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fellside

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  1. Youtube TV sent me a free Google Chromecast for being with them for 2 or 3 years straight.  It's been amazing.

    The chromecast homescreen is super easy to use and doesn't require you to click on the different apps.  You can just resume stuff you've been watching from the main screen.  Also seems to work every time.  YTTV crashed a lot when I had Firestick.

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  2. 1 minute ago, UncleSonny said:

    I’m not sure if Herman ever did? Even his victory formation was in the gun. 

    I guess the tribute to DKR?  I think Garret Gilbert took some plays under center after Mack freaked out about the run game in 2010.

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  3. 2 hours ago, Vic Mackey said:

    What Dallas needs to realize is you don't need to go all out and draft OL very high. They went all in last decade and used tons of draft capital and then salary cap capital to try and replicate their OL from the glory days. But that OL was nowhere near built how they did it here. We don't need all these 1st round picks across the board. At one point, we were far and away the #1 team who spent the most percentage of the cap on the OL. And it blew up in their face. Tyron is breaking down and misses games every year. Frederick is retired. Zach Martin now gets hurt.

    2016 was really the only year we got the most out of that until from start to finish.

    I feel like you're creating a false dichotomy. 

    Saying we should draft Sewell or Slater is not saying we should spend all our cap on the offensive line.

    However, if you look at all pro teams, the one position that is dominated by first round picks is the offensive line.  You will never see an all pro team with 3 or 4 guys drafted day 2.  The best linemen come from the first round.  I believe 9 of the past 10 all pros were first round picks. 

    If Tyron or Lael can't play past next year, we will not find an all pro replacement off the scrap heap.

  4. 28 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

    Sam was very inaccurate downfield last year.  That was a big part of the problem.

    It was 50% his inaccuracy and 50% the receivers' inability to beat press man coverage.

    Sarkisians entire philosophy of offense last year seemed to be to force a defense to play man coverage to stop RPOs and then attack that man coverage.

    We desperately need some receivers to figure out how to beat a press and how to separate.

  5. Haven't had power in 41 hours.  I'm pretty sure the attempt at a rolling blackout went bad and they fucked up the whole grid. 

    A rolling blackout would be a welcome development. I just wish I had any kind of idea when I'd get power or what was being done.  It's crazy how hard it is to get real information in 2021.  The city doesn't even know what the issue is or when it will be fixed. 

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  6. Listened to some conservative talk radio for the first time in over a decade.  It's glorious. The combination of pure absurdly mixed with the depression is a comedy gold mine.

     

    Hearing Mark Levin ask himself "where's the evidence?" And answer "I don't have any evidence" like it was a good argument? Hearing that Rush apparently peddles Qanon level conspiracy theories? Chefs kiss.

  7. So if Biden wins Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and gets to 306 electoral votes, was 538 still wrong?  Just checking.

    By the way I have no specific love for Nate Silver.  But the Cloak Room mid election looks just like the football board when Texas is down by 7.  

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  8. Just now, longhornmatt said:

    Consistently getting the probabilities wrong can happen even if you mail the ultimate winner or loser.  Vegas doesn’t get credit for setting a -21 line on a game of the favorite ends up winning by 3.

    I'm again going to disagree here.  I don't think 538 was claiming Biden would win with 330 electoral votes.  They were saying there were far more scenarios where Biden wins than he loses.

    That is because Biden needed a few swing states and Trump needed almost all of them.

  9. Just now, longhornmatt said:

    I eventually bought into this after 2016, but it’s much worse now.   If you act like American politics is a random grab bag, then sure, they’re doing fine.   But we only have two political parties and very narrow potential deviations that we’re dealing with in every election.  For the models to be off by so much in that environment really strains credulity.  

    What I'm saying is that we have no evidence that the model is far off at the moment.

    If you want to be pissed about polls in Iowa and Texas, be pissed off.  But 538 had dozens of scenarios where Biden lost those states and still won the election.

    It's important to read what one criticizes.

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