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Prologue: Vietnam 1961
It helped that I was part of a high-level Pentagon task force, visiting the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) in Vietnam with a "go anywhere, see anything" kind of clearance. The chief of MAAG, General Lionel McGarr, told his staff members to help us any way they could and to speak frankly. One colonel in particular whom I talked to was near the end of his tour and inclined to pass on what he had learned in-country to someone who might have the ear of folks in Washington. He opened MAAG's files to me and pulled out piles of folders, and I stayed up half the night several nights in a row reading plans and reports and analyses of our programs in Vietnam and their prospects. The smell of rot, of failure, lay all over them, and my colonel friend made no attempt to pretend otherwise.
He told me — and the documents and what I heard from his colleagues supported it — that under President Ngo Dinh Diem, the dictatorial leader we had essentially chosen for South Vietnam seven years earlier, the Communists would almost surely take power eventually, probably within a year or two. If Diem was deposed in a coup — one had almost succeeded the year before — the Communists would probably win even faster. His reasoning was informed and complex; my notes of our discussions are filled with diagrams of "vicious circles," a whole network of them. It was persuasive.
Most of the MAAG officers agreed with him, and with many Vietnamese officials, that the only thing that would change this prospect in the short run would be American combat forces on a large scale. (The Geneva Accords of 1954 permitted only some 350 American military "advisers" in the country, although by various subterfuges some 700 were present, none in American combat units.) But even American divisions, this colonel believed, would only postpone the same outcome. The Communists would govern soon after our forces left, whenever that might be.
This was not good news to me. I was a dedicated cold warrior, in fact a professional one. I had been anti-Soviet since the Czech coup and the Berlin blockade in 1948, my last year of high school, and the Korean War while I was a student at Harvard a couple of years later. For my military service I had chosen the Marine Corps and spent three years as an infantry officer. After the Marines I returned to Harvard as a graduate fellow and then went to the Rand Corporation, a nonprofit research organization whose entire focus was the military aspects of the cold war. My own work up to 1961 had been mainly on deterring a surprise nuclear attack from the Soviet Union. I should have liked nothing better than to hear that South Vietnam was a place where Soviet-backed Communists were going to be defeated, with our help. But the colonel's arguments persuaded me that this was not that place.
When I got back to Rand the next month, my informal message to my bosses was that they would be well advised to keep clear of Vietnam, stay away from counterinsurgency research, in Vietnam at least. We were on a losing course there, I said, that was very unlikely to be changed, and all associated with it would only be frustrated and tarred by failure. They would suffer the fate of those who had worked on the Bay of Pigs, just a few months earlier. I privately decided to have nothing to do with it.
But the Kennedy administration didn't have that luxury in the short run. Just weeks after I returned from Vietnam a White House team under two top presidential advisers, General Maxwell Taylor and Walt W. Rostow, headed out to Saigon to assess the situation for the president. In particular, they were to judge the necessity for sending U.S. ground forces. Soon after their return a month later the White House announced an increase in our involvement in Vietnam. In mid-November President Kennedy launched a steadily growing increase in the number of U.S. military personnel in Vietnam, breaking through the ceiling set by the Geneva Accords in 1954. He doubled the number of military advisers in the last two months of 1961 and accompanied them with support units for the Vietnamese armed forces: helicopter companies and specialists in communications, transportation, logistics, and intelligence.
I wasn't really surprised by this. I was glad that contrary to press speculation over the previous weeks, he sent no U.S. ground combat units. Nevertheless, I thought the increased involvement went in the wrong direction. (U.S. presence had increased to twelve thousand "advisers" by the time President Kennedy died in 1963, and some U.S. support was being supplied covertly, but still no ground combat units.) It was what I had feared was likely to happen; that was why I'd made a conscious decision not to be part of it.
I kept that resolution for the next three years.
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By Jake Donovan - Even on the heels of a leading Fight of the Year candidate, its a stretch to say that the boxing world has shown as much respect to Tim Bradley as he has shown to the sport of boxing. The always-sculpted and undefeated two-division champ has fought at the sports highest level of competition for at least the past four years yet is still treated by the industry at large as if he has something to prove.
