Bump.
MM still can't win close games. Stop the other team on the last play of the game from the 1 and IT'S NOT A CLOSE GAME!!!!
So if NO scores the TD but doesn't make the 2 pointer its close but because we stop them on the TD attempt it isn't.
But Rodgers leads the league in frumpy expressions and negative body language on the sideline, which makes him, like Josh Allen, a unique double threat.
-Tim Harmston
Last edited by pbmax; 09-09-2011 at 11:23 AM.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
It's worth noting that the game last night was not "close" by the media's strictly defined metric, so McCarthy still can't win close games in the regular season.
Last edited by Lurker64; 09-09-2011 at 11:42 AM.
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Bump.
We have now won our last 10 games in a row and still haven't won a close game. We have outscored the other team by 131 points in that stretch. Blowouts of Denver, ATL and NYG included.
But Rodgers leads the league in frumpy expressions and negative body language on the sideline, which makes him, like Josh Allen, a unique double threat.
-Tim Harmston
IMO this thread is moot -- score aside the packers won a close super bowl.
Originally Posted by rbaloha
Rant as you want. At the end of the day, MM's record in close and meaningful games is horrible -- zero disputing. MM is good at developing (i.e. Brooks and Rodgers) or enhancing careers (i.e. Gannon, Delhomme and Favre) qbs. MM has proven HE CAN NOT WIN CHAMPIONSHIP(S) IN TITLETOWN, USA.
Keep up the truthiness and see where it leads you.
Says the guy who posted this!
But Rodgers leads the league in frumpy expressions and negative body language on the sideline, which makes him, like Josh Allen, a unique double threat.
-Tim Harmston
I don't understand why a "close" game isn't defined as 8 points or less (i.e. one possession). Makes the most sense to me.
After the Loins debacle last season, thought MM fit in this category (Peter King reported MM was slightly in trouble if he failed to make the playoffs.) Also placed MM in the Sherman category (btw anyone notice MS choking 2 weeks in a row at TAMU?) As my friend ThunderDan points-out I was completely wrong.
Winning a superbowl should cancel this type of thought. The packers have issues but losing close game is not one of them.
It NFL geekdom (elsewhere in geekdom as well) this is known as multiple endpoints.
From Advanced NFL Stats in their dissent about the Curse of 370 Carries:As many posters noticed, if Silverstein had chosen any other scoring gap, it would have defeated his premise. He saw a blip in the data and made a guess as to its cause, without having any evidence to back it up.Statistical Trickery
Why did Football Outsiders pick 370 as the cutoff? I'll show you why in a moment, but for now I'm going to illustrate a common statistical trick sometimes known as multiple endpoints by proving a statistically significant relationship between two completely unrelated things. I picked an NFL stat as obscure and random as I could think of--% of punts out of bounds (%OOB).
Let's say I want to show how alphabetical order is directly related to this stat. I'll call my theory the "Curse of A through C" because punters whose first names start with an A, B, or C tend to kick the ball out of bounds far more often than other punters. In 2007 the A - C punters averaged 15% of their kicks out of bounds compared to only 10% for D - Z punters. In fact, the relationship is statistically significant (at p=0.02) despite the small sample size. So alphabetical order is clearly related to punting out of bounds!
Actually, what I did was sort the list of punters in alphabetical order, and then scanned down the column of %OOB. I picked the spot on the list that was most favorable to my argument, then divided the sample there. This trick is called multiple endpoints because there are any number of places where I could draw the dividing line (endpoints), but chose the most favorable one after looking at the data. Football Outsiders used this very same trick, and I'll show exactly how and why.
Bud Adams told me the franchise he admired the most was the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he asked for more hookers and blow.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. 4 out of 5 dentists recommend...not spreading shit on your toothbrush!
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