“Green Bay Packers will use Giant philosophy - plus eight minutes - to contain Michael Vick, Eagles - New York Daily News” plus 1 more |
| Posted: 08 Jan 2011 11:05 AM PST  Martin/Getty Clay Matthews and Packers will have hands full dealing with Michael Vick Sunday.PHILADELPHIA - The first time the Giants played Michael Vick, their plan to stop him nearly worked perfectly. So perfectly, in fact, that Minnesota copied it when they beat the Eagles on Dec. 28. Giants defensive coordinator Perry Fewell watched that game, and he thought the way the Vikings copied the Giants' play was interesting, to say the least. "I did find it interesting. I did," Fewell said two days later. "It can work. And it will work if we get back to it, no doubt." The Giants never got that chance to prove him right. But the Packers (10-6) have a chance to do it when they face Vick and the Eagles (10-6) in an NFC wild-card playoff game at Lincoln Financial Field Sunday afternoon. The third-seeded Eagles sound absolutely certain that that's exactly what the sixth-seeded Green Bay will try to do - copy what the Giants did so successfully in a 27-17 loss on Nov. 21, and what the Vikings did even better in a 24-14 win a month later. The basic theme of the plan is to chase the mobile Vick with a speedy defensive back, mostly from his left, forcing him to run to the right where it's more difficult for a left-handed quarterback to turn and throw. The Giants did it with safety Antrel Rolle. The Vikings did it with cornerback Antoine Winfield. And the Packers are probably going to send a safety or corner, too. "I'm almost 100% sure that we'll get the same type of looks," Vick said this week. "It might not be the exact same, but in some way, shape or form it'll be similar. So we just have to be ready for it and I think we've learned a lot." It's a dangerous game to pressure Vick, given the MVP-caliber season he's had. He's the first player in NFL history to top 3,000 passing yards (3,018), 20 passing touchdowns (21), 500 rushing yards (676) and seven rushing touchdowns (9) in the same season - amazing numbers considering he only played in 12 games. He's been sacked 34 times too, but he can also escape and run and averaged 6.8 yards per carry. Nobody knows that better than the Giants, who had him bottled up until the fourth quarter of their rematch at the Meadowlands on Dec. 19. Then, in the final 8:17, he rallied the Eagles from a 31-10 deficit to a 38-31 win, thanks in large part to his ability to run for 72 yards and a touchdown in those final minutes. He also has explosive playmakers in DeSean Jackson and Jeremy Maclin, who make it even riskier to take a defensive back out of coverage. But that's part of what the Packers do, and they do it effectively. They finished second in the NFL with 47 sacks, led by linebacker Clay Matthews (13 1/2), one of the favorites for NFL Defensive Player of the Year. "The Packers do the same blitz, and they're better at it (than the Vikings)," said Eagles receiver Jason Avant. "So we better get ready for it. And I think we're prepared for it. Everybody took a look at that film and really critiqued it and tried to figure out what we can do to get better." The best thing they could do would be to have Vick healthy. He injured his quad on the first play of that game against the Vikings - a big reason why the Vikings' defense held him in check. "Being a quarterback you have to take drops, push up in the pocket; you have to be able to scramble if you need to," Vick said. "You have to do it all with your legs. And if you can't do it, it sets you back and puts you in a bad position. If you can't do that, you can't be effective, and that's the most important position on the field." Vick sat out the Eagles' finale - a 14-13 loss to the Cowboys - and says he's now "100%." If he is, that could be terrible news for the Packers since no team this season has figured out how to completely stop a healthy Vick. The Giants were close, though, and Fewell was convinced his plan would work. The Packers are likely to at least try to find out if he's right. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| Why Plato is the Starting Point of All Philosophy - Associated Content Posted: 08 Jan 2011 10:58 AM PST In the Apology Plato suggests that he is wise because he is under no illusion that he possesses knowledge This is apposite humility from a person in whom humility was happily most often subordinated to the pastime of skewering his He is saying with Peirce and Nietzsche that we are flies on a bottle who can see beyond but merely come up with imperfect hypotheses about it all To these hypotheses they apply efforts to demonstrate their reality empirically In contrast theology's shortcuts (faith and fundamentalism) make it not so much the queen of the sciences as a pinnacle of supposition In general proper philosophy comes down to folk like Peirce who regardless of their own dearth of "religious experience" are at least are able to dispense with reductive notions that give realism no quarter and consign metaphysics to the outer circles of hades Why Plato Is The Starting Point of All Philosophy - A Philosophical Fragment Related Slide Show This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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