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wvParticipantRodrigue and Rosenthal
wvParticipantSeattle’s defense looks absurdly-fast. They hit hard, but its mainly the speed that stands out when you watch them. And they are always in the right spot. Each player the perfect distance from his team-mates. Playing like one organism.
And Stafford, McVay and the Rams offense torches them regularly.
The NFC Championship in Seattle, really was the ‘super bowl.’
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vwvParticipantThe Riley Mills sack. At about the 1:40 mark of the vid.
It was Aaron Donald-like.
Or else the Pats Oline is horrendous.
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vwvParticipantIt would also be nice if a boatload of Seahawk players demanded more money, now.
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vwvParticipantWonder what Mina thinks of her MVP now.
I think Darnold had one great game in the second half of the season. And it was against the Rams. Ah well.
My questions about the Pats have been answered. Good, solid team. Good coach. Good young talented QB. But got blown out by the first complete-team they played all year.
Now let us hope Seattle players start talking about dynasties like the Eagles players did after they beat the Chiefs.
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vwvParticipantAh, big reveal. With a high pick for the first time in years, the Rams are looking for colder players.
I think the Chicago game might have influenced that.
Snead’s words can be blizzardy if not completely perforated, if you get the metaphor, analogy, simile, catachresis, whatever I’m trying to say.
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vwvParticipantI want to see Bad Bunny toss a roll of paper towels into the audience.
wvParticipantThe Patz chance in this game turns on being a defense that can disrupt Darnold’s rhythm. If they can make Darnold sputter, they could win it.
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Yup.
Darnold has a chance at a Warner-like story-book ending. Or…maybe he turns to a pumpkin. We shall see.
Either way, I would avoid Malcolm Butler if i were Darnold.
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vwvParticipantIn 99 I was unsure about the Rams because of the cupcake schedule. They ended up proving to be a legit-great team.
Like a LOT of people I’m still unsure about the Pats. Normally if a team wins three playoff games it proves a lot — but the Pats have had this weird road. They had a total cupcake regular season. Then they got the Chargers who had an injury-ravaged lame offense and faced an injured-bulgerized Herbert. Then they got the texans who had a terrible offense and the QB had a historic meltdown the likes of which i have never seen. Then of course they got the Broncos who had a back-up QB and the Broncos still almost won.
So just how good are the Pats? I dunno. I have never been this unsure about a team at this late stage. Maybe they are great, maybe they are just ‘good’ and lucky. I dunno. Seattle is the first real test for them in my opinion. The first ‘complete’ team they will face. So, we will see.
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vwvParticipantOn the idea that short TD-passes dont count as much — I watched a video a while back where Ray Lewis was talking about the game when the Ravens beat the 49ers in the Super Bowl. He pointed out that in film study he realized Colin K, was lousy at throwing the fade. So the Ravens D adjusted accordingly. Point is, not every QB can feather the ball accurately on those redzone fades. Turns out Stafford has a great feel for those kind of throws. He makes it LOOK easy. But its not.
The idea Maye was ‘robbed’ is silly. There’s a reason the vote was so close. There’s plenty of stats in favor of Maye and plenty in favor of Stafford. Its a bit like Faulk vs Warner. It can be argued forever. But no-one was ‘robbed’ either way.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantSo do they NEED to draft a QB this year? I dont think so.
We know Stafford is year to year now. But I would think two years tops, given all the risks.
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vwvParticipantI agree with much of that about the show but would quibble in a few areas.
The billionaires in the show do not come across as caring about their employees. They care about their money and making more.
The oil industry is not fighting the cartels, at least in the first season, it’s all about turning a blind eye so each can do their own business until their is a falling out and even then, a desire to go back to live and let live.
There is a small nod to eventually needing to come up with something else with a giant dose of until then this is the bull we have to ride.
People who like this show, imo, are also likely to like Yellowstone and Tulsa king.
Yeah, thats fair.
But i still think its fair to say “the oil company is battling the drug cartel” in that first season (the only season i watched). They battle when they are not co-existing in a tense-truce type situation.
