Carl Nicks Geeked For Rushing Attack Potential
June 11th, 2012
For Joe, there are certain mysteries in the world that will forever go unanswered. One is why did Adolph Hitler declare war on the United States? Talking about biting off more than you can chew.
The other is why former Bucs offensive coordinator Greg Olson was so allergic to the run, even when you have a proven running back in the backfield and your young quarterback is struggling.
Well, those days are gone and Joe won’t have to wring his hands weekly over the Bucs not running the ball. Not with a run-first mentality from the New Schiano Order. Not with Doug Martin as a first round pick and not with studly offensive guard Carl Nicks now on the Bucs roster.
Nicks recently spoke about how good the Bucs running attack can be this season as he told Dave Schreiber of FoxSportFlorida.com.
“We have the personnel, we’ve got the beef and we’ve got the running backs for sure.”
His impressions so far of the ballcarriers? “They’re talented, and they all bring something different,” he said. “Blount, he’s going to run you over, and he may hurdle you. And he’s big. The rookies, they’re all fast, hungry and they all work really hard, so that’s really good.”
Damn, this gets Joe’s mouth watering for September. Joe can tell you one thing he saw in the Bucs OTAs and it was like a blast from the past.
In one play, the Bucs ran what surely appeared like the old Packers sweep made famous by Vince Lombardi. LeGarrette Blount took a handoff, ran left, and following the leading charge of pulling guard Davin Joseph, Jeremy Zuttah, Carl Nicks and Donald Penn, galloped down the left sideline.
Even though the Bucs were in underwear and there was no hitting on defense it was a beautiful sight and Joe got excited in a sensual sort of way at what might be this fall.
June 11th, 2012 at 8:36 am
We may have only one play, but we will run it to perfection each and every time…
June 11th, 2012 at 9:23 am
With Nicks and Joseph, Tampa has the best pair of guards in the SEC, IMHO.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:50 am
Not to miss the point, but: Hitler did not want to declare war on the U.S. on 11-Dec-1941. His Axis ally, Japan, unilaterally attacked Pearl Harbor and forced his hand, per the 1940 Tripartite Agreement between the Axis powers.
June 11th, 2012 at 9:52 am
SEC?
June 11th, 2012 at 9:55 am
Run the ball?
Never heard of that…………………
Quit revealing all these Schiano secrets.
Pitch play? Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
June 11th, 2012 at 10:36 am
Adolf Hitler didn’t want to go to war with the US. In fact Hitler was upset that Japan attacked the US, thus putting the US into WWII. Hitler didn’t want to fight the US just yet, he wanted to rule over Europe first, because he knew they wouldn’t be able to take on the Russia, England, and the US at the same time. They declared war against the US because their ally (Japan) was at war with them.
June 11th, 2012 at 10:46 am
@Ij – I did that, just to see if anyone was paying attention, LOL
@Dan S – Thanks for answering something I have always wondered, Why Hitler did a stupid thing, and declared war on the USA.
I was told Hitler asked for the secret to making good Cuban Sandwiches, for his troops (W/O Mayonaisse of course)
When the US told him no, he declared war on us.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:02 am
Chris, Hitler declared war over sandwiches? that is possibly the stupidest thing i have ever heard! Whoever told you that should be forced to take history lessons!
June 11th, 2012 at 11:04 am
It was not just the cuban, he also was looking for the phily cheese steak as well…
June 11th, 2012 at 11:06 am
Actually, the United States was already working against Hitler before Pearl Harbor…unofficially. We were helping the french. Sort of like China helped with Vietnam…unofficially.
June 11th, 2012 at 11:12 am
On topic…don’t get me wrong, I have high hopes for Blount, but why are we nt hearing or seeing Martin doing his thing?
June 11th, 2012 at 11:58 am
Helped the French? The French didn’t last a month before Hitler owned them. By the time war was declared on the US France had been a German satellite for 2 yrs. It was England and the Soviet Union that the US was supplying.
June 11th, 2012 at 12:37 pm
I think John McKay made that play famous at USC with “Student Body Left” and ran that with Ricky Bell. If we can run it and run it like we should we will be hard to beat this year!!!
June 11th, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Trueblue, You are forgetting about the French Resistance, which was a nice thorn in the Nazi’s side.