Mark80

I get enough of people's recipes on FB, I certainly do not need it here too.

Funny.

Jeez, cut the OP a break. Tells a nice story and people are jumping all over him.

The "analytics" say that coaches should be going for 4th down in way more situations than they actually do. This is based on percentages of getting the 4th down and eventually getting points versus not getting the 4th down and not allowing points on the subsequent drive and the impacts of punting / kicking a FG vs going for a TD, field position, etc. I know you were not saying you would be using analytics, I just thought it was funny that the example you cite is a precise area where analytics says they can improve over a coach's "gut feeling" and an area where the there is enough data to support the percentages not really lying in this use case.

Bashes analytics and then points to the exact type of thing that typical coaches do not do, but analytics supports. Funny.

I don't think he is underrated. I think its more that he had such a short career that you really can't be considered an all-timer. Most people know how amazing he was for that short time, especially if you were old enough to witness it. He would be successful today, no doubt. Also, OJ and Barry for sure. Not sure on Jim Brown though, run through you every time type guys don't really exist anymore. I think Dickerson would be successful too.

Dane Cook 100%

Love it how people are mad that players get paid so much when it is 100% their own fault. You pay insane prices for tickets, merchandise, parking, concessions. You click all the articles on various sites. You purchase cable packages to watch games. You watch the games driving up ratings and advertising dollars. Then, when the players who possess a truly elite skill, who sacrifice their bodies, work tirelessly every day to be in phenomenal shape, deal with crazy fans and media types on a daily basis as a celebrity, want to receive the lions share of the revenues you call them greedy. It is the billionaire owners who are the greedy ones in my mind. Sitting back in their lush offices and stadium suites, not doing crap besides watching their enormous fortunes grow on a minute by minute basis. Blame yourself, blame the owners, but the players should be the last ones to blame in my mind. Weird. According to ESPN the only sports that exist are the football and basketball. Baseball is twice the revenues of the NBA and they hardly get a whiff of coverage anymore. The NHL coverage is non-existent until the playoffs. I swear, you will see more WNBA highlights in season than MLB highlights on any given SC. It is absurd. Shocking they are failing.

Don't buy this at all. If they perform and are considered top 5 picks, they are coming out. Too many times, lately, QBs have stayed another year and seen their stock fall. If I'm a QB and I know regardless of where I'm selected there is less than a 50/50 chance I become a "franchise" QB, I leave school to maximize my first contract. Never know what I'm getting out of the second contract at that position.

Listen, I love me some conspiracy theories, trust me. I just don't see it in this one.

Someone has been watching way too many Marvel movies lately.

Climate change is cyclical, no doubt. But to deny that we are impacting it / accelerating just doesn't make sense to me. Especially when the vast majority of the scientific community is in agreement on the issue. Who is not in agreement? Seems to me that it is basically the people of have a vested interest in denying it exist. Namely, the largest polluters and the politicians they support thru super PACs.

Wish we could go back to the good ole days when all pharma commercials were banned from TV. Not only are they so annoying, every one of them, but they are a direct contributor to the over medicated culture we now live in. Not to mention the opioid epidemic.

Man, I missed Berman big time last night. Just wasn't the same to me. Karl Ravech was worthless up there. He added nothing.

Just wondering, where exactly did I proclaim any support whatsoever for Rex Ryan? Just because I don't think it is Rex's fault that Preston cannot tackle does not mean I think Rex Ryan was as good coach.

When he ran up the stairs to get away from the woman in the wheelchair at that party....that was one of the funniest things I have ever seen on TV. Ruthless, but funny.

Ha, yes, I do have it out for Preston. I will not deny that. There are fundamental things a MLB has to do in my mind. First and foremost is tackle well. I can say with a high degree of certainty that more times than not when I saw a play (and I'm talking up the middle more so than the outside) that a guy got dragged for yards on a tackle, or attempted an arm tackle that was run through, or went to the wrong hole leaving a gaping hole where he should have been, Preston Brown seemed to be the man at fault. So, after noticing this, I tried to watch him solely on a number of plays during games. What I saw then was Preston eaten up by blockers with no shedding ability at all. Now, can some of it be Rex's fault? Maybe he was assigned the wrong holes to attack, I don't know. But a MLB who can't get off blocks and who can't tackle, well, that's not a coaching problem IMO, that's a player problem. Add to that the complete dysfunction on the communication side of things, which is also usually a MLB job. I attribute that aspect more to Rex and the coaching staff though, but other MLBs have done fine with these coaches, even excelled with Lewis and Harris. Terrible may be an exaggeration as I'm sure he would be a good depth guy to have. But if we end up depending on him to be our run stopping, team leader on defense, well, I think we are in trouble then.

Preston Brown is terrible. Period. End of story. It is not Rex Ryan's fault the guy cannot tackle anyone without being pushed ahead 2-3 yards, needing help, or risk the guy breaking the arm tackle for huge games (see Dolphins games). It is not Rex Ryan's fault that the guy over pursued his assigned hole over and over and over again leading to huge gains. It is not Rex Ryan's fault the guy simply cannot shed a block and make a play. Stop blaming Rex Ryan for all of our terrible players performance. Some of guys are just terrible. Now, Ragland was a tackling machine at Alabama and in the limited time he was on the field last summer. That is something to get excited about, not Preston Brown.

Can't argue about it? Try me. I can argue anything. Here goes. Tomorrow actually doesn't exist at all since it never actually comes. As soon as it becomes real, it is transformed to today and there is a new tomorrow instantly. Tomorrow is never actually real.

Dorial Green Beckham and Da'Rick Rogers available....decisions decisions decisions. Now I understand not giving Sammy that 5th year.

I don't know how you guys can remember what is and isn't in the books. I've read them all (only once though) and I have no clue what the differences are! Maybe I was just too busy with thoughts like only 954 pages to go, only 921 pages to go, only 889 pages to go....only 4 books to go....

Um...no, that would not be ironic at all. It would be coincidental or noteworthy, but not ironic.

Don't pay Shady. RB's are a dime a dozen, Shady isn't worth the money........then our backup RB is signed by another team and suddenly losing a backup RB is "huge" loss. I just don't understand people sometimes. The guy got most of his yards after the defense had been worn down by an entire game of chasing Shady around. The game he had his most carries and was the feature back...2015 vs the NYJ. 24 carries for a whopping 28 yards. If you think that he is going to repeat his YPC over an entire season of being a #1 back, well, I could agree with you, but then we would both be wrong.

Acquiring draft picks and getting rid of old, overpaid veterans to retain salary cap flexibility....I guess the Patriots have been tanking for 15 years.

This fight is a joke. No way I waste money on it. McGregor will hardly be able to touch Mayweather and Floyd will just dip and dive his way to a unanimous decision victory. Even if McGregor hits him a few times (which no other professional boxer seemed to be able to do his entire career), with boxing gloves instead of MMA gloves, those hits will not carry quite the punch they do for him in MMA. Mayweather is such a boring boxer to watch too. If McGregor does happen to win, what a devastating blow to boxing it would be. They would lose all credibility.