I can say one thing definitively.
If all your post consists of is a link, I will not click that link.
I don't admire Bellichick, but when he went for that fourth down conversion I think it was the right thing to do and it was part of a consistent message he sends to his team: we will be aggressive and we are playing to win.
Contrast that to Mike Sherman's punt on Fourth and One in the Philly playoff game...
I really despise coaches who play to loose.
Hungry5 posted:I really despise coaches who play to loose.
Sure looked like Sherman was playing NOT to lose, which is the same thing...
I'm with EL-KA-BONG. When everyone agrees that the ONLY correct decision after the hail mary touchdown was a 2 point conversion, we'll have achieved progress 
I need 9 or 10 more pages of the same arguments before I'd even consider the other side of the equation.
"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."
Joseph Joubert.
The French have always been great at standing for nothing. Except crepes, surrender, and every damned mother sauce bind they've found themselves in and had to be bailed out by people they inevitably looked down on.
Crepes suck ass. They require a special pan and a wooden spreading tool and a specific technique in order to do them properly. How French is that? You need 3 things to make 1 thing. That is so ****ing self agrandizing.
After the Vikings. I hate the Bears. Then the French. They have tried to over complicate cooking and the world is finally calling BS on them.
I think we've come full circle on our collective hatred of mayonaise
Parametrics or Analytics? Better method for determining poupon or mayo on smoked turkey?
I'll gladly take both on turkey, but smoked turkey needs no help. That's 2 to 0, therefore, they should have punted.
It's hard to respect the French when you have to bail them out of two big ones in one century. But you have to hand it to them on mayonnaise. Nice job, Pierre.
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, should they have went for 2?
Did Belichick cut down the tree?
El-Ka-Bong posted:Did Belichick cut down the tree?
No, but he may have video taped it
Not if you have an "accident".
NFL players chose Marshawn Lynch over Adrian Peterson to get 1 yard to win the SB. Numbers say Peterson best choice https://t.co/8mjE0uIsOY
— Kevin Seifert (@SeifertESPN) February 3, 2016
If the numbers (math) say AP, what do the players know? Or even coaches for that matter?
Hungry5 posted:If the numbers (math) say AP, what do the players know? Or even coaches for that matter?
Well, Marshawn hardly ran away with the voting, heck it's easily within the margin of error. And yes, what do the players know? Probably not that much on average, they're mostly in the league for their physical attributes, not their analytical skills. I'm guessing if ADP isn't smashing a little kid's testicles he'd probably have gotten a couple of more votes.
And unsurprisingly there's not much depth to Seifert's numbers. Peterson has been better in 1 yard situations over the course of his career. That's not exactly a perfect analog for getting into the end zone from the 1 yard line. You'd at least want to try to adjust for quality of offensive line and the passing game.
The important thing to catch in this player poll is that nobody said Eddie Lacy, because the question didn't stipulate that someone had built a Dunkin Donuts in this hypothetical end zone one yard away.
This cannot die before it reaches 15 pages.
Hungry5 posted:Parametrics or Analytics? Better method for determining poupon or mayo on smoked turkey?
The covert itchy nose/middle finger sniff test before tasting will keep you out of a lot of trouble in life.
4Favre - I don't think you caught why I posted that. Since neither Lynch nor Peterson have ever had to run for 1 yard to win a SB, the numbers Seifert presents are barely relevant. The situation factor is mis-under-rated.
oldschool, WTF does that even mean?
Lacy had a lot of 1-yard runs. Not sure why you wouldn't go with him.
I wouldn't have put the ball in Eddie's hands on the two point try, but surely would've faked it, getting the Cards to think run and not going there. Let Rodgers make the play or not...
"God Hates A Coward"
--God
"Math is hard."
-- Mike McCarthy
Wow, Play action fake. That surely would have surprised them.
El-Ka-Bong posted:This cannot die before it reaches 15 pages.
Or fail...
"That's a polluted mindset."