LinvilleGorge

I'm a total numbers geek. I actually enjoy analytics. It's not emotional for me. Numbers are what they are and it's fun to look at it. And it's fun to laugh at our staff when they show such blatant ignorance of it while acting like they're out-analyzing the rest of the league while losing 2.5 games for every 1 that they win.

To drive my point home, our 3rd down conversion rate is 26%. Horrible, right? But, it's pretty much exactly what you'd expect it to be based on 2017 regular season data on 3rd down conversion success based on yards to go which is the only info on the matter I could find with a quick search. In short, our offensive issue is absolutely NOT converting 3rd downs. We're actually okay there based on the analytics. Not great. Not awful. But fine. Consistently putting ourselves into 3rd and long situations is our issue on offense. This may point heavily to Orlovski being right about us tipping our hand on offense. You can't really tip your hand on 3rd and long. It's an obvious passing down. Take away our ability to tip our own hand and we're pretty much the overall average offense mose of us expected us to be. Not great. Not awful. But fine.

Yep. Every team in the league would suck on 3rd down if their average 3rd down was 3rd and 10.

Add CMC to that offense and it literally might be the greatest NFL offense of all-time. No exaggeration.

Same

OL on bad teams struggle to make Pro Bowls unless they're a perennially dominate player (like a Joe Thomas). Fans don't watch the OL and only notice them when they're great or awful. The rest of the time they just blend in. The same OL tend to go to the Pro Bowl year in and year out based on name recognition.

I had replied to another thread from the bot but I'm going to make this its own thread. McAdoo talked about the team's struggles on 3rd down but showed a stunning lack of awareness as to the root of the issue. He talked as if the offense could basically be fixed by simply addressing our inability to convert on 3rd down, but... Since we've only played two games it was pretty easy to go through the play by plays to look at our 3rd down situations. Against the Browns' our average 3rd down distance to go was 9.9 yards. Against the Giants our average 3rd down distance to go was 10.3 yards. That is a recipe for failure and if you look at that and conclude that our issue is 3rd down then you're a fuging moron. Our issue isn't converting on 3rd down. Our issue is consistently putting ourselves in low percentage 3rd and long situations and a lot of it comes down to penalty issues. These guys talk about analytics but it's just talk. They don't know what they're fuging doing if they're actually utilizing analytics

Rivera talked about running a 3-4 but I never saw any actual change in his defensive concepts. We just got lighter on the edges and essentially ran a 4-3 D with 3-4 personnel on the edges.

The only common theme to our starting QBs (and overall teams) under Tepper is that they lose a lot.

Tepper said he was staying out of football operations as he focused on the business side of the house his first year. Going into the second year he talked a big game about how he was now going to be putting his stamp on the football side of the house. Well, his first year was our best (bad) year on the field under his ownership. Since he put his stamp on the football side of the house it has been shown that "stamp" is actually the mushroom stamp other teams have been slapping on our face on the field ever since. Funny thing is that Tepper doesn't talk so much these days. He really wanted to strut around and try to be the face of this organization when he first took over. He pretty much just hides these days. It seems like he's embarrassed of what he's created and he damn well should be.

We are firmly there. Tepper has turned this franchise into a bottom dweller. He really needs to step away from the football side of the operation. He thought he was smarter than everyone else and he might be in the investment world but that's a completely different game than football.

I'm honestly more concerned about Moton at this point than Ickey. Ickey is a rookie. He's going to take his lumps. That's expected. Moton is starting to look like Trai Turner 2.0 at RT. Looked great, got paid, became a JAG.

We really should trade CMC. It's the best for both parties. For us, we get assets to build around and out from under a big money RB contract. For CMC, he gets out of this dumpster fire. A rebuilding team doesn't benefit from a big money injury prone RB.

Been there. This guy is basically my fan spirit animal these days. This is pretty much me watching Panthers games for the past year or so.

Get past the anger stage. Just laugh at this point.

I think I probably randomly piss all over stuff more than my dog just because I can.

I can only see one house from mine and I can only see it when the leaves are off.

Pakmeng is moo daeng. I mixed up you and him. Similar shticks. He's worse though so at least you have that going for you.

CMC is the best on the league at making people miss inside a phonebooth. How many times have we watched him turn what should've been a loss into a gain?

4 different usernames.

Meanwhile, the delicious irony...

Maybe you'll have better luck with username #3.

Truth. He's probably some big wig's cousin or something so they just give him a gig they don't care about at all so he can claim he's a real bonafide sports journalist because a small town local paper would've already fired him for sucking at covering rec league youth ball.

Posts on message board for sole purpose of criticizing other posts on message board. Changes username because everyone hates him but keeps up with same shtick. Go @Moo Daeng

To start, sure. But honestly I'll have a pretty quick trigger finger to switch over to the Bills/Dolphins if our game is ugly and that one looks fun. It is what it is. I enjoy watching good football so why torture myself?