That wont stop him from loving what he does. Nor will it stop him from giving respect to others where respect is due, even when those others are standing in the opposite corner on fight night. Chief among those Bradley holds in the highest regard is his very next opponent, Juan Manuel Marquez, whom he faces this weekend at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada.
I have always been a fan of Márquez, Bradley (30-0, 12KO) unapologetically admits of his legendary opponent. I always thought he was a great fighter and I still think hes a great fighter. I want to fight the best to be the best in this sport. I dont do this just to make money, of course the money is important for my family, but I do this to be the best. Thats what motivates me and drives me. [Click Here To Read More]
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I had Bradley vs Pacquiao no worse than a draw and think bradley won fair and square I am looking forward to him also beating JMM but more decisively
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Hey, I agree that the scoring against Pac was a travesty.
BUT, can anyone blame a guy for believing he did enough to win? Can anyone seriously expect a top level fighter to not believe in himself? It's not his fault that the judges were paid off. He did fight a decent fight and he's being accused of things that are not his fault.
So just look at his career outside of this one fight, and give the guy credit for the things he DID accomplish.
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In life everyone deserves to be treated with respect as long as you conduct yourself like a decent human being - however in Boxing you gotta EARN it!
Let's be real here. He didn't beat Pac and he came very close to getting KO'd by Ruslan.
Not being a hater - just a realist.
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Online research and the creation of digital content have been working their way into undergraduate history for some time for sometime now. More and more faculty members are beginning to think of the web as an effective weapon against undergraduate indifference that can make the study of history more relevant to 'young people'. But how much have the fundamental principles of teaching history really changed? The goals of the history teacher remain rooted in fostering the ability to evaluate sources, synthesize information and produce a cogent argument. Working digitally presents opportunities to assign work that builds these skills, but it also makes room for projects that require less writing for students. Thus, humanists should carefully ensure that their digital assignments either contain a comparable amount of writing, or are assigned alongside traditional analog papers. Educators should also consider the institutional and personal barriers their students might encounter before replacing traditional assignments with digital projects.
In his book, Teaching Digital History T. Mills Kelly has argued that writing online content is much more relevant than traditional undergraduate writing assignments. For Kelly the five page paper is a relic of a bygone era that should be closeted away. Through his speculations about best practices in the digital age, and this is certainly an important conversation, Kelly makes some dangerous assumptions about the values and abilities of a generation he is not a part of. There are always generational barriers between teachers and their students to some degree. In the digital age educators who have no real experience growing up in the age of social media are threatening to reify gen y illiteracy by assuming that this generation is fundamentally different and lowering their expectations to match that assumption. I am not putting Kelly wholly in that camp, because he also suggests compelling digital alternatives that build the same kind of analytical skills. However, in my very brief experience as a Teaching Assistant I have encountered this myth of gen Y exceptionalism several times. I remember hearing something to the effect of "we can't expect undergrads nowadays to have the same writing skills, because their generation does not read," in my first pedagogy workshop. Again this came from the lips of a scholar who has been in the academy for some time, and as a (comparatively) young new comer I simply don't believe it. Yes our students read tweets and blogs, but they also have Google books and other sources of literature at their fingertips.
Kelly also states that when educators consider what skills a historian would like to impart to their students few would actually "put the ability to write a five page paper at the top of the list," (9). Perhaps this is true, but a five page paper remains an effective way to judge how well a student can synthesis a dearth of material over the semester, argue a position and express ideas clearly. Kelly admits that students do derive satisfaction from their grades, but argues that writing becomes irrelevant once the assignment is over, (6). So undergraduates might eventually forget about a particular five page essay they wrote and absentmindedly recycle it along with their junk mail. That does not mean that the experience of writing the essay was not valuable. Blogging might replace some writing assignments, but even something as personal as a blog can become just another tedious assignment. It is probably best to allow students more freedom of expression in their online writing and keep the academic paper in our curricula so students can demonstrate their ability to form an argument and defend it in an academic format.
