouting like a lunatic and changing colors! Oklahoma drills are exactly the opposite. They ask the basic football question... "What you got, boy!?"
How many vets had that ability within, before going through 8 weeks of intense boot camp training, involving lunatics jumping and yelling, breaking you down mentally and physically? Humans like a challenge. Give the professionals a challenge. Shouldn't be the only thing you do, but it should be a part of what you do. Further, the jerseys are simply a visual reminder, that you, to use a current term, "got owned" by the guys on the other side of the ball. I think it's effective. Alpha males don't like "getting owned," nor do they like being reminded of it.
I'll grant you that rising up comes from within...but when you're in a culture of winning (like the one on ones, etc), it brings your umph to the surface. You can't play like a beast if you don't practice like one...IMO. You can't, as a collective UNIT, dominate the other team play-by-play, unless that culture is there for ALL of them. This isn't an individual sport, so it's not about one guy rising above...it's about a group of grown *** men taking it up a notch because that's what expected, and drilled in practice. Have you ever worked for a boss that was less motivated than you were? Where every time you go the extra mile on the daily, doing extra and giving more, but it gets disregarded, made even worse by the fact that boss is in a tight-knit friendship with his/her boss and a few other supervisors, going back for years? It can sap your drive. On the other hand I've worked for bosses that were more motivated than I was, and it pushed me to raise my own level (ALL of which when I was in the Navy). It wasn't verbalized to me in most cases, I saw it for what it was and pushed myself...but without that external example or motivator, it likely wouldn't have happened. In case you couldn't tell, I'm BIG on leadership by example...it's invaluable. Everybody has something different that pushes them...if Dan Campbell can find the formula for all or several of his players, more power to him. I know I'd love to see last week's play continue.
Bull ****. You either have never eaten at In-N-Out, or you are bat **** crazy. It really depends on what you want though. If you want a soggy, greasy burger with no structural integrity and a gross brown paper bag of fat, disgusting mushy fries with some dusty seasoning on them, then YAY 5 Guys! If you want an all around great experience with cheap, delicious, fast food style burger that doesn't taste like fast food and phenomenal french fries then go to In-N-Out if you ever get a chance. Considering In-N-Out serves their burgers (D)animal style, I don't think this is even a contest.
LOL....somebody's wound a little bit too tight. News flash for you: Not everybody likes the same food...
Not sure what 5 Guys you are eating from, but the one closest to me always has fresh well constructed burgers with crispy delicious thick fries. I like Elevation Burger better but I think they disappeared.
I know I come off strong on the topic, but it's (mostly) tongue in cheek. I know everyone has their own preferences. As someone who has eaten at both, I just much much much much prefer In-N-Out. I'm assuming you have eaten at In-N-Out? I know some who just don't like it. They expect more based on the hype. But if you take it for what it is - the best damn fast food burger you'll ever eat at cheap prices, and an all around consistently great experience every time, then most people love it. I mean just look at this: FWIW, I think Shake Shack is also much better than 5 Guys. 5 Guys is alright but I've had some lousy experiences. I will say, DC National airport has a 5 Guys where you can get a breakfast sandwich with a burger patty on it and that's pretty damn amazing. Their normal locations don't have this.
In my opinion, the thicker the french fry, the worse they are. Shake Shack pulls off thick fries pretty well, but I find 5 Guys fries repulsive.
I prefer Five Guys. It's a far juicier, more flavorful burger. IMO it tastes more like a homemade burger. In and Out is more like a better version of McDonalds. It still has that, "I'm eating fast food", feel and taste.
Lol, the only reason I go to fast food joints is for fries, I won't keep a fry daddy in my house for health reasons, I'd use it too much, but I don't even eat fast food burgers anymore, they all taste like crap compared to a nice, fat, juicy, medium rare burger cooked over a wood fire.
Fat burgers D me out big time. They remind me of the awful burgers my mom used to make that were more like a dry, gross ball of unseasoned meat wedged between one slice of wonder bread cut in half into 2 triangles. I do like a thicker burger if it's cooked very rare, but it has to be well proportioned to the toppings. Fast food burgers get a bad rap sometimes. There's a reason people like them. The thinner patties allow you to actually taste the toppings without them being overpowered by a cheap wad of too thick beef. That's why In-N-Out is so good. It's a fast food style burger with quality meat. You can even order them rare or medium rare. I'm sure your burgers are fine, Finster. I was just having some fun at your expense.
Yea, I thought it was funny, but fast food burgers get a bad rap because they're not good, lol, that's the reason they're slathered with toppings because the burger can't stand on it's own, they would be giving you a frozen too thick slab of cheap beef, I don't buy cheap beef, and I don't add fillers to the beef either, as they do in fast food joints. A good burger can stand on it's own, nothing but ketchup and it's still way better than any fast food burger, the burger should be the star, not the toppings. First off, you want at least 80-20 fat content, my preference is going to the butcher and getting beef ground off the shoulder, good fat content, then salt, pepper and a little worcestershire sauce, perhaps a small amount of garlic and or onion POWDER, not salt, lol, mixing only just enough to mix, that's critical, overly mixed burgers are dense, and form the patty just enough so that it doesn't fall apart when you flip it, again, if you take too much time forming the burger, it gets dense. You should never add anything else to a burger when mixing it, no other spices, then it's really more like meatloaf or a weird shaped meatball, if your adding peppers or onions they should go on top, not in the burger, it hampers proper cooking. The next key is a very hot grill, there are 3 types of heat for cooking, conductive, conducive and radiant, when cooking burgers conductive and radiant are the keys. The hot grill provides conductive, thats the grill marks you get on a piece of meat, where the grill is actually burning the meat, this is critical in burger making, DO NOT TOCH IT ONCE IT HITS THE GRILL, lol, too many people want to poke, prod, shift and squish burgers, those grill marks are not just for looks, they add a ton of flavor, when it's ready to flip, flip it and leave it alone until it's done. Then there is the radiant heat, which is the fire itself, and if that is coming from lump charcoal, then it's basically a wood fire, which adds flavor, briquettes are lump charcoal that has been broken down and reformed with fillers, they aren't bad, but it's just not as good as lump, unlike briquettes, lump is ready to cook on as soon as they're going, briquettes need 15 to 20 minutes, and also a chimney starter should be used, NO LIGHTER FLUID, chimney's are very easy to use and work great, and eliminates the need for using chemicals to start a fire. When you get this type of thing going, then fast food burgers are sh@t, and whenever you get one, it just makes you miss your own burgers, which is why I almost never get fast food burgers anymore, and I used to live on the things.
In-N-Out Burger never uses frozen beef. If the meat being the star of the show is your preference, why not eat a steak? If I'm eating red meat and I want the meat to be the star, that's what I'm getting before I put a thick chunk of unseasoned ground beef between bread with nothing but ketchup. All depends on preferences, but burgers were meant to be dressed, IMHO. Speaking of burgers, I had Smashburger today. Burgers were just whatever, but the fries were great. Even skinnier than McDonalds!
Take your burger-talk here.... http://www.thephins.com/forums/showthread.php?87553-What-are-your-Top-Five-Burgers Black jersey talk can stay here and go hungry.
