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PaperclipPerfector  8mo ago (text post)   2938 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 8, 2023

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Did y'all see the game last night? Football is back baby.

Seeing the Detroit punt team come onto the field for the first 4th and 2, I remember thinking, "coach Dan Campbell has gone soft. He would have gone for it in previous years," and then they run a fake. Their first punt play of the season, and they run it up the gut for a first down. Watch the Chiefs' D-line get creamed on that play. They really should have been expecting some hijinks.

Patrick Mahomes looks great as always, but he can't win with these cats. The Chiefs' receiving core looked awful last night. Perhaps the loss of offensive-coordinator Eric Bieniemy was a bigger deal than expected. Travis Kelce should be back soon, but as our own @Sloot will tell you, 33 is no spring chicken. Could we be seeing the beginning of the end of the Chiefs dynasty?

Could we be seeing the beginning of the end of the Chiefs dynasty?

As a Patriots fan I certainly hope so. It would be very annoying in retrospect if we secured consensus for Best Dynasty of All Time, Best QB of All Time, Best Coach of All Time, etc around 2017 only for the title belt to be lost the minute after the band broke up a few years later.

Your comment about punting reminded me of this video which I think any football fans on this sub if they haven't heard of this, might get a kick out of (sorry).

The Search For the Saddest Punt In The World

It's 54 minutes long, but I'm not a football guy and really enjoyed it. Assuming the premises and conclusions are mostly reasonable as the channel seems popular among at least some football fans.

It's a very entertaining video but the logic of the multipliers and their weights is poor. A data scientist or even just a reasonable person would look at the results that the most cowardly punts resulted in a win, realize they fucked up and recalibrate. Instead he just plows ahead with a dumb model based on nothing but his gut and acts like it's a huge mystery he got dumb results.

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