One of the biggest Super Bowl myths is that the Seahawks were stupid to throw the ball on the Malcolm Butler pick.
The Patriots were +2 in the box. I don't care if it was Marshawn Lynch, King Kong wasn't getting in the endzone vs that front.
Also it was 2nd down and they had
@admcgregor85
I started my football coaching career coaching 12-14 y/o Black and Latino young men in Pop Warner. The team was their family and kept a bunch of them out of bad situations after school and on weekends.
Stop lecturing black people from an ivory tower about what is best for us.
I remember watching a talk with
@rorysutherland
and
@nntaleb
about Antifragile.
Taleb said we're built for variation and always sleeping 8 hours was junk science and pulling the occasional all-nighter might have benefits.
I tell myself this now when my newborn cries all night🤣
@CDonnick1
Hitch, slots fade is a bitch to cover because the QB and WR have a ton of space to work with and you essentially have no help. You can even see the outside CB recognizes it and tries to come off.
People are comfortable with evil because it allows the world to make more sense.
It's much scarier for most to live in a world that none of us understand.
@ScottAdamsSays
recently followed me on Twitter so this is my way of saying Thank You!
"What I've Learned From Having Coffee with Scott Adams for 6 years."
This video is Fake News, but Trumps uncanny ability to frame opponents was extremely sticky.
Does Trump branding Biden as "Sleepy Joe" make this video more or less believable?
Masterful persuasion that's still working long after he was cancelled.
@ScottAdamsSays
I remember watching film on an opponent that made a QB change where the back up looked way better and was firing the ball all over the place. I was going through the film and talking to our QB coach like "These guys are idiots that can't evaluate the QB. This back up is clearly
@ZubyMusic
I've never understood this. If you want more black heroes then make black heroes. Don't repackage established ones. It's kinda disrespectful. It's like you're insulting my intelligence.
The
@ScottAdamsSays
body test for if people like something is pretty spot on.
Have you ever noticed that when people eat ice cream they dance, subtly, after each bite?
Much like baseball, basketball is a more technical sport. Football is for athletes. Outside of QB this is the case for most positions. There are always technical aspects to each position but they're easier to learn than most other sports.
In the NFL, you might get a rugby player
@ezlazar
Every defensive penalty being an automatic 1st down makes less sense than this being a touchback. The offense has enough rules in its favor.
Being careless with the ball near the endzone has to have severe consequences.
Contrary to popular belief conspiracy theorists are "rational".
They're hyper rational. Too rational.
They believe everything happens for a reason. They don't realize the world is a lot more random than most realize.
A common thread of people who read
@nntaleb
but don't get Incerto.
They think Black Swans are about prediction and think about Antifragility in terms of survivorship bias.
A lot of people read my books but should not! They get it backwards and promote the ideas in reverse.
What killed ½ a million people did not make them stronger.
Antifragility requires constraining the left tail. And wearing a mask is not ABOUT YOU. It is about the collective.
Working on a Michael Penix Video. Charted the MPH on this throw in gusting winds and rain at Oregon State where he called game on 4th down.
All I'ma say is...Jesus 🔥🔥🔥
@LosTalksPats
We can all agree that Mac has been awful and needs to go, but this is a bit of revisionist history. He had to come in for Tua after they lost to LSU in 2019. He looked good in relief and then lost the Iron Bowl which knocked them out of the College Football Playoff. They played
Some believe this is about police brutality, some believe it's a product of the virus and pent up tension from quarantine.
A small few realize this is revealing something we've noticed about the system for years....
#fragility
If this is the end for Bill Belichick and you're celebrating, be careful. The grass isn't always greener on the other side. This team needs a lot of work to rebuild. The next coach is going to have to be a damn good one.
I've seen people comp guys like Trey Lance, Drake Maye and other prospects to Josh Allen. Please stop comping college players to Josh Allen. None of these guys are even college Josh Allen.
@roslynvchand
@nntaleb
One of my main takeaways from his work is that the role of chance plays a bigger role in success than we are comfortable with admitting, but conversely blowing up has a lot less to do with chance than we would like to admit...
Watching Pats Dynasty
Belichick so based to know the hidden value of sacks. And it was one of Brady’s best traits even from the beginning, sack avoidance. Ernie knew it the second Brady showed up. This is Bill&Ernie shorting the 2007 housing market (bledsoe). Nobody else saw it
@ScottAdamsSays
The ability to change your mind has always been a super power.
It's even more impressive in a world where confirmation bias is just a click and a scroll away.
All media, both mainstream and alternative is optimized to have you concerned about problems that don't have solutions because they mostly aren't real.
That's the grift, humans are wired to put energy into solving problems.
The more you can't solve it the more addicted you get.
