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If the Pack can earn home-field advantage in the playoffs—meaning they won't have to play in Seattle—then they're bound for the Super Bowl
For the second straight year the Packers are coming off a postseason loss at the hands of Colin Kaepernick's feet. Their loss two years ago was like watching a boxer pummeled to the verge of unconsciousness. Kaepernick rushed for QB a playoff record 181 yards, as defensive coordinator Dom Capers inexplicably kept his crew in man-to-man, with their backs turned to a lethal scrambler whom someone should have been spying.
Last season's loss was a little more bearable. Capers employed more zone concepts, which helped keep eyes on the backfield. But in the sub-zero Lambeau wind chill, Kaepernick still managed 98 yards on seven runs, including an important 42-yarder early, a 24-yarder on 3rd-and-4 in the fourth quarter to set up a touchdown and an 11-yarder on 3rd-and-8 late in the game to effectively ice it. His scrambling marred what was an otherwise sound performance by the Packers defense.
The perception now is that the Packers have a weak defense, something Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy must overcome. The argument here is that this perception is illusionary and that this team, which has made the playoffs five straight years, will capture its second Lombardi Trophy in the post-Favre era because of a resurged defense.
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First off, understand: Capers did not suddenly forget how to coach. His unit has had some poor showings on big stages recently, but that's in part because it has dealt with waves of injuries. The law of averages suggests the Packers are due for better luck in that department. If not, they're more equipped than ever to persevere; thanks to so many young backups having been forced to play, this is one of the deepest defenses in the NFL.
Capers is from the Dick LeBeau school of thought, having served as the Steelers defensive coordinator in the early 90s, where he and LeBeau (then the Steelers secondary coach) concocted the famed zone blitz. In Green Bay, Capers has evolved into more of a man-based schemer, something he's done to help support his myriad sub-package blitzes. The Packers still play a lot of matchup zones inside with safeties and linebackers, but their meatiest coverage contributors—cornerbacks—man-up. And, when healthy, they're all very good at it.
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Leading the group: Sam Shields, who has blossomed into an upper-echelon boundary corner. Shields' new four-year, $39 million contract ($12.5 million signing bonus) is a recompense for his ability to compete one-on-one with bona fide No. 1 wideouts, which is crucial in a division featuring Calvin Johnson, Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffrey.
At one point it looked like Tramon Williams would become this caliber of lockdown corner. A persistent shoulder problem in recent years has been a hindrance. Last season, though, Williams looked fresher, even showing a newfound ability to man the slot. An increasingly savvy veteran, Williams is very good at disguising coverages (like the Cover 2 trap where he made the game-winning interception against Tony Romo in Week 15).
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Williams won't have to man the slot as much if Casey Hayward, one of the league's brighter young playmakers, avoids the hamstring issues that plagued him in 2013. Hayward's return relegates Davon House, a player good enough to start for most teams, to dime duties. And, it could push Micah Hyde to free safety.
Whatever position Hyde is slated, expect him to line up near the line of scrimmage in many of Capers's sub-packages. Hyde has supple body control near traffic and a sixth sense for the ball, a la Charles Woodson, who redefined this defense in the late 2000s by becoming what amounted to a finesse linebacker, capable of blitzing, attacking the run or jumping routes in underneath coverage.
Playing Hyde at free safety in the base 3-4 and then moving him to the box in the nickel 2-4-5 or even the 3-3-5 would allow the Packers to bring rookie Ha Ha Clinton-Dix off the bench as a sub-package free safety. That'd be a great way to bring the first-rounder along gradually. Clinton-Dix's centerfielding prowess will allow Morgan Burnett, the every-down strong safety, to focus more on playing downhill. A good barometer of how comfortable the Packers are with Clinton-Dix this year will be how often they call something other than their staple "2-man" coverages (i.e. man-to-man with both safeties over the top) in obvious passing situations. One could theorize that GM Ted Thompson drafted Clinton-Dix primarily to let Capers get away from this conservative coverage.
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Then again, the signing of Julius Peppers suggests that "2-man" could be sticking around. It's an incredibly formidable coverage if there's a potent pass-rush in front of it. Even with Clay Matthews, the best pure edge-skimmer in the league, Green Bay's pass rush has been nothing to marvel at as of late. (That might be why Capers has been so dynamic with his blitz concepts.) If Peppers, who is 34 and looked every bit his age with the Bears last season, becomes anything close to his old self playing in a new standup outside backer role, this defense suddenly becomes lethal on both edges. Because no matter how good Peppers is, Matthews will be the offense's focal point for double-teams and protection slides. And if offenses want to double both rushers, they'll be keeping backs and tight ends to block. Against a man-based defense, that's an invitation for green-dog blitzes, something inside backers Brad Jones and especially A.J. Hawk have become very good at.
The fact that Peppers was brought in tells you everything about what the team thinks of Nick Perry's development. The 2012 first-round pick has, so far, turned out to be just a solid all-around reserve player, nothing more. The Packers may actually feel that undrafted second-year pro Andy Mulumba has a brighter future than Perry.
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One of those two will spell Peppers or occasionally line up behind him when he moves down to defensive end. The Packers claim Peppers will regularly play some defensive end, but it's hard to see where they'll find his reps. They'll have mounds of fresher players to choose from. There's still 2010 second-rounder Mike Neal, who wasn't awful in an expanded standup role last season. And this year Ted Thompson spent a third-round pick on Khyri Thornton, which, frankly, was head-scratching considering there's also new base 3-4 starter Mike Daniels plus last year's first-round pick Datone Jones.
And those were just the defensive ends. At defensive tackle, B.J. Raji re-signed for one year, $4 million, with the hope that he'll go back to fulfilling his Pro Bowl potential now that he's returning to a true nose tackle role. Working with Raji will be free agent pickup Letroy Guion, who has been sideline this camp and is inconsistent but has good initial quickness, and second-year man Josh Boyd, who offers a good enough burst to warrant regular snaps.
