Whammsical Thoughts

The Falcons don't have a whammy game posted on their Channel. It doesn't look like the whammies are working much anyway.

I don't really think Thursday Night Games tell you much about NFL Teams. For too many reasons to list. They are kind of sleazy rip-offs. Like showing up to an NBA Game and they're playing three-man basketball.

In the old days, the way you ended losing streaks was you concentrated on fundamentals. Blocking. Tackling. Route running. Watching film. Going to your bread and butters. Doing plain and simple measurable hard work. 

In the old days, they didn't know how to rest. They didn't think much about CNS overload. These days you have to REST hard. The mental aspect of the game has come front and center. If you are psychologically burned out, your CNS is shot, you most likely are beaten before you take the field. 

Who wants to play football with a shot CNS? It makes you stupid. You do stupid things. You suffer what they call in therapy land "overwhelm". I'm thinking of early Kirk Cousins here. 

Cousins had a lot of brains.

And the more brains you have the more you overthink and every stinking thought weighs two tons and you carry that weight and they expect you to cover a guy who runs a 4.3 forty and outweighs you by forty pounds.

That's another thing they did in the old days. We have old guys coaching in Washington. That's why I'm talking about the old days. They would, the geezers, because they're so much smarter than you, SIMPLIFY things for YOU SIMPLETONS, so you would play faster.

It is like your potted plant when it becomes root-bound. The scheme, which is supposed to be your support structure, starts eating your brain. Paralysis sinks in.

It is also called Brainlock or Brainfreeze. Like Mitch McConnell or Joe Biden. The Brain freezes. Because there is too much in it. Too much multi-tasking. You're juggling too many things on the honey-do lists Geezer Coaches have given you.

This is the type mentality that makes you forget your drills. You forget your second nature tasks. Tackling. Blocking. Ball security. Creating turnovers. Tip drills. Mental reps. You can't imagine yourself picking off a pass, sacking the QB, or making that TD grab. So you don't.

It's mental reps where you can do some refueling of your passion for the game. This is where remedial reading comes in. Things like retrocognition, retrocausation, memory reconsolidation. The rewind technique. You give up a TD where you went for the pick and the other guy beats you for the ball. You rewind and see yourself making the play. You know what you should have done. Rewind right away and do it right. Over and over. Preferably to inspirational music.

Or put your greatest football hits on the TV and watch and rewatch. 

You study film you see a guy on the other team beating guys all over the league. See yourself while you study disrupting the guy. You take the ball away. You make the tackle. You go in for six. See yourself making something happen. Get your feel for the game back. 

Now it could be the Geezer Coaches for the Washington Commanders are past their primes. To the point even football viagra can't revive them. Old dogs who refuse to learn new tricks. They feel their past accomplishments entitles them to their positions. Even if they are not aware of it, they feel they have nothing to prove to you. In denial about whether the game has passed them by.

It could be. Jack Del Rio and Ron Rivera were great coaches and players. They have nothing to apologize for and everything to be proud of. They both look fit and healthy. But it is the mental portion of the game that becomes too much for aging coaches. 

Not coincidentally, their team seems to be suffering losses on the football field that are primarily mental in nature.

Losing to the Bears Thursday Night sure looked like a mental loss to me, even given the fact Thursday Night Games are the NFL equivalent to full frontal lobotomies.

Have Rivera and Del Rio been lobomized by CNS Overload and the aging process?

I guess we see what they do in Atlanta.