2010 Season: Lessons from the World's Greatest Predators

[T-RO]

I wanted to contribute something to rev you up for the 2010 Dallas Cowboy season. So sparing nothing, I spent more than ten hours in the past month looking at wild animal videos and thinking about them relative to the NFL.

In this Cowboyszone exclusive I'm prepared to show the untamed truth. Through millennia nature has witnessed battles to mate, to eat, to survive. These battles still occur the world over, every day and night. They are far removed from Disney's vision and are not for the faint of heart.

Watch face-offs in nature:
Badger versus Cobra
Scorpion versus Camel Spider
Grizzly versus Cougar
Lions versus Hyena


Are there lessons to be learned from nature and the primal battle of predator versus predator...that apply to Cowboy games in 2010?

Does speed conquer over strength? What is the role of motivation? Does the superior predator always dominate?

First off I want to present video comparisons of cowboy players.

Over the next two hours see videos regarding top Cowboy players:
Ratliff as the Great White Shark
Romo as a Bird of Prey
Ware, Grownkowski, Spencer...as...welll...later tonight you will see.

Beyond the player comparison much more is coming...learn about NFL trap games, second half let downs, line play...all through the prism of real-world predators on the prowl.

Video quality will be wildly inconsistent. Some are YouTube clips. Some are videos I had to link to on my web site. I didn't put a lot of time into post-production, here. That's not the point.

NO fake CG stuff and no forced/cruel videos from Asia.

Enjoy!

 

[T-RO]

For starters:
http://icecavetechnology.com/Cowboys2010/SurvivalVideos.html

Video 1: Ratliff
Video 2: Romo
Video 3: What happens when NFC rivals trash talk our Cowboys

 

[T-RO]

Video 1: Ratliff as Great White...

In open space a seal tries to "run/swim to daylight" from point A to point B. From below the murky depths of the trenches...emerges...Something Hungry...

A Terrifying Force..

 

[T-RO]

Video 2: Romo as Bird of Prey

Air Power reigns supreme. Watch as a Bald Eagle toys with a grizzly bear.

Then see a Hawk use deceit (ball fakes) to cause a rattler to hopelessly lunge.

 

[T-RO]

Video 3: What happens when Eagle, Giant and Skin rivals try to trash talk the lord of the house.

 

[hutch1254]

Show the Chris Hansen video...lots of predators in there.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Show the Chris Hansen video...lots of predators in there.

:laugh2:I think T-RO meant successful predators.

 

[T-RO]

A player like Brooking conjures up images of this utterly fearless animal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U

Imagine a predator that thinks little of getting bit by a snake or stung by hundreds of bees. It just attacks, attacks, attacks.

 

[T-RO]

Romo/bird of prey video now works:

http://icecavetechnology.com/Cowboys2010/SurvivalVideos.html
video 2

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Video 1: Ratliff as Great White...

In open space a seal tries to "run/swim to daylight" from point A to point B. From below the murky depths of the trenches...emerges...Something Hungry...

A Terrifying Force..

Great White's are also one of the few homeothermic fishes. IIRC, it maintains a body core temp of about 4-6 C over ambient.

 

[T-RO]

Great White's are also one of the few homeothermic fishes. IIRC, it maintains a body core temp of about 4-6 C over ambient.

Cold blooded. Yup.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Cold blooded. Yup.

Uh, no. Warm blooded. Poikilothermic is cold blooded.

Elasmobranchs were my area of specialty within the marine biology world.

Specifically, the temporal and spatial distribution of one particular species within the Mission, Copano, and Aransas Bay Tertiary Bay Complex of the Central Texas Coast.

 

[CowboyDan]

.... :beer1:..... :drunk:..... :blush:..... :cry2:...... :thumbdo: ...... :leave:

 

[T-RO]

lasmobranchs were my area of specialty within the marine biology world.

So let me ask you marine bio boy...while looking with a seal's eyes into the gaping jaws of a Great White have you ever wondered the temperature of it's blood?



But I do respect and admire your choice of profession and knowledge of your stuff!

 

[T-RO]

What does it mean to get Gronked?

This lioness was one of the first to know:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkv0jkXsdfw

Gronkowski will drive you off the ball. He will not be denied.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

So let me ask you marine bio boy...while looking with a seal's eyes into the gaping jaws of a Great White have you ever wondered the temperature of it's blood?



But I do respect and admire your choice of profession and knowledge of your stuff!

Slick, I've been in the water with around 20 species of sharks. Whites don't scare me. Oceanic White Tips, Bulls, gravid Tigers, and most species of the salmon sharks I won't get in the water with. Whites, no biggie. They come up, taste you, and then someone notifies your next of kin.

But seriously, OWT's are the one I would refuse under any and all circumstances to get in the water with. I've been in with a few Tigers. You've got to know their body language more than anything. When those pectoral fins drop, you get the **** out of their way.

OWT's though, they're a whole different animal. I consider getting in the water with them as a death sentence. It has a lot to do with where and how they live. They travel the world's oceans much like blues. They're exceptionally aggressive in prey location and investigation because they do travel so far for their lifespans.

Anything that looks edible will be attacked for investigation. Not a little bite like you see in Whites when they "mouth" bait behind a boat. They come in, shred something, and then figure out if they can eat it. There is almost no footage of them because it is so damn dangerous to be in the water with them even in cages.

FWIW, not my career at this point.