This unit may not be two-deep at every position like the defense, but it's still has a rich collection of talent. It will be interesting to see what kind of offense Mike McCarthy chooses to have. Last season, the Packers were very balanced—if not outright "run oriented"—featuring Eddie Lacy, who averaged 21 carries and 86 yards a game after Week 2. One might think Lacy only became the bell cow because guys like Seneca Wallace, Scott Tolzien and Matt Flynn (who re-signed) were manning the quarterback post for much of that time. But even before Aaron Rodgers' injury, and continuing after Rodgers returned, Lacy posted these kinds of numbers. In fact, he averaged more carries a game with Rodgers at the helm than he did with all the backups.
That doesn't mean things will remain this way.
Rodgers, who has slimmed down in an effort to gain more flexibility and avoid injury, is arguably the best quarterback in the NFC (if not the NFL). He has the quick release and presnap awareness to beat teams through structured play design, though he's most dangerous when extending the play (something that looks improvised but for him is often structured, as well).
It will be difficult for McCarthy to resist the temptation of simply leaning on his megastar quarterback, especially since that quarterback has weapons to throw to. While Jordy Nelson, the king of back-shoulder receptions, is clearly Green Bay's No. 1 receiver (especially after he started moving around and aligning more in the slot last year), the man Rodgers likes to look for when things break down is Randall Cobb. If Cobb, who missed 10 games in 2013 with a broken fibula, can stay healthy, the Packers will eventually morph into a multidimensional offense, featuring the dynamic fourth-year pro more out of the backfield and off unconventional sprint out motion (like what the Eagles did with DeSean Jackson last year).
The Packers once upon a time had another movable chess piece in Jermichael Finley, though a frightening neck injury changed the lanky tight end's fortunes. Andrew Quarless has proven an adequate starter in his place, capable of flexing out in McCarthy's predominant spread three-receiver sets. But to ensure no further voids at tight end, Ted Thompson spent a third-round pick on Cal's Richard Rodgers. That came a round after the selection of wideout Davante Adams, who will compete with developing route runner Jarrett Boykin for James Jones's old No. 3 receiver job.
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What could discourage the innovative McCarthy from overusing his potentially lethal aerial assault is the shakiness of Green Bay's offensive line. Though left tackle David Bakhtiari improved dramatically down the stretch of his rookie season, and though run-blocking dynamo Josh Sitton is among the top all-around left guards in football, this line will still need to be helped. Bryan Bulaga at right tackle is a question mark coming off an ACL injury. Right guard T.J. Lang has physical limitations, while the center duties will fall to either fifth-round rookie Corey Linsley or, more likely at this point, last year's fourth-rounder J.C. Tretter, who is coming off a broken ankle and, like his rookie competitor, has never played a professional snap.
The way to help an O-line is to stay balanced in play-calling and make use of play-action and chip-blocks. McCarthy does this as well as anyone in the game, and he has a quarterback who can help compensate for whatever leakage still occurs. Put it all together and you have an offense capable of finishing in the top five and joining its defense in Phoenix come February.
Kicker Mason Crosby overcame his prolonged slump with a bounce back 2013 season where he was successful on five of seven field goals from 50 or more yards. In the punting game, Tim Masthay doesn't haven't the biggest leg, but he gets decent ball placement and will benefit from a coverage unit that should be stronger. Returning punts and kicks is Micah Hyde, who has home run potential.
There's not a deeper, more talented all-around team in the NFC. If the Packers can earn home field advantage (i.e. avoid traveling to Seattle), they'll reach the Super Bowl.


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Their spacing, as usual, was perfect. Kevin Durant had room to do his work, and Russell Westbrook had room to do his, and their connection was undeniable even though they never spoke a word.
When absurdity becomes the expectation, as it has for Oklahoma City's two best players throughout this NBA postseason, anything less is a disappointment. So as Westbrook donned a shiny belt and a pair of bright green sneakers and Durant, 5 feet away, pulled on neon-yellow high-tops over pink-and-purple striped socks and under periwinkle slacks, it marked a silent stand against stagnation.
As the Thunder had learned just a few minutes earlier Sunday night at the AT&T Center, standing still for even a few seconds can ruin everything. Even though they'd controlled Game 1 of the Western Conference finals for most of the evening, they were done in by one costly bout of blandness, and the Spurs made them pay for it in a 101-98 victory.
"We got in a funk" Thunder forward Nick Collison said of the five minutes near the beginning of the fourth quarter that changed the game, and perhaps the series.
"The ball stopped moving," guard Derek Fisher said. "We did a lot of standing around."
And that, for the perpetually moving Thunder, was the equivalent of Durant and Westbrook switching their postgame attire to gray sweatpants. After taking a nine-point lead into the fourth quarter based in large part on running the floor, swinging the ball around and attacking the basket, they let up just long enough for the Spurs to take advantage.
From the 11:19 mark, when James Harden hit an open jumper, to Manu Ginobili's driving layup with 6:20 remaining, the Spurs outscored the Thunder 13-1 while Oklahoma City lost all semblance of the personality it had spent most of the night establishing.
"We did a great job for 31/2 quarters," Westbrook said. "And then it kind of got out of hand."
Part of what got it to that point was the fact that early in the fourth, the Thunder went away from Durant, who finished with 27 points but didn't have any in the first seven minutes of the fourth.
Durant was hounded hard by the Spurs' Stephen Jackson, who clearly lacked Durant's foot speed but made him work hard to get open. By the time the Thunder finally found a way to get Durant the ball, their offense had devolved into a slowed-down, uninspired mess of slow-to-develop isolation plays, and they were never able to re-establish any momentum.
Durant, like the other Thunder players, said the late struggles were more about his own failures than anything special thrown at him by Jackson.
