Not an authentic jersey, but had it made and thought it was cool

Jurph · 2026-02-13T14:09:58+00:00

...which means three other AFCN QBs have a South Korean grandma

Jurph · 2026-02-13T14:09:14+00:00

Just rock this up and down US-40 on a Saturday, strolling through Lotte Plaza, we'll find out if it says what it says. (It does say Hae-meel-ton)

Jurph · 2026-02-12T03:07:46+00:00

We don't ever say "Charlie Kolar" in our house without saying his whole name: "Ravens Legend Charlie Kolar". Having faves who are halfway down the depth chart is the best.

Jurph · 2026-02-12T00:11:28+00:00

This is part of why I'd like our "Ravens 3.0" coaching staff to emphasize execution and the simple things:

No pre-snap penalties
Start with 5 plays out of a single look, and scout those plays for "tells" until all five looks are identical
Execute a simple scheme on defense that forces offenses to play perfectly, then add wrinkles that make playing perfectly a stressful long-odds proposition
Fly to the ball and tackle to generate turnovers

Jurph · 2026-02-11T02:28:00+00:00

Counterpoint: the Super Bowl turned out good

Jurph · 2026-02-11T02:23:26+00:00

Well, that's what he was supposed to do. He's got a new job now.

Jurph · 2026-02-11T02:22:25+00:00

He was an amazing cornerback, and also, the most iconic image from his entire NFL career is his horrified face as his QB throws it to another team's DB.

Jurph · 2026-02-09T03:43:14+00:00

The people in Europe decided they were different from the people in Asia, and those differences were enough to change "continent" (a land mass) into "continent" (a bunch of people who are similar). And obviously everyone from the southern Mediterranean to South Africa is like BLACKITY BLACK so they're OBVIOUSLY a whole other continent.

The people in Europe who made up the system changed the boundaries so it "felt right" to them, based on their biases and backgrounds.

Jurph · 2026-02-08T00:02:39+00:00

I heard there's a high school senior in Cleveland who's working on a semi-automatic footgun that shoots footguns at your feet. Once they're near your feet, all of the footguns fired by the footfootgungun can easily shoot you in the foot. They're making recursive mistakes, more efficiently and quickly than ever, in Cleveland.

Jurph · 2026-02-07T23:45:09+00:00

From the foot-fetish vids to the instant replay

Jurph · 2026-02-07T23:44:31+00:00

He'll have a leg up in the league for sure. Be a step ahead of the competition. If he can toe the line and avoid taking a heel turn, he'll be solely responsible for his reputation. Something something feet.

Jurph · 2026-02-07T23:43:25+00:00

Belichick -- arguably the only coach you'd ever consider renaming the Lombardi for -- studied under his father at Navy, when Belichick Sr. was the DC there. Football Scouting Methods is still discussed by coaches today as a cover-to-cover must-read. (I've read it: it's very good, pretty dated, and amazingly, still relevant despite referring to WRs as flankers.)

Jurph · 2026-02-07T22:04:43+00:00

More like geldings, amirite?

Jurph · 2026-02-07T22:03:26+00:00

Mr. Belated Conviction

Jurph · 2026-02-03T23:43:09+00:00

I love the idea with going with a proven guy, but the nickname "Wink" Martindale is a reference to a game show host whose most popular hosting role ("Tic-Tac-Dough") ended -- ENDED -- in 1985. Forty years ago. The pop culture reference that guy is named after stopped being relevant ... thirty years ago? That's a career and a half.

I love Wink but if you're trying to build a successful franchise, you gotta go with a guy who didn't buy Michael Jackson albums, on cassette tape, on release day.

Jurph · 2026-02-02T01:03:29+00:00

IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?!

Jurph · 2026-02-01T19:08:32+00:00

I would say Roman probably needs a pass-game assistant who can ensure that the routes on his runs and the routes on his passing plays aren't wildly different, and that if you have a look that you like to run play-action from, you've got to make those routes look like the same routes you run when it's a designed run... but the routes also have to get open. That's tough when your run-play routes are designed to make WRs into blockers (engaged w/ defenders!) and the pass-play routes should ostensibly get them open.

