Pitching and Moaning

Spending as much time as I have watching football the past week or so, you notice a lot of things about which to pitch and moan, something that almost got me suspended once at Columbia College Chicago by someone about whom I easily could pitch (not the real word I wanna' use) and moan forever.

More about Columbia later...

For now though, I have witnessed so many mistakes made by college football players that they don't deserve their paychecks anymore. The better the team, the more the mistakes, although mistakes by Ohio State and Alabama usually get erased by refs hesitant to throw flags on the players of Urban Meyer and/or Nick Saban. (Scoop City: you heard it here first: Urban Meyer will coach again.)

Defensive backs for so many teams, in the pros too, never look back for the ball on pass plays. Never. They depend on the receiver tipping that a pass is en route and when he does, then they stick a hand in, hoping to time it precisely to the arrival of the ball and avoid a pass interference penalty.

Ninety-nine out of 100 times, it doesn't work. If you're a DB and you don't turn and look for the ball, you're gonna' get flagged for pass interference.

I have said this 100 times: who is coaching DBs to play this way? If you're man-to-man on defense, you must - repeat MUST - know where your man is and where the ball is at all times,

It is just that simple. You see it in the pros all the time too. Who is coaching DBs to play like this? Whoever you are, you couldn't work on my staff.

Speaking of staffs, how about that White House staff! What's left of it, that is. There are interim and acting department heads and even chiefs of staff all over the place. Sorta' like the thinking patterns of the man who keeps dismissing and then replacing them with "temps." Me, I just have a gut feeling on that.

Well, if nothing else, Donald Trump is proving he knows more than the generals, just like he said during the presidential campaign. Hey, he fired 'em all so he must know more than they do because he gets briefings now that they don't - of course, he doesn't read them.

So he's spending time back in the White House (instead of his beloved Mar-a-Lago, where Melania jetted off to), pondering through his executive time, as he calls it. What does he do during that time? Probably the same thing that the person who wanted to suspend me at CCC does; execute first, think about why later. The old Ready/Fire/Aim technique.

So, welcome home troops from Syria.

And hey, Chris Callahan, what up?