Furthermore, I feel compelled to point out that the five page paper is also a fairly egalitarian approach in a world where access to digital technology is should not be considered a given, particularly among students from lower income backgrounds. Kelly rather annoyingly mentions video as a feasible alternative without considering difficult such a project might be for some students. Perhaps those undergrads who grew up owning iPads are comfortable using their smart phones to create a clever reenactment of a historical event, but what about the student who is trying to get by on with a bus pass and a library card? In her essay "Beyond ctrl-c, ctrl-v" Charlotte Lydia Riley states that, "it is important to remember that access to digital and online technology is still governed to a large extent by social class, an inequality that has been characterized as creating a 'digital divide'," (150) Some institutions do have the facilities, funding, and resources to bring low income students across the digital divide, and encouraging administrations and departments to do so is definitely a battle worth fighting.
Kelly's book suggests several kinds of digital projects that get students to use the analytical skills History aims to teach. Yet as effective as they are, these projects should supplement a healthy diet of traditional methods that might include research papers, book reviews, or response papers. For example Kelly's controversial embrace of Wikipedia becomes quite useful when coupled with traditional methods. Some might scoff at the idea of using Wikipedia as a teaching tool, but Kelly balances his assignment to create or update a Wikipedia entry with an introduction to the encyclopedia as a source and a discussion of impartiality. After all how useful would the students' entries be if they did not know the qualities an encyclopedia entry should strive for. The assignment integrates a particular kind of academic writing with online content creation and allows the student to use what they've learned in class to benefit a wide audience.
Another approach might be to personalize the research process. This has yielded promising results for popular history projects in South Africa For example, the Apartheid museum's collection of "a multitude of individual personalities…[encourages] a personalized engagement with the past," (145). The Write Your Own History Project Leslie Witz conducted under the auspices of the South African Committee for Higher Education and the History Workshop aimed to impart the knowledge of how to 'do' history through projects that participants found relevant. Witz states that: "As anyone who has been trained as an academic knows, there are no predetermined rules that one must follow. Indeed, historians generally learn much more through the actual experience of engaging in research and writing than by following set precepts," (378). Kelly's work also suggests that most undergraduate students don't actually do historical work until their final semester. Digital archives and online research can facilitate student driven research projects at more introductory levels.
Still, before we slay the five page paper we should first make sure it has a viable heir that is feasible for all students. To accomplish this we should consider exactly what kind of digital projects are realistic within our specific institutions and then how digital capabilities might be improved. The relevance of developing our students' digital proficiency is undeniable and including digital projects in our coursework without compromising other critical skills does pose a bit of a challenge. Educators should not react by rushing to promote one kind of project over the other. It is unlikely students are well served by choosing between a professor who is either an orthodox pen and paper academic or a zealous digital convert. Instead educators should integrate digital methods into existing pedagogical frameworks and we will not be able to do this effectively without personally engaging with the digital in our own work. A good strategy might be one of active engagement in our own scholarship and cautious implementation in the classroom.


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Truth About Foreign BuyersFebruary 03, 2010
One Broker's 5:00 AM Adventures.
Back in the Bush administration days when the market was just starting to slow down and the dollar had dropped significantly, the media was blaring headlines about foreign buyers laden with cash coming to buy everything they could get their hands on.
All of my anxious Sellers were confronting me with: " Where are your foreign buyers?" I knew that if they were in fact out there in droves, I (who is on the lookout 8 days a week) would have certainly seen them. I got the occasional Russian, sun seekers from the UK or the Italians wanting a fun SoBe condo, but nothing like the media made it sound. So, since sellers rarely want to just take your word for it, I started my crack of dawn research.
In pursuit of the truth about foreign buyers, determined to have a straight and true answer for my sellers, the story turns ugly with me getting up at 5:00 AM putting on my Skype headset and calling every high end broker in major cities across Europe.
At first, I tried ingratiating myself and promising a long and mutually beneficial relationship to the head of each international department, I was without fail told to take a hike. In slightly more polite terms of course.
I was given many reasons why U.S. residential real estate wasn't even on their radar. i.e.
I am now happy to say that all that has changed with the descent of the dollar and the relative stability of the market compared to other countries. Now a large percentage of buyers are indeed foreign.
In one weekend I took out buyers from Iran, London and Italy. I have recently closed deals with buyers from Venezuela, Mexico and the UK. With one exception, they have all been cash buyers. Florida leads the country with International buyers. Existing home sales were up 45% in Miami Dade County in December compared to December 2008.
Most analysts expect sales to pick up even more in the Spring of 2010. This could be a one-in-a-generation opportunity for real estate investment.
