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Hamlin has been doing this day 1

The numbers the experts gave you are perfectly fine - they match my numbers (outside of a rounding artifact due to yardage). You incorrectly stated 22.5 at first, which is why I said my numbers were off. Once someone corrected your number, I saw that my numbers matched. In other words - the numbers are fine. The problem is your understanding of the numbers. You are misinterpreting what the experts are telling you, which is causing an issue. Correct! His top speed over a fraction of a second was 21.3. His average speed was 17-something (I don’t have my calculations on me at the moment to give you the decimal). This becomes instantaneous velocity and average velocity (respectively), once we add direction. Now let’s see if you learned anything - what is more important? The 21.3 or the 17? Which matters more in determining how fast a player is running throughout a full ‘race’? Remember: Top instantaneous velocity is NOT how fast you are going over the course of a run. It is how fast you were going for 0.0001% of that run.

Very true.

With kindness - you don’t know what you are writing. A layman arguing physics with a physics person is often a disaster because the layman doesn’t know that they are wrong but are so often confident that they are right. By vertical, I think you mean he wasn’t running perfectly parallel to the sideline from the start of the calculation to the end. I’m aware of that, and it’s factored into the calculation. His angle (theta) is accounted for by breaking down his velocity into x (parallel to the sideline) and y (downfield) vector components. As for the comment about top speed and instantaneous velocity - it’s clear you don’t know what instantaneous velocity is. It is NOT the players velocity at the start of a run lol. It also has nothing to do with the time it takes to reach max velocity. It can be measured at any point the player reaches peak. Start, middle, or end. It’s true that a player may take time to reach their top speed, especially in longer runs, but the highest velocity at any point *is* their top instantaneous velocity. Put simply - you are not using it correctly. Take 2 cars: The red car has a top instantaneous velocity of 250mph. The blue car has a top instantaneous velocity of 125mph. The IV is calculated at 0.345 seconds. The red car has an average velocity over 100m of 120mph. The blue car has an average velocity over 100m on 125mph. Who wins the race? The blue car wins, even though the red car has double the top instantaneous velocity. When posting stats like “X player had Y mph!”, people don’t realize what they’re saying. It has nothing to do with overall speed. It’s instantaneous velocity at a fraction of a second. They could easily still lose that race because it does not mean overall speed.

No! That is not how this works. You don’t have to match an instantaneous velocity to beat someone in a race. And he certainly didn’t. He never gained on him - he actually lost ground. The dots have very little precision.

Ok thats (21.29) much closer to my calculation. Someone else said 22-something which isn’t right. But Chase Daniel is wrong in his interpretation. This is instantaneous velocity. Not speed. Worthy didn’t run slower - he just never reached an instantaneous velocity as high as Henry. This whole country needs to take a physics class because everyone always gets this wrong. His velocity over the entire run was in the 17.2(ish) range. Taking a split second velocity is not indicative of his speed on the run.

Where did you read that? Highest I calculated him at was 20.45mph. They must be taking a split second of instant velocity that rapidly diminished. It’s like capturing a tiny moment of time where he reaches that but doesn’t maintain it at all. His average velocity was 17mph, and his sustained high was around 18.

I was also interested in this and ran the math on it yesterday. He accelerated considerably throughout the run. Once he passed his own 30 yard line, the it took 8.42 seconds for him to reach the endzone. That is 8.31 yards per second. Extrapolated over 40 yards, and he ran the equivalent of a 4.8 40 yard dash. You would think one DB would catch him. If Henry has a 2-yard lead and is running a 4.81 40-yard dash, while a defensive back runs a 4.5, we can determine how long it will take for the DB to catch up by calculating relative speed. Henry’s speed is about 8.32 yards per second, given that he covers 40 yards in 4.81 seconds. The DB, running a 4.5-second 40, is moving at 8.89 yards per second. One our DB’s, if they can run a 4.5, should have gained on Henry at a relative net speed of 0.57 yards per second. With Henry’s 2-yard lead, it should take a DB about 3.51 seconds to close the 2-yard gap and catch up to Henry. But they didn’t. Over those first 30 yards (past the 30), he was moving at 10 yards per second and covered his acceleration over the last 40 with the sum of the 70 total was nearly 0.57 yards per second squared.

You’re missing nothing, in my opinion. I have never once been impressed by him.

Baltimore has had a bad D this year.

Agreed. But that is much different than “this is what Baltimore does”. No, we got our ass beat. For the reasons you listed above.

Sorry, it’s just not a good excuse. That unicorn team lost to the Raiders 2 weeks ago. And the Chiefs before that. And the Cowboys took them to within 3 points. There was no excuse for that performance last night.

lol, no, it’s not a good excuse to get blown out because “that’s what the opponent does”.

I don’t know if everyone has noticed, but that’s our entire passing offense right now outside of Coleman. Short, quick, passes, with tons of WR screens.

I was hoping we had an open guy downfield. That’s rough. But the blame, all around, is on Brady. He did not set that play up for success. These type of plays work when you put the wildcat formation on film and show teams that you run the ball with it. This makes teams practice for defending the run when you go in this formation. It makes LB’s and S’s and even the defensive coordinator creep players up to stop the run when you enter this formation. But to just toss this out there, willy nilly, with absolutely no prior basis, then teams are going to defend both the run and the pass and this will never work. Im really disappointed in how poor Brady was last night. Mostly because i’ve been so impressed with him. Such a pendulum shift.

In the LB core - yes. Everywhere else, we simply got outcoached. - Not having quick dump-off options to Cook on 3rd and 8+ when the Ravens consistently sent 7 or 8 rushers at Josh. There were big chunks of yards to gain. Not a single RB screen either. - Not calling play-action on 2nd and short against stacked boxes. - Not blitzing Lamar or run blitzing at all until the second half. - Punting on 4th and 2 with the game spiraling out of control 🤮. - Repeated quick-hitter WR screens have been run so often that even the casual fan can see they’re coming. - QB SNEAKING OUR ALL-PRO QB ON SECOND DOWN AND INCHES - What the mother bleeping bleep!?!? - Very little misdirection. There is more but it’s depressing enough to list these out. Hopefully the coaching staff learns from this.

I’d venture a guess that he had a guy open for 6. He needed a split second more. Bringing it back to Brady … if that’s a play you want to run at some point, then you line up in wild cat and run the ball a few times over the first 3 weeks. Nothing extensive - just enough to put on tape that we run the ball out of that formation. Then you hit them with the pass.

I said it in the game chat as well, but that is a play you call when you are trying to gain momentum. When you are reeling and you want a spark. That is a play you call in the first half, for example - when we looked lost. That is not a play you call when you have all the momentum and are driving to hopefully come within four or five points of the lead. Aside from that one abomination of a play call, the rest of the game was an absolute unmitigated disaster of play calls as well. I recall second and shorts, like second and two, that were begging for a play action pass against a stacked box for big chunks. Instead, we ran straight into that stacked box. And also, what is up with all of the 2 yard quick hitter, wide receiver screens?

Thank goodness we punted on 4th and 2 in the first half.

Teams given up.

Welp, last time we got blown out on primetime… we went to the AFC Championship game.

It’s truly mind boggling that he picked that moment to call that. You’re methodically driving… and you call that. Thats a play you might call in the first half when the team is reeling and desperately needs a spark. Not when they have all the momentum.

Joe Brady goes from goat to GOAT.

Nope, get Corrington off punt return. We can’t afford that.

The ENTIRE TEAM is playing like complete garbage. We can’t even down a punt that hits at the 5 yard line.