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Assume Tebow plays - how do you defend him

Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:15 am
Posted by Colonel Hapablap
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Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:15 am
knowing that he might actually DIE if you hit him? I've never played organized football, so I'm not really inside any of these guys' heads, but how the frick do you operate a defense knowing that the next clean hit on that guy could actually end his life? If it was me, I'm sure I'd be holding back. Which is surely no way to play defense.

So what do you do, as a coach or a player? I'm really at a loss.
Posted by geauxtigers28
Gadsden, Alabama
Member since Dec 2008
1401 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:17 am to
you dont go out there and try and hurt the guy, but you dont back off at all. if they say he is healthy enough to play the game then he is healthy enough to take your biggest clean hit.
This post was edited on 10/5/09 at 9:18 am
Posted by Skillet
Member since Aug 2006
107279 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:17 am to
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how do you defend him


i'm gonna offer erin andrews $20 to make pretty eyes at tebow the whole game..that should distract him.
Posted by KCBasketball
Member since Dec 2008
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Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:17 am to
Same way Tennessee did.
Posted by Colonel Hapablap
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Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:19 am to
Tennessee didn't have to worry about ending his life. Read the post before you respond.
Posted by Tiger_n_ATL
Atlanta
Member since Jul 2005
32453 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:19 am to
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knowing that he might actually DIE if you hit him
Dumb. He's not going to "die". He has a concussion, not terminal pancreatic cancer. If he gets head to head contact, it could cause some head trauma, but he does have a helmet on, after all. It's not like a high speed car crash with no seat belts.

Exaggerate much?
Posted by BBATiger
Member since Jun 2005
16516 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:19 am to
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knowing that the next clean hit on that guy could actually end his life


Can you link the occasion that this previousley happened??? If doctors clear him to play, you have to assume as a player he is just as capable as you.
Posted by mikedatyger
Orlandeaux, FL
Member since Jun 2005
4010 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:19 am to
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if they say he is healthy enough to play the game then he is healthy enough to take your biggest clean hit.

You have to trust that they are making a sound decision and play. I feel for the Tiger D, because you know it will be in their heads.
Posted by Colonel Hapablap
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Member since Nov 2003
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Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:20 am to
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Dumb. He's not going to "die". He has a concussion, not terminal pancreatic cancer. If he gets head to head contact, it could cause some head trauma, but he does have a helmet on, after all. It's not like a high speed car crash with no seat belts.

good call. Chavis should read this very post to the defense right before the game.
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
Member since Sep 2006
30596 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:21 am to
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So what do you do, as a coach or a player? I'm really at a loss.


you tell the defense that you play to win, you run through him and you hit him as hard as you would have had he never gotten injured. If he and the Florida coaches and doctors decide he's good to go, then he's good to go.

What you MUST explain to Rahim Alem and the rest of the D, however, is that the officials will not tolerate ANYTHING even REMOTELY cheap or late. Hit him hard, but don;t lower your helmet, don't go near his head and whatever you do don't hit him late.
Posted by KCBasketball
Member since Dec 2008
3629 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:21 am to
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Tennessee didn't have to worry about ending his life. Read the post before you respond.


LOL at this and this thread then. Have you ever seen this in a college game?
Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
12025 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:22 am to
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knowing that he might actually DIE if you hit him?


Hit him harder than you've ever hit anyone else. Like the Russian said in Rocky IV. "If he dies....................he dies."
Posted by KCBasketball
Member since Dec 2008
3629 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:23 am to
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I feel for the Tiger D, because you know it will be in their heads.




You really think this will be in their heads? All they care about is winning and stopping the Florida offense. It is going to be in Tebow's head and Urban's head more so than anyone else.
Posted by JustSmokin
Member since Sep 2007
9149 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:23 am to
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knowing that he might actually DIE if you hit him?

A little dramatic, don't you think?

He won't play if he isn't ready. And he won't die from another hit if he does play.

Posted by pdaddy2005
covington
Member since May 2008
2181 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:25 am to
If it plays...it dies
Posted by LSUownsSEC
OutOfTheArea
Member since May 2008
3178 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:29 am to
you dont go out there and try and hurt the guy, but you dont back off at all. if they say he is healthy enough to play the game then he is healthy enough to take your biggest clean hit.
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+1

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i'm gonna offer erin andrews $20 to make pretty eyes at tebow the whole game..that should distract him.
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$20 to a millionaire ... yea, that is going to do it!
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first, if UF puts a potentially injured player, particularly with the type of injury he has, the coach ought to be fired ... but i'll give more credit to Urban Meyer and i believe if that is the case, he won't do it. Urban Meyer has more class than most of us want to admit! he isn't someone that fell off of the water melon truck yesterday.

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then again, i'll take an ugly win in any way, shape or form .... (but logic tells me, that if we do win, this will be the most difficult win ever in T.S. History)
Posted by Cash
Vail
Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:29 am to
Posted by CMoney
Dallas, TX
Member since Dec 2007
53 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:51 am to
Is Tebow the first player in the world to play after having a concusion?

Hell No!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The question is not a valid question. If this had been Tebow's sixth concussion then he might want to think of a career as a chipendale's dancer. Until then he is a football player and you get hit. Enough said.
Posted by noonan
Nassau Bay, TX
Member since Aug 2005
36895 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:54 am to
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knowing that he might actually DIE if you hit him?


if he dies, he dies.



i am joking people. i know someone is going to take me seriously here.

eta: should have known i wouldn't be the first to put that up.
This post was edited on 10/5/09 at 9:59 am
Posted by MileHigh
Most likely a mile high
Member since Jan 2004
7920 posts
Posted on 10/5/09 at 9:56 am to
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knowing that he might actually DIE if you hit him? I've never played organized football, so I'm not really inside any of these guys' heads, but how the frick do you operate a defense knowing that the next clean hit on that guy could actually end his life? If it was me, I'm sure I'd be holding back. Which is surely no way to play defense.

So what do you do, as a coach or a player? I'm really at a loss

you don't have to worry about killing him, if you listen to the media, tebow is actually a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Kill him, he rises from the dead and still scores two more times on you.
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