Drakurii
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The Chicago Cubs would probably disagree.Dallas area writer said, "There is no franchise is sports more desperate for the lucky break that never comes than the Jaguars". I cannot disagree.
The Chicago Cubs would probably disagree.Dallas area writer said, "There is no franchise is sports more desperate for the lucky break that never comes than the Jaguars". I cannot disagree.
Unless you are the commissioner of course.Back to deflategate, I wonder what Kraft and Belichick get as punishments. After all, as we found with the Saints and the suspension of Sean Payton for a year, ignorance is not an excuse.
I thought Bortles did exceptionally well given what little he had to work with. Dude didn't really have anyone to throw to and was under sack pressure every play before the ball was even snapped.I think it's a bit early to call Bortles a bust. Very few QBs look great in their rookie season, and I don't even count RG3/Wilson/Kaepernick in recent years because what they did as rookies wasn't exactly quarterbacking.
I still feel like the Jaguars are plucky. They just can't catch a break.
That article is nothing new and has been debunked several times, including in this thread.Whether intentional or not, Brady liking lower inflated balls has helped the Patriots reduce fumbles.Sharp Football Analysishas data that I will admit is cherry picked, but it does show that the Patriots fumble rate has decreased since Brady lobbied the NFL to let away teams bring their own balls for offense.
Another EVERYONE DOES IT!! excuse. Scoring going up has more to do with rule changes favoring offense. That doesn't explain why the Patriots were such outliers when it came to fumbles, or why players fumble rate dropped dramatically when joining the Patriots and would go up when going to another team.Points across the board for all teams has increased since the 2006 rule that let teams manage their own balls. Before all this shit blew up, you even had QBs fucking admit TO THE DAMNED MEDIA that they liked balls outside regulation.
The biggest party at fault in this is the NFL. They hold people to regulations, but don't actually record or regulate them properly (unless it has to do with stuff like officially sanctioned shoes). Just throw the book wide open and let teams do whatever with the damn ball so long as it is just compressed air in it. No one is going to throw pancakes.
Yeah, because people in the football thread of Rerolled know how to analyze data. Maybe you should lend your statistical genius to the guys at 538 who said that while Sharp's analysis wasn't perfect, they came to pretty much the same conclusion:That article is nothing new and has been debunked several times, including in this thread.
Huh? 538 was one of the ones that originally posted that Sharps data was mostly bullshit complete with links of other studies blasting the fuck out of it.Yeah, because people in the football thread of Rerolled know how to analyze data. Maybe you should lend your statistical genius to the guys at 538 who said that while Sharp's analysis wasn't perfect, they came to pretty much the same conclusion:
I'm sure your data analysis is much better than theirs
That's where I got my data analysis. Did Morris pull his data from Sharps? I've found literally nothing on him other than him alluding to Sharps original data that he may have used for his own calculations.New England's running backs and receivers don't really look like major fumble-preventing outliers at all