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Interest Daily Cosplay Madoka Magica's Madoka, Mami, Sayaka
posted on 2011-05-14 20:00 EDT by Gia Manry
Cosplayers from Taiwan portray popular magical girl characters
In the above image, unidentified cosplayers in Taiwan portray the characters of Mami (left), Madoka (center), and Sayaka (right) from the magical girl series Puella Magi Madoka Magica. In this series from the anime studio Shaft and director Akiyuki Shinbo, the girls have formed contracts with Kyubey, a mysterious creature who grants each girl the power to transform into a magical girl called a "Puella Magi." In exchange for these powers, the girls must fight witches. (Pictured at right but not cosplayed is Akemi, another Puella Magi.)
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All rooms have views of Sheepscot Bay in this stylish inn, located on a secluded ocean cove on Georgetown Island, in mid-coast Maine. Use our bikes or canoe to explore the island. Walk to the popular lobster wharf in the hamlet of Five Islands. Bike or drive to dramatic Reid State Park. Kayak the surrounding waters. Or just relax on the screened porch or terrace, watching the lobster boats.
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5 on October 14, 2014
We thoroughly enjoyed our stay of 6 nights at Coveside. Fabulous! Love the setting, Tom and Carolyn, our room, our view, the food, Maine! Cannot praise Tom and Carolyn enough for their hospitality and eye for detail. We enjoyed meeting fellow guests and wished we had had more time to visit. We highly recommend Coveside! Stella and Robert
4.4 on October 04, 2014
We recently returned to Coveside for the third time and had a wonderful four day stay there. Tom was away but Carolyn and the girls made us welcome as always. We stayed in Tom's room which is about the same size as our bedroom at home so no problems there. Breakfasts were as good as we remembered, the weather was kind and the only thing wrong was that 5islands Lobsters were closed in the week! Never mid - we shall just have to come back again! Howard & Liz London UK
4.0 on September 21, 2014
Setting was picturesque & relaxing
5 on September 15, 2014
Just a short two night stay, came to have lobster and celebrate my wife's birthday. Carolyn and Tom are wonderful hosts. The breakfasts are spectacular and the lodging even better. Everything clean and spotless. The grounds are beautiful. We will be back next year.
4.4 on September 14, 2014
Superb setting: landscaping, architecture, views, plus outstanding rooms with well maintained, decorated rooms, private porches with water views, refrigerator stocked with complementary wine/beer/soft drinks. Hostess welcoming, well-informed and articulate, with excellent breakfast. Can't ask or hope for more!
5 on August 31, 2014
Superb in every way. Beautiful, quiet location. Tom and Carolyn very friendly and helpful with information about the area and things to do locally.
4.4 on August 16, 2014
We chose the Coveside B&B as our first get-a-way. It was an amazing weekend, one I will never forget! Romantic! The views of the cove was breath taking, the Inn Keepers, Carolyn & Tom were very friendly and hospitable! The area had several things to see and do. We plan to return every year!!!
5 on August 14, 2014
What a gem this place is! Beautiful views, immaculate and comfortable accommodations, beautiful gardens and the most wonderful food ever!!! We felt so warmly welcomed and at home here. Carolyn and Tom are such gracious hosts who provided tons of information about things to do, places to see and restaurants to visit. Our favorite was the lobster wharf nearby with the freshest seafood at amazingly affordable prices (an easy walk). We also spend many hours at nearby Reid State Park. This was a wonderful retreat and an experience we will repeat!
5 on July 31, 2014
Tom and Carolyn have gone all out to provide a wonderful experience. They renovated the Coveside in such a way as to give every room a great view. Their are plenty of outside and covered porch sitting areas to relax in. The breakfasts were very creative and delicious served in their indoor or outdoor dining room overlooking a beautiful view with water and garden flowers. The b&b is close to a great lobster dock eatery and beautiful state park.
5 on July 23, 2014
The Coveside Inn is an outstanding place to stay. It is beautiful and the food is excellent.
Bart's Room is a downstairs room in the main house furnished in oak antiques. It has a private bath with tub and shower, a water view, queen-sized bed, and a private porch overlooking the Cove.
Alice's Room is an upstairs room in the main house, furnished in wicker. It has a queen-zied bed, full bath with tub and shower, a lovely water view and a sitting area in front of the windows.
