The Big Lead still down from Colin Cowherd's hit

One of our favorite sports blogs, The Big Lead, was attacked yesterday following a piece by 'Colon' Cowherd on his ESPN radio show.

The attack was covered here by Deadspin and here by AOL.  Also The Wayne Fontes Experience.

Earlier today, Colin Cowherd decided to celebrate his power and virility by sending all of his listeners to The Big Lead. You may have heard of it--it's one of those edgy, investigative blogs that makes the mainstream media uncomfortable, and its author is a FanHouse contributor. Anyway, a few minutes into this audio, you can hear him order his audience to visit TBL right away, hoping he can shut it down. Cowherd has nothing against TBL, hasn't ever read it. He just wants to prove a point about ... I don't know, his need to prove his power and virility in public. Draw your own conclusions.

Why?  From Deadspin:

As some of you might be unfortunate enough to know, the man pictured here is Colin Cowherd, who has a show on ESPN Radio. Like many sports radio hosts across this great land, he relies greatly on blogs to find himself some free, juicy content. (And, of course, acting as if he just came up with it on his own; there's a guy at WFAN in New York who's particularly egregious about this as well. You know who you are.) We tend not to work ourselves up about this too much; if we riled ourselves up about radio people swiping blog stories every time it happened, we wouldn't have time to type. Information is meant to be free.

However: Today, upset with something The Big Lead had written about him (or someone, or something, imagined or otherwise), Cowherd told his listeners to unleash a DNS attack on the site. One of the tech people here at Gawker Media tells us: "When someone floods a website with so many fake hits that the servers get overloaded, the site, essentially, goes down. A programmer could write a script to load the website once a second." That appears to be what happened; The Big Lead was down for about half an hour after the announcement, though it's up and running again now.

We emailed the guys over at The Big Lead.  They are alive, but not online yet.  Good luck over there!

 

Comments

[Gary Morris]

Colin:

I think it is important to inform you of some facts about the credit you give to Bill Parcells for this years Dallas Cowboys teams success. Here are some missed facts:
1. When Parcells arrived, Jerry Jones changed the amount of input from coaches in making draft picks. He actually reversed the input from coaches and insisted the team of Jeff Ireland, who had observed the picks all year, have the most input. Parcells was only a third of the input and not "the" most "weighted" third.
2. Sean Peyton and others had commented after the Saints killed the 'Boys that they could "count on where and how the defense would line up on any given play" and therefore the blowouts at the end of last year were a direct result of Parcells being to "vanilla" in his defensive scheme. (Zimmer, complained mightily to Parcells to allow more flexibility, but to no avail.)
3. Parcells "two-gap" put the defense in a "read-and-react" disadvantage, compared to the Phillips "one-gap" technique.
4. Parcells "pressure" on the players had them all "walking on egg shells" and guys played for "stats" instead of playing "for the team" and their teammates like they do under Phillips.

And so, there you have it. It is not "Parcells" team, but rather "Jeff Irelands" team, and the reason for this years success is the carry over from Tony Soprano’s offense and Phillips defense and not because Parcells was so good with drafting.

Jerry Jones said Bill had brought some sound Management techniques that he has since adopted, but you certainly give Bill too much credit for this years success. Bill was as he said often "what his record said he was."

He helped turn the team around by some of his management techniques, but not by his defensive skills, that’s for sure. He was right to install the 3-4, but he sure didn’t know how to properly run it. There is a reason he has not won a Super Bowl without Belichick, his defensive genius, but Belichick has won it often without him.