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Was it Jauron’s great coaching?

So you can’t be sure that a singular season of a good record by a coach without a franchise QB is due to his coaching?

Was it Jauron’s good coaching?

Was it proof of skill on Jauron's part?

This is the best excuse yet. Downright hilarious. This is akin to: Journalist: How many people have you murdered? Interviewee: Many. I have murdered many people. Homers: Well of course he had to answer that way! How dare that journalist ask a question in such a way that forces the interviewee to respond in that way!!! .

He may be a bit on the spectrum. It's common in our circles. Feel free to have him email me at danielr@universityprofessors.org

Yes, I knew you were setting up a strawman. You tried to distort my statement by implying that my argument was centered around "McDermott could never achieve more than 8 wins without a franchise argument." I saw through your feeble attempt (as I often do) and promptly responded by acknowledging that lesser coaches can occasionally stumble upon a better-than-average season due to luck. I even provided an example of Dick Jauron in 2001. You were outwitted and outsmarted. Deal with it. Yes, this is common. You have fallen prey to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Fools often believe themselves to be smarter than experts.

Yep. And the homers lapped it up like thirsty pups.

I never stated this. You're getting lost in your own semantics. I said this current team is not winning more than 8 games without Allen. You attempted to twist my words and create a strawman argument. An unfortunate problem for you as I am significantly smarter than you.

Semantics aren't going to get you anywhere. McDermott was lucky to reach 9 wins in 2017. Just like Jauron was lucky to reach 13 wins in 2001 (but he won them!) .

Love Josh, but he is wrong here. The media didn't blow up anything. The HEAD COACH HIMSELF said he is "very very" concerned.

Having 8 new starters means that it wasnt the same as Rex's team. This isn't a difficult concept.

Agreed. This has the potential of a very disastrous season. - Von coming off of an ACL - Hyde coming off of a serious neck injury - Poyer coming off of a year he was consistently banged up AND showed signs of decline I truly question whether Von will be toast. Its one thing to come back from an ACL when you're in your mid 20's. But 34? Different ballgame.

Barry averaged 4.2 ypc in the playoffs. Thurman averaged 4.2 ypc in the playoffs. Except Barry had crap for an offense and Thurman had the best offense in the league.

With a bit of luck, any coach can win more games than they deserve. Dick Jauron once won 13 games in a season. He went 13-3 with the 2001 Bears. McDermott needed a moderate amount of luck in his 2017 campaign where he backed into the playoffs with 9 wins. Luck such as facing a Miami team without their starting QB on the last game of the season when we needed a win to have any chance.

No, he didn’t take Rex’s team anywhere. If I recall correctly we had something like 8 new starters in 2017 than 2016. And we backed into the playoffs because of a miracle by the Bengals. If Josh Allen goes down, this team doesn’t win more than 8 games.

Which is what I have always told you. It’s the Josh Allen show. McDermott is just along for the ride and occasionally screws things up for Allen (like 13 seconds). Insert any coach - Jauron, Rex, whatever - onto this team and we will still make the playoffs with Josh Allen.

This is correct.

I love when a reply proves the post it quotes. lol. Bitching about bitching.

No. Implied probability is not the same as probability. Probability is a measure of the likelihood that a given event will occur. Implied probability is the probability of an event occurring as implied by the odds given on that event. Because implied probability uses the odds given to calculate, it becomes a recursive (or circular). The Chiefs at +650 does not means the Chiefs have a 13.3% probability of winning the Super Bowl. It means that at +650, oddsmakers feel most comfortable hedging bets at the 13.3% mark.

lol. Yes they do. The “some of us” you mention just B word and complain on repeat about other posters who are bitching and complaining. Guess what? At the end of the day, it’s all bitching and complaining.

Odds and probability are not the same.

You’re right. They would have to sell Hulu.

Don't worry, I won't bother with the extremely simple math he needs done. I always know when a poster is beginning to flail when they don't even quote me anymore. They want to get the last word in, without me seeing it. PS... https://streamable.com/e62m91 .

This is correct. Mostly.