Genghis Khan
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This was the part I found a little funny. He outright said, "I'm gonna insult you" instead of "No offense, but..." or "Bless your heart".
Oh I definitely found it amusing.
LOL @ the Giants
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Oh I definitely found it amusing.
NoDak
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It’s more truthful, anyway. I’m going to insult you… Prepare yourself, fucker.
Simpleton
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Good luck.
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Teams have already started going down this route.
The Steelers hired a GM last year whose background is in business admin & analytics.
And the Browns brought the 'Moneyball' GM Paul Depodesta into their front office a few years back.
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Convenient of RGIII to leave out that important piece of context about Lamar wanting a fully guaranteed contract.
That's the hang up. Point blank. Period. The end.
It's not about no one wanting Lamar or a black/white issue.
They just don't want to follow the idiotic example of one of the league's worst ran franchises. The Cleveland Browns have been a colossal failure for the better part of the past quarter century yet people have the nerve to be upset that other teams don't want to follow their example.
GTFOH with that noise.
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Moneyball and that shit simply does not equate in the NFL.
Hell, I don't even think it was proven in MLB.
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I don't think it was proven in baseball either. They (the Oakland A's) never even made it to the World Series. They were competitive but that was in large part due to the great pitching staff they had in the early 2000s.
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Right, the biggest message of moneyball was the importance of OBP, which Ted Williams was talking about 50 and more years ago.
Hell, even our little league coaches who always told us, "A walk's as good as a hit" knew it.
Hell, even our little league coaches who always told us, "A walk's as good as a hit" knew it.
Genghis Khan
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Right, the biggest message of moneyball was the importance of OBP, which Ted Williams was talking about 50 and more years ago.
Hell, even our little league coaches who always told us, "A walk's as good as a hit" knew it.
The message of moneyball was not OBP.
It was about holes (undervalued assets) in the market. OBP was a representative of that because it happened to be undervalued at the time.
The point was that when you are a small market team and can't compete cash wise with big money teams, to field a competitive team you have to find cheaper (undervalued) good players.
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Gallo isn't it.
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Can’t this guy see the writing on the wall? There will be no giant RB contracts post Elliott. He needs to take that franchise money and run (literally).
Especially heading into a RB-rich draft
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Same with Ekeler.
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I don't blame him. The guy has been injury prone. Why even take the risk of getting hurt and not having a good season.