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Friday Fun Thread for September 6, 2024

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Football season kicked off last night. I missed the game, at work all night, but I'm excited for my Philadelphia Eagles to kick off in Brazil tonight.

How're my fellow sports fans on the motte feeling about their teams this season? Any degens placing longshot parlays this week?

I'm thinking that by week 8, most predictions in this Eagles team are going to look pretty stupid. Last season they were the best team in the sport for half a season and the worst team in the sport for half a season. The spine of the team is pretty much the same. They swapped out OC and DC but kept the same head coach. They've added several young defensive backs and a few veteran linebackers, lost their most dangerous edge rusher and a team legend; they swapped out a Hall of Fame center but they had an in house heir so they just needed a new right guard, and signed a star running back they're hoping isn't old. At the end of the day the most important question is at quarterback, has the league figured out Jalen Hurts? If he collapses under blitzing every time, the rest is academic. Their outcomes seem likely to again be binary, but a lot of power rankings hedge by placing them in the middle. I wouldn't bet the o/u of 10.5 wins either way comfortably, but one could probably make money betting tail odds of over 12.5 wins and under 6.5 wins. This is either a team with a ridiculous unguardable number of offensive weapons or a team with no answer to extra pressure.

I was at the UNM Lobos football opener, first game for their new coach.

A sudden windstorm blew a camera off the stadium roof and almost injured spectators in the crowd below, but one data cable held firm and didn’t snap. Someone on the second story pulled it inside safely.

We were ahead of the other team for all but thirty seconds of the game. Too bad it was the final thirty seconds. On the way out of the stadium, we heard some hate-watchers saying they knew it all along that the new coach was never going to cut it, and he should just quit now.

So, business as usual for the Lobos.

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