As in, don’t overcommit or overpursue, or you’ll be vulnerable to cutback run, QB scramble, or reverse.
The better word would have been…?
That’s actually a meaningful statement. A running team that gets behind and then abandons the ground game to start slinging it through the air is doomed to fail because they didn’t play their game.
Quite a bit of defensive scheming is focused on preventing a team from being able to play their game. (The Colts might very well have owned the Pats in any of their recent contests if they’d run 40+ times and passed fewer than 10, but they are locked into their game no matter how badly Peyton plays.)
And if I hear one more person talking about how much fun Brett Favre is having, I’m going to scream. I don’t care if he’s having fun or not, he’s paid more money in a week than I’ll probably see in my entire life to not screw up and make stupid passes. Get it right or pay the price, as Mr. Lee once said.
Honor connotes dignity or privilege (which, knowing Madden, is probably what he means to convey by the use of the word). A better phrase for your use would be “he needs to be careful not to overcommit”. Or, “he needs to stay in position”. Or, “did you see the look Warren Sapp gave him? I wouldn’t want to go back to that huddle!” Or, “wow, the defensive coordinator is going to rip him a new one after that play!” Or, “god what an idiot.”
Most commonly heard in basketball, but awful no matter what the sport: “The score is all knotted up at…” Knotted, tied! GET IT?
Then there’s always the D |-|-|-| signs. It’s a fence. D-Fence! GET IT?
A lot of these cliches are just awful little memes that somebody was mildly clever in saying for the first time, then very quickly lost their cleverness as they caught on and became unavoidable.
The one that drives me nuts is “team X has their biggest lead of the game”
This is allowed in a low scoring game like soccer. It is allowed in a game with moderate scoring potential where the points come in clumps (football).
It is allowed late in the game in any sport.
But it is extremely obnoxious three minutes into the basketball game when the Wildcats are up 6-3 for their biggest lead of the game! Look, basketball games usually end up with each team having more than fifty points, and the usual way things happen is Team X scores, then Team A has the ball and they score, then Team X scores. If one team makes more of their opportunities to score than the other, you eventually end up with a significant differential. If the difference is enough that Team X is leading by 20 or more points, I will permit you to say the “biggest lead of the game” -ON ONE CONDITION, If the next team to score is Team X so that the new score is Team X 22 or more points beyond Team A, please do not repeat the biggest lead of the game. It gets incredibly tiresome- especially due to the tendency of basketball announcers to start commenting on the biggest lead of the game when the first basketball goes through the hoop. (If I’m exaggerating, it isn’t by much).
Pretty much any time anyone opens their mouth, talking in reference to sport, it bugs the livin’ Sh*t outta me.
The guy can catch. He’s atheletic. He MAY be articulate. But it’s movin a friggin BALL around a big flat grassy area for Metric Dollar$.
That’s it. Moving a ball. around. for. money.
Wanna talk incredible intestinal fortitude in the face of insurmountable odds? Talk Lance Armstrong. But geesh, how many examples like that ARE there? (hint: it doesn’t happen two dozen times every weekend.)
Well, I think we can still pull it together. We just gotta dig deep, and give it all we got. We’re gonna be trying some new things, really going to get it done. 100%, lots of heart, we just got to show everyone what we came here to do.
