Dave Rimington Show

First Downs and Scoring Touchdowns You have seen it over and over in pro football, a team is moving up and down the field with ease until they get into a situation that they need to get the final yard to score or get a first down.  Why do great offenses stall in these situations. I have theory that I would like to share with you.  First off I have to make a disclaimer...I haven't seen any statistics to back up my assertions that teams are having more problems in Goal line and short yardage situations.  It is just anecdotal evidence witnessed on my part.  My Theory:  Over the past 20 years game of pro football has become more of  game of horizontal movement on the offensive line.   Instead of displacing players vertically, plays and players are taught to get movement horizontally.  Simply put, players are not knocking back players they are moving opponents side to side.   When the inside zone became a big part of most of most pro teams offenses in the mid eighties, lead stepping offensive lineman w

May 22, 2005 Hey It's my Birthday...45 Overweight $25 Overweight Fee What's Up with Eppley Airfield Apology-No Bar Podcast Graduations Parties Nebraska Golf Classic Empire Challenge

Hello everyone I will be doing the show in Omaha, NE until Weds. Just hanging in my hotel room tonight.

As you can imagine,  game day in the NFL is a special time for players.  I thought I would give the listeners/readers a taste of what it was like.  I guess the logical place to start this adventure is the night before the game.  We would all meet at an area hotel about 5:30-6 pm the night before the game we then would check in and relax for about 1 hour or so.  Then we would have a team dinner...this  is when the boys would load up on a grand assortment of food.  When I first came into the league steaks (yes plural) seem to be the food of choice.  As time went on guys seemed to eating less steak and more pasta (Damn Nutritionists!).  This was no place for the timid, regardless of what was the emphasis, there were massive amounts of food being consumed. All this was followed by the ice cream dessert station...Banana Split heaven.  After the gluttony we then went into meetings and tried not to fall a sleep. In the beginning of my career this was pretty simple stuff...coaches would just give a speec

History of Cinco de Mayo

2005 NFL DraftThe Player Haters Another NFL Draft has come and gone. I always found it funny that as soon as a team makes a pick an ESPN talking head puts his 2 cents in about the quality of the pick. I realize that if you put the draft on TV you need someone to tell the listeners what's going on, but the whole concept of rating a teams draft at this point is just a load of crap. Most of these guys are rolled out once a year propped in front of a camera and then locked up in their homes digging up BS stats. No wonder they sound so disgruntled. Who the hell are these guys, if they are so damn smart why aren't NFL front offices beating down their doors trying to acquire these geniuses. I'll tell you why, this is all smoke and mirrors. From the Wizard of Oz: "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!!" It doesn't help that ESPN has about 8 hours of draft coverage, you can only say that player x has good speed and player y good strength so many times before

Equipment managers in football when dealing with 18-21 year old kids have to be the "no men" There is nothing more enticing to young man than FREE stuff...t-shirts, shoes, and socks. You see, our job as players was to get as much glom as we could and Glen's job was to say no. Glen Abbott just "got it" he knew how to handle a player without shouting or making the kid feel bad. He knew that most of the guys he was dealing didn't have "a pot to piss in" and somehow when you least expected it you would find an extra shirt or socks in your locker.   I remember in a game against the Iowa Hawkeyes at home I blocked back on Big D-tackle Mark Bortz. We hit each other so hard my facemask just snapped off my helmet. It was early in the game and as I made my way off the field with my facemask in my hand...the coaches were yelling for Glen to fix the mask. Glen without saying a word took my helmet and went to another guy on the team asked for his helmet and gave it to me. I didn

Show Notes: Well there really isn't any....but... Here is how the show shakes down. Dave intro- Why Podcasting? Nebraska Football- Joe Dailey Departure Boomer Esiason Foundation Rimington Ramblings- Utter Nonsense Podcast Voiceovers Featured Websites Boomer Esiason Foundation Costa Rica Classic - March 19-20th, 2005 Nebraska Golf Classic- June 2-3 Key West Classic-April 27- Billfish Tournament EmpireChallenge.com - July 3, 2005 LI vs NYC High School All-Star FB Game Dave Rimington Football Camp July 12-13, 2005 Live 365.com - Radio Conference , April 29-May 1- San Francisco, CA Chris Davies- ProVoiceUSA.com RadioDaddy.com - Frees Voice Over Service**