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Cheetah Package
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Marco Wilson and the Arizona Defense led the Cheetahs to a big vict'ry in Week 7 of the BDFL |
The Cheetah Package throttles the Bullets
LOWNDESBORO,
AL - The definition of a "Cheetah Package" is open to interpretation. A
package in football can be linked to a small series of plays, although
it mainly refers to a specific personnel grouping deployed in a
particular way that is catered to players skill-sets. The name is a
typical "coach speak" meaning it must sound cool, threatening and
potentially lethal. Making the descriptor illustrative via a clear word
association is a sensible bonus. The speedy imagery is focused on
getting to the quarterback as quick as possible. At the University of
Alabama, the Crimson Tide's football team is using the term for a
defensive scheme that utilizes their three best pass rushers (#31-Will
Anderson, #41-Chris Braswell and #15-Dallas Turner) on obvious passing
downs. The Tide's "Cheetah Package" ranks among the top pass-rushers in
the nation for power five conferences versus traditional dropback
passing (3+ steps) teams. Turner (23.5%), Anderson (23.8%) and Braswell
(25.6%) have three of the highest ratings for pass-rushers against
dropback quarterbacks. According to the CFB Film Room - Turner,
Anderson, and Braswell are the most dangerous pass rushers in the
nation. The three outside linebackers have combined for 10 sacks, 20
tackles for loss and 22 quarterback pressures. As a whole, the Crimson
Tide is sitting at 23 sacks for minus 159 yards on the season. When
asked recently at his weekly radio show, Hey Coach and the Nick Saban
Show on the Crimson Tide Sports Network, about where the "Cheetah
Package" name came from, Nick Saban responded with, "Do you guys not
follow the BDFL?" While at USC from 2001 to 2004, Pete Carroll's Trojans used a
similar "speed-rush" package to put pressure on the quarterback on
obvious passing downs. In Week 7 of the BDFL, the Southside Cheetahs
prowled on down to Lowndes County to take on the Benton Bullets at Rebel
Stadium. The Cheetahs used their namesake "package" to get off to a
super-fast start (36 points) on Thursday Night Football (TNF) and
muzzle the Bullerino in front of his ol' proverbial friends
and neighbors.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The Grenadiers earned the "Top Gun" award for Week 8 in the BDFL with 46 points, but their effort was not featured on TheBDFL.com's home page this week due to the editorial relevance of the "Cheetah Package" story.
Fast As You by Dwight Yoakam (1993)
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| BDFL NEWS |
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Washington's Sonny Jurgenson led the NFL in all four major passing categories in 1969 |
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The 1969 Gunslingers of the AFL and NFL |
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CANTON, OH - While most of the young folks in the country were
caught up in the space race and the peace movement of 1969 in search of
the outerspace, peace, love
and drugs, there was a group of future Pro Football Hall of Famers
and other quarterback legends
slinging the pigskin all over the grassy gridirons of the AFL
and NFL.
Next season (2023), the BDFL will highlight 16 of these field
generals from
the 1969 season that helped launch pro football into the modern
era. Each of these legendary signal callers will be given an
honorary BDFL team name and their team will compete in Week 6 of
the 2023 BDFL season with a current BDFL team as their on-field
representative, i.e., Bart Starr - Montgomery Stars (Benton
Bullets), Billy Kilmer - Crescent City Killers (Gulf Coast
Gamblers), Joe Namath - Broadway Bombers (Mineral Springs
Grenadiers), Roman Gabriel - Carolina Centurions (Duncanville
Armadillos), Johnny Unitas - Louisville Hightoppers (Magic City
Mayors), Jack Kemp - Hollywood Senators (Black Creek Freebirds),
Sonny Jurgenson - New Hanover Red Roaches (Fairfield
PowerSleds), John Brodie - Golden State Hackers (Southside
Cheetahs), Bob Griese - Evansville Greasers (Fieldstown
Bellcows), etc. More team names and assignments to come as we
build-up to and countdown to BDFL Throwback Week 2023. This
should be quite the mission. 
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