"Everybody since I've been in the league has been trying to go physical with me, bump me and push me, but I like it," Durant said. "I'm a skinny guy, but I like it."
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This is not a recipe that makes demands. Follow the basic formula or toss in your favorite ingredients. You can use regular corn or organic sprouted-corn tortillas: the staler, the better. "The ones in the fridge that are a little hard around the edges" are perfect for this because they crisp in the oil so well, says Lynne Rossetto Kasper, the maven with the radio show "Splendid Table."
She and producer Sally Swift included the dish in their popular "How to Eat Supper" cookbook, which is already in its second printing after an April release, because they "both do this one," Kasper told us by phone from St. Paul, Minn., where her American Public Media program is based.
We understand why. Besides being quick, it fulfills the occasional desire for breakfast food served when it's dark outside. It's easy to increase servings/portions. Eggs and avocado make smooth companions, yet both appreciate the contrasting crunch of the tortilla strips.
Serve with a salad that contains some crunch as well. Adapted from "The Splendid Table's How to Eat Supper," by Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift (Clarkson Potter, 2008).
4 6-inch corn tortillas
1/4 mild onion
5 to 6 ounces Monterey jack cheese
1 medium ripe avocado
1 large lime
6 large eggs
3 tablespoons olive oil, plus more as needed
Freshly ground black pepper
1/3 cup salsa
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1. Stack the tortillas and cut them into 1/2-inch-wide strips.
2. Coarsely chop the onion. Crumble or coarsely grate the cheese; peel and pit the avocado, then cut the flesh lengthwise into thin slices. Roll the lime on the counter while applying slight pressure with the heel of your hand (to make the fruit release its juices more easily); cut the lime in half crosswise. Crack the eggs into a measuring cup with a spout and lightly beat them.
3. Line a plate with paper towels and place it close to the stove top.
4. Heat the oil in a large saute pan (preferably nonstick) over medium-high heat until the oil shimmers. Working in 2 batches, add the tortilla strips and cook for about 1 minute without moving them around too much until they begin to crisp. When they look crisp on one side, use tongs to turn them over and cook for 1 minute. Transfer the first batch to the plate to drain. Add the remaining half of the strips to the hot pan, adding oil as needed.
5. When the second batch is done, return the first batch to the pan, then add the chopped onion and cook for about 2 minutes, until it has softened and the strips look nicely browned. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Remove from the heat and spoon off any extra fat, reserving 1 tablespoon in the pan.
6. Reduce the heat to medium and return the pan to the stove top. Move most of the strips to the edges of the pan, leaving about 3 inches clear in the center. Add most of the eggs in that spot and pour some of them over the strips. Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, allowing the eggs to set, and then gently pull them apart, letting any uncooked egg reach the surface of the pan.
7. Once the eggs are firmly set, turn them gently in large pieces to finish cooking.
8. Serve immediately with the salsa, cheese, slices of avocado, a squeeze of lime and a drizzle of crema or sour cream.
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Punk erupted at the fag end of Britain's failed thirty-year post-war experiment with socialism. Labour wasn't working, as an election-winning billboard of the time pointed out. Indeed, in Britain's summer of 1976, barely anyone was working. Everything that once moved had been nationalised, the country was bankrupt (and being bailed out by the IMF), half the country was either on strike or seemed to be, and rubbish was piling up in the streets. In just over half-a century, Britain had voluntarily transformed itself from the richest country the world had ever seen to one that was on economic life support.
That's what socialism can do to you.
Punk started in the US of A, it had many godfathers, but with the UK in a state like that no wonder Britain took to punk like an alcoholic takes to Tennents Extra. No wonder the refrain from the Sex Pistols 'God Save the Queen' -- No Future! -- struck such a chord with a generation outraged at the world their elders had made. No wonder that a generation responded with all the incoherent rage it could muster at the whole gimcracked gallery of false gods their elders had created -- a rage expressed in the art form that speaks most volubly to a teenager: music.
The music was simple and angry and untutored -- sometimes laugh-out-loud funny -- it spoke its mind come what may-- and to millions of youngsters all over the world repelled by all the false gods, the anger was both an energy and an invitation to action. The first assault on the false god was (rightly or wrongly) against the musical dinosaurs so beloved of the generations past. This seemed the necessary first step in making the world over again, by doing it for themselves, however imperfectly. Making the (musical) world over again as a first step to seeing a way out of the hole the other generations had dropped them in.
And out of this teenage anger came some adult anthems that still speak to us.
- Blank Generation - Richard Hell & the Voidoids
- Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
- Johnny Hit And Run Paulene - X
- Marquee Moon - Television
- (I'm) Stranded - The Saints
- Horses - Patti Smith
- New Rose - The Damned
- Boredom - Buzzcocks
- No Future (God Save the Queen) - Sex Pistols
- Saturday Night Stay at Home - Suburban Reptiles
- Suspect Device - Stiff Little Fingers
- Oh Bondage, Up Yours - X Ray Spex
- Life's A Gamble - Penetration
- Peaches - Stranglers
- Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
- Tommy Gun - The Clash
- Public Image - Public Image Limited
- Shivers - Boys Next Door
- Love Will Tear Us Apart Again - Joy Division
- Into the Valley - Skids
- I Am the Fly - Wire
- Mysterex - Scavengers
- Squeeze - Toy Love
- Future Shock - Gordons
- Gangsters - Specials
That's what's missing [today]. It's an act of rebellion... That's indeed what I'm always looking for. A sense of naturalness… If you're true to what you like, how can you fail … it's not so much whether it's perfectly well played or so geniusly well written, because those things are kind of important, but it's not as important as a sense of well-being – a sense of "I have a life, and I'm proud of it" – and that shows through in really, really good music, and it doesn't [always] shine through in really, exceptionally well-played music.For my money, that still shines through in those 25 wildy different tracks above plucked from punk's heyday.