Tom's room, our smallest room, has a lovely water view, a queen-sized bed, and a private bathroom with tiled shower. It is furnished in painted cottage furniture.
Marty's suite is our most elegant guest room, furnished in Stickley arts and crafts furniture and antiques. It has a full view of the cove and Sheepscot Bay, a gas fireplace, a sitting area, and a queen-sized bed. The spacious bathroom has a Jacuzzi-style spa tub and a tiled shower. Sometimes possible to add a 3rd person -- call or email us.
The cottage forest room is located downstairs in the guest cottage. Furnished with a Maine woods motif, it has a queen-sized bed, a private balcony overlooking the cove, a gas fireplace with sitting area, and a private bath with tiled shower.
The cottage blue suite can be set up with either a king-sized bed or twins (we'll assume you want the king configuration unless you indicate a preference for twin beds). It is very spacious, with cathedral ceiling, a private balcony overlooking the cove, a gas fireplace and sitting area, and a private bath with tiled shower.
The cottage red suite is very spacious, with a cathedral ceiling and a private balcony overlooking the cove. It has a king-sized bed, gas fireplace and a comfortable sitting area.
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Cross Kennebec River on US 1; turn right immediately on Maine 127. Follow 127 for about 12 miles. About one mile after the turn for Reid State Park, turn left onto Old Schoolhouse Road (there is a flag pole, white church, and cemetery on the left). In about a quarter mile, after passing the Sheepscot Bay Boat Co., turn left onto North End Road. In about 200 yards, you will see the Coveside Bed and Breakfast sign on the right. Turn right into Gotts Cove Lane. Bear right at the Y.
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Chrysler Town & Country Problem Report
Chrysler Town & Country Silding Door May Fall Off Track
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A problem with the sliding door track and door stops can allow the door to slide out of the track and fall off the vehicle. This is more common when doors are opened fast and allowed to hit the stops with a lot of force.
Door off track on bottom. No solution yet. all electonics work and door electronically locks fine. Just bottom wheels off track. Solution anyone? - Visitor
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It fell off our rental when we stopped for gas. We got a replacement rental (same model) and the door threatened to come off, at a gas station again. We believe that they fall of when the fuel access is open and you try to open the door manually (btw, I used very little force both times). - Visitor
Both sliding doors are inop I have to open manualy due to the right door link broke. It has created a major problem in the electrical syste. - Panama Joe
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Israel's warnings on Iran get quiet nods in Gulf
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Among the many alliances of convenience in the Middle East, one is so unusual that the partners can barely hint about it publicly: Israel and the Gulf Arab states linked by shared fears over Iran's nuclear program.
While their deeper disputes on the Palestinians effectively block any strategic breakthroughs, the recent warnings from Israel and the West about military options against Iran invariably draw in the Gulf and its rare meeting of minds with Jerusalem.
The Gulf states - a cornerstone for U.S. diplomatic and military pressure on Iran - are indispensable parts of any effort to confront Tehran's nuclear ambitions. And even Israel, which has no direct diplomatic outreach to the Gulf, is likely brought into the Gulf-centric policymaking with U.S. envoys acting as go-betweens, experts say.
"I would be surprised if there is no knowledge about the Saudi positions (in Israel) or knowledge in Saudi of the Israeli positions," said David Menashri, director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Tel Aviv University.
It's part of a complicated mix of mutual worries and divergent risks - the Gulf, unlike Israel, has critical commercial and diplomatic ties with Iran - that puts Washington in the middle as the common ally and chief Western architect of pressure tactics on Iran.
The next moves are expected after the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency releases an intelligence report Tuesday to its 35 board members.
Early leaks from diplomats suggest the document will indicate Iran has made computer models of a nuclear warhead and conducted other weapons-related work, which would strongly reinforce suspicions that Iran is working toward atomic weapons. Iran denies it seeks to develop nuclear arms and claims its program, including uranium enrichment labs, is only for energy and research.
In response to the reports last week, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi accused the International Atomic Energy Agency of giving in to U.S. pressure to level the accusations, which he said were based on fabricated intelligence.
"Iran has already responded to the alleged studies in 117 pages. We've said time and again that these are forgeries similar to faked notes," Salehi told reporters in Tehran.
