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FLORHAM PARK, N.J. -- Heads up! Think Brandon Marshall is dangerous with the football in his hands? Better watch out when he starts punting it.The New York Jets wide receiver booted a ball -- that just cleared the bleachers -- in frustration at the end of what coach Todd Bowles called a sluggish practice Tuesday.Well, that one didnt go very far, a smiling Marshall said. I almost got sued. It barely went over the stands. I saw a lady go, `Ahhh! That wasnt good.After running back Dominique Williams dropped a pass, Marshall picked up the ball and kicked it, sending it hurtling toward some campers and parents.It was pretty good, coach Todd Bowles joked. If we need a second punter, we might just bring him back there and pooch one.All kidding aside, it was a quick display of emotion from Marshall, capping a very uneven practice for both the offense and defense.Sometimes you need that, he said, to show people that its not acceptable to come out there and practice like that.Tuesdays session marked the fifth practice of training camp for the Jets.Its competition period and guys are going to express frustration in a certain way, the coach said. Youre in camp, youre going to get frustrated one day. It wasnt a big deal at all. Were going to line up tomorrow and play again.Bowles added that showing that type of emotion is fine -- as long as its in practice and not a game.Thats a penalty, so we know we cant do it, he said. Emotion is one thing, as long as you tailor it the right way.Marshall acknowledged that a few plays before his punt, he tried to slam his helmet down.I couldnt get my helmet off, he said. I was kind of embarrassed. It got stuck. That was good, though. When you throw the helmet, kick the ball, its probably a little too much in one day.In 2009, Marshall threw a well-publicized practice tantrum that got him suspended a week while with Denver, when he also punted a football, walked while the rest of the team ran during warmups and swatted away a few passes thrown to him.He was looking for a new deal and demanded a trade during that time. This was nothing close to that situation, in comparison. It is also nothing new to any of his Jets teammates.Its almost my staple, Marshall said, grinning. Yeah, I do that maybe every five or six weeks.When a reporter asked if he meant every five or six years, Marshall reiterated that its not an uncommon occurrence.During the season, you guys are here for the opening of practice, but then you go inside and do what you guys do, he said. And, Im out here kicking balls.Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick, who re-signed with the Jets last week, agreed with the overall sentiment that the team practiced poorly.Its just important for us to remember that we cant waste any days, he said.We did some good things today, but we did more bad than good today. Weve got to be able to learn from it and weve got to continue to be trending upward and getting better each practice.There are high expectations this season for an offense that ranked 10th overall last season and set a franchise record with 5,925 total yards. Fitzpatrick set the team mark with 31 touchdown passes, while Marshall broke Jets records with 109 catches and 1,502 yards receiving.The addition of running back Matt Forte is expected to further improve the Jets ability to move the ball down the field. Marshall said Forte, who is working his way back from a sore hamstring, will make things easier for New Yorks offense.Despite it being early in camp, the players are still striving for perfection.Every time we step on the field, especially in the competitive spirit, we want to win, Marshall said. We started off pretty good in the move-the-ball period and we actually scored, and then we came back the next two periods and it wasnt where we want it to be, but thats part of camp.Marshall credited Fitzpatrick with calming him down and the rest of the offense after practice.He was just telling us that this was still a successful day, when you look at the way we communicated and all of the learning lessons, Marshall said.He said there were a few things where we didnt connect on, but should have. 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Even so, the toss was often the start of me being blamed - sometimes for simply losing it, at others for making the wrong decision - so occasionally Id shift this burden back on to the mouthier players by canvassing opinion and suggesting that since Id followed their lead, they better bloody get it right.The significance of the toss is hard to know - enough, evidently, for the odd opposing captain to pick up the coin before Id had chance to check the outcome - although its weight in club cricket is to a large degree determined by the low quality of the pitches and the format of most Saturday-afternoon games, which necessitate ten second-innings wickets being taken for a win.As Jon Hotten blogged here a couple of months back, it isnt clear how much of an advantage winning the toss actually comprises. A recent Numbers Game column showed (apropos a suggestion of Darren Lehmanns that the away team should be given the toss in Test cricket) that this eventuality has of late increased the chances of victory in England and Sri Lanka, but not in Australia and India - although one must be wary of drawing causal conclusions from these bare facts, since a teams capacity to exploit the toss is dependent on the bowling resources at their disposal.In higher standards and the longer formats of the game, the toss shouldnt be all that significant. Optimally, the advantage of bowling on the first morning, while the pitch still