The peak of punk passed quickly. It was all over bar the whining and puking in less than two or three years. It passed with the realisation, for those honest enough to see it, that creation was more difficult -- and more rewarding -- than destruction. It passed musically, with the realisation that all punk had done in the final analysis was to make the world safe for the likes of Duran Duran and the Thompson Twins to fill the vacuum the dinosaurs vacated -- or, worse, for the boot boys and the genuine nihilists who followed along to mop up the musical wreckage -- and most of us quickly hurried on to make and to discover better things for ourselves.
Those of us with brains to think with and eyes with which to see came to understand (to paraphrase Ayn Rand) that to change the world it was going to take more than a spikey haircut and a loud guitar.
But as I was reminded at a recent Spelling Mistakes reunion gig, it sure as hell was fun while it lasted. And it made those of us who embraced it at the time much more ready to embrace in a new and better form the importance of making the world over for ourselves, and the place of art in that great cause - above all of honesty in art, and that the honesty comes from within. Salut!
PS: Note that while the songs listed all came from those 'golden years' of 1976-79, many of the YouTube vids don't. Just sayin' is all. Still, when you consider how hard it was to get this stuff back in the days of vinyl, it's just amazing what you can find on YouTube these days]
UPDATE: The Canterbury Atheist reminds me to give Andrew Schmidt's excellent Mysterex blog a plug. If you were ever bitten by the local punk bug, you're gonna love it.


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Some time back David Weinberger wrote that the motivating force behind the internet was love. It was the basic human desire to connect that made it all hang together. At the time I admired his idealism and indeed bravery at being so open about something we have all been trained to dismiss as at best personal and at worst a sign of weakness.
In contrast I have just finished reading Joel Balkan's The Corporation in which he exposes the fact that corporations are legally bound to do just one thing - maximise share holder value and that in fact to be motivated by higher ideals, or indeed love, could be considered detrimental to that overriding purpose if it impacts the bottom line in anything but a positive way.
Where did all this come from, where did the idea that the most powerfully motivating force in the world had nothing to do with business? We spend most of our adult lives in the workplace and at work we bring about the most important and long lasting changes to our society and our planet - and yet we are not encouraged to talk in terms of love. OK we just about get away with "loving our job" our "loving success" but start talking about loving colleagues or loving customers and you'll have people running for the door. And yet isn't this what makes great people and great places tick. A deep sense of connection with each other, a depth of purpose beyond the every day that sees customers as more than merely stepping stones on the way to returning that value to the shareholders?
A couple of weeks ago we had a closing down party for DigiLab, my small but perfectly formed department at the BBC, and the next morning I started to write a post about love at work and what a powerful motivating force it can be. But I stopped myself. I let myself be influenced by those grown up voices in my head telling me not to be so silly - certainly not in public! But the warmth and affection we felt for each other, for our physical space in Television Centre and yes, sorry guys, for the punters who we dealt with on a daily basis over the years had more to do with love than anything else I can think of and certainly little to do with those extrinsic motivators - money, corporate goals and efficiency that we we were meant to have taken so seriously.
Love is also the powerful force you unleash when you start to introduce social computing inside organisations. Hugh Macleod wrote a while back about the disruptive effects you should expect but the disruption results from stronger stuff. The stuff David was talking of. The desire to connect at a very deep human level. To see colleagues as intrinsically linked and capable of pulling together in ways that those who promulgated scarcity and competition as organisational drivers will never begin to understand.
Over the last four years of watching the BBC's internal forums grow to their current population of half the organisation I have seen so many examples of love and connection - some of which made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. I mean real examples of people selflessly helping each other, genuine affection and concern shown between people who more often than not never physically met, and as one of the participants once said a greater sense of 'one BBC' than any of the corporate initiatives that came and went over the years.
Maybe love does have a place in business after all. Maybe more and more of us will start to have the courage to begin to talk about what really matters to us about work and our relationships with each other and to push back the sterile language of business that we have been trained to accept. Maybe we will realise that accepting love into the workplace reminds us of the original purpose of work - not to maximise shareholder value but to come together to do good things, to help each other and hopefully to make the world a better place.
Maybe ....
Oh and by the way if the above is too new age and namby pamby for you I reckon social computing is capable of talking 25% out of the running costs of most businesses - so there!
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Mornhinweg's task: Restart Sanchez
Hall of Famer Steve Young was in Nashville, Tenn., on Dec. 17, the night Mark Sanchez's career turned into a country-music song -- a sad ballad about hitting rock bottom after a long fall.
"To me," Young said this week, "it just looked like a capitulation from a quarterback."
That's a fancy way of saying Sanchez gave up.
Young, working the New York Jets-Tennessee Titans game for ESPN, saw what America saw that Monday night. Sanchez threw four interceptions, lost a fumble with the game on the line and lost his starting job, which he may never get back.
"Capitulation" is a harsh word -- also hard to rhyme in a song -- but there's no doubt Sanchez was throwing to ghosts on that ill-fated night in Dixie.
Now here we are, six months later, and Sanchez is trying to win back his team and its fans. The man charged with fixing him is a blast from Young's past, offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg, who faces perhaps the biggest challenge of his career.
Mornhinweg, 51, is a long way from Young's San Francisco 49ers, Brett Favre's Green Bay Packers and Donovan McNabb's Philadelphia Eagles, previous stops in his career as an assistant coach. In Sanchez, he inherits a quarterback who needs to be rebooted.
"Marty can get everything Mark has," said Young, who played under Mornhinweg in the late 1990s. "Mark has to decide what that really is. Part of me thinks he has plenty in the tank but has just lost his desire to get it done. He's broken down. Unfortunately, that's what I see. But if there's something to get, Marty will get it."
