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Joe Gibbs belongs very high on that list. Who wins three title with three different QBs? That's an amazing feat.
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Norrin Radd said:YGBFKM said:MileHigh said:3_Octave_Fart said:Manning might be getting extra heat because nobody wants to see this scumbag in the Super Bowl.
It's all on Rahim Moore. All of it.
Who's it gonna be on next year?
Mike Vanderjagt.
MileHigh said:YGBFKM said:MileHigh said:3_Octave_Fart said:Manning might be getting extra heat because nobody wants to see this scumbag in the Super Bowl.
It's all on Rahim Moore. All of it.
Who's it gonna be on next year?
Just listening to Denver radio most of the day today, and the heat is on Moore and some on Fox for having Manning go into Tebowing form at the end of regulation, but he and Elway defended that move.
It was third-and-7 and they had 70 yards to go with 35 seconds to play. It was an absolutely boneheaded play by Moore, something you learn in Pop Warner -- DON'T LET THE RECEIVER GET BEHIND YOU. He tried to become the hero with an interception. Instead, he became the Bill Buckner of Denver sports with the biggest fork-up in the city's sports history.
Worse than the Colorado Rapids goalie who gave up the game-winning goal in the 1998 MLS Cup Final?
Worse than whoever hired Paul Westhead?
No WAY it was worse than letting Tebow go!!!!!
YGBFKM said:That knee looks really, really bad given that the Falcons were in almost the exact same situation the next day and they tried to win and whaddayaknow they did. Funny how trying works out sometimes.
Falcons had no choice.
Double Down said:Barnwell's analysis can sometimes be insightful, but he cherry picks stats in a maddening way to make the case for or against players he likes or dislikes. He is a good writer as far as number crunchers go, but a misleading metrics guy. Earlier this year, he essentially invented a theorem with the sole purpose of "proving" Flacco was shirtty, and it was quite honestly one of the most ridiculous, made-up, flawed stats I've ever seen.
Again, I'm all for advanced metrics in baseball, where each individual match-up can be categorized and labeled with little outside factors influencing it. But it's absurd the way some of these guys try to make the same claims in football, without ever thinking to factor in the ridiculous number of variables like: weather, play-calling, blocking, field position strategy, coaching philosophy, surface conditions, etc.
Matt Ryan is a good quarterback with a soft arm who has admitted he has doubted himself in big moments because of past failures. That's not narrative, that's something the dude was human enough to admit. His "team" was forking terrible a year ago in the playoffs mainly because their "quarterback" could not drive the ball through the swirling wind against a good defense. That's was not narrative, that was a player who was overmatched by the team he was playing. Ryan is a very capable dome quarterback who would absolutely not be as great playing in the AFC North or AFC East. That's ok, especially this year when he will not have to play a single game outdoors, but at least acknowledge some of that instead of just pretending it's all unfair the way he's been treated and his fate was in someone else's hands.
Manning is now 0-4 in playoff games where the temp was 40 or below, btw. (And that's not some arbitrary cutoff point where he's won a bunch of games where the temp was 43 degrees.) And while I'm sure Rick and his abacus will be along shortly to tell me his team is 0-4 and not Manning, and that's just randomness anyway, too small of a sample size to make any such judgement, I laugh at the idea that football is just as easy to play outdoors as it is indoors. Laugh at it.
I'm glad Matt Ryan slayed the narrative, because some of it was, in fact, stupid. He made two very good throws against some shirt prevent defense, but they were good throws. That doesn't change the fact that he threw a terrible pick, and then the drive before Seattle took the lead, he missed a wide open third down throw when he team desperately needed a first down. Those things happened, and they played a big role in letting Seattle have a chance to win a game where they trailed heavily.
printit said:Double Down said:Barnwell's analysis can sometimes be insightful, but he cherry picks stats in a maddening way to make the case for or against players he likes or dislikes. He is a good writer as far as number crunchers go, but a misleading metrics guy. Earlier this year, he essentially invented a theorem with the sole purpose of "proving" Flacco was shirtty, and it was quite honestly one of the most ridiculous, made-up, flawed stats I've ever seen.
Again, I'm all for advanced metrics in baseball, where each individual match-up can be categorized and labeled with little outside factors influencing it. But it's absurd the way some of these guys try to make the same claims in football, without ever thinking to factor in the ridiculous number of variables like: weather, play-calling, blocking, field position strategy, coaching philosophy, surface conditions, etc.
Matt Ryan is a good quarterback with a soft arm who has admitted he has doubted himself in big moments because of past failures. That's not narrative, that's something the dude was human enough to admit. His "team" was forking terrible a year ago in the playoffs mainly because their "quarterback" could not drive the ball through the swirling wind against a good defense. That's was not narrative, that was a player who was overmatched by the team he was playing. Ryan is a very capable dome quarterback who would absolutely not be as great playing in the AFC North or AFC East. That's ok, especially this year when he will not have to play a single game outdoors, but at least acknowledge some of that instead of just pretending it's all unfair the way he's been treated and his fate was in someone else's hands.
Manning is now 0-4 in playoff games where the temp was 40 or below, btw. (And that's not some arbitrary cutoff point where he's won a bunch of games where the temp was 43 degrees.) And while I'm sure Rick and his abacus will be along shortly to tell me his team is 0-4 and not Manning, and that's just randomness anyway, too small of a sample size to make any such judgement, I laugh at the idea that football is just as easy to play outdoors as it is indoors. Laugh at it.
I'm glad Matt Ryan slayed the narrative, because some of it was, in fact, stupid. He made two very good throws against some shirt prevent defense, but they were good throws. That doesn't change the fact that he threw a terrible pick, and then the drive before Seattle took the lead, he missed a wide open third down throw when he team desperately needed a first down. Those things happened, and they played a big role in letting Seattle have a chance to win a game where they trailed heavily.
Doesn't the second paragraph of this post (there are too many externalities in football for metrics to be applied) completely defeat the anti-Peyton Manning posts you have been making? Because I agree that the variables in football make it difficult to do certain things like, you know, make a claim that Peyton Manning is a bad playoff QB.
printit said:Doesn't the second paragraph of this post (there are too many externalities in football for metrics to be applied) completely defeat the anti-Peyton Manning posts you have been making? Because I agree that the variables in football make it difficult to do certain things like, you know, make a claim that Peyton Manning is a bad playoff QB.