Light Analysis of Brandon Jacobs' BS
Sorry for the rehash: I saw the Brandon Jacobs loudmouth story again today and looked it up on a few sites. Everyone quoted him, but none of the stories researched if there was anything to what he was saying about people getting hurt.
“Size and strength is what they had and that’s why they won. Let’s be real. They had great assistant coaches, but Jim didn’t know what he was doing. Jim had no idea. Jim was throwing slants into cover-2 safeties and getting people hurt. That guy knew nothing, man.”
I'm not sure how to validate if Harbaugh was throwing slants into cover-2 without doing some in depth film study, but looking at the 2012 season where Jacobs played for Harbaugh, almost no one on the team was hurt. In 2014 everyone was hurt.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sfo/2011_injuries.htm
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sfo/2012_injuries.htm
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sfo/2013_injuries.htm
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sfo/2014_injuries.htm
Conclusion: Brandon Jacobs is an idiot.
It also goes to show you that being healthy helps teams win almost as much as anything else.
Not OT b/c Harbuagh.
He's talking about the play where Vernon Davis absolutely got his head taken off by Kam Chancellor, essentially breaking him forever.
Many tackle football players had their heads taken off by Kam Chacellor and other agressive tackle football players.
And that play was definitely not a slant
Just a play where a 49er receiver got hurt lol
never said you said it was a slant. Brandon Jacobs said players were getting hurt on slants lol
But he obviously had a lot more than that floating around in his head
I'm no brilliant football mind or anything but I'm pretty sure that's not a slant and would be a touchdown if Kap could throw the ball accurately. But Harbaugh should have run on the field and put the ball in the correct spot; what a monster.
Davis leaving his feet to catch a ball chest high didn't help either.
Cam Chancellor hits like Ronnie Lott used to, and how Jabrill Peppers is about to.
No offense to you, OP, but this is the kind of story that just needs to go away. This guy deserves less than none of our attention. He is clearly a bitter person with an axe to grind, and (honestly) he seems kind of mentally unstable...
Conclusion: Brandon Jacobs is an idiot.
Agreed. My concern is that Jacobs may be an "idiot" in the 19th century sense of the word, i.e. a person with a significant intellectual impairment...
You know he's wrong, I know he's wrong, Brandon Jacob's knows he's wrong. Let's just stop
Not sure if you really want to stop all Brandon Jacobs "covfefe," but the multifacted brilliance of your post is undeniable.
I liked it better when you were on permanet haitus to azdesertswarm.
It took me less time to read Moby Dick than your post. Clean it up...
I guess that leaves "anti-stupidity retribution" as our responsibility.
Even at my most confident, I don't feel half as important as you think you are normally.
lol, you don't get to decide your last statement.
He's essentially a 4th round pick with a 7th round Twitter game whose beef with Harbaugh might stem - at least in part - from Jacobs' lamenting on social media about "rotting away on the bench" during his stint in San Francisco.
Hey, what did Pete Finebaum say about us 5 days ago?
This is a bad thread and you should feel bad.
Also because if he's trying to stay in the league no coach is going to want to work with him after this.
He hasn't played in the league since 2013, I wouldn't consider him "in the league".
He was trying to live in my head, but he wasn't paying any rent. So Brandon Jacobs doesn't live there any more.
I just went to go check Brandon Jacobs twitter to see if hes made any other stupid remarks and............Blocked. Punk bitch blocked me
The two successful pros are talking to a top young rookie. They ask if he has a phone. He says "Sure" and takes it out of his pocket. One old pro grabs the phone, throws it out the window, and says "You'll thank me".
just his comment about throwing a slant into a cover 2 is pretty stupid. First it can work just fine as there are plenty of windows in a cover 2 to hit a slant. Second if that is the call and the defense is going to rip your head off, both the QB and WR know the proper route to change into to avoid the coverage, like a short 7 in that situation of more like a simple hitch. His comment is really ridiculous.
headlines to know that he is an idiot!