Mornhinweg has to be a teacher, a technician and a psychologist -- and even that might not be enough to get it done. But at least he brings a quarterback's perspective into the classroom and on the practice field, which wasn't the case with his predecessor, Tony Sparano, an old offensive line coach who had no experience with quarterbacks.
"He's like one of those professors in college that you like going to their class, and that was rare," Sanchez said of Mornhinweg, who learned his football from two of the brightest minds in the sport's history.
Mornhinweg was coached in high school by Mike Holmgren and mentored early in his NFL coaching career by the late Bill Walsh. He was a camp quarterback for the 49ers in 1986, when Walsh was the coach, and returned a decade later as the coordinator.
By then, Walsh had left the sideline for the front office. He became Mr. Miyagi to Mornhinweg's Karate Kid. They talked. Often.
"When he was up in training camp, shoot, I tried to grab him every day for a few minutes," Mornhinweg said. "He loved talking football as well. Looking back on it, it might have been good for both of us, certainly for me."
Walsh died in 2007, but his wisdom still resonates with Mornhinweg, who applies his mentor's methods to the daily tasks of his job -- such as installing a new play. Walsh was known as a terrific teacher, able to explain and simplify complex schemes. Mornhinweg prides himself on the same.
If you believe in the transitive property, you might say Walsh is teaching Sanchez, with Mornhinweg serving as the conduit.
When Mornhinweg was hired in January, he brought a white legal pad into the film room and broke down every Sanchez play from the past three seasons. He graded him in four major categories: instincts, decision-making, accuracy and timing. He also evaluated his arm, athleticism and leadership.
What did he see?
Mornhinweg said he saw a quarterback, in 2010, who orchestrated six fourth-quarter comeback victories. Impressive stuff. He also saw a quarterback who committed a league-high 52 turnovers in 2011 and 2012. Ugly stuff.
"The ball security is one thing of many that will be emphasized," Mornhinweg said. "That certainly needs to change."
Some observers, including Jets legend Joe Namath, believe Sanchez was undermined by a diminished supporting cast. Mornhinweg didn't disagree, claiming a quarterback in that situation starts to press and "then it just simply blows up on him more than occasionally."
Or worse: The Butt Fumble.
"It seems like people are crying for a change at the quarterback position," Namath said. "OK, well, you know, those first two seasons are suddenly forgotten about. It wasn't just Mark having two off seasons in a row but the team having two off seasons in a row. The team came apart with some success. The team didn't know how to handle the success, starting at the top."
The Jets haven't added any playmakers, so it's possible that Sanchez -- if he beats rookie Geno Smith for the job -- is doomed. If the talent isn't there on offense, all the king's horses and all the king's men might not be able to put Sanchez together again.
But Mornhinweg is trying.
He started with what amounted to Quarterbacking 101, an extensive review of what he calls "day one material." Footwork drills. Ball-security drills. Throwaway drills. Escape drills. New quarterbacks coach David Lee has "every drill known to man," Sanchez said.
Listen to Sanchez for a few minutes and it becomes clear he has bought into the Mornhinweg way. It's a proven system, made famous by Walsh and Joe Montana. Mornhinweg tries not to name drop, but he brought in his old playbooks for Sanchez & Co. to peruse.
"Red Right 22 Z In -- I mean, Montana and Jerry Rice made that play famous," said Sanchez, reciting a play he probably will run many times. "That's a West Coast staple."
You never got that sense that Sanchez was all-in with Sparano. He never criticized Sparano publicly, but he didn't consider it a quarterback-friendly offense, sources said. At least Mornhinweg sees the game from a quarterback's perspective, which will help Sanchez, according to Holmgren.
"Not everyone will agree with me on this, but having played the position, you have a feel for certain things," the former Super Bowl-winning coach said. "Marty has been a quarterback his whole life, and he's coached quarterbacks his whole life. That will help Mark. He'll know when to pat him on the back and know when to get after him a little bit."
Sparano's offense wasn't designed for easy completions, and it was so vanilla that defenses didn't have a hard time figuring it out. In practice, the quarterbacks were instructed to use the same cadence, over and over. Eventually, the defense caught on, jumping the snap count, Sanchez said.
It was a small thing, but telling.
Now the trick is to master Mornhinweg's version of the West Coast offense, a rhythm-and-timing system predicated on quick reads and accurate throws. Accuracy isn't Sanchez's forte -- he's a 55 percent career passer -- but completion percentage and accuracy percentage are two different entities in Mornhinweg's world.
Mornhinweg believes Sanchez can be an accurate passer, but he didn't make any guarantees. Most of his Sanchez assessments fell into the wait-and-see category, as he stopped short of big promises.
Asked point-blank if he believes in Sanchez, Mornhinweg said:
"Oh, I believe in all our quarterbacks. I believe in Mark Sanchez. He has taken this organization to two AFC Championship Games. He did it. Give him credit for that. He's had some struggles the last two years; let's see how he comes out of it."
Sanchez is confident his skill set will marry with Mornhinweg's system. He likes having the ability to make quick reads. He likes having the flexibility to adjust his reads based on different coverages. He likes the multiple formations, the motions and the shifts. He likes being able to slide in the pocket, changing the launch point.
"Marty does an incredible job of coaching things up, helping you visualize the play," Sanchez said.
The man knows quarterbacks. He was a quarterback. A damn good one too.
Mornhinweg led his San Jose, Calif.-area team to a high school championship. He was so into football that, as a sixth-grader, he showed up with his father (also a coach) to one of Holmgren's varsity practices and basically asked for the playbook. He wanted to learn the offense and run it in his youth league, preparing him for varsity ball.
"He was way ahead of everyone else," Holmgren said. "He was a really, really skilled passer."
Mornhinweg set numerous records as a four-year starter at the University of Montana. Only 5-foot-9, he didn't attract the bigger schools. He played briefly for the Denver Dynamite in the Arena League, but a serious knee injury ended his career, nudging him toward his destiny -- coaching.