And that ‘positioning’ of Big Oil vs Drug-Cartel end up creating this weird psychological space in the viewer’s head where instead of, like, the FBI vs Criminals, you get Big Oil vs Criminals.
It creates a subtle condition where Big Oil is the ‘hero’ saving us from the bad-guys. Its subtle but its there under the surface.Just my take.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantJust getting around to reading that long Barnwell article. I like that “explosive play differential” stat. Seems like it reduces a whole lot of football chaos down into a nice neat meaningful stat.
“…It should be no surprise then that the best teams at creating and stopping explosive plays made it through the postseason. In terms of explosive-play differential — the gap between the rate at which teams generated explosive plays and prevented their opposition from doing the same — each of the four teams in the conference championship games ranked in the top five during the regular season. The Rams created explosives 12.6% of the time on offense and allowed teams to make their own only 9.5% of the time on defense, with that resulting 3.1% difference being the third-best mark in the league. The Packers (3.2%) were second, and the Broncos (2.3%) were fifth.
The Patriots were in fourth at 2.8%, buoyed by a league-best explosive creation rate of 13.6% on offense. And the Seahawks, who will be favored on Sunday, outpaced everyone. Their 4.7% explosive-play differential was the best mark in the NFL and the ninth-best figure posted by any team of the past 25 years. And they were truly elite on the defensive side of the ball, meaning we’ll get the league’s best offense at creating explosive plays versus the league’s best defense at stopping them Sunday…”
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vwvParticipantThe Sonny J highlight — I have ‘never’ seen that. Damn. I cant believe I’ve never seen that highlight before.
If that highlight was well-known, you just KNOW Mahommes and some of these kid-QBs would be tryin that.
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vwvParticipantBomani musing about a point he makes a lot — there seems to be a lot of black DCs, but not a lot of black OCs. (after the bit about Eagles Oline coaching quitting)
wvParticipantI cant remember the last time two Defense-minded head coaches faced off in the Super Bowl.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipant“He says a young defense felt a sense of entitlement as the headed into the NFC Championship.”
I have no idea what to make of that.
At any rate, the defense allowed 31, 27, 34, 38, 31, 31 in six of their last 9 games including playoffs. Six of nine games the defense must have ‘felt entitled’.
I think the secondary was light on talent, and the front four had some nagging injuries. Its fixable in one off-season. Thats the good news. Bad news, of course, is it takes a shit-load of luck to make it back to the final four. And, the NFC has some very good teams on the rise.
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vwvParticipantSome discussion of what an OC does under McVay
wvParticipantI have always liked this guy, btw. He knows the value of the Offensive Line. And Herbert ‘did’ to wonders with a disaster of an Oline.
wvParticipantSam Monson on twitter, on his Justin Herbert vote:
“I was the Justin Herbert vote.
The guy had the worst offensive line in the NFL all season and despite that he was working miracles in almost every single game.
Stafford’s OL became 2/5ths as bad as Herbert’s for 5 minutes and he became a turnover howitzer.
He embodied ‘value’.”
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Monson:
“MVP is the single hardest award to ‘correctly’ determine, because the focus is on ‘value’, which is basically impossible to objectively evaluate with so many dependencies.But the idea that one vote altered a guy’s legacy is stupid.
More people than not thought each candidate did NOT deserve to win MVP this year, according to the votes.
There was not one clear MVP who was robbed of the award. Most people were torn between 2 deserving candidates. I thought a third deserved it as well, because the value he brought to his situation was immense.”
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Monson:Yeah, it’s actively NOT just the best player, though, and that’s the issue.
Like it or not – and I don’t like it – value is an intrinsic part of the award. It is THE focus of the award, and there is no consensus definition or quantification of that.
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wvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantwvParticipantAdam Viniatari made the Hall of Fame, btw.
Also Drew Brees, Roger Craig, Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly.
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vwvParticipantwvParticipantI am pleased the vote was so close — it will annoy Pats fans.
Now, i want the Patriots to lose the Super Bowl by 1 point. -
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