Does Hugh Hewitt Understand Football?

11:54 pm EST October 15th, 2008 | Sports | 8 Comments

Hewitt:

Obama was in the prevent defense mode, and McCain moved the ball a long way down the field.

As a football fan, I hate the “prevent”, but prevent is almost always being used by the winning team.

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8 Responses to “Does Hugh Hewitt Understand Football?”

  1. Aaron Headly says:
    October 16, 2008 at 1:06 am

    I spotted the fallacy right away — It’s actually a subtle oxymoron: Hugh Hewitt Understand

    Sort of a haiku oxymoron, to take it another step towards lunacy. But I’m tired, and not ready for serious lifting.

  2. Repack Rider says:
    October 16, 2008 at 1:13 am

    H(alf)ewitt definitely doesn’t know what he is talking about.

    McCain runs a very predictable offense. It’s not effective, it’s easy to game plan for, and McCain rarely makes halftime adjustments or even calls an audible.

    Obama was in the base defense and made no adjustments other than to have a special play prepared if McCain showed Ayers or ACORN in the pre-snap read. McCain didn’t disappoint, and took the bait as the game films suggested he would. McCain was spraying “Hail Marys” downfield from the second quarter on, but he was staring down his receivers and Obama had no trouble knowing where he was going, for easy deflections of wobbly dying ducks. McCain has no ground game at all, and had half a dozen false start penalties.

    On offense Obama played it like Joe Montana handing off to Bronco Nagurski, with grace and power. A few perfect spirals to keep the defense honest, and a big diet of running between the tackles, right at you. Nothing personal, but you’re standing between me and the goal line.

    Well, you WERE standing.

  3. Willie Buck Merle says:
    October 16, 2008 at 1:52 am

    NAME: William “Billy” Ayers
    OCCUPATION: Washed-Up Terrorist
    FAV FOOD: Planters Honey-Roasted Peanuts
    FAV HOBBY: secretly funding ACORN operations
    FAV MOVIE: XMen 3 the Last Stand
    FAV HACK: John Sidney McCain
    FAV LINE: “We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama’s relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.”

    ….munches handful of peanuts, opens can of Ensure….

  4. midderpidge says:
    October 16, 2008 at 7:03 am

    Its the fourth quarter John McCain was way down and needed to hit a homerun. But he failed to put the puck in the net. So while Obama comes away looking like Michael Jordan, McCain comes away looking angry and confused, wondering just what sport he was supposed to be playing in the first place.

  5. Parthenon says:
    October 16, 2008 at 10:33 am

    I think he’s trying to say that Sen. Obama was protecting his lead, not trying to hard to stop Sen. McCain’s little gains, and he thinks Sen. McCain made a lot of ground with little nickel-and-dime passes. As can happen with the prevent.

    As if, you know, repeating that over and over within the conservative blogosphere will somehow make it true.

    On offense Obama played it like Joe Montana handing off to Bronco Nagurski,

    I’ve been silently hoping for years for a legends football game that legitimately tries to put players from different eras on the same field, with unadjusted stats (as in, they don’t correct for the era – it’s Nagurski and Peyton Manning in their prime v. Nick Buoniconti and Ray Lewis in their prime). I don’t think they could actually do it; probably have to get in touch with the estates of all the players for rights to using their names.

  6. Duros Hussein 62 says:
    October 16, 2008 at 10:45 am

    Can we all pick just one sports metaphor and stick to it?

    “Obama hit a home run from center court into the end zone and KO’ed McCain.”

  7. Evan says:
    October 16, 2008 at 1:00 pm

    Additionally, the purpose of prevent defense IS to allow the offense to move the ball…just not score a touchdown.

  8. JohnR says:
    October 16, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    Now Obama just needs to hit the bullseye to make McCain’s dominoes fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.