His only head-coaching gig was a disaster, a 5-27 record with the Detroit Lions in 2001 and 2002. He'll be remembered for one decision -- an overtime game against the Chicago Bears in which he won the coin toss but opted to kick off, taking the wind instead of the ball. It backfired.
It was a coaching version of the Butt Fumble, so he probably can relate to Sanchez. Mornhinweg hopes to get another shot as a head coach, according to people close to him. For the most part, he polished his image during a 10-year run in Philadelphia, where he became Andy Reid's coordinator. The Eagles were a top-10 offense in five of the seven years that Mornhinweg was the primary playcaller.
Yes, he runs the famous West Coast system, but he incorporated his personality into it.
"As a playcaller, he's much more of a gambler than I was," Holmgren said. "There were times when I watched the Eagles and certain calls stuck out at me. If he were coaching for me, I probably would've said, 'Why did you do that?'"
On the surface, Mornhinweg and Ryan are an odd fit. He likes to throw the ball; Ryan likes to run it, catering to his beloved defense. In most cases, that's a philosophical clash waiting to happen. Perhaps Ryan, after four years of ignoring the offense, finally realizes the game has changed. It's a scoring league.
"It was a phenomenal hire by Rex," Young said. "Offense is like a Japanese garden; it takes a lot of tender care. That wasn't the case with the Jets because Rex always wanted his defense to dominate. Hiring Marty tells me he wants his offense to be great."
He'll have to be a quarterback whisperer to revitalize Sanchez, who lost the fan support during last year's debacle. He has to be wondering if he has the support of the organization, which undermined him last year with Tim Tebow and drafted his likely replacement this spring. There will be no tears at One Jets Drive if Smith outplays Sanchez in the preseason.
Mornhinweg said he has researched the Sanchez situation, familiarizing himself with the public perception. All he needed to do was a Google search.
"There have been an awful lot of Hall of Famers go through worse than what Mark's been through, I'm telling you that right now," Mornhinweg said. "As long as the man is tough enough mentally -- we know Mark is tough physically -- they get through a spell like that and they come out the other end better for it. It's just that simple."
Easy for him to say; Mornhinweg won't get booed the first time he makes a mistake, which will happen to Sanchez if he's the opening day starter. Not even the great Walsh would be able to control an angry fan base.
"Marty has the tool kit to help Mark, but the thing I worry about is, some guys get beat down and the fight is gone," Young said. "If the fight is gone, nothing can help. If there's something left, Marty can help. If Mark still has fight in him, it will be a positive."
This just in...
Thank you for this wonderful post an it reveals just unsophisticated some fans are in their fandom.
Does anyone think that MM would risk his professional reputation if he didn't think Sanchez was any good.
While I know each of you negative nellies has charted rvery Sanchez play like MM has!
I think honestly we need to let the first competent OC we have had around here in a decade or more see what he can do with this offense. Maybe he knows a little something more than posters on JI you think?
Good read, thanks for posting Yankeejet22
It's not all about Sanchez, I learned more about Mornhinweg, the young QB that played for Holmgren, and was coached by Walsh, some good mentors...
I remember the Jets-Tennessee game and Young was spitting blood on how bad of a situation it was for Sanchez, I think Dilfer was also there hating on Rex and Spork - horrible game
Happy to hear Young endorsed the MM hire:
"It was a phenomenal hire by Rex," Young said. "Offense is like a Japanese garden; it takes a lot of tender care. That wasn't the case with the Jets because Rex always wanted his defense to dominate. Hiring Marty tells me he wants his offense to be great."
2013 could be interesting especially the second half, Go Jets!
Sanchez is Plan A ... at least for now.
It's Year 5. Show me the baby.
Make something work.
It all sounds great, but it does every offseason with Sanchez. Last year, we were being told about how Sparano would bring explosion plays and big passing plays. I just don't trust Sanchez anymore.
nice read thx!
Marty task is developing Geno Smith. He has a good reputation of developing young qb's and how well he does with Geno Smith will determine his fate with the organization.(not Mark Sanchez)
Lets face facts Geno Smith is Idzik Qb -he drafted him, and mark Sanchez is the last GM guy. Idzik has no loyalty to mark Sanchez and he wants Marty to get his young Qb as fast as possible up to speed.
M Sanchez Jet career is over with and it when does he pass the torch to Geno Smith.(the guy who going to lead the franchise)
Well hopefully by pressing this restart button, it sends him back to his college days. If not its time to open up the Xbox and throw in a new game.
ESPN is such a bunch of Jet homers. I don't hate any Jet players (except on gameday). Never have. I don't unobjectively(I know it's not a word, but it should be) love any of them either(Well not since I was 9 anyway). I love the team. I don't understand the hate. Best case scenario is Sanchez plays great in preseason, and Geno beats him out anyway, takes the NFL by storm, and we never look back. Next best thing is that Sanchez develops under Marty and has a great season, then Geno takes over ala Kapernick. Then we can trade Sanchez. The worst thing that could happen is that Sanchez fails, or is released, and Geno is thrown to the wolves unprepared. Why would you people wish for that? It's even possible that the light goes on for Sanchez, and he brings us multiple championships. Stop laughing, it could happen. It won't, but if it does I'll be happy. I just don't get what it does for you people to hate. Someone explain it to me.
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Irony of ironies; Matty Cavanaugh STARTED for Bill Walsh (wellll...)
Am I missing something?
Time to throw up (no offense Mr Mornhinweg)
Good Lord.....I cannot recall the last time I saw so called fans have such dire hate for a player still currently on the team...yeah he stunk up the joint in 2012 but this is a new year with a real offensive system and better players....Smith is def the future but if sanchez plays well enough to win then great...no way I am rooting against a player....I root for the Jets and want the team to win regardless of who is under center. You come here and it's nonstop idiocy about buttfumbles....pics that mock sanchez etc.....as a fan that makes zero sense to me. If he is not good enough then the jets will move on.....this organization knows more about what to do that anyone on this board. If sanchez does win the job and plays well and the jets win then many of you will look like clowns.