For the moment, the speculation of an increased threat of military strikes is based on tougher comments by Israel and the West in advance of the IAEA report.
In the latest statement, Israeli President Shimon Peres said "the possibility of a military strike on Iran is more likely to be realized than the diplomatic option."
Peres told the Yisrael Hayom newspaper that Israel must carefully weight all alternatives. "I do not think there has already been a decision on the matter, but it appears that Iran is getting closer to obtaining nuclear weapons," he said in comments published Sunday.
There is no apparent build up or operational changes at bases in the region, which for the U.S. include air wings scattered across the Gulf and the 5th Fleet naval hub in Bahrain. U.S. military planners say they could shift at least 4,000 soldiers to Kuwait after next month's withdrawal from Iraq as part of efforts to boost the Pentagon's already strong presence in the Gulf.


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Expo West 2012! It's bedlam.
Expo West in Anaheim is one of the ten biggest trade shows in the world, of any kind, and the biggest "natural products" expo in the world. I'm blogging this week about my adventures there. We always go with SunWarrior to Au Lac, Chef Ito's raw vegan restaurant. All the same people are there every […]Leave a comment • Continue Reading →
Green Smoothie Mustache and Unibrow
Some kids just enjoy their greens, all the way up to their forehead. Thanks to GSG reader Carolyn for sending this of her cute 2-year old, Jacobi. Go young moms!3 Comments • Continue Reading →
A FISH STORY: the food, and the oil supplements
The debate over fish, and fish oil, is to me one of the most interesting ones in nutrition in its complexity. We have to ferret out, from the debate, the sophisticated marketing of the fish industry, which capitalized on emerging data 15 years ago that red meat is bad for us. (But fish is good […]29 Comments • Continue Reading →
Become a modern-day hunter-gatherer! Dr. Wahls beats M.S. with nutrition!
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Pittsburgh Senior
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Has good first step and straight-line speed off the edge. Shows good get-off when he lines up in a wide technique and can put his hands on the ground. Shows some ability to make a nice inside counter move or beat the blocker with a swim move. Occasionally does a nice job getting his hands inside and gets some push off the edge as a bull rusher. Does a nice job wrapping up as a tackler and will drag down the ballcarrier in the open field. Shows good downhill burst and capable pursuit run defender. Has good closing burst to make some plays on the backside pursuit. Sometimes will lower the shoulder and take on the lead blocker on the edge. Has athleticism to match up with tight end or cover a back in the flat. Shows ability to jam the tight end off the line. Generally plays with a good motor.
Lacks ideal size, getting knocked off his rush too easily and won't beat the blocker once he gets his hands on him. Tries to run around too many blocks and doesn't know how to use his hands to disengage. Struggles to bend and dip the shoulder in order to turn the corner. Doesn't play with balance when he does make his inside counter move and can wind up on his face. Doesn't break down well at times when he gets penetration leading to whiffed tackles and misses on the sack. Is an undersized and occasionally lazy tackler that will struggle to make open field stops. Doesn't have ideal recognition or instincts against the run. Struggles to win at the point of attack and gets pushed off the ball by bigger tackles. Can't get initial leverage vs. the run when you run at him. Doesn't have great hips and struggles to transition into coverage at times in the flat. Lacks ideal awareness when playing in zone coverage and will be stuck covering grass.
Lindsey is a quick, straight-line edge rusher that gets most of his pressure when he's an unblocked blitzer or working against tight ends. He played both with his hand on and off the ground in Pitt's hybrid 3-4 scheme. He's athletic and can play in space, but his lack of flexibility and balance hurts him both as a pass rusher and cover man. And he's an undersized run defender. He's a player that looked more comfortable when he put his hand in the dirt, but projects better to play upright as a rush linebacker. Emerged as a junior when he replaced an injured Greg Romeus opposite Jabaal Sheard.
(9/17) at Iowa: 1 TFL, 3 pressures, 1 key blocked, 1 tgt.-0 rec.
