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The dumb crap sportswriters write (not TNET) to sound fancy ...
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Aug 23, 2025, 10:16 PM
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carrying over from another thread -- things football sportswriters (again, NOT TNET) say/write to make what they're saying/writing sound somehow unique, esoteric, or nuanced.
"Long"
LSU's cornerbacks aren't tall/big. They're "long." In my world, "long" means you can get to the green on a par 5 in two. It's also what the Dalai Lama was. "Big hitter, the Lama....long."
"EDGE"
He's a five-star EDGE out of Washington, Georgia. He's not a defensive end. How prosaic is that?! He's an "EDGE." No, not the guy who plays guitar for U2. That's another Edge.
"in space"
This talented RB can really make make plays "in space." Which is to say, he really thrives when playing in a state of uncrowdedness.
TYTIA.
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Re: The dumb crap sportswriters write (not TNET) to sound fancy ...
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Aug 23, 2025, 11:15 PM
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Those are all pretty normal terms bud. Nothing weird about it.
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Re: The dumb crap sportswriters write (not TNET) to sound fancy ...
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Aug 24, 2025, 6:24 AM
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They’ve been made “normal” by idiots using them constantly to try to sound cool.
That’s kind of his point.
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Re: The dumb crap sportswriters write (not TNET) to sound fancy ...
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Aug 24, 2025, 2:06 PM
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Well no sh*t that’s his point. Idiots? I’ve heard my coaches at all levels use these exact terms when speaking on the game.
Describing a player that has great wing span and reach as Long is an athletic term (IE some guys are short armed and stuby and some guys are Long) Playing on the “Edge” or holding the edge is obviously a DE main job so that’s a normal football term. And “good in space” meaning a guy is more east and west rather than down hill north and south so that’s to is a proper term.
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Add "east and west" and "downhill" and "north and south" to the list.
Aug 24, 2025, 7:47 PM
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Because the fact is, depending on the football field's orientation on the compass, a guy running "north and south" could actually be running "east and west," and visa versa.
And I've never seen someone run downhill in a football game, because football fields are flat.
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Re: The dumb crap sportswriters write (not TNET) to sound fancy ...
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Aug 23, 2025, 11:24 PM
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Long arms. Pickett has a 7' wingspan. Rangy also fits here.
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Rangy...long-armed...*anything* but "long" ...
Aug 24, 2025, 7:57 PM
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Or they could just write/say "big" or "tall" or big and tall.
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BALL SKILLS
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Aug 23, 2025, 11:27 PM
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Makes me want to harm myself
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Re: He Makes Plays In Space ---
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Aug 23, 2025, 11:33 PM
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Sooo he is just electric if he was in orbit with the ball or something????
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Edge. lol
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Aug 24, 2025, 6:27 AM
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I forget which coach it was…
But at the ACC media days, some idiot reporter asked one of the coaches about his “edge room” and the coach looked at him like ….huhhhh ### are you talking about? 🤣
And oh, that brings up another one that may be the dumbest of all.
Everything is a “room” now.
We don’t have position groups anymore.
They are rooms.
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"Lotta depth in the room"
Aug 24, 2025, 7:49 PM
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Soooo....do I need a life jacket or ....?
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Re: The dumb crap sportswriters write (not TNET) to sound fancy ...
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Aug 24, 2025, 9:40 AM
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physicality and trickeration are 2 that drive me nuts
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Physicality grinds my gourd. Likely started by talking heads making playoff predictions.
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