contains moisture, should be counterbalanced by the notional disadvantage of having to bat last. Of course, perfect balance is unattainable - if only because of crickets essential asymmetry: two direct antagonists, yet each doing different things at different times in different, ever-evolving conditions - yet should be pursued nonetheless.It is the lack of another type of balance in the prevailing conditions of County Championship cricket - conditions that rarely favour spin over seam - that has in part led to this years somewhat radical experiment with the toss, whereby the visiting captain, if he so wishes, can opt to bowl first, otherwise there will be a contested toss.The change has been designed to stop teams producing result pitches (in an English context, greentops), and thus to prevent mediocre bowlers being as penetrative as they currently are, which, in turn, will help, it is hoped, reverse the decline in English spin bowling, in both numbers and quality. Discussing the rule changes in an interview on this site, former England batsman Robert Key said: My original view was that we should have tougher penalties for poor pitches. But that is so hard to police. It just becomes a minefield. But what I still think is that the stigma over spinning pitches has to end. If we see 15 wickets fall to seam bowling on the first day of a game, nobody bats an eye. But if the ball turns on day one, people start to worry. That has to stop.It is undoubtedly an ambitious tweak to the county cricket ecosystem, but in many ways it leaves the basic understanding of the character of that ecosystem - that its always seam-bowler friendly - unchallenged. The options presented to the visiting captain only reinforce that bias.As it stands, the away captain can either bowl first (presumably to take advantage of excessive moisture in the pitch) or can contest the toss, the inference being that he would either prefer tto bat first or is a pathological gambler.dddddddddddd In other words, if the advantage lies in bowling first, then that advantage is automatically handed to the visitors. Again, this is to disincentivise the home groundsman from preparing pitches too favourable to medium-pacers, whichever team they play for.But what about the spinners in all this?Taking the opposite view to Key, Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale was against the experiment, arguing that it removed the potential exploitation of home advantage. But that isnt strictly true. What if your team has two excellent spinners, the visitors dont, and the groundsman prepares an ultra-dry pitch, perhaps one on which there has already been a 50-over and T20 game? Clearly the advantage at the toss would be to bat first, since the pitch is only going to get worse. So why isnt that option available to the visiting captain? (Perhaps the options at the toss could switch on July 31, the start of the English summer, although most clubs have only four or five Championship games remaining by then.) If the foregoing scenario panned out under this summers regulations, the home team captain would know for sure he had a 50-50 chance of being able to get the best out of this pitch (batting first, bowling last) and might thus instruct the groundsman to take the gamble to make a spinning pitch. On a green pitch, he almost certainly knows that he will be batting first, in the least advantageous conditions, and so probably wont. So the new rules arent an automatic advantage for the visitors.It could be argued that, either way, English cricket still gets the net result of more spinner-friendly surfaces, simply by virtue of them being less green. But why not have the odd home team-favouring dustbowl, for varietys sake? After all, Englands two best Test spinners of recent times, Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar, learnt their trade by bowling plenty of overs on helpful Northampton strips.Anyhow, its clear that any beneficial long-term changes to the character of county cricket - in particular, the percentage of overs bowled by spin - will take time to emerge, although this seasons number of draws (52 out of 79 games, already more than last years total, with 65 games remaining) and double-hundreds (13, compared to 16 in total last year) already suggests the pitches are flatter.Ultimately the whole problem with pitches is bound up with the consequences of losing. It is competition - the jeopardy of the two-divisional structure; the omnipresent threat of settling in to second-rank status, second-rank budgets, young talent forever seduced by greener (or browner) grass elsewhere - that creates the doctoring and distortions. A short-term outlook for the county takes precedence over long-term benefits for England.The ECB taking macro decisions to seed conditions in which spinners might flourish is a hugely complex affair without any guarantees. When all is said and done, perhaps centrally contracted groundsmen would offer the best solution, alongside universal recognition that English cricket is diminished without encouragement and opportunity for its spinners.Time will tell how the experiment with the toss changes things, but a recent ESPNcricinfo poll revealed that 54.64% of 1583 respondents thought offering the visiting team the option to bowl first was a good idea, which, given the reaction to a recent high-profile vote, is tantamount to unanimity. Wholesale Hoodies NFL Shirts Outlet Jerseys NFL Wholesale Cheap NFL Jerseys Free Shipping Wholesale Jerseys Cheap Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale Jerseys Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '

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