(9/29) vs. South Florida: 1 pressure, 1 sack, 1 key blocked
(10/8) at Rutgers: 1 TFL,
(10/15) vs. Utah: 1 TFL, 3 pressures, 3 QB Hits, 1 missed tackle
(10/26) vs. UConn: 0.5 stuffs
(12/3) vs. Syracuse: 1 stuff, 2 FF, 1 sack, 4 pressures, 1 QB HIt, 2 tgt.-0 rec.-1 INT
(1/7) vs. SMU: 0.5 stuffs, 1 QB Hit, 1 tgt.-1 rec.-14 yds-5 YAC
2011: 13 GP/13 GS, 54 tackles, 11 TFL, 8.5 sacks, 1 INT, 1 PD, 2 FF, 0 FR
2010: 13/11-51-17.5-10.0-0-1-3-0
2009: 13/0-18-5.5-4.0-1-1-0-0
2008: 7/0-0-0-0
2007: redshirt
Lindsey flashes talent, but is a bit too one-dimensional to love his NFL prospects. He's a bit of a late bloomer, so there is some hope that once he gets into the league and gets NFL-caliber coaching, he can start to live up to his potential. But it's not something I would bet on. Lindsey's potential as a pass rusher is probably limited because he doesn't bend well, he's undersized, and just might be too much of a tweener. He's not quite big enough to put his hand on his ground, and may not play with the balance you want to see in a linebacker. I think he projects best as a 3-4 outside linebacker because many of his limitations will effect him less in that scheme. He'll probably fit best in a scheme that won't ask their linebackers to be as dynamic and will predominantly ask him to play in the flat and/or rush the passer. As an end, he probably needs to add another 10-15 pounds of muscle, and play in a scheme that doesn't mind undersized pass rushers and will play him in those wide-techniques where his speed can be an asset. There aren't a ton of teams like that anymore with Indianapolis seemingly moving away from that, and Philadelphia already has plenty of players like that so Lindsey isn't going to add much more. So it's really difficult to see any team really giving him a long look as a defensive end. If he can play and produce early on special teams, then I think he can develop and down the line might be able to make it as a decent complementary starter in that Parys Haralson-mold as opposed to anybody that is really dynamic. Even if he develops, you're probably hoping he becomes a guy that can consistently give you 4-6 sacks each year. But if he cannot play on special teams early, I don't see him doing much that makes him stand out as a developmental prospect and reserve, and could be out of the league in three years. He is a good athlete that needs to get a bit stronger that has starting potential, but I don't see him really developing beyond being a quality backup that can be a decent stopgap starter for the short-term.
The Falcons would most likely look at Lindsey as a defensive end although Mike Nolan might tinker with the idea of playing him as a hybrid end-linebacker. But as a pure defensive end, Lindsey doesn't really add anything to the rotation. He's probably a practice squad player similar to say Emmanuel Stephens that even if he was to make the roster potentially as a fifth end, he's not going to play beyond the occasional work on special teams. That will be his role for the first year or two as he adds strength there, and even then you're really only hoping that he's an adequate No. 4 defensive end that won't be much more than a 2-4 sack guy in a situational role if he develops. They might be better off asking him to move to outside linebacker where he can play early on special teams. Potentially the hope would be he could be the sort of player that is a two-down linebacker but then put his hand on the ground on third downs and rush the QB. There is some potential that he could be a nice role player if the Falcons move towards a hybrid 4-3/3-4 scheme down the road under Nolan. But Lindsey is probably not the ideal option, since there are probably more dynamic options that aren't as one-note as Lindsey. He probably isn't a better option than Stephen Nicholas would be if Nicholas added some muscle to his frame in such a role. But there is some potential to develop him as a reserve for Nicholas and potential successor 3-4 years down the road if the Falcons chose to employ such a defense.
Lindsey offers some developmental potential for a team looking for a 3-4 outside linebacker that can be a decent complementary starter down the road. But the earliest you should take him is in the fifth round and that's probably only if you're confident he can produce on special teams right away. If not, then you probably wait until the sixth round.
1-pathetic, 2-poor, 3-weak, 4-below average, 5-average, 6-above average, 7-good, 8-very good, 9-excellent, 10-elite
Speed: 7.0
Strength: 5.0
Tackling: 4.5
Coverage: 4.0
Point of Attack: 4.0
Instincts/Recognition: 4.0
Pass Rush: 6.5
Motor: 5.5
Brandon Lindsey, OLB/DE, Pittsburgh
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