I like the movie a lot and think he was very good in it. I also think that weird doesn't necessarily mean better and think he's done a lot of great work and wouldn't put this at the top of the list.
I've yet to see any of this crazy ramping and I've played like 60 matches since the set's been released. At least it's not coming up at the upper mythic part of the ladder. I don't really see how it's a thing against any deck with any amount of interaction.
I've said it in this thread already, but if the Sox or Yankees have gone to the extremes the Astros have, they should get hammered too and I'm obviously a Yankees fan. If it turns out 20+ teams were doing this shit to this degree then it could be looked at differently. But the actual degree...
Again it's a scale thing. PEDs were widespread. That's well known and proven at this point. Nobody is saying nobody else has done anything with electronics or otherwise steals signs. But building a special camera and getting signs when you have no baserunners at all hardly seems universal.
I mean in constructed you'll win some games with it even if it's not optimal at all. But he specifically linked a limited set review. You cast that in limited and you'll lose the game a very large percentage of the time.
It's about degrees. If 30 teams are doing X which is a technically illegal thing that's long been accepted in the sport, 25 teams also do Y which is more, but 1 team is doing Z which is much more egregious, then of course they should be looked at differently. If other teams are going to equal...
It's a limited rating. If you cast it in sealed/draft you end up getting like 3 lands and 2 low drops and your opponent gets a dragon that probably gets to attack you before you even get to play any of the cards or a removal spell that costs them no mana. Good luck winning that game.
Specifics to what these other teams have been doing matters. There's a difference in scale of how egregious things can be. If a team is using video to learn signs but still relay them through the normal methods with baserunners it's very different than using a camera and then relaying in real...
Finally watched this. It's really quite good, but falls a bit short of being truly great. First half of the movie was amazing, then it sort of becomes much less so.
It's not just a time of possession thing, it's a total number of possessions thing. If they play the Chiefs and have to win a fast paced game in the 40s they're probably going to get shit on.
I didn't really have a problem with him in the movie. Being an offputting weirdo seemed appropriate for the role. But I agree with the rest of what you're saying.
The thing is the punishments can both be unprecidentedly harsh and still too light and a joke at the same time. It just shows how weak the league is when it comes to this kind of stuff.
I mean I think Tua would get destroyed in Miami too. I just hope if they take him they sit him for a season while rebuilding the line in these next 2 drafts.
Season 2 had some good moments, but as a whole it was a huge letdown. Season 3 doesn't seem very promising. I'll probably wait and see what people think of it after a couple of episodes before I bother.