I’m assuming this has been done in depth, so what do the techs who design social media algorithms say the nfl rules should “incorporate”?
― Hunt3r, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:25 (six years ago) link
after further analysis of the zapruder film it's been determined that when Jackie took three steps, dove, and reached out to grab JFK's brain she didn't have possession when she crossed the plane back into her seat so gonna have to rule that one incomplete.
― omar little, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:26 (six years ago) link
xp violent collision, beer, institutional racism iirc
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
the nfl in revamping their product shd go for encouraging wacky unpredictable shit eliminate the PAT do 2pt conversions only eliminate punting or have a limited number of punts per team radically more permissive reception rules as mentioned and so forth
― lag∞n, Monday, February 5, 2018 1:20 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I agree, things of that nature
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
wonder if going for it on 4th is going to become more common now that dougie p has so enthusiastically embraced it and found success. meanwhile pats were conservative on 4th + 1.
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
it's pretty cool when it's 3rd and 1 and you know that the team actually has two downs to work w/
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
― k3vin k., Monday, February 5, 2018 1:33 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
a more skilled version of college footballs wild ride if you will
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
they wont do it tho cause the owners/goodell are bloated ridiculous fools
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
btw mordy we did it!!
― k3vin k., Monday, 5 February 2018 18:47 (six years ago) link
pfft did either of u even light anything on fire cmon
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:48 (six years ago) link
xp i still can't believe it! the entire office is kinda half dazed half ecstatic. u gonna be at the parade??? xp
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
eliminate the PAT do 2pt conversions only
my only qualm is that football taught me how to multiply by seven and going six/eight only would retroactively ruin my childhood
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:50 (six years ago) link
from now on, touchdowns worth 0 points, but merely get you the opportunity to kick the XP, which is now worth 7 points. so if you score a TD and miss the kick, 0 points.
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 18:52 (six years ago) link
still think Cooks trying and failing to hurdle McLeod was my favorite play, that was some real WWE shit
this got kinda lost but Eagles missing that XP early on kind of had a big ripple effect the rest of the game
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
Yep - attempting to jump over the head of someone six feet tall, who was more or less fully standing, while not using your arms for leverage was wonderfully ambitious.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
he mighta gotten the first down if he hadn't left his feet too
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
so what's the real story re: malcolm butler
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:16 (six years ago) link
no one knows! but here's my nutty theory - belichick liked that rowe used to be on the eagles and thought that might give him an edge covering their receivers? (tho he never played w/ jeffrey who burned him for that early td). maybe combined w/ butler going to the hospital twice the week before w/ flu symptoms? (tho he was apparently totally healthy on wed so who really knows.)
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
i almost never listen to bill simmons but it's quite fun listening to his sadsack post-game podcast
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
seems to me it's probably that Bill is lying about it not being punitive. if it were to use different packages like he clumsily explained, he probably would have reinserted Butler in after he saw his alternate plan wasn't working. If it were due to illness, as some have suggested, Butler himself might not be so angry, but it seems pretty clear he felt fine enough to play even if he was violently sick in the lead-up.
unless Bill had a serious fear of him blowing coverage due to passing out on the field, I can't imagine that there wasn't some other reason, maybe something Butler did to infuriate Bill shortly before gametime. But Bill is used to players hating him by now so idk what that thing would be.
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
i kinda do believe that belichick is telling the truth and it was a football decision. maybe not a well thought out football decision but i gotta think he saw something he liked w/ rowe and something he didn't like w/ butler and got too clever by half
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:24 (six years ago) link
this should be taken with a huge grain of salt, but one theory...
https://www.barstoolsports.com/boston/a-writer-at-pff-is-saying-malcolm-butler-missed-curfew-got-caught-with-weed-then-had-a-meltdown-on-the-coaches/?_branch_match_id=456984123554125233
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
i can buy thinking that rowe on jeffrey and gilmore on smith was how they wanted to play the top 2 guys - altho it backfired horribly as jeffrey beat rowe multiple times on the first couple drives inc both the 3rd and 13 and the td - but with the eagles playing nearly the whole game with 3 wrs butler doesn't even get a snap? jonathan jones and jordan richards are trailing after agholor instead? whatever the reason it was v costly.
butler crying during the anthem biases me towards thinking he fucked up somehow. his head hasn't quite been there all season, altho i have sympathy with him given the contract stuff/gilmore.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
i thought i read butler was on the field for a special teams play or two?
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
he was
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:31 (six years ago) link
one st snap recorded. that's like rubbing it in
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:32 (six years ago) link
i think i saw no st snaps all regular season, 1 vs jax, 1 vs phl
meanwhile on the field for 98% of reg season def snaps
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
anyway, i hear folks here are keeping their cool and the 2nd call to weei this morning was someone demaning belichick be replaced with mcdaniels
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:34 (six years ago) link
its gets missed in all the glory but belichick has lost a bunch of playoff games via being stubborn
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
Punishment also makes more sense as to why he never saw any snaps - have to think if it was purely strategic, BB would realize his experiment was going bad at halftime and he'd have gone back to Butler or at least began using him on 3 WR sets. BB isn't going to go back on a full-game punitive benching decision simply because the game isn't going well. Though that would imply others knew of the real reason.
going to guess he thought they had enough to win without him. and they almost did!
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:35 (six years ago) link
i think the gashing runs that the pats didn't have the linebackers to stop were the biggest single reason that philly kept being able to keep drives going, in the first half especially, but agholor became a really important 1st down target as those runs went away later so that plus rowe on jeffrey early which probably doesn't happen if butler plays add up to a significant factor
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
simmons' butler theory: belichick's gameplan is to start rowe on jeffrey. butler reacts poorly to the decision so belichick punishes him by sitting him the entire game.
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
that would line up with what we know but must've been a real ott meltdown from butler if so
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
he said "maaan fuck Donald Trump"
― Hi diddley dee, hen fapper's life for me (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2018 19:59 (six years ago) link
so, congratulations to the detroit lions for the official hire of their new head coach, the def coordinator whose team lost the super bowl despite the qb putting up 500y and 3tds/0ints
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:11 (six years ago) link
auspicious
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/UMass-Amherst-Students-Riot-After-Patriots-Loss-472680563.html
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
good work kids
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:31 (six years ago) link
belichick's losing his entire brain trust this offseason right?
― 龜, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:49 (six years ago) link
he wouldn't have it any other way
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:55 (six years ago) link
he's losing his coordinators but the shadow cabal will remain intact otherwise
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
brady is being traded to cleveland i heard
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fphJioN.png
the pats will keep winning as long as ernie is still around
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
Why haven’t I seen this video lmfaooo REALEST MF ALIVE now I know why we won pic.twitter.com/qnQITcmYtr— EAGLES ARE WORLD CHAMPS (@DPWEarl) February 5, 2018
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Monday, 5 February 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
lol were playing indoors
― lag∞n, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DVTTFL4XcAAZmf-.jpg
― Moodles, Monday, 5 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
https://deadspin.com/jeff-fisher-must-be-arrested-and-tried-for-his-crimes-a-1822733338
― YouTube_-_funy_cats.flv (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 5 February 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
so is hiring ex-Fisher guys gonna be the new Moneyball
― frogbs, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
normally questions of how coaches impact individual player positions seem pretty speculative but this particular one is undeniable
― Mordy, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
wonder if anyone will hire dick lebeau. he's only 80
― mookieproof, Monday, 5 February 2018 22:52 (six years ago) link