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But the coach doesn't have an average kicker, he has *his* kicker, and he doesn't have average offensive efficiency, he has what he is getting right now. Those are what have to factor in his decision. League average values should only be a baseline for a coach to judge "this situation is going to be x amount better or worse than the average odds right now."

exactly. Last night the Lions needed more DT play that contained/collapsed the middle of the pocket and they weren't getting it, so Geno was able to step up and out to get clear of the edge pressure all night.

It was a risk but I thought it was reasonable. They were going to have to do something to get a step ahead even if they got another stop on D and matched the Lions TD total, and they were really clicking at that point and had Lion defense on its heels, so it was as good a time to take advantage of their momentum and try to get the tie breaking point. And to be fair, it looked like the play was there and Geno missed the throw, one of the few he missed all night.

Does the AMA know that someone gave a union a medical license?

The back and forth did make it feel like it was closer than it was.

That was a pretty silly FB game. Best line of the night by Aikman: "Put Arnold in mittens in practice."

No question about that.

IDK - He was an awful person on the field as well. I never liked guys like Rose that was willing to hurt people on the field to win. A clean slide is one thing, but barreling guys over never belonging in the game in the first place and the game is better for it being removed. Always bothered me about Gibson as well. At least Kirk has grown enough to admit today that he was wrong then. I don't know that Rose ever did.

I have no dog in this particular argument, except to say I don't think the two things (Larkin's status and the presence of a White Hope undercurrent) are necessarily contradictory. For one, it may be different factions of the population espousing the particular views, but beyond that, I don't think it's hard to envision a person attached to the team enough to cheer the team's black stars, while the fact that he finds himself in that position making him even more resentful as a white dead-ender.

LOL. And the next step....you push the school completely out of the equation? Sort of an inverse NIL were a school collects a royalty on the use of their name and logos and collects rental on the facilities they've built? IDK - I used to think the first step to any rationalization had to be to separate revenue and non-revenue athletics but it's getting to where you can't even make clear distinctions there anymore.

actually if you study the history of warfare, it pretty much does. The allies (i.e. good guys) firebombed cities in WWII. The US killed all kinds of people as 'collateral damage' in so-called precision strikes. Consider the hell we unleashed in the ME over 9/11. You can make an argument that it was only decades of a unique level of Israeli forbearance to wage war the way it's always been waged that allowed organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah to successfully hide behind their captive populations for so long. Now Israeli's enemies have pushed it to where the necessity of protecting its own people requires them to end that forbearance. Every state has that right. It's a terrible thing to witness, but the craven nature of the societies around them is fundamentally not Israel's responsibility. If you start killing another nation's people, you can expect to get back hell without reservation until you stop. And Hezbollah and Hamas have made no move to stop. All you can do is call Israel's enemies fools if they deluded themselves into ignoring the inevitable outcome of their own actions, and weep for the people of their own populations they have put in harm's way.

herding cats

I think I posted a few days ago that an inside the campaign dem pollster said they have a problem with hispanic men who believe trump has to be better for their employment because of his business background. Mark Cuban out there working that issue is probably the best thing the Dems have going. Shark Tank probably hits much of same audience Apprentice did so Cuban is perfectly placed for the role of de-legitimizing Trumps business cred.

He really just like to hear his own voice.

but you know they have gamed out every individual match-up and pitch type vseach hitter in every possible inning so it might not look like the simple 1st order estimate once they are through.

Yup - they have to pay him so he will get every chance to earn his money if he can.

Hinch clearly wasn't playing to win with the pitching line-ups. Maybe the brain trust had decided they wanted Houston instead of Baltimore.

Montero seems to have outstayed his sell-by date. It's been a while since I thought he pitched well. I think Mize has way more upside than Keider but the way he suddenly loses it so totally when things go South makes him feel like a big risk in a short series tilt too.

you think you had fun with them at the game, wait till those folks start showing up here.....

$$$. The city wants to sell their interest in the stadium, they need the money. Same holds for the A's. Could be the stadium was worth more to both parties as a sale than a playing venue.

The other logic I don't get is the idea that Israel going after Hamas and Hezbollah leaders forces Iran to up the ante. Possible, but I see no necessity in the logic. The whole reason you use proxies is so they take the losses. Hezbollah and Hamas may be important to Iran, but they are a lot less important to them than their own forces or Iran wouldn't have gone to the effort to set them up to keep the pot boiling at arm's distance from themselves in the first place.

well, we held our best pitcher back to game 2 of the '68 World Series. We just didn't know it at the time......

Clock usage in the 4th was such a terrible sign. It's such an easy and fundamental thing to do right and they completely whiffed on it. Recently one his ex-players - I can't remember if it was a guy from the 49ers or UM, said that the most striking thing about playing for Harbaugh as a coach was infinite attention to detail. Moore doesn't seem cut from that cloth so far. Other little things beside the clock today - JJ extended his fake after every hand off. How often did it make a difference? Who knows but it's basically free to do and if it freezes one LB for 100 milliseconds, it's pure profit. Orji doesn't do it at all.

LOL - correct. The part about Moore is nonsense, they don't operate that way. OTOH, the idea that there has been a decision to conserve resource commitments in a year when all the tickets are already sold and the future is still is in so much flux is not so crazy. Whether just because of the logistics of Harbaugh's exit or not, they certainly made no big effort on Moore's hire, or at the portal, or NIL splashes. So the idea that the program is in some kind of coast mode this year probably has some of truth to it, but more out of circumstance and their normal financial conservatism than any great strategic plan.

Tork with a tough scoop on a throw by Jung. Spencer Torkelson has climbed to a +2 Rrds/yr on BR. Take that haters.