As for understanding what's behind his pissing and moaning, it's not surprising that you found no empirical data to back him up. The following excerpt from his wikipedia entry might serve as a clue. What? This guy said nasty things about Harbaugh?! How out of character!!
Jacobs signed with the San Francisco 49ers on March 28, 2012. He missed the first two months of the season after suffering a knee injury during training camp, and saw limited playing time once he returned. He was active for two games and had five carries for seven yards as essentially the third- or fourth-string tailback.The 49ers suspended him for the final three games of the same season following a series of posts by Jacobs on social media sites addressing his lack of playing time, including one which said he was "on this team rotting away." Jacobs was waived by the 49ers on December 31, 2012.
Here's what Jacobs said:
“Going somewhere where they don’t have route conversions into certain coverages was just absurd,” said Jacobs, who played nine NFL seasons. “They’re just running routes in the defense, getting people killed. Size and strength is what they had, and that’s why they won. Let’s be real. They had great assistant coaches, but Jim didn’t know what he was doing. Jim had no idea. Jim is throwing slants into Cover-2 safeties, getting people hurt. That guy knew nothing, man.
So Jacobs is salty that much is obvious, but just to explain a bit what he's talking about, Jacobs is saying Harbaugh wasn't using run-n-shoot/air raid offense. If Jacobs had been more around the league he'd realize that's normal: most of the NFL, Harbaugh included, base their passing offenses on West Coast principles. It's likely Peters never really learned the heart of the playbook in San Fran, just downloaded the plays. Nobody runs just one or the other, but West Coast routes are simpler and more precise. You run the route you're given, with lookbacks and some room for finding space, but the idea is to be where you're supposed to be when the quarterback gets to your place in the progression.
Run 'n Shoot is about route trees, or "route conversions" as Jacobs is calling them. This is reactionary, for example if the guy covering you is setting up inside you go outside, if he stays over you, you cut off, yada yada. The QB is reading the same defenders as you, and will often throw it before you break, expecting you the receiver to see it and break that way. The Air Raid doesn't run a ton of slants. Usually they've got their best guy running a route tree, their next best guy running a backside post, and then two guys running "MESH" which means they're running crossing routes down low to occupy the LBs and provide an easy outlet.
Slants is a typical play to run against Cover 2, which is a typical coverage. I doubt he's really saying "don't throw slants into Cover 2" because without looking I already know I can find tons of examples of the Giants throwing slants into Cover 2. People do that all the time. It's a very common quick pass that beats most coverages and creates an easy high-low read against the most common one, i.e. Cover 2:
Throwing them at "Cover-2 safeties" means something a little different perhaps. Cover 1/Cover 3 safeties are going to be lighter guys, and different guys. The strong safety in Cov 1 is sort of a nickelback. The free safety is super super super super fast so he can cover a ton of ground and make plays on the ball.
Cover 2 safeties are thicker, meatier. They have easier coverage jobs, covering half the field, but are more involved in the edge of the run game. Iowa's safeties are Cover 2 safeties. I think what Jacobs is saying is when the defense has an Iowa-like safety out there--a dude who can come up and hit you but might not be able to cover your slot receiver down the field, you shouldn't be trying to run slants under him--you should be running verts to either side of him or whatever.
That's my best shot at what he's thinking. It's hard to tell because otherwise it doesn't make much sense why a guy who played football wouldn't know you run slants on cover 2. That's like saying a blogger doesn't know what he's doing because he uses graphcis in his posts. Okay, maybe if I put together a video that would be more instructive, but, like, graphics are low rent and stuff, man, and we've got a big site to write here.
To add to this: when Jacobs was on the Giants, his offensive coordinator was Kevin Gilbride. Gilbride came from the run-and-shoot school of offense (he was the Oilers' OC during the early '90s). So it's likely that the Giants used the run-and-shoot route adjustment principles more than most NFL teams, and that's what Jacobs was used to.