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Rodger Sherman

@rodger.bsky.social

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Sep 2

BTW, this is my big weekly football roundup. It’s also got entries about Alabama, Arch, trick plays and weird rules. And you can get it in your inbox every Monday for free

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · Sep 2

The greatest coach in NFL history took a college job. The idea was that his schematic superiority and legendary discipline would instantly outclass unsophisticated opponents in a second-tier sport.

and then...
he lost his first game...
BY THIRTY FOUR POINTS

They hired Bill Belichick for THIS?!?!?

Is this your GOAT? (Plus, Arch Manning, calling Paul Finebaum, and the highlight that made me change my national championship pick.)

rodgersherman.substack.com

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 32m

by losing three whole regular season games they experienced enough adversity to buy into the "nobody believed in us" narrative for the rest of the season

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 42m

we are now getting fewer shots of Taylor Swift per Chiefs game than shots of Anthony Becht watching Rocco Becht at the Iowa State-Kansas State game in Dublin, the pendulum has swung too far

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 45m

feels like at this point TV networks have overcorrected and are now showing too few shots of Taylor Swift watching Travis Kelce

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 1h

i think about this fake punt all the time. also in the titans' next preseason game this guy repeatedly punted the ball off the Cowboys' new jumbotron and then they cut him. he never played in a regular season game but had the most impactful preseason of any punter of all time

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

when Sunday night arrives

a clear plastic cup with water in it

ALT: a clear plastic cup with water in it

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

she didn't even need a louisville slugger tbh coulda just stomped

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

still time

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 5d

The Chiefs going 12-0 in one-score games last year and 0-3 this year is a clear omen the gods have abandoned them. It should be treated the same way ancient peoples treated solar eclipses and floods. They must sacrifice Harrison Butker at sunrise to rid themselves of evil

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

w h a t

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

no they just defined this really weirdly

A “T-Formation Quarterback” is defined as a player aligned one yard or less behind the snapper.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

the Bears would NEVER make this mistake

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

in fairness to the refs, the rulebook does kinda repeatedly say this is illegal, it's not like you have to go specifically to the 1940s section of the rulebook to find this

It is also an illegal shift if a T-Formation
Quarterback goes in motion and fails to
come to a complete stop for at least one full second before a second player goes in motion.
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It is also illegal motion if a T-Formation
Quarterback goes in motion and fails to
come to a complete stop for at least one full second prior to the snap.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

i thought this too, but the rulebook also defines any QB lined up within a yard of the snapper as a "t-formation qb"

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 2h

the rule on quarterbacks under center not being able to go in motion is so obscure and ancient that it literally uses the phrase "t-formation quarterback"

T-Formation Quarterback. It is legal for a T-Formation Quarterback to go in motion, whether he has placed his hands under center, on his knees, or on the body of the center. However, it is a false start if the action is quick and abrupt. If the player fails to come to a complete stop for at least one full second prior to the ball being snapped, it is illegal motion.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3h

if you look closely the giant holes her feet clomp in the ground are slightly different every time

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3h

now that's a post from someone who knows the modal age of her followers

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3h

just noticed that NBC stopped putting their analysts' season-long SNF picking record on the show, presumably because of all my tweets about how bad Chris Simms was at picking games straight-up