Blache’s comments offer some straight shootin’
He’ll hear a line, mentally stash it away, and then dispense it at the right moment. So when Greg Blache is asked about rookies, he can utter a line about falling in love with strippers. Or when he’s asked about his team’s performance, he doesn’t have to just say they played poorly. Instead, as he did Sunday, he can say they “played like the south end of a north-bound skunk.”
And when he’s asked about his defense’s lack of sacks, he can say:
“We applied for a job at Giant,” said the Redskins defensive coordinator, “and couldn’t get it because we couldn’t sack the groceries.”
Bada-bing.
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The other quotes come from days sitting on an uncle’s porch, as he would do in Louisiana as a kid, or around a campfire with buddies on hunting or fishing trips.
“There are colorful people telling colorful stories,” he said. “You learn to talk like the people you’re around. Some of it just makes sense to you.”
Said Redskins coach Jim Zorn, “He has that hunter mentality. He understands about critters and big game so he’s just trying to give a word picture.”
In training camp, Blache said “it was better to fall in love with a stripper than a rookie, because the latter would break your heart.” It stemmed from a friend of his when he coached in Green Bay who indeed fell in love with a stripper.
Blache said — jokingly perhaps — that he received e-mails from strippers after that.
“I won’t say anything about strippers again,” he joked.
And the skunk comment originated years ago on a hunting trip, a line dropped by a friend.
“I don’t make a big deal out of it until other people come back and tell you,” he said. “When I walk away, I won’t remember half the things I told you because so much of it is spontaneity. I said something Sunday and I called my wife and she said, ‘What did you say?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know.’ Ninety nine percent of the time I really don’t know.”
Redskins notes
» Safety LaRon Landry (hamstring), receiver Santana Moss (hamstring), running back Clinton Portis (ankle) and corner Shawn Springs (calf) did not practice Thursday. Corner Carlos Rogers (calf) was limited.
Coach Jim Zorn is optimistic about all of them playing. Moss might be the most questionable of the group, but Zorn said, “He’s getting better and we expect him to be ready. We’re hoping.”
» Redskins defensive coordinator Greg Blache said Pittsburgh receiver Hines Ward is not a dirty player. “He plays physical,” Blache said. “People get upset because they get hit by him. You have to be aware when he’s out there. You can’t go to sleep and dilly dally because he’s going to hit you. Guys get upset when they’re embarrassed.