Penix is only good because he's throwing to Odunze and now Roman Wilson 😂😂😂
Somehow McCarthy is a fringe 1st Rounder and Wilson looked better today than he's ever looked with, Penix throwing him the ball, but Penix is a 3rd Round pick.
Michigan WR Roman Wilson was among the top performers at the first day of Senior Bowl practices.
"Every time I looked he was getting open. He was winning vertically. He was winning horizontally." ~
@JordanVanekDFS
Full Senior Bowl coverage on
One of the reasons I've read
@nntaleb
#Incerto
so many times in a row is it activates my creative juices. When I put it down I start looking at solutions to problems differently. This conversation did the same.
Preseason is a few days away and I'm in game planning mode!
They've done a complete 180 from Bill and are giving out too much information and it's making them look foolish.
No player is going to have their girlfriend decide the direction of their career. The guy is 29 and not married to her. He didn't want to play in NE for any price.
As a person who had to earn the right to wear one of these as a right of passage in my teenage years, I have to admit I was pretty 🔥hott🔥 when I first saw this...
Aren't y'all tired of making celebrities your arbiters of Truth and Morality? They're just ppl with a different allocation of resources and skillsets. Relax.
Bulter had given up over 1,000 yards and 12 TDs in 18 games that year (including playoffs). He was objectively terrible.
I got better things to do with my life than watch a soap opera.
Robert Kraft on Malcolm Butler's benching in Super Bowl 52 (Patriots vs Eagles)
“What has been told to me is that there was something personal going on between Bill and Malcolm that was not football-related. I always felt that every decision Bill had made had been to put what’s
Reason I left libertarianism a few years ago:
They're linear thinkers. They preach the non-aggression principle but dont get that spreading a virus cuz you're an idiot who thinks this is aint a problem is an example of imposing your will on the entire system.
Morons!
@normonics
One of the reasons Taleb is the most important public person to pay attention to is he rarely, if ever, makes predictions.
He's not selling you BS. He tells you how to cover your ass..
Modernity: Who brings their child to a protest when we've seen what is happening on the ground and we're in the midst of a global pandemic. This girl might be scarred for life.
The job a of parent is to protect...
As a DB guy I'd be thrilled. Easily the best CB tandem in football if you pair Sneed with Gonzo.
Two CB's over 6 foot who run sub 4.4 and can cover outside and in the slot. Good luck throwing the ball on that!
@andrewadesilva
I believe it because I know for a 100% fact that they wanted Franklin which makes me think they wanted a burner and none of the guys they liked were left. I think they're going to try to make it work with Tyquan.
The best thing about this is we get to test it small. One city, one community.
Everyone predicting it will be a disaster could be right but if not it opens the door to a better way.
I like those odds...
After reading
@nntaleb
#Incerto
one thing that has started to drive me insane is when someone does something concave, and it works and people call it smart...
Am I a genius if I run across the freeway and survive. Should I teach a class and get a tenured salary?
Gilmore. Not close. Harder assignments. More responsibilities in the scheme. Could cover more styles of WRs.
Also Gilmore is only slightly younger and is still in the league. Gilmore isn't going anywhere any time soon, so he has the longevity too.
🧵 After my continued study of Michael Penix Jr. I noticed something interesting. Dude doesn't get sacked.
In 2023 he's only been sacked 10 times.
In 2022 he was only sacked 5 times.
Is it because Washington is incredible at pass protection? Not really. It's because Penix is
The revisionist history on Josh McDaniels as an OC is pretty wild. I get it with people outside of New England, but the guy put together some incredible Patriots offenses over the years, even without Brady.
Not everybody is cut out to be a Head Coach.
@nntaleb
Internet personalities are incentived to have alternate takes. Makes you edgy and gets you more followers. We have a model that encourages people who have a shallow need to be liked to twist reality because there's a market for it.
"The internet reduces information." -
@nntaleb
@TitleTalkTCL
@JBaileyNFL
Mac Jones might be the first rookie in NFL history to have a stellar first season and play better than any rookie at his position yet many people say he's "peaked".
Wonder if that's a signal for something 🤔
@mlombardiNFL
Belichick can't coach yet the best QB in the league credits him for how he prepares his protection plan every week. Cook that fraud Mike!
The more film I watch of Harrison Jr. and Malik Nabers back to back the more I can see why some have said Nabers is the better WR.
Nabers is in the kind of mold that we're seeing with the new age of elite WRs. He's more explosive and more physical. He's a contact monster.
@elitetakes_
He also said he watched 6 games total. That's less than a quarter of the games he's played. Can't have a firm eval if you haven't watched everything.
@wickedbilladams
@BabzOnTheMic
Or the 1st half where they ran leak had a cleaner pocket than 7 on 7 and a wide open Jakobi Meyers had to fall down to catch a 30 air yard under throw and roll into the endzone, and these same people question Mac's arm strength.