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The Winter Olympics' Coolest New Snow Sports
Julia Mancuso, we know you can whip down slopes at 80 mph, smoking competitors and scoring medals, including gold and silver at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
But can you do an Iron Cross, pulling your skis behind you and crossing them mid-air?
Halfpipe skier Maddie Bowman can. The 20-year-old from Salt Lake City is one of scores of athletes participating in 12—12!—new competitions (accounting for gender) making their debut in Sochi. Of all the new events, it's no surprise that the ski and snowboard categories will feature the most involved tricks. Be prepared to pick your jaw up off of the floor a whole lot.
This inclusion of events with spin- and grab-heavy disciplines like slopestyle and ski halfpipe represents the rise of freestyle skiing and snowboarding, and brings an extra infusion of "holy crap, that was nuts" to the games—and with it, the attention of a younger, edgier, action sports-minded audience.
Because there's really no other way to say it: Ski and board events are just plain cool.
So, to make sure you're also cool, we're breaking down each new ski and board competition so you know what they are, who to watch, and what to expect.
"These athletes will be riding probably the best they have ever ridden in their life," says pro snowboarder, Olympic medalist and AMP Energy athlete Scotty Lago. "They are putting it all on the line so it should be really exciting."
That said, here are the five new competitions you won't want to miss. (Next page.)
Ski Halfpipe
Unless you've been buried in an avalanche since 1997, you know what the halfpipe is. It's been one of the most exciting Winter Olympics events since its 1998 debut in Nagano, Japan—but for snowboarders only. This is the first time the 22-foot-high, 700-foot-long course is open for skiers, too.
Judges score each athlete's run based on variables such as amplitude (maneuver height), style, variety and degree of difficulty. These skiers perform similar tricks to halfpipe snowboarders, but tend to get more height.
The men compete on February 18, and the women on February 20, both in a two-run qualifying round. The best run counts. Then, top-scoring men and women will advance to the two-run final round; again, the best run counts.
In addition to American Brita Sigourney, "you'll want to watch out for David Wise, whom many consider the favorite and also the young American Torin-Yater Wallace. Most don't expect Torin to win gold, but he sure is fun to watch," says Issa Sawabini, an expert on skiing and board sports and partner at Fuse, a sports marketing agency.
Ski Slopestyle
With multiple jumps, rails and boxes, this event is like the obstacle course of the Winter Olympics. Basically, the goal is to bust out the most difficult tricks (but different ones; athletes don't want to "bore" judges by repeating the same ones) while getting the most air off of jumps.
"Ski slopestyle brings elements of the resort terrain park to the Olympics," says Sawabini. "The buzz of the Olympics will be the triple cork in the Slopestyle events."
For those of you who don't know, a triple cork is three backflips while rotating three or more times. Wowza.
The 1,900-foot course is made with 1.5 million cubic feet of snow and offers 450 feet of vertical drop. Wait, there's more. It's filled with three rail features and three jumps. Judges will come up with an overall score for athletes based on execution, style, difficulty, variety and progression, or ability to advance to the finish line.
The women will light up the pipe on February 11 while the men get their chance to show off on the 13th. They'll all compete in best-of-two-run qualifiers, and the top men and women advance to the finals.
Pay attention to Americans Nick Goepper, Bobby Brown, Jos Christensen and Gus Kenworthy, Sawabini suggests.
Women's Ski Jumping
This is pretty much what it sounds like: Skiers shoot down a take-off ramp to jump off of a 318-foot hill and try to land as far as they possibly can—with style, of course—down the hill. In other words, "these athletes are flying as far as possible through the air," says Sawabini.
The scoring works like this: Each athlete starts with 60 distance points. Two points are added for every meter beyond 95, and two points are deducted for every meter short of 95. Each athlete has 20 possible style points. To calculate the final score, the highest and lowest style rankings are removed and the remaining three are added to the distance points.
The women, including Sarah Hendrickson, will compete on February 11.
Snowboarding: Next page.
Snowboard Slopestyle
Boarders ride the same intense course as the skiers, trying to link together the most impressive technical series of tricks, features, and jumps. Things like triple corks, backside rodeos and stalefish—yeah, those will be the norm.
This is the bread and butter of snowboarding. "It's what snowboarding has been doing for years, and it is about time they introduced it into the Olympics," says Lago. "It was getting more and more difficult for the FIS organization to deny the magnitude of slopestyle."
Magnitude is the perfect word to describe the spectacle, what with athletes getting serious air and attempting technical tricks while descending a course of rails, jibs, hips and jumps.
Competitors are scored on overall impression, which takes into account execution, technical difficulty, style, variety and their use of the course features. Gold will go to the rider with the best combo of style, amplitude and technical difficulty.
The men show us what they got Saturday, February 8, and the women on Sunday, February 9.
Keep eyes on Americans Jessika Jenson and Jamie Anderson. Sawabini says Canadian Mark McMorris has "been at the top of the slopestyle world for several years but will be competing with a broken rib suffered at X Games."
Lago says you'll want to see Americans Sage Kotsenburg and Chas Guldemond.
Snowboard Parallel Slalom
This competition is all about speed. It's a head-to-head race between two riders down two parallel 960-foot courses (outlined with gates and flags) that fall 255 vertical feet.
The knockout format will include 16 rounds of one-on-one racing. Each round consists of two runs, with each competitor racing each side of the course. The loser of the first round starts the second round with the time disadvantage from the first. The first rider to cross the finish line in the second round wins.
The men and women face off on February 19 and 20th.
