Shaft75
All Pro
KUBIAK IS A HYPOCRITE
Our own MDS, while filling in for yours truly for a few hours on Tuesday, penned an item about Texan coach Gary Kubiak's interest in outlawing the move that resulting in Fins quarterback Trent Green taking a blind cut at Houston defensive tackle Travis Johnson's legs while Johnson was pursuing receiver Ted Ginn during a busted play.
MDS was far more charitable to Kubiak than I intend to be.
Kubiak complaining about a guys blocking other guys at the knees is, in my opinion, no different than Jets coach Eric Mangini complaining about the Patriots cheating.
Both men profited from the very actions that they now renounce.
For Mangini, his rise from video slappy to head coach of the Jets was fueled in large part by the success of the team that was doing the things about which Mangini apparently blew the whistle. For Kubiak, his years of success in Denver were the result of an offensive blocking system based in part on diving at the legs of defensive players.
Do we think that a player should take out a guy's legs on a back-side play? No. We'd prefer to see a shoulder-to-shoulder blast-off.
And please spare us the "Johnson outweighs Green by 100 pounds" routine. With Johnson not braced to deliver (or receive) a blow, Green could have generated one of the all-time great highlights if he had de-cleated an unwary Johnson with a well-placed left shoulder to Johnson's abdomen.
With that said, neither Travis nor Kubiak should be showing up at the photo shoot for the poster that informs the public on the perils of low blocks. Johnson squandered any goodwill he might have generated by acting like a fool after the play (and after the game), and Kubiak has no more authority to argue against low blocks than Ricky Williams has to complain about pot fumes from his neighbor's double-wide.
This ***** hasn't taken into account the last two years that Kubiak has coached the Texans I guess??? I read this site everyday and this is the dumbest item I have ever found on there.