Big Blue Huddle

Quote from: T200 on May 28, 2024, 02:04:14 PMDumbing down society one technological advance at a time.

I saw something that said at one point in time, the average number sequence most people could remember was seven. I have to believe it's less than that now. Why? Very few people bother to remember a phone number anymore.

I'm guilty of no longer memorizing phone numbers. But it goes beyond that...autocorrect makes proper spelling irrelevant, and no one can multiply or divide these days without a calculator or being able to write or read cursive. None of my grandchildren can use cursive writing. I tell them all the time, 90 percent of all historical documents written in English is in cursive...how are history students going to be able to research old records???

Autocorrect is my worst enema

Quote from: Sem on May 28, 2024, 03:13:59 PMRic, I've made that drive twice, except a bit further, to Rochester, Minnesota. But I certainly didn't, nor would I, ever want to make the round trip drive over a three day period. No wonder you were tired!! Funny story on my second drive out there, back in 2006. I had rented a Ryder truck to deliver a bunch of stuff to our son, who had just graduated from college and moved to MN. I took a wrong exit and drove right into O'Hare Airport....with a rented Ryder truck. I'm sure I raised some flags because I was almost instantly followed by a Security SUV all the way around the perimeter and back out to the highway. 

It would probably be easier to get to Rochester, MN than where I went because you could stay right on 90. I had to take back roads for over an hour to find my destination, which Google guided me wrong and put me on a dirt road  . I've made the trip out that direction 6 times in the last 12 years because my son lived in Lacrosse for a while. I was actually thinking of bouncing over to Rochester to meet an old fella who was a first cousin of my Dad, who I had never met, but is still alive. There just wasn't time. I'll be making the trip again, but I'm not going to do it straight through and especially not back and forth straight through over three days. Way too old for that and I'm paying the price. The cost of tolls and gas, I might just fly into Madison instead and have my son pick me up at the airport. Less stressful

https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-explosive-plays-and-re-thinking-offensive-success

Amazing read if you are into analytics and a real thought provoking read as we see how Daboll has built this offense.

Every position now has a piece capable of an explosive play whether its Nabers, Wan Dale, Slayton, Waller, and Singletary.

Singletary finished 13th in explosives last season despite less opportunities.

We have been horrible at EPA, Explosives, and Big time throws.

In Buffalo Daboll had Allen reaching tops in Explosives, BTTR, and EPA. You add that context to the team we've built, and you can tell he's laying a foundation.

Gano

Ric, I've made that drive twice, except a bit further, to Rochester, Minnesota. But I certainly didn't, nor would I, ever want to make the round trip drive over a three day period. No wonder you were tired!! Funny story on my second drive out there, back in 2006. I had rented a Ryder truck to deliver a bunch of stuff to our son, who had just graduated from college and moved to MN. I took a wrong exit and drove right into O'Hare Airport....with a rented Ryder truck. I'm sure I raised some flags because I was almost instantly followed by a Security SUV all the way around the perimeter and back out to the highway. 

Quote from: babywhales on May 28, 2024, 11:30:45 AMI coach middle school baseball and I hate to say it but it cost me the 1st period of the Game 1 and all of Game 2.

Overall, the Rangers got outplayed in 3 of the 4 wins vs Boston and 1 of the 2 wins vs Florida (if not both based on the reports I have read). In that sense they are getting it done but it sure would be nice to play a full game dominating a team more consistently

As well as this playoff series has been going I would argue the Rangers have not even hit their stride. I have read they are lucky but plenty of puck luck is being had by their opponents so to focus on their luck and no other is selective criticism.

Kart- Miller has been off all year imo.  His personal issues required he pull himself from lineup 6 months ago.  He seems to exist on both ends of the spectrum, making aggressive amazing plays at times or absent minded soft play.  In the cap series he did a tremendous job against OV.  Unfortunately, this time of year on this stage 1 mistake can be the difference.  I will say in Game 3 the whole defense was chasing the Panthers.

Hoping my team gets rained out tonight so I can watch the whole game.