Oh, and A Little Note About Safety
Of course, as the sports get more extreme, the risk for injury increases. Especially with the trick-heavy slopestyle courses.
"Riders are pushing their limits," Lago says. "Any time you are inverting yourself three times in a single air trick, you have to be cautious to execute properly and avoid injury."
But these competitors are experienced—and have done some serious prep. "No one just tries a double backflip without first learning a single backflip," Sawabini explains. "All of these athletes have learned through progression."
They'll train in foam pits, do practice runs with airbags and perfect falling before going for a new trick. Some athletes will wear a back brace or a mouth guard. But helmets? Non-negotiable.
Get more in our February issue!
• Super Sips: Drinks That Boost Weight Loss
• Resilient Skin, Strong Hair
• Long, Lean Legs (3 Moves to Get 'Em, Styles to Show 'Em Off)
Or check out our digital editions!
Photo Credit: Page 1: 2011 U.S. Ski Team; Page 2: Tom Kelly/U.S. Ski Team; Page: U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association


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Washington's special genius is for gridlock. As we're seeing in the health care debate, the entire system is designed to frustrate action — even when Democrats have a popular president, 60 votes in the Senate and a large majority in the House. Moneyed interests trump party loyalty. Partisan politics trumps national purpose. Congressional rules and egos favor dithering and delay.
So on health care, Republicans have lurched into partisan opposition, hoping that obstructing change will lead to Obama's "Waterloo," and they can replay 1994 and take back the Congress. Blue dog Democrats remain lap dogs for special interests, blind to the fury that they will face if reform fails.
But at least on health care, the administration is leading the charge. We haven't even begun an adult conversation about the fundamental question of America's global economic strategy. What is the economy we will build out of the ashes of the old?
Key progressive leaders address what it will take to ensure that the new economy that emerges from the wreckage of the old will provide Americans with good jobs.
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Obama has raised the subject. He understands that we can't go back to the old economy — and shouldn't want to. We can't go back to borrowing $2 billion a day, largely from the Chinese, to serve as consumer to the world. We can't go back to an economy in which finance captures 45 percent of the nation's profits. We can't keep shipping good jobs, technology, and manufacturing capacity abroad and expect to sustain a broad middle class at home. We've got to start making it in America again. As Obama has declared, "The fight for American manufacturing is the fight for America's future."
As Louis Uchitelle in the New York Times reports, the United States now ranks behind every industrial nation except France in the percentage of overall economic activity devoted to manufacturing. We've been shedding manufacturing jobs for years, and the recession has been brutal, with nearly two million industrial jobs disappearing since it began.
But we haven't even begun a serious conversation about what it would take to revive manufacturing in a global economy. The president's trade representative, Ron Kirk, seems clueless, intent on passing free trade agreements with Panama, Columbia and South Korea that are but tribute to the old unsustainable ways. The president calls sensibly for investment in education and training, in 21st century infrastructure, in research and development — but his budgets project reducing domestic expenditures to levels lower as a percentage of GDP than the early 1960s. And conservatives in both parties say that isn't low enough.
Obama has suggested that America must lead in the green industries that surely will grow in the future — new energy, more efficient appliances, more sophisticated building efficiencies — and the supply chains associated with windmills, solar cells, batteries, fast trains, electric cars and more. Yet, Obama opposed the weak "buy America" provision put into the stimulus bill. His energy bill contained no serious effort at insuring that these products would be built here. Amendments designed to help manufacturers here were introduced into the bill in the dead of night because the administration needed the votes of industrial state Democrats to pass it. And because Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and the Apollo Alliance had put together elements of a new energy industrial policy that House members could elbow into the legislation.
Contrast that with China. China has determined that new energy will be one of its strategic industries. It is now the largest manufacturer of solar panels — exporting 95% of its production, largely to Europe and the US.
While Obama felt it necessary to distance himself from the "buy America" provisions put in the stimulus bill, China has no such compunctions. As the Times reports, "when China authorized its first solar power plant this spring, it required that at least 80 percent of the equipment be made in China. When the Chinese government took bids this spring for 25 large contracts to supply wind turbines, every contract was won by one of seven domestic companies. All six multinationals that submitted bids were disqualified on various technical grounds, like not providing sufficiently detailed data."
The European companies weren't exactly foreigners. They had built turbine factories in China to meet the government's requirement that the turbines contain 70 percent local content. But having no doubt benefited from that transfer of technology and engineering experience, the Chinese contracted with home—grown companies, rejecting the bids of the Chinese based European companies while approving those of Chinese companies that had never built a turbine before. European wind turbine makers have now stopped bidding on Chinese contracts, concluding that their bids had no chance.
China is intent on dominating the new energy markets of the future. If its past practices are any indication, it will subsidize exports, manipulate its currency, buy China at home, force multinationals to transfer technology and partner with Chinese companies, and engage in industrial piracy to make its way.
If the US wants new energy to be the centerpiece of a new economy in which — in the president's words — the US "consumes less and produces more," then it will have to have an industrial strategy. It doesn't have to mimic the Chinese, but it has to respond to them, rather than invoking old shibboleths about "free trade," and ignoring the reality of the world marketplace.
A new book issued by the Alliance for American Manufacturing with the ungainly title of Manufacturing for a Better Future for America shows how China is not alone, detailing the practices that our trading partners use to sustain their industrial capacity and export markets.
A new global strategy is essential. But getting there won't be easy. Just as the insurance companies impede sensible reforms in health care, and big oil and coal block vital changes in energy, and Wall Street guts vital reform of finance, global corporations and banks will spend a lot of money to defend the unsustainable trade policies of the old economy.
This can lead to cynical resignation or to fury. But one thing is clear. Little will get done until Americans show politicians that while the lobbies can pay for their campaigns and provide employment in retirement, they can't defend them against the justified anger of a citizenry no longer willing to put up with gridlock.


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