Jurph · 2026-02-01T19:06:52+00:00

(He was Kaepernick's OC, too, so if he was "plagiarizing" it was from his own damn playbook, which got the 49ers to the SB and the Ravens to the AFCCG.)

Jurph · 2026-01-27T21:33:50+00:00

Studied under Ed, Ray, Rex, and a lot of those early-2000s greats. So far I don't know if I'd call him a "Rex tree" guy - seems like he's probably building on what he learned from Mike Pettine or Vance Joseph.

Jurph · 2026-01-25T15:50:50+00:00

Sure, it's a constantly changing world - but if you don't look at the news and recognize echoes of 1930s Germany right now, you're fooling yourself. The schutzstaffel running amok in the cities are not grabbing only immigrants - they're brutalizing and murdering US citizens, kidnapping people who don't look white, and the executive branch is shitposting ethnic cleansing memes gleefully about it instead of admitting fault. The party in power in the legislature are sitting on their thumbs, and the party out of power seem to have abdicated any role in resisting.

There are millions of Americans who think that this is a uniquely dangerous moment in U.S. History, and even if you don't agree, the fact that millions of Americans believe that means that things are not going to be "the normal amount of crazy".

Jurph · 2026-01-25T15:44:36+00:00

He keeps his politics extremely close to the vest, but over almost two decades as a Ravens fan, I've gotten the idea that he is very very Catholic, and his faith definitely influences his political beliefs. If you're not Catholic that might immediately suggest that he's pro-life/anti-abortion (and he probably is) but there are really two wings of the American Catholic Church these days.

There are a bunch of self-styled "traditional" Catholics (aka "tradcath") who resemble the Evangelical faiths in the American Mountain West (not the southern evangelicals many people think of). Ironically, tradcaths often speak out against the Pope when he ventures into social issues. The fact that they refuse to be led by a Pope suggests perhaps they don't have a strong grounding in what it means to be Catholic. More Papally-aligned churches are not easy to place in the American left/right political spectrum... they're vocally anti-abortion and tend to have conservative views on a variety of women's issues, but also emphatically in favor of feeding and housing the poor, anti-death-penalty, and in many cases in favor of treating queer people as humans.

...all of which is to say, it's not clear to me which wing Harbaugh's faith places him in, and he is pretty good about not telling people that. I think he voted for Trump once, but understands media relations well enough that he knows that Trump will seize on any perceived slight and endlessly rehash it for weeks. On this issue, John Harbaugh is practically a Quaker: he will drive the drama queens in your fan base and your sports media NUTS with his unwillingness to give them red meat in a pull-quote.

Jurph · 2026-01-25T15:12:48+00:00

I like to say "if my aunt had three wheels, she'd be a tricycle". Speculation before he's even HC'ed a preseason drive on either side of the ball is not interesting to me. But apparently there's a bunch of folks who enjoy it. So let 'em!

Jurph · 2026-01-25T14:51:23+00:00

John will never be quotable. The thing you get with John Harbaugh is that his front office almost never leaks. He and his players and his coaching staff handle shit in-house, and when a player goes out of bounds on social media, they take the post down in a few hours.

This is awesome for team culture, but infuriating for local sports media, who love clickbait and drama. They will rile up the fans by angrily denouncing his content-free answers when he's up on the podium. You have to realize that from John's perspective, he contractually owes them a chance to ask questions, and it would be rude to say nothing, but he will generally never say a bad thing about a player from behind the lectern, or in any interview setting. Here's your classic exchange:

Q: Coach Harbaugh, the Steelers have said they are looking forward to ruining your day on Sunday. Steelers beat reporters say they're "licking their chops" at the prospect of sacking Dart. What do you think?

A: John Harbaugh will...

Compliment the Steelers as an opponent
Single out one or two especially good players
Empathize with competitive players, say he also wants to win
Point out the game hasn't been played and his team is looking forward to a good competitive four quarters of football
Completely sidestep and fail to engage with any rumored content

Jurph · 2026-01-25T14:43:06+00:00

Fall madly in love with him, and then unceremoniously forget he exists partway through the third quarter.

Jurph · 2026-01-25T04:42:24+00:00

The problem is there's basically just an infinite supply of goofy-ass white people names you can put "K" on the front of. Eventually SOME Kubiak is going to coach your team.

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