GO Rangers

I appreciate your inputs, as always! Thx for the reminder regarding Miller whom I do remember that time. I really felt bad for him and I don't want to sound overly critical since he would be his own worst critic anyway. That article in the paper he graciously allowed to be published was courageous on his part; it spoke also to the Rangers' organization in how they back up what they say when you hear them talk about loving each other and being united; powerful reminder! I am going to say a small prayer for him that he finds his inner strength to make it through tonight and realize his team is there for him, as are the fans despite their disappointment that he didn't have a good game on Sunday.

Regarding the competition in the Atlantic, I don't think it was hard to see that the Metro, apart from themselves and Carolina, and perhaps the hot team of the month making a run, didn't offer the same intensity in competition as the Atlantic Division from top to bottom. As for Boston, a team the Rangers swept this season in three games and two in Beantown, I vividly remember their coach say, after their third loss, that those guys (i.e. Rangers) just have our number this year, in a dejected voice. Would they have offered up the same level of competition as Florida has, to date? I really don't know the answer to that, but I can say that I sure was hoping they'd find a way to beat the Cats the same way I was hoping the Avs would have beaten the Stars, who put on a show last night to take Game Three from the Oilers, 4-3, and lead that series two games to one, but I digress.

Don't you have a video recorder in your home???

I agree with your assessment about "luck" in the Rangers-Cats series to date. More-so, the smallest of mistakes seem to have the most significant of consequences. For Miller, not clearing the puck led to a direct chain of passes that led to a Cats' score. Likewise, Rodrigues losing Wennberg, while the puck was in a scrum, led to #91 sneaking out in front of Bobrovsky, so that when Lindgren got the puck and wristed it goalward, the opportunistic Wennberg's fateful, long-awaited goal finally came to fruition in the form of the game winner in OT. It's not luck, just creating an opportunity from a small mistake and capitalizing on it. All those other stats mean nothing in the final analysis if Florida cannot score goal #5, which they were unable to.

Onto tonight's game, where the bad guys are taking the ice with "the growl," as their coach so eloquently put it. What does that really mean, what are the Rangers in for and what do they do to counter it, if anything at all? Or, will this be the Lions eating the Christians in the Roman Colosseum tonight? What can we expect?

P.S. Fingers crossed for rain for you. Or, please send it my way, where we're 103 and baking under sunny blue skies!

Peace!

Quote from: Gmo11 on May 28, 2024, 02:39:14 PMSo the Giants would be paying Jones to play for another team?  I have that as...unreasonable.

if he plays like last year it will be a blessing

Quote from: BluesCruz on May 28, 2024, 02:06:24 PMThe Giants could pick up Half or most of that tab
They have to pay the guaranteed money out one way or another

on the other hand they have 2 relatively inexpensive but capable QBs riding the pine

this route might at least gain a late round draft choice or another player in exchange

Do I think it will happen- NO.  Not our style

So the Giants would be paying Jones to play for another team?  I have that as...unreasonable.

Quote from: DaveBrown74 on May 25, 2024, 10:48:34 AMI wouldn't have an issue with this, provided it's definitely more accurate than human calls. I don't see a good argument for why sports should not use technology to make officiating more accurate. Why allow for human error when you don't have to? Tennis is way better now that they have the technological arbiter on close calls. What is worse than a team losing a game because of a wrong call that could have been avoided with the use of available technology?

Very true. It is currently in use in the Australian Football League (AFL) for scoring reviews. Still, I've witnessed it being used incorrectly which ended up screwing a scoring decision for a team which ultimately cost them a berth in their Finals (i.e. playoffs).

It has the potential to take the subjective out of the reviewing process as long as the process for using it has been made error-proof due to the introduction of human in the loop error of other variables. For first downs, that would mean discernment of "when" the whistle was blown to indicate forward progress was stopped. (Edited to add) In addition, I wanted to recognize all those here who offered other excellent examples which would require other technologies, such as video, or sensors implanted in the ball, or maybe even microphones to hear the referee's whistle!

Let's hope they figure that part out first before implementing it at large.

Peace!

Last year, I thought it would be Waller to grab 100 passes and be the focal point of offense. That was a let down.  Dex has been the teams best player last two years. Thibodeaux has shown some teasing of great moments, but not someone to take over a game yet. I'm hoping it's Nabers as the dominant playmaker that sparks life into a dismal offense.