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“Polarization” isn’t intrinsically good or bad, but the kind we have now is a roadblock to progress. We need to find ways to depolarize along culture war lines and repolarize along class war lines. https://t.co/C8Z0cmBUeo

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— William Davids (@davwim) December 18, 2020

I know no AFL team has a chance against an NFL powerhouse
like the Rams,
but that Namath kid is pretty good, i hear.

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I interfaced with this paragraph today:

“Metamodernism is an irreducibly complex and contested term and therefore it is hard to interface with. It emerges from cluster of almost a dozen “post-postmodern” terms, including cosmodernism, altermodernism, remodernism, digimodernism, performatism, hypermodernism, automodernism, renewalism, neomodernism, supermodernism, and transmodernism. Some of these terms have been analyzed comparatively in Supplanting the Postmodern (2015), but inconsistencies and tensions remain unresolved, both of which are important to address as the discourse evolves and our meta-crisis deepens.”

link:https://medium.com/the-abs-tract-organization/mapping-metamodernism-for-collective-intelligence-8f29671c67d1

The citizens of #Portland want to know if #Trump is sending in Homeland security to #WashingtonDC to control the #riots? More people seriously hurt in 1 night in DC than in 100's of nights in Portland. Or is it different when he supports the rioters?https://t.co/sRbrxTwo2W

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— Henry James Garrett (@henryjgarrett) December 11, 2020

zn wrote:

wv wrote:

Just seems like he gets surprised a bit more than a guy like Wilson.
All it takes is a couple of surprises to lead to a loss.

I come in peace to offer a different view. 😎

IMO the thing about JG being a sitting duck against the rush is being exaggerated. Example–even in just the highlights vid you can see him evade/escape the rush a few times during the game. Before the game, the Patz were 2nd in the league in pressure percentage, and sometimes the rush verged on getting there, but it didn’t because he sensed it and escaped or stepped up… ie. made a play. I even went through the vid and noted a few of those plays. They’re at 1:38, 2:29, & 4;12 in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRWqmdWindA&feature=emb_err_woyt

He’s not like Wilson when it comes to that but then Wilson is one of the absolute all time best at that. I think what happens with Goff, to be honest, is that some of his worst plays get remembered as this deep indication of who he is…when, no, he is in general better than those worst plays seem to indicate.

In fact here’s another example from the previous game. Arizona pressured him 16 times, according to PRF. That’s the most he has been pressured since early in 2019 against Tampa (when it was 20 times). But no one thinks of him as having endured heavy pressure in the Arizona game. That’s because he is better at reacting to it than a lot of people seem to be assuming.

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Well, we dont see it ‘that’ differently. A little different though.

I think Goff is good, and i think they can win a title with him, if he’s surrounded by a ring-quality-team. So, I’m not saying he’s got a huge flaw.

I am comparing him to ‘elite’ QBs in the ‘pocket awareness’ category. Just that category. And I’m saying he does not compare favorably to guys like Wilson.
Like you say, Wilson is a magician in the pocket. Goff is not.

Is Goff ‘below average’ in this thing I’ll just call ‘pocket awareness’? Is Goff average in P.A. ? Is he above-average-but-not-elite in PA ?

I’m not sure.

I’m just saying he’s nowhere near Wilson, or Fran or Marino. Marino had great PA, as you know. He’d slide twelve inches one way or the other and zing.

When i watched the college stuff back in the Wentz vs Goff threads, I thought Goff would be a magician in the pocket. Seemed like he was, in college. But i dont see it now.

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Aikman mentioned, in the 2nd quarter, after a Pat DLineman came close to snagging Goff — that Goff sometimes seems oblivious to oncoming rushers.

Thats how it seems to me, too. Maybe a lack of peripheral-vision or somethin. I dunno. I thought the same thing about Bradford.

Agree, disagree?

Just seems like Russell Wilson has a sixth sense about rushers. Yeah they can get him, but they dont ‘surprise’ him. Seems like Goff is ‘surprised’ more than the elite-QBs. But i dunno.

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Well, they beat Brady,
and they beat Belichex.

Saw the highlights. McVay did the right thing. Pound the F’ing ball.

That had to be the OLine’s best and most satisfying game,
in a long long time.

Looked like Belichex took away Goff’s favorite little screens and short passes.
Dared em to run.

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“Goff had a difference of 0.93 EPA per play when pressured versus not pressured. That was the second-highest difference of any starting quarterback, behind only the Raiders’ Derek Carr. Said more simply: He goes from being the ninth-best quarterback in the league without pressure to 29th with pressure.
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“lacks the true improvisational ability
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“…the high-variance outings we see every week.
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He’s an odd-one, that Goff. I dont think we’ve ever seen one quite like him.
He’s a ‘high-variance’ QB.

He’s made throws on a regular basis that are just beautiful. Needle-threaders.
Perfectly placed in tight-windows. All over the field. And on the move.

And then there’s those other times.

I really dont know what to make of it. Never seen anything quite like it before.

The best thing he has going for him is he’s such a hard worker and committed to being the best. And then there’s McVay who knows him better than anyone. So McVay tries to play to his strengths.

And now we got the evil-genius coming to town. They coach who made Goff look awful in the super bowl.

Interesting QB. Interesting game.

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— Diane Doniol-Valcroze (@ddoniolvalcroze) December 8, 2020

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