Wroughting
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I thought the same thing at the time, make it a two score game. I think the 50/50 stat could be misleading since probably quite a few attempts are made by bad teams that are losing. If your odds are even slightly higher than 50% it makes sense to go for two as it would mean more points in the long run.
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5 hours ago, K-9 said:
Good stuff. Especially the comments about the refs. NFL refs continue to show why they are the worst of all pro sports officials week in and week out. Both sides got screwed by poor calls today. Sometimes, they don’t even know the rules, like on that holding call on Diggs that occurred nine yards beyond the line of scrimmage. That’s a spot foul, the yardage is marked off from the point of the foul, and it should have been 11 yards to go for a first down. Instead, they marked it off from the LOS and it was 20 yards to go. There is just no excuse for that.
Not sure why our coaches didn’t raise a stink at the time, either.
They got it right on that call anyway, it was 1st and 13 after the penalty. The broadcast showed the wrong down and distance, but it was correct on the field.
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I feel like the helmets should be better. These hard plastic ones are like cars of the 60s, you get in an accident and the car is fine, but the passengers are messed up. Seems like a lighter helmet that can crumple and break would absorb more of the energy from impact. When it gets too bad throw it away and get a new one. Not something feasible for lower levels of competition, but it seems like something the nfl could do. But what do I know, I'm just a guy with a thought.
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Jason: That's a nice shade of blue y'all got there, eh?
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A deep ball would be nice!
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The have and have-nots have always been there, at least in the past 20 years. You have a good qb and decent coaching, you'll win more than you'll lose. The difference this year, at least in my opinion, is that scoring has never been easier. A bad team with a good defense could score maybe 20 to 25 points and upset a good team occasionally. Good teams are putting up 30-40 points regularly this season and the bad teams simply cannot, even on a great day. Until they can find a way to get more good quarterbacks, this will remain the case.
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3 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
Sorry but you're wrong again. A non-profit health care organization first of all. Second our culture is simple: it's about the patient. We pursue a ton of strategies such as smiling when with patients, making sure they can get into a doc's office with 24 hours, many others. But every single strategy is influenced by having a culture where the needs of the patient are placed first.
You bring up the Rams. Is their success culture or strategy? And why do they have to be mutually exclusive?
A non profit organization still has to make money... nothing is free. And if you don't have to compete to make money, then this is a non sequitur. Again you keep conflating culture with strategy and strategy with tactics. Culture, what ever it is, is a by product of your strategy.
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1 minute ago, oldmanfan said:
No it's not. It was a deliberate cultural shift. Our culture now centers or one thing: it's all about the patient. And that dictates strategies. Like expecting our employees to smile with patients and their families.
We may define things differently, but to get back to the team it's still simple. When you are the leader of the team one of your jobs is to set the culture of the team and hold folks to that.
We define things differently because you're defining them incorrectly. I'll assume you work for a private company. The goal of the company is to survive, which typically means making money. Your boss developed a strategy, put the patient first. He then employed tactics, such as hiring friendly nurses and making staff smile. It sounds like his strategy paid off. None of that has anything to do with culture.
McDermott is collecting his friendly nurses, the Rams are developing the cure.
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2 minutes ago, Boca BIlls said:
Just remember strategy doesnt mean talent.
No, but I think most winning strategies would involve getting more talented players.
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4 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
I was given the role of explaining this change in focus to nursing staff.
A change in focus is literally a new strategy.
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14 minutes ago, oldmanfan said:
You are confusing talentvand culture again. I have never said you don't need talent. Neither did McD although people keep trying to say he did.
Talent wedded to a solid culture makes teams and organizations successful. The three guys I mentioned are the types that worked hardest in practice. They challenged their teammates to do the same and accepted no less than that. That is how culture can make organizations successful.
I disagree. Culture is the expectations you place on the employees of a company. It's you DNA and that DNA influences all you do from there. Mission and vision statements define culture in my view (and where I work), and directly affect strategic decisions.
I invite you to visit any successful company and ask them if culture isn't real. I think they will tell you that you are mistaken.
What if the employees, who are otherwise great human beings, can't meet those expectations? Or are only people that can meet those expectations part of the culture? What is the nature of your business?
6 minutes ago, dickleyjones said:culture is real. and it is part of strategy. this is really not difficult...
So you're saying that strategy trumps culture, which is what exactly?
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2 hours ago, oldmanfan said:
Culture is to define what your goals are as an organization, how you do your work, how you set your priorities, how you align your organization to achieve your goals.
You're confused, that's strategy.
Strategy is a high-level plan to achieve one or more goals under conditions of uncertainty.
You keep talking about Mcdermott's vision, again, that's strategy.
The goal of every head coach should be to win the super bowl. How he gets there is his strategy. Our coach's strategy appears to be collecting a bunch of guys that love to play football, call it culture, play fundamentally sound and hope to win. So far it's been a pretty mediocre strategy, little good, little bad. It's an older strategy, one we've seen before in Buffalo many times to mostly poor results.
Culture isn't real, it's something losers talk about winners having to give themselves hope. Some intangible thing is all they're lacking, it's not that the other team is more talented or employs better tactics.
You know what most successful organizations do? They find margins and they exploit them. The Patriots have done this for years. Pick plays, deflated footballs, taping practices and who knows what else. They find the widest margin they can and live there as long as they can. In the business world companies exploit cheap labor, lax regulations, tax breaks, all sorts of things. I'm sure the Chinese kids working to build my iPhone aren't talking about how great the culture at Apple is.
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In their defense, a Nathan Peterman led team is not a playoff team.
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What a weird juxtaposition this thread is. Non-christians speculating without evidence, Christians asking for more. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle, I think McDermott prefers Christians, but mostly from a team building perspective. Belief can be a powerful thing, we'll see how it plays out.
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So many bad decisions, this team has been governed by emotion, luck and marketing for a long time now. They are the fish at the table and they either don't know or don't care.
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I actually think we have it pretty good in buffalo, as others have said, other markets have it much worse. I agree they, Mike in particularly, can get quite prickly with callers, but the callers are so bad. As for Sal, I don't believe they're afraid to stand up to him, they have him on to report and get his opinion. It would be silly for them to invite him and argue with him the whole time .
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Gameday Thread Week 6 2nd Half Bills vs Chiefs
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I don't think they're interested in winning, just trying not to be embarrassed like they were against the titans.